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Screening of Saturday 25th January 2025

End of Month Screening on the evening of Saturday, January 25th 2025

We have reached the end of January already and JAFWA continues to heat up. Naturally that means it is time for JAFWA’s monthly survey during the Dinner Break, followed by the Member’s Prize draw.

Before the survey we will screen another preview episode, where two hapless employees seek to enter a marriage of convenience, to the disbelief of those around them. Both Elliot and Greg have provided little 2 minute shows that you might be interested in.

Kekko surutte, Hontou desuka

If you don’t want to sponsor an entire night like both Lindsay and Elliot did last year, there is the other scheme for our signed up members. On the night nearest your birthday, as Greg and Sally did, you can nominate something to play during the Dinner Break (limited to 30 minutes max). You may have to help us source this material, so plan and inform us in advance please.

Below is the draft program for the evening of Saturday January 25th, 2025

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

5:15pmThe Weakest TamerEp 3/12
5:40pmDr Stone season 4Ep 2/?
6:05pm365 Days to the WeddingEp 1(preview)
6:30pmdinner break, with possibly interesting stuff
7:15pmdoor prize drawing, and announcements
7:30pmReincarnated as a Slime season 2 part BEp 4/12
7:55pmApothecary Diaries season 2Ep 2/24?
8:20pmOshi no Ko season 2Ep 3/13
8:45pmhe Rising of the Shield Hero season 3Ep 3/12(v)
9:10pmLate Break
9:20pmRe: Zero (season 3 episode 3)Ep 53/58(v)
9:45pmOverlord IVEp 2/13(v)
10:10pmDanDaDanEp 2/12(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 30th 2025 — in assorted cinemas is the live action “Oshi no Ko -The Final Act”. Warning, will contains spoilers for those watching at JAFWA.
  • from Thursday February 6th 2025 — in assorted cinemas is compilation anime movie “Attack on Titan: The Last Attack” featuring the final Season of the TV anime. Check if your session is subbed or dubbed.
  • Saturday March 1st to Monday March 3rd 2025, 0900-1600 — the return of the small but vibrant Anime in the Valley at the Swan Settlers market.
  • Sunday March 2nd 2025, 0930-1300 — the return of the small but vibrant Collector Zone Toy & Hobby Fair ECU Sport & Fitness Centre, Joondalup, 22/270 Joondalup Dr, Joondalup WA 6027.
  • Saturday March 15th 2025, from 1100 — The delightful Perth Japan Festival 2025 will be at the Supreme Court Garden.
  • Saturday April 12th 025, 0900-1200 — Looking for Fannish stuff. Go to Nexus Toy and Collectors Fair 34 Kent St, East Victoria Park WA.

Synopsis

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The Weakest Tamer Began a Journey to Pick Up Trash (“Saijaku Teimaa wa Gomihiroi no Tabi o Hajimemashita”)

Weakest Tamer

Young Ivy can’t catch a break. Though she has a few memories of her past life, she was reborn into an RPG-like world in the weakest class, and worse, as the weakest rank. As a no-star Tamer, even her parents want nothing to do with her, and she soon realizes she must survive on her own. She learns to live off the land and salvage what she can from other people’s leavings. But when Ivy manages to tame Sora, a lowly slime, everything changes for both of them. There’s something special about this frail little monster, and Ivy’s care will bring out the best in both of them.

This Evening’s Episode:To Those Remembered Days

While unconscious, Ivy recalls her upbringing at Latomi. She had a loving family and loved animals that made her want to become a tamer. But when it came time for her appraisal, she was discovered to be a starless tamer, and in light of this news, her family and fellow villagers turned her into an outcast. Femicia ran away and ran into the village’s fortune teller Luba, who sympathized with her.

Dr Stone season 4 “Science Future”

Dr Stone

Modern society is lost when a mysterious light leaves everyone petrified in stone. Thousands of years in the future, super genius Senku awakens and begins restoring civilisation with his Kingdom of Science. After the battle on Treasure Island, Senku and the gang return to the Kingdom of Science. With their sights set on the Moon, they must first voyage to the Americas in hopes of beginning to harvest the required materials. Through teamwork and science, they continue the fight to save humanity once and for all.

