Screening on the evening of Saturday, July 29^th 2023

JAFWA operating in Winter hours! Program starts at 4:15PM!

As July comes to an end, this week we have our Monthly Survey, where our dear JAFWAites can express their opinion on the various programs previewed and other suggested possibilities, utilising a scalar grading system.
And later, we have the monthly Member’s Prize Draw.

Before the survey during the Dinner Break, we have 3 items in the program:

1. As per usual, we can’t be entirely certain we will have the next episode of “The Devil is a Part-timer” ready for this week, as it will only be expected to screen on Japanese TV this coming Thursday.
2. This will be the last episode of “Dr Stone” for a while, as the rest of season 3 isn’t expected until October.
3. We will have a preview episode before the Dinner Break, displacing “Ningen Fushin” this week. A domestic drama involving a cat.

And we continue on with the other wonderful anime we have in our program. Including the beginning the regular screening of the second season of the TV series “the Ancient Magus Bride”, The final episodes of the first season of “Jujutsu Kaisen”, and the return of “In/Spectre” that took a break for a preview item last week.

A reminder of our current issue – what do we call our new computer? Traditionally the JAFWA computer, with its small form factor is known as “chibi“, though for official purposes that only addressed JAFWA’s first dedicated computer. The one that broke down in July 2023 since being in service from 2016, was officially “Shin-chibi“. So what do we call this even smaller form factor computer? Lindsay has suggested “micro-chibi“, while I am partial to “chibi-chibi“. Please provide worthwhile suggestion for the official name (“Chibi McChibi Chibiface”, and variants thereof, is only worth getting hurt).

Expected program for the evening of Saturday July 29^th, 2023.

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

4:15pm	Devil is a Part-Timer season 3	Ep 3/?	TBC
4:40pm	Dr Stone season 3	Ep 11/11	(halt)
5:05pm	The Masterful Cat is Depressed Again Today	Ep 3/12	(preview)
5:30pm	dinner break, with possibly interesting stuff
6:15pm	door prize drawing, and announcements
6:30pm	Ancient Magus Bride season 2	Ep 1/13?
6:55pm	Demon Slayer season 3	Ep 6/11
7:20pm	Jujutsu Kaisen series 1	Ep 23/24
7:45pm	Jujutsu Kaisen series 1	Ep 24/24	(final)
8:10pm	Late Break
8:20pm	In/Spectre season 2	Ep 3/12
8:45pm	Golden Kamuy season 4	Ep 10/13	(V)
9:10pm	Vinland Saga season 2	Ep 12/25	(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:

• Weekend July 29^th & 30^th 2023 — Fuyu Anime Market.
• Weekend August 5^th & 6^th 2023 — Pixel Expo 2023 at Perth Convention & Exhibition Centre.
• Saturday August 26^th 2023 — JAFWA’s next Event Afternoon of make-your-own fun in the afternoon before the JAFWA screening.
• August 14^th to September 17^th 2023 — South West Japan Festival 2023 at various locations in Bunbury.
• Weekend November 3^rd to 5^th 2023 — Kai-Con 2023.

Synopsis

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Annual General Meeting before JAFWA Screening

This it!
After announcing it since JAFWA’s return last month, it is finally upon us!

Please be advised that on the 15th of July 2023 the Japanese Animation Fans of Western Australia will be holding it’s 2023 Annual General Meeting.

The meeting will be held at the Collins Street Centre in South Perth from 2:00pm onwards. The regular screening will commence afterwards, and during the dinner break the committee election will be held (assuming we have enough nominees).

We request that all current members attend to meet quorum requirements and to have your voices heard! Please arrive about 10 minutes early.

If you have any matters you would like to have raised at the meeting, please email them through to jafwa.anime@gmail.com. Preferably sufficiently in advance so that we can accurately prepare our response.

Screening on the evening of Saturday, July 15^th 2023, after the AGM

JAFWA operating in Winter hours! Program starts at 4:15PM!

