Anime enthusiasts?

Notice of a forthcoming event (a lecture by Australian anime expert Philip Brophy followed by a screening of Akira) at the Auckland Museum:

Consulate General of Japan Lecture and Film screening
Lecture by Mr Phillip Brophy
Friday 21 September, Auditorium, Free with entry donation (5$)
2pm - Lecture
4pm - Film: Akira

Philip Brophy is a musician, composer, sound designer, filmmaker,
curator and writer. His lecture will focus on Sexual Robots and Plastic
Humans in Anime. The anime body is a new species, holistic in form and
genetically manipulated according to anime's encompassing of the history
of human form as perceived within Japan.