/aa/ - Anime alternative

Currently /a/ is a home for content beyond it's original intent such as anime figures, visual novels and Touhou. Several people suggested a new NWS board be made to focus on these and other subjects that are not anime or manga but anime and manga related, kind of like /m/ but less focused on a single subject.
It would make sense seeing /t/ is almost 50% torrents for visual novels but there is nowhere to really discuss them (too /v/ for /a/ and too /a/ for /v/.)
What are the chances of this board happening?

I support this. It's stupid that the board is meant for both anime and manga, yet often most of the time there are threads about neither. I don't particularly mind them, but they're not something that i'm there to discuss.
Also, of course, it will be a very useful place for Visual Novels and such - that alone is reason enough.
Though perhaps it might be best to keep it Worksafe, or it could devolve into something apart from the original purpose.

/aa/ is an excellent idea.

/v/ is too /v/ for fucking /v/

also DO WANT

Sounds like a good idea to me.

>>2
not really possible with visual novels

Is there an /a/ beyond touhou, figures and visual novels?

>>2
If you keep it work safe it's kind of stupid. There are H-anime models and visuals novels with H-scenes.

Currently America is a home for people beyond it's original intent such as blacks, jews, and women. Several people suggested a new NWS country be made to focus on these and other peoples that are not American but hypher-Americans, kind of like Australia but less focused on a single ideal.

>>3
/v/ is too /b/ for /v/

HOLY SHIT IM POSTING IN THE TEXT BOARDS!

>>7
Tsukuhime and Fate are both eroges, and they get discussed all the time on /a/.
Also, trying to mix discussion with porn never works, that's a pretty indisputable fact. I'll admit the fig threads would be pretty centred around beating off to/on the things, which would be a lot easier to do without the barrier of sfw, but VN discussions can get fairly detailed and plot related, but if allowed to would be filled with porn which would completely block out the actual discussion.

Sounds good.

>>8
lol wut

Why don't you guys just close the threads you don't like?

>>13
What would they troll then?

>>11
>I'll admit the fig threads would be pretty centred around beating off to/on the things, which would be a lot easier to do without the barrier of sfw

Very do not want. Fig threads are tolerated on /a/, but that's because there's no glue. No way anyone is going to brave that for (lol) serious discussion.

>>13

I do. Half the time my /a/ just looks like a line of blue bars.

The thing is, I like Visual Novels, AND Touhou, AND Anime/Manga.

I also like dickgirls, girls having sex and girls just standing there, looking hot - we have separate boards for each of those, why not have separate boards for interactive Japanese media and non-interactive Japanese media? As it stands, /a/ is more centred around otaku (the derogatory Japanese version, not the weeaboo version) culture than actual anime and manga discussion. If you think about it, splitting /a/ further is no different from having /a/ and /co/ separate.

>>16

There's already a place for people who need to have discussion topics subdivided into every possible category. It's called iichan. 

>>17

I'm asking for a board about games aimed at Japanese losers, not a board solely about ribbons.

I wholeheartedly support an /aa/ board. I've mentioned a board like this often in /a/. I've used names like /vn/ (Visual novels and eroges) or /doj/ (Dojin games), but the core idea is the same.

Seriously, /a/ has too many threads that aren't about Anime or Manga. Sometimes I refresh the main page and see nothing but Touhou, TYPE-MOON, Clannad and Mahjong threads. It's not that I don't enjoy them, it's just that they'd be better off in their own board.

It'd also make moderation easier. Because far too much is considered "/a/ related" nowadays, it's hard to draw the line and mods often end up getting chastised for deleting stuff like Bokusatsu threads.

Not to mention that making it NWS would make it possible to post screenshots from eroges without having to censor stuff out, among other things that can't really go in /a/ right now (and don't really belong in /e/, /h/, etc).

/l/, /sm/, and /ss/ FOR THE WIN

Bring them back.

I don't know, I'm still against taking off Doujins, Visual novels and or Touhou from /a/. Most threads start off as Anime-related but then becomes a talk about said anime game. So it's better off leaving it alone, but that's just my opinion.

>>21
It's not like ALL discussion would be forbidden on /a/. Gurren-Lagann and Eva threads are still allowed on /a/, even though they technically belong on /m/.

It's just that Touhou/visual novels/eroges have such a huge fanbase that it seems silly that right now we have to hijack an anime board to discuss it.