Now that the AGM has been completed, we should know if the elections will be held during the Dinner Break, otherwise you are stuck with your current committee – Drew, Glenn, Mark, Sally, Audrey, Greg and Dale. All praise to your overlords!

We apologise for Japan being slow to start the next season of “The Devil is a Part-timer” (on Japanese TV this Thursday), but with luck we will have it for this week. Our next expected anime preview item will be next week.
And we continue on with the other wonderful anime we have in our program. Though this week will be the final episode of “Kaina of the great Snow Sea”.

Expected program for the evening of Saturday July 15^th, 2023.

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

4:15pm	Devil is a Part-Timer season 3	Ep 1/?	TBC
4:40pm	Dr Stone season 3	Ep 9/11?
5:05pm	Ningen Fushin	Ep 2/12
5:30pm	dinner break, with possibly interesting stuff
6:15pm	door prize drawing, and announcements
6:30pm	Ancient Magus Bride	OAV 2/3
6:55pm	Kaina of Great Snow Sea	Ep 11/11	(final)
7:20pm	Demon Slayer season 3	Ep 4/11
7:45pm	Jujutsu Kaisen	Ep 21/24
8:10pm	Late Break
8:20pm	In/Spectre season 2	Ep 2/12
8:45pm	Golden Kamuy season 4 part A	Ep 8/13	(V)
9:10pm	Vinland Saga season 2	Ep 10/25	(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:

• Saturday July 15^th 2023 — All signed up members requested to attend JAFWA’s Annual General Meeting, held before the JAFWA screening at 2PM.
• Saturday July 15^th 2023 Dinner Break — JAFWA’s Annual Elections during the JAFWA screening, assuming we get enough nominations.
• Weekend July 29^th & 30^th 2023 — Fuyu Anime Market.
• Weekend August 5^th & 6^th 2023 — Pixel Expo 2023 at Perth Convention & Exhibition Centre.
• Saturday August 26^th 2023 — JAFWA’s next Event Afternoon of make-your-own fun in the afternoon before the JAFWA screening.
• August 14^th to September 17^th 2023 — South West Japan Festival 2023 at various locations in Bunbury.
• Weekend November 3^rd to 5^th 2023 — Kai-Con 2023.

Synopsis

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No JAFWA until Saturday 8^th July 2023!

The year is half over, and JAFWA is taking its regular break from Screening this Saturday. We wish to be refreshed when we return in July proper, with the Annual General Meeting and committee election coming up during our second screening. Still time to nominate for the election, or raise an issue for the AGM.

Though if you attend the Hall this Saturday from Midday, you are likely to encounter the local Doctor Who club.

But for the week of the 8^th, we will be starting several new regular series, which haven’t been decided yet. Stay tuned!
Thanks to everyone who filled in the survey form, but not a lot of people admitted to rating the second season of “Tokyo Revengers” very high. This disappoints your beloved MC.

Dale’s Suggestive Remarks

There was another entry in our suggestion box, from Saturday 17th of June.
However, the handwriting is cramped and the pen ink keeps running out, and with my eyesight I can’t reproduce it accurately

Basically he is saying that he has a DVD of the original “Kimba the White Lion” series, from 1965, and is nominating it for the retro time-slot.
I believe it is in Black & White, and I am not clear if it is dubbed into English or properly subbed. His main issue is that the episodes are not sequential on the DVD, but all mixed up.

I can probably deal with the mixed up order of the episodes. But if it is black & white, it is verging on being even more retro than I can deal with comfortably. Still sounds awesome though.
Thinking back on it, I may have seen some “Kimba” episodes on TV when I was a much, much, much younger. Mind you, what sticks harder in my memory is something called “Marine Boy”, and maybe something called “The Amazing Three”.

The expected program

Below is the tentative program for the evening of Saturday July 8^th, 2023.

