Crunchyroll Anime Awards Discussion/Rant Thread

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I saw on the PS4 app, Marginal Service is in their awards recommendation section. Unless they have a "Worst of Award" I am not sure what it was nominated for. It was universally panned on MAL. Even I dropped it after 2 episodes it was so stupid.

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Apothecary and Frieren should, by all rights, be on there

Damn! I didn't realize until now that not even Frieren made it to the list.
Although I did just vote for whichever titles I know that's on the categories. I was planning on giving it a lot of thought but, I took a quick peek at the 'Judges' section and felt otherwise.

Looks like they counted 2022's Fall season instead of last year's. Bocchi's and Chainsaw Man's airing end dates are Dec. 25 and 28, 2022, respectively. They also have SPYxFAM S1 Cour 2 instead of S2.

Are there any other well-known Anime Award bodies we fans can vote on?

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Jozuwa-_- said:
Looks like they counted 2022's Fall season instead of last year's.

Yeah, that's exactly what they did last year. Fall 2021 thru Summer 2022. Confused the hell out of everybody b/c there was no Chainsaw Man or Bocchi even though everyone had just finished watching and raving about those shows...

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LOL who the hell nominated Marginal Service for best original anime

Everywhere I have seen anyone talk about it, it is to say how horrible it is.

This is another Sonny Boy situation where the Crunchyroll awards prove how dumb they are

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Another year, another set of insanely stupid nominations in the Crunchyroll Awards.

Bucchigiri and Metallic Rouge being nominated for best anything is comical....maybe not quite as comical as Marginal Service being nominated last year....

Apr 8, 11:13 PM

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HOOfan_1 said:
Metallic Rouge being nominated for best anything is comical

Highly agree with that. Just because there aren't many choices, doesn't mean the bad ones should be nominated.
Might as well just remove the category altogether if there's a lack of competition.

My biggest gripe about it is that Frieren and Apothecary S1, which are 2023 entries, are still being nominated for 2024. IMO, there should be a separate category for continuations.

I also noticed that they merged the OP/ED in one 'Anime Music' category but separated the OP/ED sequence. Why they didn't just separate the OP and ED Music category as well, I'll never know.

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I mean anime award nominations are always pointless.
And Crunchyroll has a history of rigged nominations.
I wouldn't be surprised at how many things get nominated purely for the memes.

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Dosantsu said:
And Crunchyroll has a history of rigged nominations.

I've been wondering for a while if they're mostly nominating stuff that CR licensed? I don't really know which titles they hold in which regions but, I'd assume they'll prioritize those that they have under their banner, especially the most popular ones.

I tend to compare the results of polls/awards from different sites and see which Top "category" those communities have in common.

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All the Solo Leveling nominations... What a travesty it will be if that show ends up stealing all the awards from Frieren and Diaries. I really won't be surprised if it does though because I bet those two shows will end up splitting a lot of the votes while all Leveling fans will put all their votes on that show.

At least The Danger's In My Heart got a couple nominations.

How did Frieren not get nominated for best ED?

And yeah the song thing is a bit weird. I mean, I can see the difference between one being for the OP or ED sequence overall, while the other is just for the song. However, you end up where almost all of them are just for the OP or ED song except for Frieren. Meanwhile Frieren's ED song is better than the song that got nominated from that show and really both songs should have been nominated.

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My biggest gripe about it is that Frieren and Apothecary S1, which are 2023 entries, are still being nominated for 2024. IMO, there should be a separate category for continuations.

Yeah but neither of them were nominated for anything last year because the awards for the last two years excluded anything from the fall season for 'recency bias.' So it wouldn't have been fair to exclude them from any of the categories this year since they already got excluded last year. I noticed that this year they've included shows from the fall season so I guess all the complaints made them change their policy.

Personally for me if something is the best for it's category then whether it's a continuing show or not is irrelevant. Trying to spread things out, more often than not, just results in situations where something that doesn't deserve to win, or be nominated, ends up taking the place of something more deserving. Just look at what I mentioned above where two songs from Frieren should have been nominated, but only one was. That was most likely because people didn't want to have one show with two nominations in the same category. People will use that same logic not to vote for Frieren or Diaries--or to spread out their votes between the two--which will just end up causing a show like Leveling to steal all the awards.

Overall I don't think the nominations are nearly as bad as they have been in years past. That mostly has to be thanks to Frieren and Diaries being too good to ignore and certainly pushing out a lot of undeserving garbage.

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zkeleton said:
Yeah but neither of them were nominated for anything last year because the awards for the last two years excluded anything from the fall season for 'recency bias.' So it wouldn't have been fair to exclude them from any of the categories this year since they already got excluded last year.

I see. I didn't know they excluded Frieren and Apothecary this past year. I understand their 'recency bias' concern but, they shouldn't have excluded the Fall season in the first place since it removes a quarter of the year they're celebrating, and they do this awarding after one entire Anime season anyway.

