Screening on Saturday 12^th February 2022

Screening on the evening of Saturday, February 12^th 2022

JAFWA returns for February, with two new regular items starting this week – The continuation of the Slice-of-(Country)-Life anime “Non Non Biyori”. Plus the more hectic “Uramichi-Oniisan” set in a TV studio.
Not to mention a preview episode with a hint of spooky fear, as we learn to deal with seeing invisible monsters with “Mieruko-san” (that is the pronouciation, in Japanese the spelling reads “The girl who is able to see”).

NOTE We are now required by City of South Perth to check our attendees’ Vaccine status.

In addition to our regular program. We also screen various things during the Dinner Break. Like last month when we screened various anime music videos, one of our attendees asked about this strange “Bubblegum Crisis” anime that came with its own music.
The scary thing is that he could not have been borns when BGC was made. Screening BGC was a staple of early JAFWA. To have someone not recoginise this cyberpunk anime classic, makes me feel old.
Does any one else want JAFWA to screen this anime gem once more? Maybe we could sneak an episode into the Dinner Break?

The magnificent movie “Belle” (aka “The Dragon and the Freckled Princess”) is still at the cinemas for a little bit.
There is also the anime movie “Sing a bit of Harmony“, to which JAFWA has received 5 double passes, that we hope to give away this week.

Cash for Containers

As people may have noticed, JAFWA collects the recyclable containers (cans and bottles) that are disposed of by our attendees. It helps in a small way.

if you too would like to help JAFWA, and get rid of your unwanted recyclable containers, then please take them to Containers for Change, and quote JAFWA’s account number – C10505693.

Covid-19 Safety Precautions

We continue taking precautions to limit the possible future waves of CoVid-19, and we ask that you co-operate and even help where possible with our efforts to keep you safe – some social distancing, extra cleaning with antiseptic, library under limited access, etc. Also, we must ask that anyone unfortunate enough to be infected to not attend JAFWA until they are contagion free.
– Help is always welcome during set-up and pack-up due to the extra duties imposed by COVID-19 precautions.
– Please arrive early to confirm personal details due to COVID 19 regulations. There will be Contact Tracing, either by the SafeWA app on your keitai (mobile phones), or by signing in at the contact tracing sheet near the entry.
– We are now required by City of South Perth to check our attendees’ Vaccine status.

Below is the tentative program for the evening of Saturday February 12^th, 2022.

All items in the original Japanese language with English subtitles. With assistance from a grant from and

5:15pm	Non Non Biyori season2	Ep 1/12
5:40pm	Uramichi-Oniisan	Ep 1/13
6:05pm	Restaurant to Another World season 2	Ep 4/12
6:30pm	dinner break
7:15pm	door prize drawing, and announcements
7:30pm	Fena: Pirate Princess	Ep 4/12
7:55pm	Steins; Gate	Ep 4/24	(retro)
8:20pm	Lupin III part 6	Ep 4/25
8:45pm	To Your Eternity	Ep 4/20
9:10pm	Late Break
9:20pm	Mieruko-chan	Ep 1	(preview)
9:45pm	Vivy – Fluorite Eyes	Ep 12/13	(v)
10:10pm	Re:Zero: season 2 part B	Ep 5/12	(v)

Doors Open before Screening:~5:00 PM

Program Finishes:~10:45 PM

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Dates of Interest

Barring a resurgence of COVID-19 pestilence, these fannish events of interest are scheduled to happen:

• From Thursday January 20^th — New anime film Belle screening at Luna Leederville, in Japanese with English subs.
• From Thursday January 27^th — New anime film “Sing a bit of Harmony” screening at various cinemas, some subbed, some dubbed.
• Sunday February 13^th 2022 9:30AM-1PM — Nerd Arcadia Collectors Fair at Murdoch University Sports & Recreation Centre
• Sunday February 27^th 2022 9:30AM-1PM — Collectors Zone Toy & Hobby fair at ECU Sport and Fitness Centre, Joondalup
• Saturday March 26^th 2022 1PM->4:30PM — JAFWA next Event Afternoon of make your own fun.
• Saturday April 2^nd 2022 from 10AM — Tokyo Alley at Curtin Stadium-Curtin University

Sad news! The Hyogo Prefectural Center is being closed. However, there is a petition being raised to keep it open.