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

4:15pm	new series 1	Ep 1/?
4:40pm	Dr Stone season 3	Ep 8/12?
5:05pm	new series 2	Ep 1/?
5:30pm	dinner break, with possibly interesting stuff
6:15pm	door prize drawing, and announcements
6:30pm	new series 3	Ep 1/?	(retro)
6:55pm	Kaina of Great Snow Sea	Ep 10/11
7:20pm	Demon Slayer season 3	Ep 3/?
7:45pm	Jujutsu Kaisen	Ep 20/24
8:10pm	Late Break
8:20pm	new series 4	Ep 1/?
8:45pm	Golden Kamuy season 4 part A	Ep 7/13	(V)
9:10pm	Vinland Saga season 2	Ep 9/25	(v)

Doors Open before Screening:~4:00 PM

Program Finishes:~9:45 PM

Comment on our FB page.

Dates of Interest

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

• Saturday July 15^th 2023 — All signed up members requested to attend JAFWA’s Annual General Meeting, held before the JAFWA screening.
• Saturday July 15^th 2023 Dinner Break — JAFWA’s Annual Elections during the JAFWA screening, assuming we get enough nominations.
• Weekend July 29^th & 30^th 2023 — Fuyu Anime Market.
• Weekend August 5^th & 6^th 2023 — Pixel Expo 2023 at Perth Convention & Exhibition Centre.
• August 14^th to September 17^th 2023 — South West Japan Festival 2023 at various locations in Bunbury.
• Weekend November 3^rd to 5^th 2023 — Kai-Con 2023.

Screening on the evening of Saturday, June 17^th 2023

JAFWA operating in Winter hours! Program starts at 4:15PM!

Hooray, Hooray, Hooray!
Nominations have opened for the upcoming JAFWA elections. Bring forth your vision of JAFWA and get people to vote for you. We (the current committee) just need a written nomination form indicating your intention to nominate yourself, along with your membership number.

In addition to a tasty helping of anime this week, it looks like we are also going to have a Pizza Run!
Former committee member David Fisher has acquired a voucher for reduced-price pizza, and is intending to share with his fellow JAFWAites, though he can only accept cash only.
For all I know, he may be nominating for the election and trying to buy your vote with easy to afford Pizza. Or not. But who can ignore pizza?

Several of JAFWA‘s regular programs are coming to their final episode (for instance “Do It Yourself” ends this week), meaning in July we will be starting several new series (to be decided, in part, with next week’s survey).
However, let us not wait that long. This week we jump July and start regularly screening the third season of “Demon Slayer” Yay!
And to stop us being too complacent, we shake up our anime program this week with a preview episode of “Jigokuraku” (aka “Hell’s Paradise”), as condemned criminals, accompanied by their bespoke executioners, travel to a lethally dangerous isle in search of the elixir of life for the shogun.

And then in July it will be time for the AGM and JAFWA elections, with nominations opening in June. Isn’t it time you stepped up and participated? Consider nominating yourself this month, if you are a fully signed up JAFWA members, for the last 3 months.

Expected program for the evening of Saturday June 10^th, 2023.

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

4:15pm	Do it Yourself!	Ep 12/12	(final)
4:40pm	Dr Stone season 3	Ep 6/12?
5:05pm	Bocchi the Rock	Ep 11/12
5:30pm	dinner break, with possibly interesting stuff
6:15pm	door prize drawing, and announcements
6:30pm	Tenchi Muyo Ryo-Ohki II	Ep 12/13	(retro)
7:00pm	Kaina of Great Snow Sea	Ep 8/11
7:25pm	Demon Slayer season 3	Ep 1/?
8:15pm	Late Break
8:20pm	Jigokuraku	Ep 1	(v) preview
8:45pm	Tokyo Revengers	Ep 23/24	(v)
9:10pm	Vinland Saga season 2	Ep 7/25	(v)

Doors Open before Screening:~4:00 PM

Program Finishes:~9:45 PM

Comment on our FB page.