Might be personal bias but, I at least expected shows like Makeine, Orb, and Blue Box to show up more in a 2024 awarding. Heck, there wasn't even a Yuki Suou appreciation section xD
I just feel that nominees for yearly awardings should be ones that really defined the year being represented. Although, by this logic, I guess Frieren and Apothecary does qualify as well since their 2nd Cour were quite strong in its own right.

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How did Frieren not get nominated for best ED?

For real. As much as I love the OPs, Frieren's ED is definitely more iconic and a part of its identity.
But, seeing as they have Mashle's "Bling-Bang-Bang-Born" theme in the Anime Music category, I'd guess that they based it on trendy/meme-ish vibes. If that's the case, I'm surprised they didn't include Shikanoko's very popular meme OP.
Personal bias: I really wish some of Makeine's soundtrack made it to the list-- at least it's OP 'Tsuyogaru Girl'.

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I love that you guys don't even create a new thread.

<- just trolling

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So the winners are out....

The only sane response is to laugh. They may as well just pick a random ten year old boy to decide the awards.

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So the winners are out....

The only sane response is to laugh. They may as well just pick a random ten year old boy to decide the awards.

@zkeleton Metaphorically speaking the bulk of CR's audience are 10 years old.

I can't see any other reason why you'd award Solo Leveling anything.

May 28, 7:56 PM

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runec said:
I can't see any other reason why you'd award Solo Leveling anything.

If there was a "most overrated anime of all time" award, I would have this high on my list

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As great as Solo Leveling is, they are not the best in every category they won. Among the other gripes, the wrong Creepy Nuts song won best opening, I thought that A Sign of Affection or Too Many Losing Heroines were way better than Blue Box for romance, Ranma should have won best comedy instead of Mashle, and Girls Band Cry was the best original anime. Then again, the fact that Metallic Rouge was nominated goes to show how weak the year was in that regard, and while Ninja Kamui was great at the start, it crashed and burned towards the end. In any case, where the anime airs is often a huge factor as those that simulcast on Crunchyroll have a huge advantage. This doesn't bode well for shows like Medalist and Magilumiere for next year's awards because of where they are streaming.

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Best Continuing Series: (Winner: Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Hashira Training Arc)
I think Demon Slayer: Hashira Training Arc was far from great-- it was just a series of rushed character exposure and fanservice.
I haven't really watched most of the other entries but, MHA S7 at least has tackled and establish so much more than DS:HTA which felt more like a filler season-- and I didn't even like MHA S7 that much, as a whole.

Best Animation: (Winner: Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Hashira Training Arc)
If there's one category I feel Solo Leveling should've won, it's this one. Dandadan as well.

Best Background Art: (Winner: Frieren: Beyond Journey's End)
I don't mind it, but I feel Delicious in Dungeon utilized and emphasized background art so much more than Frieren.

Best Romance Anime: (Winner: Blue Box)
I may be a bit bias for this since Hina Chouno made the Romance aspect of this show work, but that in itself is the flaw of this show: The main romance couple barely had any.
I may have dropped Sign of Affection but, that definitely screams "Romance" more than Blue Box.

Best Comedy Anime: (Winner: MASHLE: MAGIC AND MUSCLES The Divine Visionary Candidate Exam Arc)
It's unfair for me to question Mashle winning since it doesn't appeal to me in the first place; I dropped it altogether.
But Ranma½ and Konosuba were definitely the purest 'Comedy' of 2024(25?). I'd add Shikanoko as well but, it overshot its charm.

Best Main Character: (Winner: BULLSH**!!!)
Compared to Frieren? Maomao? Momo? Even Okarun and Kafka had more substance than that one dimensional, aura-farming, Fkboi!

When it comes to the Best Anime/New anime category, I won't even bother anymore. It's clearly just popularity contest, and with the CR- or any streaming service in general- availability factoring in. And when it comes to Action, I'd be fair and say Solo Leveling does deserve that; I greatly appreciate Dandadan as an Anime, for its art, animation, story, and characters, but not necessarily as an 'Action'.

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Jozuwa-_- said:
Best Background Art: (Winner: Frieren: Beyond Journey's End)

This is one category Frieren won that it shouldn't have. Apothecary had amazing background art. The interiors of the various pavilions are incredibly detailed.

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Best Background Art: (Winner: Frieren: Beyond Journey's End)

This is one category Frieren won that it shouldn't have. Apothecary had amazing background art. The interiors of the various pavilions are incredibly detailed.

@zkeleton That one feels like they were just tossing a bone to Frieren to try and stave off the blow back.

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zkeleton said:
This is one category Frieren won that it shouldn't have. Apothecary had amazing background art. The interiors of the various pavilions are incredibly detailed.

That's a good shout; Apothecary does greatly benefit from background designs as well.

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