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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Special guest: Ranka fanclub member #92137 Summary: At a tavern in town, Lina and Gourry are having an eating contest while Zel and Amelia watches. But the contest is interrupted by Investigator Weiser, who arrests Lina (again). The charges against her this time is for stealing the pets belonging to some wealthy [...]
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This time, Lina and friends have to save the pets of some rich women from the evil hands of a scientist who is too fond of experimenting on animals! Well, this episode was great fun, with Goury befriending a jellyfish (remember how Lina is always calling him “jellyfish brain”!) and saving everyone, including (to their dismay) [...]
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Man Mr. You’re Under Arrest is annoying as all hell but thankfully I believe this week is the last we’re going to see of him. It was so funny cause I was so happy to see Lina punch him into the sky but then she got carried along because he was handcuffed to her lol. [...]
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  And the jellyfish brain alliance. Impressions: Well, hopefully this means that we’ll at least have a break from Wiser for a little bit. He did earn a few points for actually being a little bit crafty this episode, but he’s still a pretty annoying character, especially when he’s stopping Lina from exploding things. The Gourry [...]
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Lina’s still upset that someone stole her spotlight and is taking it out on her companions as they quake in terror. Gourry tries his best to calm her down but to no avail. She’s wanted by the police, she doesn’t know what’s going on, and worst of all, she didn’t get to blow anything up [...]
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It seems like an interesting summer season. I am looking forward to a few familiar faces and I am intrigued by some of the shows coming out. I am curious to see what little gems are coming out what no one has been taking about. There are a ton of new shows coming out so [...]
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Lina Inverse is Queen boobless! Summary: Lina discovers that many countries (including her friends’) has classified her as someone who could destroy a nation and after vowing to destroy all their home countries, Lina is interrupted by the inspector again. She convinces him that it was not her who was running [...]
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After 10 years the long-awaited sequel to the third season of the Slayers anime has finally arrived. Slayers will always hold a special place in my heart not just because it’s a great series’ but because it was one of the first anime I really got into back in the early 2000s. There’s a handful [...]
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