Dates of Interest

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

• Weekend June 24^th & 25^th 2023 — SupaNova Perth 2023 at Perth Exhibition and Convention Center.
• Saturday July 15^th 2023 — All signed up members requested to attend JAFWA’s Annual General Meeting, held before the JAFWA screening.
• Saturday July 15^th 2023 Dinner Break — JAFWA’s Annual Elections during the JAFWA screening, assuming we get enough nominations.
• Weekend July 29^th & 30^th 2023 — Fuyu Anime Market.
• Weekend August 5^th & 6^th 2023 — Pixel Expo 2023 at Perth Convention & Exhibition Centre.
• August 14^th to September 17^th 2023 — SouthWaest Japan Festival2023 at various locations in Bunbury.
• Weekend November 3^rd to 5^th 2023 — Kai-Con 2023.

Synopsis

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Continued…

No JAFWA until Saturday 10^th June 2023!

Yes, JAFWA is taking its regular break from Screening this Saturday. We wish to be refreshed when we return in June proper.

Though if you attend the Hall this Saturday from Midday, you are likely to encounter the local Doctor Who club.

Don’t forget that in July it will be time for the AGM and JAFWA elections. Isn’t it time you stepped up and participated? Nomination open in June – plan your election platform.

Dale’s Suggestive Remarks

It is a pleasant surprise to discover that we have another entry in our suggestion box, from Saturday 27th of May.
The Suggestion is anonymous, and the hand-writing is neater than mine:

• Sousou no Frieren

I have been delightedly reading the volumes of this manga in the JAFWA library (where it is known as “Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End”), and am heartened by the news that an anime adaption has been made. I will be promoting this anime to the JAFWA committee for it to be included as one of JAFWA’s preview episodes, once it comes out in the last quarter of this year.
There is so much new anime coming out from Japan, even if you discard all the anime series that are “not great”, there is still usually more series than JAFWA has available preview slots. Still, after reading the manga, I expect the anime adaption of “Frieren” should make the cut. Stay tuned!

For those of you who have not been reading the manga from the JAFWA library, “Frieren” harks back to old-school DnD campaigns, where a hero’s party goes on a quest to defeat a great evil and save the world. The story of Frieren starts years after the success of the Hero’s party, and 4 compatriots went their own way – the Human warrior, the Human cleric, the Dwarf and the Elf wizard. Frieren, the near immortal Elf wizard finds herself curious about the ideals espoused bu her short-lived companions, and with renewed interest goes back into the world outside the elf woods and learns the joys of interacting with people she meets on her journey.

The expected program

Below is the tentative program for the evening of Saturday June 10^th, 2023.

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

4:15pm	Do it Yourself!	Ep 11/12
4:40pm	Dr Stone season 3	Ep 5/12?
5:05pm	Bocchi the Rock	Ep 10/12
5:30pm	dinner break, with possibly interesting stuff
6:15pm	door prize drawing, and announcements
6:30pm	Insomniacs After School	Ep 1	(preview)
6:55pm	Tenchi Muyo Ryo-Ohki II	Ep 11/13	(retro)
7:25pm	Kaina of Great Snow Sea	Ep 8/11
7:50pm	Jujutsu Kaisen	Ep 18/24
8:15pm	Late Break
8:20pm	Tokyo Revengers	Ep 22/24	(v)
8:45pm	Golden Kamuy season 4 part A	Ep 6/13	(V)
9:10pm	Vinland Saga season 2	Ep 6/25	(v)

Doors Open before Screening:~4:00 PM

Program Finishes:~9:45 PM

Comment on our FB page.

Dates of Interest

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

• Weekend June 24^th & 25^th 2023 — SupaNova Perth 2023 at Perth Exhibition and Convention Center.
• Saturday July 15^th 2023 — All signed up members requested to attend JAFWA’s Annual General Meeting, held before the JAFWA screening.
• Saturday July 15^th 2023 Dinner Break — JAFWA’s Annual Elections during the JAFWA screening, assuming we get enough nominations.
• Weekend July 29^th & 30^th 2023 — Fuyu Anime Market.
• Weekend August 5^th & 6^th 2023 — Pixel Expo 2023 at Perth Convention & Exhibition Centre.
• Weekend November 3^rd to 5^th 2023 — Kai-Con 2023.