Agent-347
Student Council President
Welcome to 2015!
May our anime UK distributing overlords be bringing us your favourite and most wanted titles! And how better to nudge them a bit by doing a public poll?
This essentially is a follow-up on Reevothemusefan's previous "Your Top 5 Most Wanted UK Anime Licenses? topic.
Big difference is that I break up the poll after my criticism about the handiness of the poll for anime distributors, on top of the fairness towards certain fans.
Categories
There are 6 categories you can vote in, you aren't obligated to vote in each category. Nor are you obligated to vote for every category all at once.
The categories you can vote in are:
◄ Series that have not been dubbed (yet) : For any anime series that don't have a dub as of yet.
◄ Series that have been dubbed : For any anime series that have a dub.
◄ Movies : For any anime movies.
◄ Upgrades to Blu-ray : For any available UK DVD releases you want to see upgraded to Blu-ray.
◄ Re-releases : For any previously available UK release you want to see return.
◄ Overall : This is pretty much what you had to do in Reevo's version of the poll the previous years, mixing all the above into one.
Dub and sub split?
I realize it - especially for sub-fans - might be a bit annoying to have to check whether there is or will be a dub of a certain title.
But for UK distributors it's often a big decisional factor whether a title is or is going to get dubbed.
So just do a quick check on http://myanimelist.net for any older anime-titles, if there's an English cast listed it means there's a dub.
In the case of scheduled titles you should easily find the information of whether there'll be a dub by checking Rightstuf or UP1.
For all releases that haven't been scheduled yet and barring a few exceptions found in the international news thread we'll assume the anime titles belong in the "series that have not been dubbed (yet)" category, as like Toradora and Chunibyou at this point last year.
Mind that the dub/sub split is only in tact for the anime series categories and are not split for the other categories.
Rules
◄ All votes are casted towards continuous franchises: This means you don't split eg. Clannad and Clannad After Story that follow-up on each other, but you do split the several Yu-Gi-Oh iterations with differing casts.
Warning: A Certain Magical Index and A Certain Scientific Railgun are considered ONE franchise in this poll.
◄ You are not obligated to vote in all categories: So don't force yourself into finding titles, you're always allowed to check what others vote on and cast votes in some categories nearer the end of the poll.
Also, for eg. -Danielle- who still buys only DVD you are not obligated to vote for Blu-ray upgrades at all. You are allowed to though.
Also, note that you can always check what people voted on the previous editions by Reevothemusefan for some inspiration.
For previous editions: 2014 Edition | 2013 Edition | 2011 Edition
◄ Use the English title of the franchise/show/movie: Please, even though some titles are silly it's handier to tally votes if everybody says "When They Cry", and not some "Higurashi" and others "When They Cry".
◄ You're allowed to mention formats: If you want a specific release (or all) to be released on a specific format (eg. Blu-ray), you can (and please) add that next to your vote inbetween brackets, eg. "[BLU-RAY]".
◄ When not casting 10 votes: If you decide to vote in a category but only vote for less than 10 anime you are responsible to pick how much points you cast with your vote.
You need to add an order and points to your votes for your votes to count fairly towards your own opinion. I know this is tough for some, but if you really don't know you just randomly attach anime to certain amount of points.
Eg. You only want a Blu-ray re-release of Ergo Proxy and Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha you can very well give Ergo Proxy 10 points and Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha 4 points if you wish.
Only tip I can give you (this is no rule): when you don't know how much points to cast just count down from 10 onwards. You can also always check what others vote for first and check how many points they gave.
In the case you don't copy my code from below (please do copy it though) and mention more than 10 anime in a category only the first 10 will count.
In the case you don't copy my code from below and mention less than 10 anime AND don't mention points I'll count down from 10 points.
◄ Try to be realistic: I don't mind you voting for anything, but I'm more pointing towards the Blu-ray upgrade category. If an anime doesn't have a Blu-ray release in Japan it most likely won't get released on Blu-ray over here.
Checking whether an anime has a Blu-ray release in Japan you can do via CD-Japan and Amazon Japan.
◄ Changing votes: I am not opposed to you changing your votes inbetween the time you posted your initial votes and the end of the poll.
But please make it clear you changed votes, either by making a new post saying "I changed some votes:" or adding a "EDIT (and date preferably): (info)" to your initial post.
◄ Nota bene: Use the nota bene in the form for any notes you want to add.
This could go from you "addressing" a certain distributor to suggesting something about a title like an extra.
Or for something that I didn't make a category for like for example OSTs/CDs, we may not have had a new OST announcement in a while, but you never know.
