It's hard to judge, since totals for earlier seasons of the same shows may be bumping up their numbers, but it looks as if Strike Witches and Slayers Revolution are the runaway most popular new shows on 2channel. Zero no Tsukaima may be up there, too.Strike Witches has over 44,000 posts. I suspect some but not too many of these were for the original short OVA. The nearest after it is Slayers Revolution at 26,000, and some of its posts may have been for the original series, too.The same goes for Zero no Tsukaima, at 174,000 posts. It had two recent popular seasons, so it's just about impossible to tell how many posts it has this time, since old threads are deleted from the public servers. Hidamari x365 has 81 threads, but many of those are also probably for the original season.Of shows we can be fairly certain of, Sekirei has over 7000 posts; Telepathy Shoujo Ran and Tetsuwan Birdy Decode have over 6000; and Koihime and Someday's Dreamers~Summer Skies~ have over 5000.Looking back at last season, it looks as if Code Geass R2 and Macross Frontier are the most interesting to 2channelers. Of the 817 threads (i.e., over 816,000 posts) for Code Geass, there are records indicating that almost 400 are for the current season. Macross Frontier has 274 threads. Of other spring shows, Zettai Karen Children is running first, at 34 threads, with Blassreiter surprisingly close behind, at 31. ToLoveRu has 25.Of course, these numbers are for otaku-centric 2channel. Actual TV ratings tell a far different story. According to Siegel_Clyne's posts on AnimeSuki, the top new show there is Antique Bakery, followed by Telepathy Shoujo Ran, which airs on Saturday mornings. For the spring season, Net Ghost Pipopa and Zettai Karen Children are the most watched.Despite the fact that I am a big fan of Hirano Aya, I don't have much use either for Zettai Karen as a show or for her performance in it. Just shows how wrong I can be, lol.Anyway, here is the raw 2channel data. Maybe you can tease more info out of it. The numbers are the number of the current thread for each show. Threads are closed when they reach 1000 posts.shows with previous seasonsCode Geass R2 817Macross F 274Zero no Tsukaima Rondo 175Yes! PreCure 5 Gogo 162Hidamari Sketch x365 81Strike Witches 45Slayers Revolution 27XxxHolic 2 22Angelique Abyss 2 8spring 2008 showsZettai Karen Children 34Blassreiter 31ToLoveRu 25Real Drive 22Wagaya no Oinarisama 17Kyouran Kazoku Nikki 16Blue Dragon Seven Dragons 14Nijuumensou no Musume 12Nabari no Ou 10Allison to Lillia 9Golgo 13 9Itazura na Kiss 8Candy Boy 7SA Special A 6Kaiba 5Net Ghost Pipopa 4Chi's Sweet Home 4Onegai My Melody Kirara 3Kyou kara Mao 3Ikkitousen Great Guardians 3summer 2008 showsSekirei 8Telepathy Shoujo Ran 7Tetsuwan Birdy Decode 7KoiHime 6Someday's Dreamers 2 6Natsume Yuujinchou 5Nogizaka Haruka 5Ryouko's Case File 3World Destruction 3Mission E 3Blade of the Immortal 2Ultraviolet Code 44 1
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