This Evening’s Episode:Science Journey

Before the Perseus started its trip to the New World, Senku stocked up on that most basic of boozes – beer. But the crew have all different tastes, so Senku will need to mix up a few more poisons for Francois. Matsukaze has his story. Still navigating the Great Circle route requires seeing the sun in conjunction with the timing signals from the science nation. But Senku has no luck and the weather hides the Sun. How did the Vikings discover America? Can Gen create a magic sunstone?

preview – 365 Days to the Wedding (“Kekko surutte, Hontou desuka” literally “Are You Really Getting Married?”)

Kekko surutte, Hontou desuka

The J.T.C. travel agency is looking for someone to manage its brand-new branch in Irkutsk. But for employees Takuya ?hara and Rika Honj?ji, they’d rather just stay home in Tokyo. Thankfully, they’ve discovered a way out—their manager has narrowed down the recruits to bachelors, so they decide to get married. The problem is they barely know each other at all.

This evening’s Episode:Why Don’t We Get Married?

Ohara is a social introvert at the JTC travel agency who struggles with talking to people so he is often yelled at by his manager Kurokawa and is frequently terrified by his co-worker Honjoji glaring at him. In reality Honjoji is also an introvert with little interest in others. JTC’s head office requires someone, preferably unmarried, to transfer to Alaska in 365 days. Ohara and Honjoji both fear they will be chosen. How to avoid this?

That Time I Was Re-incarnated as a Slime (Tensei Shitara Slime Datta Ken) season 2 part b

reincarnated as a Slime

37-year-old Satoru Mikami died at the hands of a robber, he awakens to a fresh start in a new world…as the lowest of the low – a slime monster. Now champion of monsters Rimuru Tempest ends the orc war and earns the esteemed title as Slime Chancellor. Now that the Jura Tempest Alliance is growing even further, they will now be meeting the animal kingdom of Eurazania, reuniting with King Gazel, rising tensions between monsters and humans, and Rimuru encountering the strongest enemy he’s ever faced.

Tonight’s Episode:The Congress Dances

Shortly after the meeting is over, Ramiris, who has taken a liking to manga, warns Rimuru about Walpurgis and Clayman’s motive, to which Rimuru reveals that Mjurran is still alive after she was told of her murder by Clayman. Rimuru and his allies discuses Falmuth and the Western Holy Church’s motives and look ahead to the battle against their new enemy: Clayman. Mjurran tells Rimuru about the Five Fingers, five powerful individuals who were enslaved by Clayman.

The Apothecary Diaries (Kusuriya no Hitorigoto) season 2

Apothecary Diaries

Apothecary Maomao was just out collecting herbs when she was kidnapped by procurers for the Imperial harem, an easy way for unscrupulous people to get money by having “relatives” go work in the Rear Palace. Hiding her skills and knowledge, Maomao hopes to just glide by, earning as little as possible for her kidnappers during her term of service, but such is not to be: when royal infants begin dying, Maomao can’t resist letting people know the cause. This catches the eye of the far-too-handsome Jinshi, who elevates Maomao from laundry maid to poison taster to the Emperor’s favourite concubine. So much for flying under the radar…

Tonight’s Episode:Caravan

The palace prepares for the arrival of a diplomatic delegation, part of a trading caravan, while Gyokuyou gains two new ladies-in-waiting to assist during her pregnancy and counterbalance Loulan’s, as well as the others’, excessive staff. Meanwhile, Maomao reflects on the palace’s peculiar lack of amenities despite its excellent sanitation system. On the caravan’s last day, when discounts abound, Maomao shops with Xiaolan and encounters Shisui, the servant girl who caught her cat.

Oshi no Ko (“My Favorite Idol” or “Their Idol’s Children”) season 2

Oshi no Ko

Goro Amemiya works as an OB-GYN in a small rural town and is a huge fan of upcoming idol Ai Hoshino. After an unexpected meeting, Goro ends up dying suddenly only to be reborn as one of Ai’s children; a boy named Aquamarine Hoshino (or Aqua for short). He and his twin sister Ruby then grows up as one of show-biz’s biggest secrets.
As Aqua continues his quest to find his father—the puppet master behind his mother’s murder—within the Japanese entertainment industry, he finds himself acting in a stage play based on the wildly popular manga Tokyo Blade. Surrounded by competent professionals— including his friends Kana and Akane—it looks like this will be one of his easier jobs… If only things could be that easy.

