| Remember, people, you have the power not to let this turn into a joke. Anime of the Year, Best Girl, Best Director and Best Character Design are stacked with good options. Don't let the "normies" give six fucking trophies to Hero Aca. It doesn't deserve them. Don't let Deku win Best Boy when we have several decent options just ready to shine through. Don't let Two Heroes steal Best Movie, that would be a crime. Share on social media. Try to do what you can. This year is better than the last, and if we can minimize Hero Aca stealing trophies and even DARLING in the FRANXX stealing Best Opening and Best VA Performance, it will be a great time for everyone. This doesn't have to turn into a shit fest again. My votes: Best Protagonist - Retsuko Best Antagonist - Momonga Best Boy - Honda-san Best Girl - Asirpa Best Opening Sequence - Pop Team Epic Best Ending Sequence - After the Rain Best VA Performance (JP) - Nao Toyama Best VA Performance (EN) - Kari Wahlgren Best Director - Hiroko Utsumi Best Animation - Devilman Crybaby Best Film - The Night is Short, Walk On Girl Best Character Design - JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: Golden Wind Anime of the Year - Hinamatsuri Best Fight Scene - Yami vs Licht Best Continuing Series - March comes in like a lion My predictions: Best Protagonist - Rimuru Tempest Best Antagonist - All For One Best Boy - Izuku Midoriya Best Girl - Mai Sakurajima Best Opening Sequence - DARLING in the FRANXX Best Ending Sequence - Attack on Titan Season 3 Best VA Performance (JP) - Mamoru Miyano Best VA Performance (EN) - Tia Ballard (could end up going to Christopher Sabat) Best Director - Taichi Ishidate Best Animation - My Hero Academia Season 3 (could end up going to Violet Evergarden) Best Film - My Hero Academia: Two Heroes Best Character Design - Violet Evergarden Anime of the Year - Violet Evergarden Best Fight Scene - All for One vs All Might Best Continuing Series - Dragon Ball Super (could end up going to Boruto) |
Flesh_the_PikeJan 12, 2019 9:13 AM
| MY VOTES: Best Protagonist: Yumeko Jabami Best Antagonist: Momonga Best Boy: Sakuta Azusagawa Best Girl: Mai Sakurajima Best Opening: Deal With The Devil (Kakegurui) Best Ending: Daybreak Requiem (Attack on Titan Season 3) Best VA Performance JP: (Haven't watched any of the candidates) Best VA Performance EN: Erika Harlacher (Violet Evergarden) Best Director: Taichi Ishidate (Violet Evergarden) Best Animation: Violet Evergarden Best Film: Fireworks Best Character Design: Violet Evergarden Anime of the Year: Violet Evergarden |
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| Nominations for the categories were wack this year. |
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LiedElfen said: Already talked about that here: Lunilah said: Aside from murdering living/innocent beings in droves and planning to take over his world during his descent into madness, yeah totally not evil. Yeah, didn't even realize that. Props there for sure. Yes momonga does a lot of bad things but he's the protagonist of the story no matter how you look at it. Lunilah said: If i were to get into it without knowing CR's justification, not that it matters, this is a consequence of them treating heroes and villains the same as protagonists and antagonists since they changed that distinction this year but seemingly without acknowledgement of the actual differences.yhunata said: Evil =/= Antagonist. I was arguing that he does evil things as the poster said he doesn't, but it turns out he hasn't even finished season 1. As for whether he's an antagonist, i think the argument is an interesting one, but either way i don't think Momonga deserves to be even considered for any awards in the first place so i don't care that much myself.Where are the genre awards? Also, for VA, it should be language mixed, but differentiated by gender. That makes him a villain protagonist, not an antagonist. |
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LiedElfen said: Yes momonga does a lot of bad things but he's the protagonist of the story no matter how you look at it. I actually had trouble with that vote. The problem is that Momonga is by far the best character in that category. In every way. I wasn't gonna give the vote to someone like All For One or Yuri just because Momonga might, technically, not be a valid entry. And if I wanted to vote for Overlord, it had to be there. Couldn't find it anywhere else. I had similar problems with the Best Film nominees. The Night is Short, Walk On Girl is the clear winner, but it's from early 2017! I sure as hell wasn't gonna vote for something like Fireworks (also 2017?) or Two Heroes just because the obvious choice was invalid. If that movie doesn't win an award now, it never will. Not that any of that matters, because My Hero Academia is gonna sweep those two awards, easy peasy. |
Flesh_the_PikeJan 12, 2019 3:24 PM
