Survivability of Anime Injuries

[sabrinaofsaffron]

Hi everyone!

I'm really excited for another year at AN! This will be the second year this panel runs if it gets approved; it was tons of fun last year. Would love to run it again!

Title: Survivability of Anime Injuries

Section: Fangasm

Projector: No (*also debatable; I'm open to the possibility of trying this out as a presentation instead of a panel but would need LOTS of help haha)

Adult content: No (*debatable, given that there can be very graphic violent/gore content described.)

Description: (creds to richardthebald) The life of an anime protagonist is filled with hazards; at any moment they could be shot, slashed, exploded... Odds are they’d survive. Would you?



Seeking new ideas/suggestions, new clips to discuss, feedback on last year's panel (and whether this year's should be run as a panel or a presentation), and new friends to run this with!

[kotoko]

Hey! It's Marianne. I had tons of fun helping host the panel last year and would be interested in doing it again, time permitting!

I'm very on-the-fence over whether to keep it audience-directed (i.e. taking questions from the audience and we discuss them) VS simply doing a presentation and discussing pre-planned scenarios that we've come up with. I think the audience had fun participating and coming up with the weirdest scenarios (i.e. that JoJo's one with the guy who shoots himself a bunch of times lol), but it was definitely difficult working with scenarios that we weren't familiar with. Doing a presentation would allow us to discuss things in-depth and with less time dedicated to clarifying scenarios from anime we've never seen, but it would remove a lot of audience participation.

Thoughts?

[richardthebald]

Hello. I wasn't on the panel last year, but I've signed up for 2020.

Since you all had one of the plaza rooms last year, and a very strong turn out, it might be better to avoid A/V, because you are then limited to a smaller room. Even the largest of the two a/v rooms seats significantly fewer attendees.

Though I do understand the appeal of A/V and having pre arranged scenarios to examine in depth, it would be really useful.

[aeneas]

Hello there,

I missed out on it last year, but I love the idea! Certainly there is the appeal of A/V for demonstrative purposes, as well as to have more organized, pre-arranged scenarios. However you know what worked best for you last year as well.

Will you be needing anyone else to help out with the panel? I'm a paramedic in Simcoe County, and I do enjoy going over scenarios.

Regards,
Spencer

[crownowa]

I think that you need to do what is easier for you, considering your experience from last year. You could choose to prepare a presentation, and only take a few audience scenarios at the end.

[Fingers]

Or you could take suggested scenarios in advance in a forum thread ?

Pick the most interesting ones ?

[delta]

Hey folks, This was definitely the most fun panel I helped with last year, and I'd love to help again.

I think it would definitely be better to have more prepared examples. Last year, we kinda got bogged down in "have you seen this scene from this one anime?" that none of us had even heard of.

[richardthebald]

So, if there are four of us, one to two case studies each then, perhaps?

[kotoko]

Feb 14, 2020 3:32:31 GMT -5 Fingers said:

Or you could take suggested scenarios in advance in a forum thread ?

Pick the most interesting ones ?

I actually like this idea, as it's the best of both worlds. We'd have to ensure a visible thread - maybe the Facebook group would be a better avenue? It seems to be more active. Of course, we could also pose the question here in the Teahouse, as well, and get both crowds involved.

That being said, if there are 4 panellists, then 1-2 scenarios would work, depending on how complex they are. For example, the Made in Abyss one we chose last year had a lot to unpack and would have taken a good chunk of time had we discussed everything about it (I don't think we made it that far, lol), whereas a simpler mechanism of injury (such as a chopped off limb from a sword) would be easier to explain.

[crownowa]

I don't think it matters where you post, as long as you get responses. You have the official and unofficial Facebook groups, teahouse, and the official panel discord, just to name a few options.

[richardthebald]

Would it be worthwhile for panelists to maybe do a group chat or google doc, since confirmation is a ways away yet?

Preliminary coordination and such?

[kotoko]

Last year, we primarily communicated by e-mail but I am open to other methods, too (Facebook, WhatsApp, Discord...). Sabrina made a great Google doc outlining some scenarios we could potentially cover and we all contributed to it as we went. It seemed to work pretty well.

[richardthebald]

Whichever works best for everyone. Since it seems like we are going with A/V, pre-selected scenarios, may just be better to organize sooner rather than later.

[kotoko]

I do kind of want to wait to hear what Sabrina thinks before we go ahead and make any solid plans, seeing as she's the one who spearheaded this panel

[crownowa]

sabrinaofsaffron The other applicants would love to hear your feedback


I've been tasked with creating a stickied post for the collection of scenarios. I'll be working on it in the evening.