No Screening this Saturday, 4^th February 2023

No JAFWA until Saturday 11^th February 2023!

Hopefully the news that we are skipping a weekend will not be too disappointing, especially to all the new faces that showed up last week. Though if you attend the Hall next Saturday afternoon, you are likely to encounter the local Doctor Who club. And if you are out Guildford way, there is Oddities & Anime Market.

But never Fear! It does appear that local cinemas will soon be screening later this week another anime movie – Sword Art Online: Progressive -Scherzo of Deep Night at Event Cinemas and Hoyts Carousel. This is the sequel to “Sword Art Online Progressive: Aria of a Starless Night”, and seems to expand on the events in the first season of the anime. You will have to check which screenings will be dubbed into English, and which properly subbed, so plan appropriately.

Dale’s Suggestive Remarks

At long last we have an entry in our suggestion box. In fact two suggestions from Saturday 28^th of January.
Both Suggestions are anonymous, but the hand-writing appears different

• Gate, thus the JSDF fought there

  An excellent little anime, where the isekai genre was too new to be ubiquitously annoying, where the JSDF had to deal with and inter-dimensional invasion, where the invaders were a little too low-tech, and in the protagonist we all saw our otaku selves. JAFWA screened all 24 episode of “Gate: Jieitai Kano Chi nite, Kaku Tatakaeri” back in 2016, hence it is a little too soon to request it for the retro-anime timeslot (when that resumes, possibly later in February).
  As a side note, our dear JAFWAites enjoyed this series so much that one of our members even ordered the rather expensive “Rory Mercury” figure. That was gorgeous, and I am trying not to be jealous.

• Girls Frontline
  Feb 22

  OK, I must admit I missed this when it first came out. Thankfully there is such a large quantity of anime being produced each Season that overlooking some titles is easy enough to accomplish. According to skimming trusty Wikipedia, this is based off of a Chinese made strategy RPG for mobile phones, then converted into an anime in Japan. We will attempt to dig up a copy from Feb 22. and the JAFWA committee will evaluate whether it should have a preview episode sometime.

The expected program

Below is the tentative program for the evening of Saturday February 11^th, 2023.

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

Doors Open before Screening:~5:00 PM

Program Finishes:~10:45 PM

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Dates of Interest

presuming an outbreak of the Pandemic progression does not cause this to cancel.

• Saturday February 25^th 2023, 1PM -> 4:30PM — JAFWA’s next make-your-own-fun Event Arvo, at our usual location where we have the Hall for whatever fun activities we dream up.
• Saturday March 25^th 2023 — Perth Japan Festival once more, this time at Supreme Court Garden, Perth CBD.
• Weekend April 1^st & 2^nd 2023 — Oz Comic Con 2023 at Perth Exhibition and Convention Center.
• Easter Weekend April 8^th & 9^th 2023 — JAFWA still on.
• From Thursday April 13^th 2023 — Cinemas showing Makoto Shinkai’s new anime movie “Suzume“.
  
• Weekend April 29^th & 30^th 2023 — Hoshi Con 2023 at Perth Exhibition and Convention Center.
• Saturday May 20^th 2023, 10AM-5PM — Tokyo Alley 11 – Marine at Perth Exhibition and Convention Center
• Weekend June 24^th & 25^th 2023 — SupaNova Perth 2023 at Perth Exhibition and Convention Center.
• Date to be announced (maybe September) 2023 — Pixel Expo 2023.