Ok, well... I started this thread over a year ago, and I still don't see any new banners added since then.
The issues I noted a year ago have only exacerbated since then, as
all the anime shows featured in the banners of this forum site are a year older now than they were a year ago.
We've had Madoka Magica, Anohana, Steins;Gate, Tiger and Bunny, and countless other very well-received 2011 anime. Many anime fans consider this to be a banner year for anime (no pun intended
).
I really think its time we saw some fresh banners here.
If it takes this long (literally over a year) to get a proper banner contest off the ground and going, then it seems to me that the only viable alternative to
never changing the banners at all is to allow would-be banner artists to make voluntary submissions to the AS moderating staff, and for the moderating staff to decide which ones to test out by adding them into the banner rotation.
I hope that we would all agree that at
some point these banners really ought to be updated with fresh anime content. I mean, at some point, new anime fans coming to this site will look at the banners above and not recognize a single anime there (aside from Code Geass perhaps).