◄ Voting ends: Sunday 25 January 2015 at 11.59PM
Vote form/bulletin
Please copy the code from this (and fill in):
May our anime UK distributing overlords be bringing us your favourite and most wanted titles! And how better to nudge them a bit by doing a public poll?
This essentially is a follow-up on Reevothemusefan's previous "Your Top 5 Most Wanted UK Anime Licenses? topic.
Big difference is that I break up the poll after my criticism about the handiness of the poll for anime distributors, on top of the fairness towards certain fans.
Categories
There are 6 categories you can vote in, you aren't obligated to vote in each category. Nor are you obligated to vote for every category all at once.
The categories you can vote in are:
◄ Series that have not been dubbed (yet) : For any anime series that don't have a dub as of yet.
◄ Series that have been dubbed : For any anime series that have a dub.
◄ Movies : For any anime movies.
◄ Upgrades to Blu-ray : For any available UK DVD releases you want to see upgraded to Blu-ray.
◄ Re-releases : For any previously available UK release you want to see return.
◄ Overall : This is pretty much what you had to do in Reevo's version of the poll the previous years, mixing all the above into one.
Dub and sub split?
I realize it - especially for sub-fans - might be a bit annoying to have to check whether there is or will be a dub of a certain title.
But for UK distributors it's often a big decisional factor whether a title is or is going to get dubbed.
So just do a quick check on http://myanimelist.net for any older anime-titles, if there's an English cast listed it means there's a dub.
In the case of scheduled titles you should easily find the information of whether there'll be a dub by checking Rightstuf or UP1.
For all releases that haven't been scheduled yet and barring a few exceptions found in the international news thread we'll assume the anime titles belong in the "series that have not been dubbed (yet)" category, as like Toradora and Chunibyou at this point last year.
Mind that the dub/sub split is only in tact for the anime series categories and are not split for the other categories.
Rules
◄ All votes are casted towards continuous franchises: This means you don't split eg. Clannad and Clannad After Story that follow-up on each other, but you do split the several Yu-Gi-Oh iterations with differing casts.
Warning: A Certain Magical Index and A Certain Scientific Railgun are considered ONE franchise in this poll.
◄ You are not obligated to vote in all categories: So don't force yourself into finding titles, you're always allowed to check what others vote on and cast votes in some categories nearer the end of the poll.
Also, for eg. -Danielle- who still buys only DVD you are not obligated to vote for Blu-ray upgrades at all. You are allowed to though.
Also, note that you can always check what people voted on the previous editions by Reevothemusefan for some inspiration.
For previous editions: 2014 Edition | 2013 Edition | 2011 Edition
◄ Use the English title of the franchise/show/movie: Please, even though some titles are silly it's handier to tally votes if everybody says "When They Cry", and not some "Higurashi" and others "When They Cry".
◄ You're allowed to mention formats: If you want a specific release (or all) to be released on a specific format (eg. Blu-ray), you can (and please) add that next to your vote inbetween brackets, eg. "[BLU-RAY]".
◄ When not casting 10 votes: If you decide to vote in a category but only vote for less than 10 anime you are responsible to pick how much points you cast with your vote.
You need to add an order and points to your votes for your votes to count fairly towards your own opinion. I know this is tough for some, but if you really don't know you just randomly attach anime to certain amount of points.
Eg. You only want a Blu-ray re-release of Ergo Proxy and Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha you can very well give Ergo Proxy 10 points and Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha 4 points if you wish.
Only tip I can give you (this is no rule): when you don't know how much points to cast just count down from 10 onwards. You can also always check what others vote for first and check how many points they gave.
In the case you don't copy my code from below (please do copy it though) and mention more than 10 anime in a category only the first 10 will count.
In the case you don't copy my code from below and mention less than 10 anime AND don't mention points I'll count down from 10 points.
◄ Try to be realistic: I don't mind you voting for anything, but I'm more pointing towards the Blu-ray upgrade category. If an anime doesn't have a Blu-ray release in Japan it most likely won't get released on Blu-ray over here.
Checking whether an anime has a Blu-ray release in Japan you can do via CD-Japan and Amazon Japan.
◄ Changing votes: I am not opposed to you changing your votes inbetween the time you posted your initial votes and the end of the poll.
But please make it clear you changed votes, either by making a new post saying "I changed some votes:" or adding a "EDIT (and date preferably): (info)" to your initial post.
◄ Nota bene: Use the nota bene in the form for any notes you want to add.
This could go from you "addressing" a certain distributor to suggesting something about a title like an extra.
Or for something that I didn't make a category for like for example OSTs/CDs, we may not have had a new OST announcement in a while, but you never know.
◄ Voting ends: Sunday 25 January 2015 at 11.59PM
Vote form/bulletin
Please copy the code from this (and fill in):
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