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Screening of Saturday 8th February 2025

JAFWA returns in February

Welcome dear anime fans, both curious and otaku. It is February already and strangely enough the weather has been mostly clement (well, as pleasant as it can get for a Perth Summer) for the first two months of Summer, so here is hoping the 3rd month of Summer completes the charm. Let the anime play freely!
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This week, as well as our regular program, we include a preview item after the dinner break, a medical mystery thriller with a detective doctor.
Both Elliot and Greg have provided little 2 minute shows that you might be interested in.

Ameku M.D.: Doctor Detective

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 February 8th, 2025.

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

5:15pmThe Weakest TamerEp 4/12
5:40pmDr Stone season 4Ep 3/?
6:05pmReincarnated as a Slime season 2 part BEp 5/12
6:30pmdinner break, with possibly interesting stuff
7:15pmdoor prize drawing, and announcements
7:30pmAmeku M.D.: Doctor DetectiveEp 1(preview)
7:55pmApothecary Diaries season 2Ep 3/24?
8:20pmOshi no Ko season 2Ep 4/13
8:45pmThe Rising of the Shield Hero season 3Ep 5/12(v)
9:10pmLate Break
9:20pmRe: Zero (season 3 episode 4)Ep 54/58(v)
9:45pmOverlord IVEp 3/13(v)
10:10pmDanDaDanEp 3/12(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 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:Towards an Unexpected Situation

Running low on potions, Ivy visits a dump site and learns that Sora can now consume red potions after previously consuming only blue potions. The next day, Sora sets a trap to capture a field mouse, but ends up capturing a snake instead. Shortly afterward, Ivy spots a merchant group brutally killed. Ivy arrives at Latom village where she reports the incident to the town hall, and adventurers are dispatched to deal with the culprits.

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:Light Trap in the Darkness

The science crew arrives in America where they discover statues piled up in the bay. Their main goal is to find corn so that they can use it to revive everyone in the world that was petrified thousands of years ago. Ryusui splits the crew into 2 teams, the resource acquisition team who will stay behind on the ship, and the corn scout team who will travel up the river to find the stash of corn needed to make revival fluid. An encounter with soon to be crocodile burgers reveals that corn is ahead. As well as another, worse danger.

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.

This evening’s Episode:The Eve of Battle

Rimuru prepares for a battle with Clayman, but observing the enemy army’s movements reveals that Clayman’s target is not Tempest, but Eurazania. Meanwhile, the Dragon Faithful, a powerful group who reside in Milim’s domain, are approached by Yamza, a member of the Five Fingers, who requests for their help in the fight against Rimuru’s nation.

preview – Ameku M.D.: Doctor Detective (“Ameko Takao no Suiri Karte” literally “Ameku Takao’s Mystery Medical Record”)

Ameku M.D.: Doctor Detective

Dr. Takao Ameku is the brilliant yet eccentric director of investigative pathology at Tenikai General Hospital, in charge of diagnosing patients the other hospital departments cannot. However, due to her love of solving mysteries, Takao also gets involved with mysterious deaths and murders, all while dragging along her assistant Yu Takanashi in her various adventures.

Tonight’s Episode:Dr. Sherlock

At Tenikai General Hospital Dr’s Yu Takanashi and Mai Konoike struggle to diagnose two patients; a young boy with multiple symptoms and an elderly man with stomach pain. Yu’s boss Takao Ameku, Head of investigative pathology, impatiently waits to start his tutoring. Yu refuses to leave until his patients are diagnosed so Takao quickly diagnoses them using her incredible diagnostic and investigative abilities. Then a young man found on a construction site is brought in with his leg seemingly bitten off by an animal. The man is already dead but Yu notices the man’s blood has turned blue.

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:Corpse Fungus

As Jinshi investigates the cause of Concubine Jin’s death, Maomao hears from Guen about Tao, a palace woman who vanished before her retirement and wedding. Later, Jinshi consulted Maomao on the proposal for a penmanship school for servants, which, to his and Gaoshun’s surprise, is met with smiling approval from the often-scowling apothecary, with a few recommendations. He also asks her about her knowledge of poisonous mushrooms.

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:Emotional Acting

Abiko sees the Smash Heaven play and is impressed by it. Raida learns of Abiko’s presence in the audience and meets her personally, requesting she give GOA a second chance. They work together and the two end up getting along quite well, managing to finish a revised version of the script overnight. Most of the cast are excited with the new script, but the less experienced Aqua and Melt are worried they cannot keep up.

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:Each of Their Paths

Naofumi, Raphtalia, and Filo leave Motoyasu behind and on their way back home, are attacked by a group of surprisingly powerful assailants. S’yne appears and helps the party to defeat them, with their bodies mysteriously disappearing. With Naofumi still suspicious of her, S’yne reveals her past.

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:Operation: Take Back the Government Office

At city hall, Garfiel and Mimi are confronted by two Witch Cultists, a woman and a man with four arms, which they attack and flee from. Elsewhere, Heinkel holds Felt hostage to prevent Reinhard from leaving. At the Muse Company base, Subaru and the group discuss Capella’s potential relationship to a Emerada Lugunica from fifty years ago, and that the witch’s remains are only known by the Council of Ten, including Muse’s leader Kiritaka. What has happened to Emilia.

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:Baharuth Empire

Before Albedo had departed for Re-Estize Ainz gave her a world item, Ginnungagap, to prevent the brainwashing that affected Shalltear. Elsewhere, the Cardinals of the Slane Theocracy discuss the Sorcerous Kingdom and Emperor Jircniv. Their spy, the Thousand League Astrologer, secludes herself in despair, having seen Ainz use 11th Tier magic to massacre 130,000 men.

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:It’s a Granny vs. Granny Clash!

Momo’s grandmother and spirit medium Seiko arrives home and incapacitates the possessed Okarun. After regaining consciousness, a worried Momo asks Seiko what happened to Okarun. Seiko points to the property’s shrine, where Okarun is being kept safe. Momo explains to her grandmother of Okarun’s situation while also revealing her newfound ability to use psychokinetic powers. Turbo Granny later appears and tells Momo they must fight her in the tunnel, threatening to use Okarun’s curse to kill more people if they do not comply.

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