Future Elimination Games

@bedheadred

It's getting that time again that we start nominating for our next elimination game however with this round comes our first ever repeating theme and I was curious if there was anyway we could change it and all subsequent events from what they were from the last time to prevent the games from going stale. If we repeat themes there are bound to be characters re-entered for a second try which is kind of against the point of these games, to find the 'best' representatives from the genres.
Considering it is still days away I was hoping there would be enough time to decide upon a new theme before then, and of course afterwards, the next 11 months worth as well.
Some ideas I thought that could make for an interesting round are Swordsmen, idols/bands [ones that spend the entire show trying to make it eg Beck not ones that spend a few minutes of a single episode performing eg haruhi], or perhaps Sensei meaning both teachers and doctors.

Whats your thoughts/feedback on this idea everyone?

 

I think there are good and bad points to both keeping the current months and changing them out. They will eventually become boring due to repeated themes but I don't anticipate this happening until say the 3rd go around. I know that I for one will be nominating people who were not in previous games for that month. New shows are coming out all the time and there's many series people have never nominated from that we could keep up a fresh pace for some time. new themes would be slightly difficult to come by as we've done most character archetypes already, with a few exceptions. We'd eventually start getting into more specific things like sword wielders and other types of weapons instead of generalizing a theme for melee weapon users. If we were able to come up with 12 more solid themes that weren't far stretched I would be in favor of it. But as it stands I'm leaning more towards keeping them. Of course the ultimate decision is up to Red, so this is just my two cents.

 

I see both your points and have been pondering as well. I offer a solution in which we keep some and mix some up. It is a compromise to what you have both stated.

I believe there are some of the games we have already used that have characters to support another game--Moevember, Tsundember, Maygic--with new anime and the rotation of the people who use the forum. I would like to exclude the winner of the previous game.

There were other months that weren't so popular or there isn't a new character base that could be changed.

Moevember
Tsundember
January?
Danderebruary
Melee March
Ahoge April
Megane May or Maygic
June in Jest (Best Comedy Anime)
Justice in July (Heroes, since we did villains last year)
Ecchi August (Best Fanservice Anime)
Sensei September (Teachers and Doctors)
Over-Powered October

Here are some ideas. Nothing is set in stone and I welcome feedback and open conversation and opinions. We just need to decide on November now to start nominations.

 

I think definitely keep November and December. Like Lince said, they definitely have a wide selection of characters you could choose from. And those are pretty standard archetypes so new characters that fit into those months will continue appearing in new releases all year. And removing stuff like Garch and Gunner Chick month is probably for the best. Another you might be able to reuse is The Magic month or Mecha month there's numerous possibilities in those as well.

Kuudere, Yuusha (heros, since we already did villains), Bokkuko, loli/shota, chikyugai. @Bedheadred this site also has a good simple description for each character archetype which you can also use in the nomination threads so people don't try and vote too far off the theme. http://nhanfiction.com/2013/02/11/anime-girl-archetypes/

Some others could be: Anthropomorphic Personification, Anti-Hero, Big Fun (The big, fun, lovable fat guy. Or the a Boisterous Bruiser), mentors (but that already fits the sensei theme suggested), characters over 60 or 70, That cynical jerkass that really needs a reality check (ex. Vegeta), hikikomori or shut in types, girls with glasses, tough women (reverse garch)

And you could always reprise my red haired girls side elimination game that I did on JDR. I can think of a lot more themes but few which really have a lot of potential choices.

 

@Bedheadred everyone seems to want to keep Movember or at least aren't opposed to keeping it. So maybe for the rest everyone can suggest stuff for awhile and then we could perhaps pile all the new suggestions, and last years themes, into a vote giving voters 11 options to choose from. This way the community can once again have a say in the next round of votes?

 

I have an idea. In order to help keep things from getting stale you can’t nominate anything from the previous running of a theme. So for Moevember you can’t nominate anyone that was in the last Moevember. If that seems too extreme maybe ban the four from the Semi finals. At the very least I believe the winner of the previous Moevember should be banned from re-entering.


That would limit the competitions even more. I know there's a lot of characters out there who could be recast a few times over but then you're getting into obscure characters or at the least characters which people aren't very familiar with. People wanna see popular names in these things, albeit getting stale. I think encouraging fresh nominations and switching up the themes every year would be sufficient. We seem to have a lot of suggestions already that would be fun to do.

 

June in Jest (Best Comedy Anime)
Ecchi August (Best Fanservice Anime)
Over-Powered October  


Personally I am kind of against these ones. All eliminations have been characters so best comedy anime goes against that and it can't really be limited to a single character from each series since it is the interactions with others that makes it a comedy. Similar for ecchi since its an anime again instead of a character and choosing a single best fanservice character is impossible and should probably go to a character from a H anyway. As for overpowered it reminds me of Gar and apart from the additions of everyones favourite shounen characters it sounds like most of the other nominees would consist of who we saw in march, after all Gar is synonymous with overpowered.

 

I felt like making a list of everything which has been suggested here so maybe we could get some input on the theme ideas we have so far.

Swordsmen
idols/bands
Sensei (doctors and teachers)
Dandere
Melee
Ahoge
Megane
Comedic
Yuusha (Heros)
Ecchi
Over-Powered
Kuudere
Bokkuko
loli/shota
chikyugai
Anthropomorphic
Anti-Hero
Big Fun (overweight characters)
Elderly
Cynics
hikikomori
Hated Characters

 

The animated effect is part of her name. And sorry, the background post image and all the other effects is staff only.

 

I just thought of the bestest theme for next No-Shave November--best beard!

 

I just thought of the bestest theme for next No-Shave November–best beard!