LiedElfen said: Johan_Liebert_ said: Yeah man, seriously. All Might vs All for one wasn't as good as Deku vs Bakugou or Deku vs Muscular. But it was more important, mediatic and instrumental for the the series. I'd highly argue that Deku vs Kacchan is very instrumental to those characters and themes of the story. But overall those other two fights are just much better animated and choreographed. I'm not downplaying AFO vs OFA but it didn't make me as emotional as the first time I read it. And I know why it wasn't as good but hey that's neither here nor there. |
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| @TodAboT Mononga doesn't do evil shit. besides organ harvesting, murdering thousands of people. subjection of innocent village. sure totally not evil >_> moving on voice actor i gave it to Mamoru Miyano because that was just off the chain. best antagonist i have it to Akane Shinjo since she was a more relatable antagonist while all for one motive seemed plain that being said i gave All for One vs All Might best fight of the year because that throw down was awesome. Christopher Sabat did a great job with all might. Mai Sakurajima best girl only because violet wasn't on the list >_> Violet Evergarden for best director and animation. and anime of the year. and Violet Evergarden for best protagonist. her character story left more a impact then most anime this year. JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: Golden Wind for best openning and character desgin. Dragon Ball Super best continuing series. |
| "among monsters and humans, there are only two types. Those who undergo suffering and spread it to others. And those who undergo suffering and avoid giving it to others." -Alice “Beauty is no quality in things themselves: It exists merely in the mind which contemplates them; and each mind perceives a different beauty.” David Hume “Evil is created when someone gives up on someone else. It appears when everyone gives up on someone as a lost cause and removes their path to salvation. Once they are cut off from everyone else, they become evil.” -Othinus  |
Illyricus said: I like how they put Lily in Best Girl category instead of Sakura, the main character. Not subtle, Crunchyroll, not subtle at all.  Muh diversity. Anyways here my two cents on the topic: Mostly better than last two years but at the end, this is a popularity contest and advertisement campaign. The sole reason for "less BNHA" is the last year. Not because of the juridical team. Some "highlights": - Momonga as an antagonist. *Insert Omegalul* Hey guys we need to pick someone evil for this category amirite? - Deku as best boy again. Even r/anime doesn't put characters that won before. Good job. - Everything I can say already said for Lily. - No Kokkoku in best OPs?? Really? - Best VA is really lackluster. Btw mark my words. Deku won't win the best boi award because CR wants to show how diverse their awards are. It's just a gimmick. |
| Yumeko best protag? Didn't that show come out in 2017? Or how does this work? |
| My Votes: Best Protagonist: Rimuru Tempest Best Antagonist: Tokushiro Tsurumi Best Boy: Kotaro Tatsumi Best Girl: Anzu Best Opening: DARLING in the FRANXX Best Ending: After the Rain Best VA Performance JP: Mamoru Miyano Best VA Performance EN: Best Director: Atsuko Ishizuka Best Animation: A Place Further Than the Universe Best Film: Best Character Design: ZOMBIE LAND SAGA Anime of the Year: A Place Further Than the Universe Best Fight Scene: All for One vs All Might Best Continuing Series: March comes in like a lion even tho I picked A Place Further Than the Universe for aoty, I hope Hinamatsuri takes it. xD best continuing series without Saiki Kusuo no Ψ-nan 2 as an option ? oof ... big oooooof. |
| No zero 2 for best girl, and no mitsuru for best boy? I feel cheated. Also, Tada Never Falls in Love isn't in here in any category but Zombie Girls is??? Trash. |
Ericonator said: By definition, everything is retro since by the time you realize something has happened it's already in the past.  |
| How to make Awards better. 1. Have 12 nominees for each category 2. Make it so that you can vote for every anime in a category by ranking them from 1st to 12th (or vote just 1 if you are a pleb) = Single transferable vote. More nominees and single transferable vote. Fair and square. |
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Malevolent-Fae said: There is barely enough competition to field 6 nominees, they should just remove the required amount.How to make Awards better. 1. Have 12 nominees for each category 2. Make it so that you can vote for every anime in a category by ranking them from 1st to 12th (or vote just 1 if you are a pleb) = Single transferable vote. More nominees and single transferable vote. Fair and square. |
I don't believe in the Devil. You should. He believes in you. |
