Category: Events

Location: Joondalup Library, Upstairs Meeting Room

Despite the fact that it happens to be about 9 degrees as this event is written, it is Summer! In Japan, Which means a new season of anime! And being warm, if you’re not in Perth.

But Perth does get anime – anime which we are bringing to everyone at this week’s Seasonal Preview screening! This season brings a large variety of anime, with everything from lost Raccoon dogs in the rain to Steampunk Victorian London eldritch horror, and quite likely a few shows that could be considered in between those two extremes.

So while we won’t release the names of the specific shows we are gonna watch this weekend until the moment we watch them, there is quite likely at least something from this season which would entertain.

Entry for our weekly screenings is $4 for members and $5 for guests. However, your first time is free! Every entry prior to our break receives a raffle ticket for a weekly prize. We will be in the upstairs meeting room of the Joondalup Library. Our meeting will start at the same time as the library opens – 1:00PM – and we will start watching anime at 1:30PM, leaving you time to find the room and settle down with some drinks and snacks.

We hope to see you there!

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This week’s schedule:

1:30pm – Summer 2025 Anime, Episode 1

2:00pm – Summer 2025 Anime, Episode 1

2:30pm – Summer 2025 Anime, Episode 1

3:00pm – Short Break & Raffle

3:15pm – Summer 2025 Anime, Episode 1

3:45pm – Summer 2025 Anime, Episode 1

4:15pm – Summer 2025 Anime, Episode 1

This Screening is an online screening. POWA will not be screening in person at any location this weekend. POWA will return to our physical screening location at the Joondalup Library on the 18th of May.

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As POWA is taking Mothers Day weekend off, we’ve got something of a scaled-back screening for those who just need that weekly anime. 

Online, on POWA’s discord, 6:30pm Sunday May 11th, we are hosting what we are calling the “Runners-Up” special screening!

POWA is proud of its democratically chosen anime traditions, but there is no secret that for every show that “Wins” a vote, there are a bunch of shows that don’t quite make it. This screening is for them!

From our last six votes for new series, there have been seven shows that just barely didn’t make the cut – that is, five “Second Places” and one tie of two shows – and it’s these that get their own full length preview this weekend. 

There is one notable thing we want to say about the shows at this screening, though: us watching these shows will not enter these shows into the “POWA Canon”, as it were. That is, they won’t go on our MyAnimeList profile as “Watched”, and these shows can (and probably will) reappear at future POWA votes.

As this screening is held on our Discord group, one will need to have an active discord account. Other things, like an electronic device to install discord on, and access to the internet, as well as perhaps a fondness for anime, are all heavily recommended. You do not need to have a microphone to join in on the jolly banter that usually occurs during our online screenings, but if you would like to participate it would make it easier.

Each of the shows screened are available on Crunchyroll, and may even be watchable as many first episodes of anime on Crunchyroll are free. However, the screening will also be screen-shared, allowing people to watch the anime entirely, or perhaps just use it to sync up their own streams. 

We Hope to see you there!

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This screening’s schedule:

6:30 – Mashle – Magic and Muscles (Tied Comedy Runner-up, 23rd February)

7:00 – D-frag! (Tied Comedy Runner-up, 23rd February)

7:30 – Trigun Stampede (Action & Sports Runner-up, 2nd March)

8:00 – Appare Ranman (Cultural/Historical Runner up, 29th September)

8:30 – Frieren: Beyond Journey End (Fantasy Runner-up, 10th November)

9:00 – Yatagarasu: the Raven Does Not Choose Its Master (Mature, Horror & Thriller Runner-up, 23rd Feburary)

9:30 – Megalobox (Scifi Runner-up, 9th March)