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Screening on Saturday 26th February 2022

Screening on the evening of Saturday, February 26th 2022

We come to the end of February, with some good news and bad new to direstly related to JAFWA‘s anime screening. The good news is that WA’s hard borders will be falling in March, and the bad news is that the JAFWA canteen is finally rising prices in March after many years. Do these balance out? Come along to JAFWA and mull this over as you embrace the language and culture of Japan through the medium of anime.
This week we will also have a preview episode set in a fantasy world, and start our new regular item set durin the Japanese gold rush.

Remember that this week we have both our Member’s Prize Draw, and the night we have our survey where we receive feedback from our dear JAFWAites as to what you appreciate in our program, both the regular items and recent preview items.

Ranking of Kings Golden Kamuy

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

Also welcome our newest Associate Members – the Curtin Pop Culture Club!

There is also the slice-of-life anime movie “Fortune Favours Lady Nikuko” about to start in cinemas soon, to which JAFWA is hoping to obtain some free passes.

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 26th, 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 3/12
5:40pm Ranking of Kings Ep 1 (preview)
6:05pm Restaurant to Another World season 2 Ep 6/12
6:30pm dinner break
7:15pm door prize drawing, and announcements
7:30pm Fena: Pirate Princess Ep 5/12
7:55pm Steins; Gate Ep 6/24 (retro)
8:20pm Lupin III part 6 Ep 6/25
8:45pm To Your Eternity Ep 6/20
9:10pm Late Break
9:20pm Talentless Nana Ep 13/13 (v)(final)
9:45pm Golden Kamuy Ep 1/12 (v)
10:10pm Re:Zero: season 2 part B Ep 7/12 (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:

  • Sunday February 20th — Encore screening of the anime film Belle at Luna Leederville, in Japanese with English subs.
  • From Thursday February 24th — New anime film “Fortune Favours Lady Nikuko” screening at various cinemas, some subbed, some dubbed.
  • Sunday February 27th 2022 9:30AM-1PM — Collectors Zone Toy & Hobby fair at ECU Sport and Fitness Centre, Joondalup
  • Saturday March 26th 2022 1PM->4:30PM — JAFWA next Event Afternoon of make your own fun.
  • Saturday April 2nd 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.

Please help Hyogo Prefectural Center

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:We Got Motivated During the Holiday Break ” season 2

The girls attempt to do some studying for upcoming tests, with Natsumi ending poorly due to her slacking off. As the girls plan another study session during Golden Week, Renge tries to get Kazuho motivated so they can study.

preview item – Ranking of Kings (Ousama Rankingu)

The story is about a little prince named Bojji who is deaf-mute but above all naive, because despite many criticisms from his people about his accession to the throne, he does his best and dreams of becoming the greatest of kings. One day, he meets Kage (Shadow), a survivor of a wiped out assassin clan, who understands his words despite Bojji being silent.

Tonight’s Episode:The Prince’s New Clothes

There are many factors that go to make a great king, and a nation’s ruler can be ranked by these factors. Unfortunately for Prince Bojji, he doesn’t seem to have any of those factors. But is he a waste of a prince, or will making Kage a friend by the first step towards greatness? But it is still a long way to go to reach his father, who is ranked 7th amongst kings.

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:Rice Burger / Pizza

During her culinary training journey, Fardania (Tofu Steak) encounters and takes in Alice, a young full-blood elf changeling. The next morning, a Nekoya door opens at their campsite, and since it is still early, the Master improvises a meal of rice burger for his two elven guests. Thinking of ways to expand his company’s variety of dishes, Sirius Alfade lets his personal chef, Johnathan Winsberg, in on the Nekoya’s secret, and they find their inspiration in the pizza dish they are being served.

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:Coordinates

Shitan receives a message via carrier pigeon as the Bonito II sails to Orléans. Fena and her crew reach a hollowed out dig site and enter a buried and abandoned temple. Fena starts getting mysterious visions as she leads her crew through winding catacombs below the temple, unaware that the Rumble Rose is following from behind.

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:Butterfly Effect’s Divergence

Dubbing the messages they send to the past as “D-Mails”, the group conducts further experiments, deducing the rules and limitations of sending D-Mails. They learn what time they can send messages, how much data can be sent, and how far they can send them back.

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 Imperial City Dreams of Thieves, Part 2

In the Shigetomi department store circa 1930, Goemon slashes wildly at Lupin who manages to escape while remarking that his sword is not Zantetsuken. Colonel Daidoji and Major Hongo arrive and snatch the key to the automaton clock from Sarantuya, who is also later revealed to be the heir to the Altan Khoto Kingdom.

To Your Eternity (Fumetsu no Anata e) season 1

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:Our Goals

Fushi continues his journey through the forest, where he meets the elder Pioran once again, who teaches him how to speak after he shows interest in writing. They later arrive at Takunaha, a territory currently at war with Yanome. While resting, however, they are attacked by a mysterious creature who steals Fushi’s memories and, therefore, his forms.

Talentless Nana (Munou na Nana)

An academy on an island in unnavigable waters. There, students trained tirelessly to fight back against the enemies of humanity. Nana, a student newly transferred there, also sets out with the intention of eradicating all enemies of humankind.

This evening’s Episodes:Revival” Finale

Nana and Michiru have a discussion regarding the murder of Nana’s parents, in which Michiru states that Nana could not have been responsible in any way. The two share a hug with Nana mentally celebrating making a friend. Later that night, Kyouya finally determines the killer’s identity.

Golden Kamuy

Saichi Sugimoto, a survivor of the battle of 203 Hill in the Russo-Japanese War has become a miner in Hokkaido in order to provide for the widow of his dead comrade, Toraji. He hears a dubious story of hidden Ainu gold stashed by a criminal group, and accidentally finds clues to its location. He decides to search for the gold along with an Ainu girl, Asirpa, who rescues him from Hokkaido’s harsh northern wilderness. Though other parties are also hunting for the gold.

This evening’s Episode:Wenkamuy

Saichi “Immortal” Sugimoto, a Russo-Japanese War veteran, has become a gold panner in Hokkaido to provide for his dead comrade Toraji’s widow. He hears a story from a fellow prospector about how someone has stolen a gold reserve from the Ainu people, killed those who knew of the gold, and after getting imprisoned tattooed twenty-four inmates with parts of a map to the gold. Sugimoto doubts the story, but a deadly bear attack will change his mind.

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 Beginning of the Sanctuary and the Beginning of the End

In the past, Roswaal is saved during his “magical release period” by Echidna, becoming her pupil and falling in love with her. He develops a close bond with her as they, Beatrice, and Ryuzu look after the Sanctuary. One day, the “Devil of Melancholy”, Hector, shows up, leaving Roswaal worried about what to do since the Sanctuary’s barrier is still incomplete. In the present, Subaru asks Roswaal to call off the attack on the mansion but he refuses, believing that a couple minor changes isn’t enough to overwrite the tome’s will.

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