Illyricus said: Well, Sakura is nice but she isn't that likable, she is just "what the avarage person would do" kinda of character.I like how they put Lily in Best Girl category instead of Sakura, the main character. Not subtle, Crunchyroll, not subtle at all. But yes, CR wants to make a point/start a fight too, and they already made it even if she lose (and probably will because Idol trash aren't near as bad as shounen fags). |
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| Kinda surprised how some are on here like honda-san even though it didn't get much recognition. Wondering how these animes were chosen though since some make sense and others. Hoping Violet wins for best animation though! |
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| Everyone's pretty much said everything that's wrong. My main wtf is Kakegurui being nominated. Both should be disqualified. Not that it's bad. It stands a fair chance at winning, except for the fact that it came out in 2017 |
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| My picks : - Best Protagonist: Rimuru Tempest - Best Antagonist: Tokushiro Tsurumi - Best Boy: Kotaro Tatsumi - Best Girl: Asirpa - Best OP : Pop Team Epic (fuck off Aggretsuko, where the fuck is Kokkoku crunchyroll ??) - Best ED : FLCL Alternative (Asobi Asobase got snubbed) - Best VA performance (JP): Mamoru Miyano (almost went for Reina Ueda) - Best VA Performance (EN): Didnt vote lol - Best Director: Masaaki Yuasa - Best Animation: Violet Evergarden (obviously) - Best Film: The Night is Short, Walk on Girl (This nomination list is the biggest joke of all, they put that critically panned fireworks and the Mazinger Z no one gave a shit instead of Maquia lol.) - Best Character Design: Zombieland Saga - Best Fight Scene: All for One vs All Might (why Anzu vs Hina tho, theres was better scenes than that for the anime (the very first scene of Hinamatsuri) or more deserving anime than that, like Revue Starlight, Sirius the Jaeger or Levi VS Kenny in AoT S3) - Best Continuing Series: March comes in Like a Lion obviously. - Anime of the Year: Hinamatsuri Pretty mixedbag nominations as usual. Really sad to see that they got rid of OSTs and Genres category. That's dumb. DoubleJEspejwan6 said: Everyone's pretty much said everything that's wrong. My main wtf is Kakegurui being nominated. Both should be disqualified. Not that it's bad. It stands a fair chance at winning, except for the fact that it came out in 2017 Yeah but it was legally available on Netflix in the West only in 2018 so for them that counts. |
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| I'm pissed that there isn't more Golden Kamuy nominations. |
Read Toriko! |
| I voted for everything Jojo and Yuasa. Everything else isn't worth a vote. |
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| My votes: Best Protagonist: Retsuko. She is my child. Yumeko almost got me though. Best Antagonist: Ryo, no contest. Best Boy: Haida. God, can it please not be Deku? He won Best Hero two years in a row already, and last year a BNHA character won in this category. Best Girl: Anzu. Lotta good girls this year. I'll be happy for any one of them. Best Opening Theme: It was really close between Kakegurui, Pop Team Epic, and Aggretsuko, but I ultimately went with Kakegurui. Best Ending Sequence: FLCL Alternative, I guess? Don't really pay attention to EDs. Best VA (EN and JP): I voted for Retsuko in both. Looking back, maybe I should have picked a different one for one of the categories. Best Director: Yuasa. Good choices here, but Yuasa prevails. Best Animation: Devilman Crybaby. I dunno, maybe I should've went with Violet Evergarden. I just really didn't want it to sweep the show. Best Film: Mirai. It's the only one I saw, and it's very good. But where the hell is Maquia? I haven't even seen it and I know it needs to be here more than Mazinger Z and Fireworks. Best Character Design: Aggretsuko. Furry pride 2019 Anime of the Year: Hinamatsuri. Solid 9/10, though I might have had to vote for Aggretsuko if it was in this category. Best Fight Scene: Hina vs. Anzu. Legendary. Best Continuing Series: 3-gatsu. Come on, it's 3-gatsu. Oml if Black Clover or something wins I'm never participating in this stupid-ass awards ever again. |
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prophet_dan said: that wasn't what I intended but you have a point. It should've been "so we could have more options"red-tomato said: should've just removed the 'only certain series' so we could actually see the public's opinion. anyway, crunchyroll is shit so yeah the public's opinion is what ruined the 2016 anime awards then again, these awards don't actually mean anything aside from starting a saltfest |
| An admin's dickhead Soul banned me from MAL t('v't) |
| I can't even tell who's at fault. It's vote based, isn't it? Is everything vote based, or does Crunchyroll decide the nominees at the very least? I feel like a lot of this would be fixed by just straight up removing the word "best" from all of this. This is never about the best of the anime industry, it's about what's the most popular. Which is fine, not ragging on the mainstream, but they should at describe it properly. |
