Screening of Saturday 30th May 2026

Screening earlier on the evening of Saturday, May 30^th 2026.

Until September JAFWA will be operating on Winter Hours – ie screening starts at ~4:15PM.

It seems so soon but JAFWA will screen its final screening for the merry month of May this week. The mere idea sends chills down my back. I try to reassure myself with the knowledge that in Japan there are still a few more weeks of Spring left with Summer officially starting on June 21^st.

Also, we will be asking our monthly survey to help us better understand what you, the discerning anime otaku, prefers to watch at JAFWA. While we try to show the best anime produced, the JAFWA committee is aware that we may be biased as to what is “best”, so we try previewing other titles to be on the safe side. Please help guide us.
At the end of the Dinner Break there shall be the Monthly Member’s Prize Draw. Is there anything in particular our dear JAFWAites would like to see in the prize pool, that is within our budget? We have a Suggestion box.

In this week’s JAFWA program we have no more new regular series to introduce. Our current regular program shall continue till at least August. Unless a motion is made and voted for at the AGM (this is a plug to engage with the AGM).
This week we shall preview the latest offering from legendary manga-ka Rumiko Takahashi, as we watch the first anime episode of her recent manga (volumes are in the Library), where a time-traveling heroine aids a wandering exorcist.

As a Public Service Announcement from JAFWA we regretfully inform people with the news that the long-time fixture of Perth fandom – Tokyo Underground is being forced to close for the final time. Though Bronwyn has taken her store through many misfortunes and relocations, she has indicated that she will not be maintaining her stall at the Wanneroo Weekend Markets much longer due to health reasons. Before it is too late visit Tokyo Underground one last time, and help her empty the shop.

Anime is definitely going mainstream. Last year at the cinemas has been the “Demon Slayer” movie, followed by the “Chainsaw Man” movie, and then the “Jujitsu Kaisen” movie. This year there has been the “Zombieland Saga” movie, and a “Gundam” movie, and an unbelievably good “Scarlet”. Life is wonderful for anime fans.
What else will be showing up in cinemas? It sometimes seems that all the popular Japanese anime movies are coming.
Not to mention that Luna Leederville is putting anime films in their Monday Double Feature program and Thursday Tokyo Nights.

If you would like to showcase the anime that holds great meaning and value to you, please offer to sponsor a night of JAFWA and screen your favourites. If you don’t want to sponsor an entire night like Lindsay, Elliot and Dale did previously, there is the other scheme for our signed up members. On the night nearest your birthday, as Greg and Sally have done, 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.

This year SwanCon celebrates its 50^th anniversary!

JAFWA and SwanCon go back quite far. Many early SwanCon attendees received their first dose of ‘proper’ anime through the late night screening rooms (nothing too dodgy, just pleasantly weird). When JAFWA became an incorporated body in late 1996/early 1997, the governing body of SwanCon (The Western Australian Science Fiction Foundation, or WASFF) allowed us to use their Constitutional Documents as a basis for our own.

In 1999, and again in 2006 JAFWA worked with SwanCon to raise funds and sponsor a Special Guest – Mangaka, Cosplayer, Musician and Toei Animation star Ippongi Bang. Without SwanCon’s support JAFWA would not have achieved something so special.

This year SwanCon is on from 29 May through the long weekend to 1 June, at The Pagoda Resort in Como. For those wanting to visit on the Saturday before the screening, JAFWA is a short distance away in South Perth.

Below is the draft program for the evening of Saturday May 30^th, 2026.

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

4:15pm	Who Made Me A Princess?	Ep 4/16
4:40pm	Dr Stone final cour	Ep 2/?
5:05pm	Mao	Ep 1	(preview)
5:30pm	dinner break, with possibly interesting stuff
6:15pm	door prize drawing, and announcements
6:30pm	Ascendance Bookworm TV season 4	Ep 2/?
6:55pm	Witch Hat Atelier	Ep 3/?
7:20pm	Kusonoki’s Garden of Gods	Ep 5/?
7:45pm	Champignon no Majo	Ep 3/12
8:10pm	Late Break
8:20pm	Re: Zero season 4	Ep 4/11	(v)
8:45pm	Roll Over and Die	Ep 4/12	(v)
9:10pm	Clevatess	Ep 5/12	(v)

