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And there you have it. So here are the details!
When?
Every Saturday night at 9 PM PST until 1 AM PST, starting this Saturday the 13th!
What?
This will be a weekly Anime viewing night. Every week, I'll show two episodes from two different series. This will continue until a series ends, then a new series will be started.
How?
This'll be broadcast over IDW TV. There's a viewer cap of 20 simultaneous viewers, so be on time! The link to IDW TV will appear on the top of the forums during the show, and is also available in chat prior to the start. I'd give it out now, except that the link is useless until someone's broadcasting.
Which?
This is the fun part. I have a ton of stuff I can show. As such, a mere poll just won't work out. So here's how it'll work. During my Friday show, I'm gonna be in chat as usual. While showing the previews for the film we'll be watching, I'm going to start collecting votes from people there. Since my Friday and Saturday show hours are similar, this should be the most fair (and easiest) way to take a vote. We'll start by picking two categories. The available categories are:
-Action
This category is where the fighting anime, sports anime and general badassery goes. While action series can have some science-fiction elements, in general they focus more on combat and less on the science. Giant mecha need not apply, DBZ not available.
-Drama
YOU'LL CRY! That's this category. This is where all the heart-wrenching lovey-dovey stuff goes. These series can have some action or comedy elements, but the focus of the show is on the relationships of the characters, their trials and tribulations. What's a giant mecha?
-Comedy
LULZ. These series are designed specifically to make you laugh your ass off at how ridiculous and random they are. Sure, there can be some romantic stuff, or some scifi wizardry... but the point of the show is to make you go LOL WTF?! Giant mecha can be defeated by little girls. True fact!
-Science Fiction/Fantasy
GIANT MECHA GO HERE PLZ. Well not just that, this is also where all your space operas and magical girl series go too. Mecha? Starships? SUPERHUMAN MAGICAL WOMEN!? You're in the right place. This category is sure to make all the physics nerds jizz themselves before proceeding to argue the finer details of everything. Unless of course it's a fantasy series in which case the physics nerds will probably have to suspend all their beliefs. Interesting category, nicht?
The top two categories will be shown first. Once those are picked, I'll make a list of five series from each and have the chat vote on them. Once those series are done being shown one of the remaining categories will be up, and so on and so forth. After the first vote, future voting on series will be done during the Saturday shows on the last day of broadcast for a particular series. It's a system we used back in my high school Anime Club, was pretty effective while remaining democratic. Hopefully it works out here.
Oh, and one last thing, since it gets discussed a lot by Anime Clubs everywhere.
Subbed or Dubbed?
This will be on a series-by-series basis. I'm generally open to the idea of showing dubbed Anime, especially considering the resolution of our TV broadcast. Of course, this option will only be available for series I actually have the dub for. However, if one of those series gets voted for, I will put up a vote for whether we'll watch it in the original Japanese (with subtitles of course) or the dubbed English.
So there you have it! Questions? Comments? If you wanna get your vote in, be sure to be in #IDW on irc.rizon.net at 11 PM PST this Friday! See you at the show!
As Tessou said, we don't wanna be stuck on one show forever. 50-episode series will be an option, as long as people know they'll be watching it for half a year.
More than likely I'll miss it but we'll see. 