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| So sad Maquia is not on the list ;_; Was it not eligible for some licensing reason? (yet Mirai no Mirai is on there..) |
Kisaragi said: So sad Maquia is not on the list ;_; Was it not eligible for some licensing reason? (yet Mirai no Mirai is on there..) Eleven Arts had it in theaters here in September and Mirai came out last month from GKIDS so I have no clue why they didn't include it.....like they really could've excluded Fireworks.... |
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| I'm sort of bothered by Agretsuko being nominated so much, like I enjoyed the anime but it came out in 2016 and even if it did get popular in 2018 because of Netflix, it doesn't need to be nominated for that many categories. I just voted for Ryo for best antagonist, Asirpa for best girl, and Hinamatsuri for anime of the year. |
  Don't worry about being lame now, you were always lame anyway!  |
| It should be open voting and have a genre section. This year feels worse than last. At least HeroAca is not winning AOTY. |
| Zero Two not nominated for Best Girl Bunny Girl Senpai not nominated for AOTY... I have no words |
| Are we really gonna make it..? |
| Better late than never... My votes were: Best Protagonist - Sakuta Azusagawa (Not my first choice but since the others weren't of my liking either...) Best Antagonist - Tokushiro Tsurumi Best Boy - Sakuta Azusagawa Best Girl - Anzu (A very tough one but Anzu deserves all the best) Best Opening Sequence - Pop Team Epic (As much as I hated the anime, its OP was great) Best Ending Sequence - Attack on Titan Season 3 Best VA Performance (JP) - Mamoru Miyano (This guy surely loves his job xD) Best VA Performance (EN) - Christopher Sabat (Picked by default since I've only watched a few eps. of HeroAca) Best Director - Atsuko Ishizuka for A Place Further Than the Universe Best Animation - Violet Evergarden Best Film - Liz and the Blue Bird Best Character Design - Violet Evergarden Anime of the Year - A Place Further Than the Universe ----------------------------------------------------------------- Best Fight Scene - Naruto & Sasuke vs Momoshiki Best Continuing Series - The Ancient Magus’ Bride Personal opinions: - There should be more categories since that way, there would be more opportunities for other series such as Bloom Into You, Shoujo☆Kageki Revue Starlight, Yuru Camp△, Banana Fish and Asobi Asobase, for example. - Kakegurui being nominated is a waste since it's from 2017, no matter when CR decided to simulcast it. - Despite being comedy, Hina Kino did a great job as Hanako (Asobi Asobase), it really surprised me that she wasn't even nominated. The same goes for Bakugou's VA too. - I wouldn't know where to put her but I think Historia (Shingeki no Kyojin) deserved a nomination for the importance and development she had in the third season. - Hina vs. Anzu can't be consider a fight... If they really wanted to put Hinamatsuri in that category, they should have picked the fight from the first and last episode, Mao vs. the monks. |
SouthRzVaJan 15, 2019 9:47 PM
| My votes: Best Protagonist: Retsuko (Aggretsuko) Best Antagonist: Ryo Asuka (Devilman Crybaby) Best Boy: Izuku Midoriya (My hero academia season 3) Best Girl: Anzu (Hinamatsuri) Best Opening Sequence: Pop team Epic (Pop Team Epic- Sumire Uesaka /Chihiro Sato) Best Ending Sequence: Attack on Titan Season 3 (Akatsuki no requim- Linked Horizon / Satoshi Kadowaki) Best VA performance (JP): Rareko as Retsuko in Aggretsuko Best VA performance (ENG): Erica Mendez as Retsuko in Aggretsuko Best Director: Masaaki Yuasa (Devilman Crybaby) Best Animation: Violet Evergarden (Studio: Kyoto Animation) Best Film: Mirai of the Future Best Character Design: Violet Evergarden (by Akiko Takase) Anime of the Year: Devilman Crybaby Best Fight Scene: Satan vs Devilman (Devilman crybaby) Best Continuing Series: One Piece It was bit hard to decide cause I haven't seen most of stuff and didn't have time to watch it either, so had to go bit with feeling I have got of the anime from what people have talked and some visual stuff I have seen like amvs or so. Ended up giving quite lot to Devilman Crybaby, plan to watch it later hopefully it's good and deserved my votes xd |
| Asobi Asobase and SAO Alternative ignored. I'm good. |
 I don't watch as much anime as before... |
| I see they're going inclusive with Lily as "girl", oof! |
 Decide once every certain number of years which members of the ruling class will oppress and crush the people in parliament: this is the true essence of bourgeois parliamentarism, not only in the constitutional parliamentary monarchies but in the most democratic republics - The State and Revolution (September 1917), Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov "Lenin". |