Doors Open before Screening:~4:00 PM

Program Finishes:~9:45 PM

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Dates of Interest

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

• Friday May 29^th to Monday June 1^st 2026 — WA’s most venerable Sci-Fi convention Swancon 50 // Natcon 2026 hosted at The Pagoda in South Perth.
• Monday June 8^th 2026 ~6:30PM — Luna Double Feature at Luna Cinemas Leederville – “Paprika” and “Tokyo Godfathers” $17.
• Weekend June 27^th and 28^th 2026 10AM->6PM — Supanova 2026 Perth at Perth Convention & Exhibition Centre.
• Saturday July 18^th 2026 ~2PM-3:30PM — JAFWA AGM before the normal screening. All signed up members to attend.
• Saturday July 18^th 2026 ~7PM — JAFWA annual elections during the regular screening Dinner Break. Consider nominating and practice your election pitch
• Monday July 27^th 2026 ~6:30PM — Luna Double Feature at Luna Cinemas Leederville – “Spirited Away” and “Howl’s Moving Castle” $17.
• Weekend August 15^th and 16^th 2026 9:30AM->6PM — Pixel Expo Vs at Perth Convention & Exhibition Centre.

Synopses

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Who Made me a Princess? (In Japanese: Aru Hi, Ohime-sama ni Natteshimatta Ken ni Tsuite, in Korean: Eoneu Nal Gongjuga Doeeobeolyeossda, in Chinese: Mófaa Goungzhuu de Xiao Fánnao)

The story follows Athanasia de Alger Obelia, a young princess executed by her father, Claude de Alger Obelia, the cold-blooded emperor of the Obelian Empire. However, Athanasia is reincarnated as her baby-self and given a second chance at the same life. Athanasia must use all of her wit and cunning to survive in the palace and to prevent her own death.

This evening’s Episode: “Taboos and Memories“

Athanasia dreams of her mother Diana. Felix sends her to wake Emperor Claude, but she instead pinches his cheeks, then sings a lullaby when he almost wakes up. Seeing lots of family portraits Athanasia goes looking for one of Diana but is devastated to find only one remains, with half the face burned away. Realising Claude must have truly hated Diana she decides not to mention her again.

Dr Stone season 4 “Science Future” final cour

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 will involve creating a space program to go to the Moon.

This Evening’s Episode: “Fire“

Senku reveals they are heading through the Mediterranean to Barcelona, Spain to find fluorite crystals and olive oil. Francois is thrilled with the olive oil as it allows them to increase the variety of food they can cook. Senku revives many Spanish locals while Kohaku, Chrome and Ryusui capture a herd of wild bulls and cows for meat and milk, expanding their menu even further. Next destination is India, but can they use the Suez Canal?

preview item – Mao

A schoolgirl with supernatural powers has a mysterious connection to Mao, an exorcist from the previous century.

This evening’s Episode: “Nanoka and Mao“

Nanoka survived a car accident that killed her parents when she was young. Her only memory was a mysterious burning shopping street that didn’t match any official reports. Years later, rumors of ghosts, she returns to the site and is transported back to early 20th-century Japan. Where she encounters a mysterious man named Mao, claiming that Nanoka isn’t human, but an ayakashi (demon).

Ascendance of a Bookworm: Adopted Daughter of an Archduke (Honzuki no Gekokujo: Shisho ni Naru Tame niwa Shudan o Erandeiramasen Dai-San-Bu Ryoushu no Youjo) season 4

The story follows Motosu Urano, a book-loving post-secondary student and soon-to-be librarian who ends up crushed to death beneath a pile of books during an earthquake. With her dying breath, she wishes to be reincarnated in a world where she can read books forever. Urano awakens in the body of a weak, five-year-old girl named Myne in a world where books are scarce and only available to elites. Myne, retaining her memories from her previous life, decides to create and print her own books so that she can read again. Now she has become Rosemyne, the adopted daughter of a Duke.

Tonight’s Episode: “Lower City Family Reunion“

After the baptism ceremony and adoption, Rosemyne returns to the cathedral to become the high bishop. But what of the family she has left behind?

Witch Hat Atelier (Tongari Boushi no Atorie)

In a world where only witches can cast magic, they must avoid being seen by ordinary people while casting. While Coco does her chores, she daydreams of becoming a witch. When a young witch named Qifrey visits her village, Coco uncovers the “absolute secret,” becomes Qifrey’s apprentice, and begins her studies. This is the story of children who encounter despair, yet reach out toward hope.

