Entries in the "Forums" category

Manga Workshop Read

Manga Workshop originally appeared on OtakuBoards upon the launch of v7 as a means of giving aspiring manga artists a place of their own separate from the Art & Design forum, and seperate talk of manga from OB Anthology. As the Pokémon forum was dissolved into the Anime Archives during the upgrade, Kei (under the […]

My Otaku Read

The whole point behind My Otaku was to provide an informational service for OB members; not just rules, but tutorials about a myriad of subjects (basic guide to creating banners, information about good RPG creation, FAQs about using the site’s functions, etc). It was designed to be a much easier and more pleasant way to […]

Pokemon Read

Not only was it one of the earliest forums on the boards, the Pokemon forum was also the most popular game-specific forum. While discussion of the anime was allowed, it was very rarely present. Originally, the forum suffered from a lack of direction; the main draw of Pokemon was the one-on-one battles, and those were […]

Secret General Discussion Read

Sometime during V2, Otakuboards experienced a technical failure that rendered General Discussion (as Otaku Lounge used to be called) inaccessible. Over a year’s worth of posts were seemingly lost. The staff eventually decided to simply replace the lost forum with a brand new one, and OtakuBoards survived the momentary crisis. Many users bookmarked GD directly, […]

The Arena Underground Read

The Arena Underground came into existence in mid-2004 and brought some much-needed order to the world of OB role-playing. Most of the role-plays on OB would feature posts in the threads with lots of OOC (Out of Character) discussion happening on the sidelines. For role-plays that involved a lot of player discussion or when things got heated […]

The Digimon Forum Read

The Digmon forum is one of the most tight-knit, inclusive forums in OtakuBoards history. Older members often speak of a warm, nostalgic feeling at the very mention of the forum. Some of the prominent members of the Digimon forum included Ginny, Sara (Cera), Shy, Rokas, Blanko, calumon_luver, Sandy, Solo Tremaine, Baron Samedi, Shawn, Digital_Monster (Krissy,) […]

The Mario Forum Read

The Mario Forum was created in September 2002, along with the Grand Theft Auto Forum, as part of OtakuBoards’ Version 6 upgrade. A dedicated home for Super Mario Brothers discussion seemed like a natural addition to the then-popular Zelda and Pokemon forums, but sadly reaction to the new forum was lukewarm at best. Even the […]

The Newbie Lounge Read

The Newbie Lounge existed until November 2002, when in was shot down in a ball of flames largely at the behest of Charles, who was at that point the moderator of the Sony forum. It was a forum dedicated to Introduction Threads, and had been in place since v2. Posts in the forum did not […]

The Spriting Forum Read

Spriting is basically the term used for creating (and adjusting) videogame sprites. The most popular sprites to adjust were very likely the sprites from the Megaman series. The adjustments mostly vary from just simply recolouring the sprites’ original colours, to almost completely customizing the sprite. The original idea for a forum, dedicated to spriting came […]

The Yu Yu Hakusho Forum Read

In order to understand the Yu Yu Hakusho Forum, it’s important to understand a little bit about how OtakuBoards was quite different than the format members are familiar with as of 2007. You see, back in 2001 before the forums in each section of OtakuBoards became more centralized in February of 2004, it started out […]