MeIancholy said: Thank god that bunny garbage isn't even nominated. It actually gave Crunchroll Awards a bit of legitimacy.Zero Two not nominated for Best Girl Bunny Girl Senpai not nominated for AOTY... I have no words |
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Vecko said: MeIancholy said: Thank god that bunny garbage isn't even nominated. It actually gave Crunchroll Awards a bit of legitimacy.Zero Two not nominated for Best Girl Bunny Girl Senpai not nominated for AOTY... I have no words I'd like to hear your opinion as to why you think bunny girl senpai shouldn't have been nominated. I'm really curious because I have yet to see legitimate criticism towards the show. |
SoulvakiJan 16, 2019 5:11 PM
| Are we really gonna make it..? |
MeIancholy said: Vecko said: Thank god that bunny garbage isn't even nominated. It actually gave Crunchroll Awards a bit of legitimacy. I'd like to hear your opinion as to why you think bunny girl senpai shouldn't have been nominated. I'm really curious because I have yet to see legitimate criticism towards the show. These reviews pretty much sums them. https://myanimelist.net/reviews.php?id=296938 https://myanimelist.net/reviews.php?id=296933 In fact most negative reviews share the same sentiments. Shit art/animation, boring copypaste self-insert protagonist, in his quest to at least make it appear different from monogatari, the neckbeard author deviced a main plot point called "adolescence syndrome" that boils down to "m'lady is self-conscious and it somehow creates an abnormal phenomenon because quantum physics". Basically a dumber uglier boring monogatari. If this kind of shit the author pulled out his ass is aoty then animu is officially dead. Why I hate it personally is because I'd normally drop shit like this after 3 episodes but the high praise it gets made me hope the next episode is gonna be mind blowing. I hate it fuck. |
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Vecko said: MeIancholy said: I'd like to hear your opinion as to why you think bunny girl senpai shouldn't have been nominated. I'm really curious because I have yet to see legitimate criticism towards the show. These reviews pretty much sums them. https://myanimelist.net/reviews.php?id=296938 https://myanimelist.net/reviews.php?id=296933 In fact most negative reviews share the same sentiments. Shit art/animation, boring copypaste self-insert protagonist, in his quest to at least make it appear different from monogatari, the neckbeard author deviced a main plot point called "adolescence syndrome" that boils down to "m'lady is self-conscious and it somehow creates an abnormal phenomenon because quantum physics". Basically a dumber uglier boring monogatari. If this kind of shit the author pulled out his ass is aoty then animu is officially dead. Why I hate it personally is because I'd normally drop shit like this after 3 episodes but the high praise it gets made me hope the next episode is gonna be mind blowing. I hate it fuck. Well I actually agree with you about how the show looks animation wise and the whole "adolescence syndrome"thing. But after watching this it's easy to see how much time and effort went into this anime. The dialogue is so engaging and entertaining, with everyone being a sarcastic smartass trying to outwit each other, mainly referencing Mai and Sakuta. All in all at the end of the day people are entitled to their own opinion, but I just wanted to shed some light on why this show isn't completely garbage like some people say |
| Are we really gonna make it..? |
| Just now remembered to check back to see nominations and vote. As always, the selection is extremely narrow, and the same 3-4 series appear on most categories. Kinda disappointed they didnt continue doing "best ___ genre" -- those at least gave a chance to a wider variety of anime to get a little spotlight. *Sigh* maybe another day, Yuru Camp and After the Rain Im VERY satisfied that Grand Blue scored ZERO nominations, and Banana Fish only got 1 or 2. My predictions-- AOTY / most awards will go to Sora Yorimoi or Devilman Crybaby. Zombieland will be a very close 3rd place, or possibly even 2nd place. Violet Evergarden and Megalobox will be distant shadows in 4th and 5th place, respectively. // When Devilman Crybaby was first released, everyone was calling it "AOTY" and it was only January; I think the outcome of this year's awards will depend largely on how many people still believe that, and I have no clue how many people still think that way. Sora Yorimoi is by far overrated and has a huge devout fanbase; however, now there seems to be plenty of people who agree that it is overrated; so IDK how that will turn out either. Then Zombieland will be the wildcard that has the potential to wedge its way into 2nd or even 1st place. Zombieland had a huge hype train wave at the end of the year, but also seemed to have haters as well. |
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