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As you may know, we are looking at introducing specific forums for certain anime franchises here at OB. We hope that this will better-serve our anime community, so that fans will have dedicated locations for their favorite anime franchises.

As you can imagine it's pretty tough to decide which anime goes first! This will be a big test of whether or not we'll continue down this path.

So, I'm keeping it simple: I want you guys to vote. The nominees are drawn from theOtaku.com's featured anime - so hopefully there will be a choice here for every fan.

Please feel free to vote and discuss your choices in this thread.

I'm gonna go ahead and back Fullmetal Alchemist this round. A couple of reasons:

- Out of these choices, FMA, Bleach and (though I regret to report it) Naruto are ongoing, with enough material on the way to keep people interested in discussion.
- Naruto and Bleach are basically defaults since they're both so popular, so I'd go with the less predictable one since it's almost given that the other two will get their own forums, if this is based on popularity.
-The new anime series is bound to spark a renewed interest in the franchise.
-FMA doesn't suck, as opposed to Naruto.

A couple of other series that may warrant their own forum, but tend to be less hyped on this particular site would be One Piece and just maybe Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann. Just puttin' it out there, if one of the goals is to attract new members.

I agree with Ace here. Bleach and Naruto's a given. (They can even be taken off the poll XD)

I'm actually gonna go a different route and vote for Death Note seeing how FMA will also get its own forum eventually.

So would the manga counterparts go into these anime sub-forums or just stay where they are?

Edit: I'm actually a bit surprised to not see that Mel....something of Haruhi ...... (Sorry fans, I just can't remember that title for nothing.) seeing how it's quite popular.
Whoops. I totally missed the whole "TheOtaku" stuff. Forget you even read that.

As mentioned Magus, these options are based on the featured series over at theOtaku right now. I figure they should be our first port of call before we start going beyond that.

Whichever anime receives the most votes here will get its own forum first, but that certainly won't be the last! If we get some good feedback on that first new forum we'll be sure to expand the lineup.

Edit: Oh, and yeah, I suspect manga discussions will remain in our existing manga forum. We'll try this on and see how it fits, but there will be plenty of room for change as we go. For instance, it could be that if you had a Bleach forum, everything Bleach-related would go there. I'm open to that if we need to do it.

Originally Posted by James

As you may know, we are looking at introducing specific forums for certain anime franchises here at OB. We hope that this will better-serve our anime community, so that fans will have dedicated locations for their favorite anime franchises.

As you can imagine it's pretty tough to decide which anime goes first! This will be a big test of whether or not we'll continue down this path.

So, I'm keeping it simple: I want you guys to vote. The nominees are drawn from theOtaku.com's featured anime - so hopefully there will be a choice here for every fan.

Please feel free to vote and discuss your choices in this thread.

I do want to be part of the vote and discussion!

I voted for DeathNote, because I think that it's relatively undiscussed when compared to more well-known anime like Naruto or Bleach, and that it has a lot of discussion potential. That, and I personally would love to see a DeathNote forum. I love Naruto and all, but there are so many different forums for it, it's almost over discussed.

Just my opinion!
~Rex

I voted for Fullmetal Alchemist. Although I agree that it would be interesting to have a Death Note Forum for the simple fact that it would be nice to be able to discuss this series, I choose FMA because I think it'll attract more people. This show is getting a new season, and I think it'll draw more people. Personally, I'm tired of discussing the other shows listed (besides Death Note).

My personal take is that death Note could create a greater discussion on a wider range of subjects, one such possibly being "Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely". I feel that there are more layers to Death Note than the others.

Just my thought.

I'm all for FMA. People who have lost interest in the show will probably be back to discuss the new upcoming season. I'm excited about it after going to a panel with three of the voice actors recently at SacAnime last weekend. They said the new season is based more off of the manga than the previous one.

Wow, FMA and Death Note are tied now. o_O

There are also some great arguments here in favor of both series. You guys are doing a wonderful job! Keep up the voting.

I haven't really seen Death Note or FMA, however with FMA having new material coming out in the future, I think it would get more attention and would have more people interested in discussing it.

And since I just voted for it, I probably should actually watch it. ^^

well naruto and bleach dont really need to have a forum because its already a given. so i voted for full metal alchemist. i heard that it fma is coming out with a new season so i think that if theres a forum on FMA, it will attract more people to discuss it. and plus it sounds like an interesting forum to discuss

I voted for Full Metal Alchemist since its the one one with upcoming new content and doesn't fail 95% of the time unlike the others.

One piece love would be nice though ;_;

Since FMA is going to be having new stuff out, it seems like the best choice to me. So I have cast my vote. Guess that means I should actually watch it.

I'm not a big fan of any of those series, but I sorta like Death Note up to episode 25. However, I've been meaning to read the Full Metal Alchemist manga, since I liked the beginning of the anime (later in the series got confusing for me, but my friends told me that it isn't as confusing in the manga). So I voted for Death Note, since it's the only option that I know well enough.

I prefer older animes, but of the few newer animes that I like they probably wouldn't make a very good forum. I like Hellsing, which takes a long time to make (although I can still see some good discussions coming from that anime and manga). And I like Claymore, but I think they're just dubbing it now and the manga is incomplete as well (also, it's not as popular, so not much discussion there). That's pretty much it for the newer animes that I really like. Sorry for boring you to death there.