Tsukihime, Touhou, Fate, etc. have Anime/Manga to them, hence they are anime & manga related. I don't really see how they are beyond the original intent of a board called 'anime & manga'. Just because they are popular and started out as games doesn't mean they are not related. Does Haruhi not belong in /a/ because it's based off of light novels? The majority of Tsukihime/Touhou etc. threads aren't even about the games, although sometimes they detour into a discussion about them. Mostly they are just threads where people post fanart/doujinshi images along with character discussion, like many /a/ threads. Are we going to ban fanart of popular series now? The whole idea just seems pointless, the problem greatly exaggerated. A simple visit to /a/ could show anyone that while popular, these series hardly take up a majority of discussion and there are plenty of other topics available. And if you don't see a topic about a show/manga you like, create a thread about it! /a/ is what you make of it. Post more of what you like and ignore what you don't.

>>23
>Just because they are popular and started out as games doesn't mean they are not related.

I believe I said in the OP that they ARE related, just not "strictly" anime and manga. Having a board where the games were the focus wouldn't hurt anyone.
It 's just like how you could talk about Jojo's Bizarre adventure Manga in /a/ and the video game spin-offs in /v/, it's not a problem and allows for deeper discussion of the relative formats/adaptations.

>Does Haruhi not belong in /a/ because it's based off of light novels?

If /aa/ was implemented you could still talk about the anime and manga adaptations and maybe even the light novels but /aa/ would allow you to talk more easily about volumes that have not been adapted yet. I realise it sounds complex but a bit of common sense should make things easy. Besides, there are tons of Light novels that have no anime of manga adaptations that are worthy of discussion and another board could help bring them attention.

>The majority of Tsukihime/Touhou etc. threads aren't even about the games, although sometimes they detour into a discussion about them.

They're rarely about the anime or manga either. It's just endless fanart dumps.

>Are we going to ban fanart of popular series now?
I've never talked about banning. I enjoy seeing fanart (both good and terrible) but it could be that /aa/ would make a good home for these pieces.

This isn't just about getting stuff off of /a/ because I quite like the content I'm thinking should belong in /aa/. By having an NWS board for these subjects you would get more in depth discussion and increase the odds of good content while reducing the amount of people who dislike the content.

>They're rarely about the anime or manga either. It's just endless fanart dumps.

The same can be said about many threads on /a/ that aren't about shows currently airing. Even when a show's airing it's common to see character threads that are just fanart dump threads i.e. "Time for a <insert character> thread", or discussion threads that evolve into fanart dump threads. It's not like there isn't any discussion going along with the images most of the time.

Having two boards where the same content would end up getting posted just seems redundant. Discussion of the games themselves on /a/ are rare enough that I can't see much use in creating a board just for discussing those topics. Doujin game threads (not so much Visual novels, though) appear on /v/ frequently enough as well and they are not as hated as some people might make them out to be. At least in the sense that everything in /v/ is trolled to death anyway.

Character discussion, image threads etc. of anime/manga series based off of games belong on /a/ just as much as anything else /a/ related. If only threads directly discussing specific anime episodes/manga chapters were suitable for /a/ then that would mean half the threads on /a/ at any given time are not permissible. The threads on these subjects are not so common as to be disruptive or to crowd out other subjects on /a/, so creating a new board just for them just seems to be a waste. "Toys, Health & Fitness, Travel, and two old friends—Sports and Trains" - Any of these would serve more use and be on subjects that currently do not have a place to be posted in.

>>23
Your entire argument is moot because we have /m/. Like it was said before, the fact that /m/ exists doesn't mean GL/Eva/Gundam discussion is forbidden in /a/.

You're reading far too much into this. What's wrong about a more specific board for anime related content that isn't really anime/manga? Using your argument, /m/ is more useless than a hypothetical /aa/.

I support this but I wouldn't want to see it turn to just H image dumps.

I guess /jp/ takes up /aa/'s proposed role.

>>28
Shit, this means that Moot looks at the Imageboards textboard =O

Now both /a/ and /jp/ are shitty.

>>30
Both would be fine if people stopped making threads complaining about the changes.

Jesus christ, put it back the way it was.

This is what happens when you listen to 3 crying faggots, moot. Bring our board back. This is fucking awful.

>>32
Explain why why you think it's awful.

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