All Exec members were in attendance today!

Societies Fair

A reminder for the exec to fill out their shifts. We all decided on when we’ll be at socs fair accordingly.

Exec Introduction Slides

Conran also reminded us to get slides done for Tuesday night, in preparation for exec introductions on Wednesday and Thursday.

We had a slight detour talking about Lewis and Arman struggling to get whiteboard markers from Tesco.

Coach Hire

We have decided with a reasonable degree of certainty to take a coach to MCM in October - especially with recent rail strikes.

Conran explained we plan to get the form out today to ask members about their preferences regarding travel, payment etc.

We also looked into quotes regarding travel options, and decided that it’s best to get the ball rolling as quickly as possible to avoid hikes in cost.

Conran noted that we need a driver with a strong mental fortitude considering the song choice on last year’s coach (ahem, Ram Ranch). Various forms will be going out across the next few weeks to follow on payment.

Timetable

• Karaoke will be on Week 1 Saturday instead of the usual Week 2, to start us off on our best foot forward.
• Trialling a society games night in Week 1 Wednesday, where exec can run any activities from fighting games to anime musical chairs.
• AniSoc Draws is BACK and starting off in Week 2!
• And of course, the much awaited (and joked about) BL night is a thing, and happening in Week 5.
• We’ll be trialling random seating orders at Meal Socials so people get to socialise and mingle more with those they wouldn’t usually talk to.
  • Of course, there will be options to accommodate for those who definitely want to be seated near each other as pairs.
• MCM is in Week 4.
• Welfare Wednesdays will be on every even week in the timetable.
• Halloween falls on a Tuesday this year, meaning we do a Halloween special - this means that Main Series will be missed that week, and we will watch 4 episodes if Main Series is 26 episodes long in Week 10.
• Wednesday Week 5 is an old-school anime night, with strictly pre-2000s shows being shown.
• We decided to switch Boomer Night and Members’ Choice so that people have more leeway on what to pick in Week 5 - Week 6 is Reading Week.
• Week 7 is a circle in Kelsey’s. Jack and Ana are on booking duty.
• UWCS wish to collab with us in Term 2.
• We added a second Anisoc Draws to Week 9.
• “It is the ambition of the Events Coordinator to do Laser Tag in Week 9.”
• “I will dehumanise these freshers.” - Alex, as we discuss teams for the quiz. We decided to iron out the team making process later.

Exec Choices

We briefly examined the exec choice timetable and discussed arrangements for it. Jack, Arman and Conran will have this term be their final exec choice (although Arman is a 2nd year, so who knows what the future holds?), so they’ll need to go out with a bang. The rest of us will have another in Term 2.

Main Series Choices and Vote

We then began the long process of deciding between all the Main Series choices. We decided to veto 3 choices: Banana Fish (due to content), Toradora! (due to popularity) and Samurai Champloo (also due to popularity, decided by a metric of popularity as per MyAnimeList).

Remaining choices included:

• Beck: Mongolian Chop Squad
• Casshern Sins
• Den-noh Coil
• Ginga Eiyuu Densetsu
• Initial D: First Stage
• Kaichou Wa Maid Sama
• Kareshi Kanojo no Jijou
• Kuroko no Basket
• Koukaku Kidoutai: STAND ALONE COMPLEX
• Lovely★Complex
• Lupin the 3rd (2015)
• MASTER Keaton
• Mirai Shounen Conan
• Mushishi
• Nodame Cantabile
• Skip Beat!
• Wolf’s Rain

After the usual debate, we created some mutually exclusive relationships between shows and then whittle down our choices to our final four.

• Beck: Mongolian Chop Squad
• Den-noh Coil
• Initial D: First Stage
• Mirai Shounen Conan

The meeting then promptly ended as we went off to the Phantom Coach for a much needed dinner.