Tonight’s Episode:Rewriting

While happy that B-Komachi is gaining popularity, Ruby is still frustrated that she is lagging behind her friends. However, B-Komachi’s concerts are on hold until Kana is finished with the play. Meanwhile, Akane takes Aqua to IHI Stage Around Tokyo, a 360-degree revolving theater, to see a play of Smash Heaven where he is impressed with the presentation and acting. They then encounter Raida, who reveals that GOA was the writer of the Smash Heaven play.

Rising of the Shield Hero (Tate no Yuusha no Nariagari) season 3

Rising Shield Hero

Naofumi Iwatani was summoned into a fantasy world along with three other people to become the world’s Heroes. Each of the heroes were respectively equipped with their own legendary equipment when summoned. Naofumi happened to receive the Legendary Shield, the sole defensive equipment, while the others received weapons capable of attacking. Unlike the other heroes who are fully supported by the kingdom and gain several strong allies each, Naofumi’s luck turns to the worse, shunned by everyone from the King to peasants, Naofumi is forced to train as a hero alone while working to make ends meet acquiring only the most pitiful of followers.

Tonight’s Episode:The Operation to Capture the Spear Hero

Alongside Motoyasu’s resurgence, the Queen also reveals that Ren’s companions were all killed, and that Myne is still missing. In Seyatte, Naofumi meets an unfamiliar girl named S’yne, who Filo recognizes as being Murder Clown. She asks to join the village but he kicks her out, unable to trust her. Naofumi, Raphtalia, and Filo head out to the nearby city where they find a down-trodden Motoyasu attempting to reunite with his old party member Elena.

Re: Zero kara Hajimeru Isekai Seikatsu (Re: Life in a Different World from Zero) season 3

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 favour, 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.

Tonight’s Episode:Gorgeous Tiger

At the front gates of the city, Otto encounters the Sin Archbishop of Gluttony, Lye Batenkaitos. In the town square, Sirius begins angrily attacking Regulus and the unconscious Emilia. Subaru and Beatrice use their combined magic, as well as Subaru’s Invisible Providence, to try and rescue Emilia, but fail. The Archbishops take control of the four towers surrounding the city, threatening to open the watergates to drown Priestella, and that they desire the remains of the witch that reside in the city.

Overlord season 4

Overlors IV

With his foundations now set in this new world, the first steps of Ains Ooal Gown’s master plan apparent begin to come to fruition. The value of Carne village and especially the political value of his alter ego Momon are reaffirmed; the “hidden” genius of his actions is continuously met with shock and awe by Demiurge, Albedo, the rest of his guardians, and even Ains himself at his “great wisdom.” His attempts to act in a way befitting the ruler of Nazarick, continuing to further cement his guardian’s loyalty, push him ever further down the path of not-so-intentional world domination.

Tonight’s Episode:Re-Estize Kingdom

Ainz worries his plan to establish a peaceful kingdom might clash with his servants’ plans for world domination. Princess Renner establishes an orphanage in Re-Estize to identify magically talented orphans. As Prince Barbro is still missing his brother Zanac becomes acting crown prince of Re-Estize. Deeply affected by Gazef’s death Brain seeks out children with sword skills to potentially replace Gazef. Albedo arrives in Re-Estize and meets with Zanac. At her welcoming party a minor noble named Phillip Montserrat, enamored by Albedo’s beauty and seeking to improve his family standing, invites Albedo to a party.

DanDaDan

DanDaDan

Takakura, an occult maniac who doesn’t believe in ghosts, and Ayase, a girl who doesn’t believe in aliens, try to overcome their differences when they encounter the paranormal.

Tonight’s Episode:That’s a Space Alien, Ain’t It?!

Momo and Ken, who is then nicknamed “Okarun” by Momo, go to Momo’s grandmother’s house to recuperate as Momo holds Okarun’s curse at bay. There, they are attacked by a monster that resembles a sumo wrestler who traps them within the property’s realm. Initially believing the monster is a evil spirit, they soon realize it is actually the Flatwoods monster.

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