Tonight’s Episode: “The Dadah Range Test“

Qifrey travels to the Great Hall of Witches and meets Alaira, who deduces he is finding a lead on the Brimmed Cap coven of rogue witches through Coco. Meanwhile, Agott sends Coco to the Dadah Range to perform the Consent of the Crown and collect a flower at the summit with limited tools. Agott reluctantly lets Coco borrow her shoes that allow flight. Agott warns Coco she has one chance to finish the test to avoid expulsion.

Kusunoki’s Garden of Gods (Kami no Niwatsuki Kusunoki-tei)

Minato Kusunoki ends up becoming the caretaker of a newly constructed house deep in the countryside. A procession of unique and peculiar gods is drawn to the comfort of the purified Kusunoki residence, and Minato spends his days relaxing in the company of his spiritual neighbors. What else lies in store for Minato as he lives peacefully surrounded by gods.

Tonight’s Episode: “The Sacred Ground of the Goddess and the Power to Seal Things“

Portals to abandoned dimensional spaces begin appearing everywhere, so Yamagami intervenes. Fujin and Raijin warn Minato humans that wander into these portals can end up lost forever. Voices warn Minato to avoid a nearby shrine, but a portal opens inside the shrine that absorbs Minato and Ho’o. Wandering around he finds the sleeping Goddess that created the space, who realises her power has diminished due to humans neglecting her shrine.

Champignon Witch (Champignon no Majo)

Luna is a young witch who lives alone in a forest known for its poisonous mushrooms. Feared and shunned by nearby villagers for being a black witch in a kingdom ruled by white witches, Luna is believed to bring illness and death because of the poisonous mushrooms that she leaves everywhere she touches.

Tonight’s Episode: “The Cursed Youngling“

Luna struggles with what to do after finding the stabbed boy in the river because she can’t touch him without posioning him. Luckily Claude happens to spot them, and Luna bribes him to help with some shiny stones she found. She finds that the knife has a terrible poison on it, and she struggles to absorb it. Can Luna deal with The End of All Things?

Re: Zero kara Hajimeru Isekai Seikatsu (“Re: Life in a Different World from Zero”) season 4

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: “A White Sky Asterism“

Following a strange dream featuring the people whose witch factors he absorbed—Satalla, Petelgeuse, and Regulus—Subaru wakes up at the watchtower to find that his group has reunited with the others. He then meets the girl Shaula who saved him, who mistakes him for her “master”, whose return she has been awaiting for 400 years, due to the miasma from his recent deaths. One question: “Who is the hero Shaula defeated”?

Roll Over and Die: I Will Fight for an Ordinary Life with My Love and Cursed Sword! (Omae Gotoki ga Maou ni Kateru to Omou na to Yuusha Paati o Tsuihou Sareta no de, Outo de Kimama ni Kurashitai which literally translates as ‘Banished from the Hero’s Party Because They Said ‘Don’t Think Somebody Like You Can Defeat the Demon Lord’, I Want to Live Freely in the Capital‘)

Flum Apricot is born with a unique Affinity known as “Reversal” that leaves her with zero stats across the board. However, after being prophesied by the God Origin to join the Hero’s party and defeat the Demon Lord, Flum finds herself with what seems like an impossible task. Things only get harder when the party’s renowned sage, Jean Inteige, decides to sell her into slavery instead. Flum finally learns the true meaning of her unique “Reversal” Affinity.

Tonight’s Episode: “Darkness and Light“

Inside the cave, Flum and Sara stumble upon a hidden laboratory. Exploring it, Flum is shocked to see her name written in a research journal. They then find a faceless woman bearing the same mutations as the ogre from before, just as the said ogre finds them, prompting the girls to flee again. Then a demon from the Hero’s Party’s past appears.

Clevatess (Clevatess -Majuu no Ou to Akago to Shikabane no Yuusha-)

After killing a group of heroes and destroying an entire kingdom as revenge for attacking his lands, one of the Four Beast Kings, Clevatess, takes in a baby belonging to the kingdom’s royal family. He then resurrects one of the heroes, Alicia Glenfall, whom he enslaves so she can help him take care of the baby while hoping to examine humanity more closely.

Tonight’s Episode: “Boelate’s March“

Klen stores away the Regalia to avoid attracting unwanted attention, but promises to give it back if Alicia needs it. Nelluru is shown to be quite strong as she can carry heavy loads and Luna. Alicia is allowed to obtain the weapons and armor that she needs. A man named Gart ambushes them. Gart is after Broco, believing that Klen is his target.