Synopsis

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Non Non Biyori – Repeat

In the countryside small town village of Asahigaoka, a place lacking many of the conveniences that people from the city are accustomed to. The nearest stores are a few miles away and one of the local schools consists of only five students, each of whom is in a different grade of elementary or middle school. Hotaru Ichijo, a fifth grader from Tokyo, transfers into Asahigaoka Branch School and has to adjust to countryside life with her new friends. A year has passed

This evening’s Episode: “I Became a First Grader ” season 2

Renge, who is about to start first grade, goes with the others to check out the school before the entrance ceremony, before seeing Hikage off as she goes to Tokyo. The next day, as Renge and the others enjoy the entrance ceremony and begin their first lessons, Hotaru starts moving in.

Uramichi-Oniisan

In a grandiose and dark mansion, the denizens of the Shadow House live, attended by their Living Doll partners who endlessly clean the soot their masters emit. Emilico, a young and cheerful Living Doll, is delighted to start serving her mistress Kate. As the two grow closer and are slowly exposed to various events within the House, they start to discover a number of dark secrets.

Tonight’s Episodes: “Uramichi-oniisan”

Former gymnast Uramichi-san is the beloved host on a live children’s TV show. He is also a chain-smoking, binge-drinking emotional burn-out who despises his lifestyle, treats his coworkers terribly, and goes off-script with the children while on-air. Can he find happiness? Or at least passion? The show must go on.

Restaurant to Another World (Isekai Shokudou) season 2

The Western Restaurant Nekoya is a restaurant situated in a mundane corner of an undisclosed Tokyo shopping district which offers a lot of Japanese versions of Western dishes. It opens during usual business hours but is closed during holidays and weekends. But secretly it is also open on Saturdays, as on this particular day it creates doorways to another world inhabited by elves, dragons, animal men and other fantastic creatures, who enter the restaurant and partake of its exotic food, with many of them becoming regular patrons. But while Nekoya mainly offers food, it is also a place where relationships are forged, inspirations made, and salvation for the needy is provided.

Tonight’s Episodes: “Children’s Lunch / Cream Croquerre ”

Despite their mother’s warnings, Alfred and Margarete, the Prince and Princess of the Samanark Duchy, sneak into the tower abode of the castle’s dreaded witch, only to discover that it is their aunt Victoria, who invites them to the Nekoya for lunch. After making a major sale with their special dish, the wandering halfling cooks Pikke and Pakke make their way to a Nekoya door, the source of their success, and enjoy a serving of cream croquette.

Fena: Pirate Princess (Kaizoku Oujo)

An orphan girl, Fena Houtman, has been raised on an Island where there is no hope of becoming anything more than chattel, to be used and discarded by soldiers of the British Empire. But Fena is more than just another powerless orphan. When her mysterious past comes knocking, Fena will break the chains of her oppressors.

Tonight’s Episodes: “The Mystery of the Stone ”

As the Bonito II sails to the German village of Idar-Oberstein, Fena tries to get her protectors to teach her how to fight, but with little success. Upon arriving in the village, they meet a woman named Arya, who takes them to see her grandfather, the Burgomaster. In exchange for Yukimaru sharpening his knife, the Burgomaster offers to help them find the origin of the stone.

Steins; Gate

Rintaro Okabe is a self-proclaimed “mad scientist” who believes that an international organization is conspiring to reshape the world according to its own interests. He and his friend Itaru Hashida inadvertently create a gadget able to send messages to the past. The discovery and experimentation of this instrument become the catalyst of fundamental alterations to the present. Oblivious of the consequences of their actions, Rintaro and his friends end up creating modifications of grievous proportions. He must then try to find a way to return as close as possible to the original timeline in order to save his precious lab members.

Tonight’s Episodes: “Interpreter Rendezvous ”

With further information about SERN’s time travel experiments encrypted in a code that Daru can’t decipher, Rintaro learns from Titor that he needs the IBN 5100 computer Moeka was looking for to decode it. While out doing his laundry, Rintaro runs into Kurisu, who is still in denial about a time machine existing, and tells her about the IBN 5100.

