Prone to accident as I am, minor injuries and I have formed a bond. Therefore, when Akadot staffers sat down around the editorial table to decide that the subject for this month's Live Action Anime Experiment will be Wall Slamming, I begrudgingly but dutifully volunteered myself as the subject - the slamee if you will.

When Akane's wrath sends Ranma into a brick barrier, he goes cockeyed momentarily, shakes it off and resumes his day with nary a bruise save for the one delivered to his ego. If Ryo isn't flattened with a mallet, Kaori hurls him at the nearest partition from whence he rises to recklessly libidinize again. To what extent would a good, healthy wall-slam affect my stalwart frame?

The Akadot staff assembled in the alley between our spacious, Southern California offices and El Rosarita Mexican restaurant. I readied myself psychologically by channeling the unearthly resilience of anime characters while my colleagues bickered about the best way to swing me into the wall so as to maximize impact, an argument that assumed more fervor than I thought necessary for a simple experiment, a fun little bit of editorial curiosity. In fact, it seems that many of them had produced diagrams and trajectory calculations almost instantaneously, almost as if they had been planning this for a very long time.

Once all was ready, my compatriots seized me by the arms and torso and, with impressively powerful and disturbingly enthusiastic force, flung me at the stonemasonry. The cool wind rush passed my face and ...

Join us next month when a brand new editor begs the question, "Would I be cool if my hair blew every time I flew into a room?"