Events, Screenings

POWA Lazy Day & Zone Bowling Outing, 16th August, 2026

Location for Bowling: Zone Bowling Joondalup

In the greatest oxymoron of at least this week’s post, this is not only one of our laziest days on our calendar, it’s also a day where we actually leave the library and go do some actual sport.

Yes, I think that’s weird, too. 

Sport.

Well, with the Pixel Expo on this weekend, it stands to reason that some – or a bunch – of our membership might want to check it out, and we don’t want people to feel too put out in missing POWA this sunday. So, instead of our normal lineup, we are instead going to be using the Library room for the best kind of thing: lazy things.

There’s no real plan, let alone a schedule, its really just an excuse to use the space for whatever we want – board games, video games, chatting, lunch, what-have-you. The laptop will be present, we might chuck on some random stuff for the screen, or might get stuck into a really long board game we don’t finish, it really depends on the mood.

Effectively, we are giving people an opportunity to not miss out on our lineup of anime, but also giving people the opportunity to come along for a Sunday hangout.

It is noted that there wont be a raffle prize or food shop like our normal screenings – lazy be as lazy does, and we be lazy. 

Now if youre shaking your head picturing us lazy people, how about after the normal scheduled event, we go play a sport? And a real sport, at that! Not a fake sport, like American Football, either. 

Zone Bowling is just around the corner from POWA’s meeting room at the Library, and from 6:00pm we are gonna meet there and have a couple rounds of throwing heavy things, aimed badly, at things really far away in a building where the music is entirely too loud. We have purposely scheduled bowling to take place an hour after POWA ends – so there’s enough time to grab some food, have a drink, feed the cat – that kinda thing – before rocking up. It is pay-your-own-way, and will cost the individual about $28 for two games if you’re keen, though there’s no requirement to pay for both (or at all, if you just wanna hang out.)

We hope to see you there!

This week’s Schedule:

1:00 – Doors at the Library Open, we veg out

4:45 – Door at the Library Shut, we uproot ourselves and leave

6:00 – Hey, POWA, Lets go Bowling (At Zone Bowling, Joondalup)

Screenings

POWA Screening, 9th August, 2026

Last week was a pretty easy one for our lineup, as the only thing we had to decide was whether or not to continue Cowboy Bebop, which did pass its halfway mark vote and is continuing in our lineup. 

In other shows, this week we have the second, yet final, vote for Season 2 of “Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End”, on episode 8. It’s a real short series, only ten episodes, and I’m sure there’s a joke in there somewhere where one compares the episode count to the titular midget elf’s height, but i cant bring it to the forefront. 

On a similar short-smart-person-who-is-bad-with-people-and-social-interactions front, our Drama series “Ameku MD: Doctor Detective” has reached episode 4, meaning it’s up against its first vote. Fan of the series? Come to POWA and vote on whether or not it gets to face a second.

We hope to see you there!

This Week’s Schedule: 

1:00 – Doors Open 

1:30 – Restaurant to Another World – Episode 10 (Slice of Life/Romance)

2:00 – Frieren: Beyond Journeys End: Season 2 – Episode 8 (Fantasy, Voting!)

2:30 – The Apothecary Diaries Season 2 – Episode 3 (Mature, Horror & Thriller)

3:00 – Break & Raffle

3:45 – Ameku MD: Doctor Detective – Episode 4 (Drama, Voting!)

4:15 – Cowboy Bebop – Episode 13 (Action & Sports)

Screenings

POWA Screening, 2nd August, 2026

Location: Joondalup Library, Upstairs Meeting Room

I don’t know what it is about the word “August” that really tells me that we are in the last third of the year, but that’s where we land this week.

After spending the last weekend in the present world of airing anime in our Summer seasonal preview, this time we are back to our regular lineup, with our newest old new show “The Apothecary Diaries Season 2”. Maomao has a cat, and yes, they named it Maomao, because Maomao is a cat, just like how Maomao is also a cat.

As for shows without cats, apothecaries, cats named after apothecaries, and apothecaries named after the sound cats make (making the cat named after the apothecary technically named after the sound it makes, should it decide to make noise), we also had a sneaky little vote on “Restaurant to Another World” – which not only allows me to practice my spelling of that stupid, stupid word – but also since it passed the vote, we are keeping on with that series until its conclusion.

Don’t worry about my spelling lessons, though, “Apothecary” is shaping up to be another one of those words that I just refuse to spell right the first time around.

I don’t know if anyone actually reads these posts, but WordPress lets me AI generate a ‘podcast’ which will summarise a month’s worth of posts as a podcast episode. I’m really just trying to get them to say stupid stuff now.

Oh, also, week is a little bit more chill for us, with the only point of order being a vote on whether or not to drop Cowboy Bebop on episode 12.

We hope to see you there!

This Week’s Schedule: 

1:00 – Doors Open 

1:30 – Restaurant to Another World – Episode 9 (Slice of Life/Romance)

2:00 – Frieren: Beyond Journeys End: Season 2 – Episode 7 (Fantasy)

2:30 – The Apothecary Diaries Season 2 – Episode 2 (Mature, Horror & Thriller)

3:00 – Break, Raffle & Mature, Horror & Thriller Voting

3:45 – Ameku MD: Doctor Detective – Episode 3 (Drama)

4:15 – Cowboy Bebop – Episode 12 (Action & Sports, Voting!)