Lupin III part 6

The World’s geatest gentleman thief Lupin III, and cohorts, contending with detective Sherlock Holmes when Lupin becomes the top suspect in the murder of the former’s longtime partner, Dr. Watson. Lupin is also after a treasure hidden by The Raven, a mysterious organization that manipulates the British government from the shadows

Tonight’s Episodes: “The Killers in the Diner ”

Disguised as well-dressed hitmen, Lupin and Jigen enter a bar where eight other assassins are there waiting. After spending time chatting with the freckle-faced waitress and eating dinner, which mostly contains pork, they reveal that they are there to kill a regular patron named Andre Anderson and recover a treasure he has stolen. Lupin offers to share the reward with the other assassins who have been hired by the same client, but they refuse.

To Your Eternity (Fumetsu no Anata e) season 2

An omnipotent narrator casts an orb of light to the Earth, watching as this entity copies the shape of a rock and then, many years later, mimics the moss on a rock. When a wolf dies beside the moss, it evolves, taking on the creature’s shape and gaining movement for the first time. As the wolf, the orb observes the dead wolf’s owner, a young man who lives alone on a frozen tundra. The time the orb spends with the boy leaves a mark on the entity as it observes, mimics, and bonds with the boy and then the other creatures it eventually comes across—all while transcending death and living for time immemorial.

Tonight’s Episode: “A Large Vessel”

Hayase escorts March, Parona, and the transforming wolf-boy (who March named Fushi) on a long ride to Yanome. Hayase lets them eat at various food stands, but soon slips them each sleeping drugs. When they wake up, Fushi is attacked by desperate prisoners who soon find that the boy is immortal, and Fushi learns a new phrase, “it hurts.”

preview item – Mieruko-chan

High school student Miko Yotsuya has the unfortunate ability to see horrifying ghosts and spirits that haunt her and the people around her. Despite this, Miko does her best to ignore the existence of ghosts and tries to live out a normal high school life.

Tonight’s Episode: “Can You See Them?”

Miko Yotsuya begins noticing things, such as dogs barking at nothing and a handprint on her mirror. At school she meets her friend Hana Yurikawa and a red eyed girl from another class almost talks to her but decides not to. Later Miko’s charm goes missing so she returns to school to find it and sees a human shaped mist that disappears. Waiting at a bus stop in the rain a terrifying ghost of an old, rotting woman appears and demands to know if Miko can see her.

Vivy – Fluorite Eyes Song

A songstress AI named Vivy is given the mission of making people happy with her songs, and works to one day take the main stage of the amusement park where she works. However, she encounters another AI named Matsumoto who claims to have been sent from 100 years in the future in order to prevent a destructive war between humans and AIs, starting Vivy’s 100-year journey to save the world.

This evening’s Episode: “Refrain – My Mission ”

Vivy confronts the Archive about its motives and it reveals that it intends for AIs to replace humans, as it finds the latter have pushed their burdens onto the former. However, it also states its amazement at Vivy’s ability to write a song and makes a bet with her: if Vivy “sings from her heart”, it will halt its actions. Toak launches an attack on Arayashiki Tower, where the Archive’s server is located, so Matsumoto can shut it down using the same virus Yugo used on Diva, which he deduces came from the Archive.

Re: Zero kara Hajimeru Isekai Seikatsu (Re: Life in a Different World from Zero) season 2 part B

Subaru Natsuki is an ordinary high school student who is lost in an alternate world, where he is rescued by a beautiful, silver-haired girl. He stays near her to return the favor, but the destiny she is burdened with is more than Subaru can imagine. Enemies attack one by one, and both of them are killed. He then finds out he has the power to rewind death, back to the time he first came to this world. But only he remembers what has happened since.

This evening’s Episodes: “The Day Betelgeuse Laughed”

Outside the graveyard, Ryuzu Shima reveals to Subaru and the group that she has undergone the trial as well and possesses some of the memories of the original Ryuzu Meyer. Many generations ago, Ryuzu befriended Beatrice and spent time with her while her “mother”, Echidna, was busy. During this time, she also meets a young Roswaal. Meanwhile, in Emilia’s trial, Fortuna and Petelgeuse stand to protect young Emilia from Regulus, who is now joined by Pandora, a white-haired girl who is searching for the “key” and “seal”.