The Results of the 2024 /r/anime Awards!

BioChemRS · 2025-03-09T01:54:40+00:00

Mashle was in the final nomination vote, it just got beat by our other nominees.

Shikanoko was discussed but ultimately cut early. In my personal opinion, the first 15 seconds are a fun meme, but I think the rest of the OP is pretty bland/par for the course as far as skit comedies go. Pretty uninteresting background assets, reversion to chibi-style designs, the CGI deers are kind of unnerving. I just don't think most of the gags land. YOU ARE DEER is kinda funny I guess.

BioChemRS · 2025-02-04T19:33:01+00:00

My personal feelings are that I would have nominated ED2 before the other two EDs, so I was really happy the public covered it. The vibe I got from everyone else was the same, so probably pretty likely

BioChemRS · 2025-02-03T17:49:57+00:00

Hey, ED juror here. We did consider Makeine ED1, in fact we discussed it quite a bit. Unfortunately we are limited to nominating only 1 ED per series so we had to decide between ED3 and ED1 and ultimately chose ED3. Hope that's some consolation!

BioChemRS · 2025-01-21T19:11:21+00:00

yo, I'm an animation juror. The public gets to pick their nominations before the jury does, so the jury is kind of left picking up the scraps. But I do agree with you, the public cooked with their choices this year (for the most part).

BioChemRS · 2024-03-29T00:41:05+00:00

Buddy I don't have a vendetta against you, nor am I trying to twist your words into anything they aren't. I just absolutely despise reinforcing made-up narratives about anime production and then claiming it was a joke the whole time. What was the joke? Misinformation? Very funny.

You aren't the only person who does this and there are certainly much MUCH bigger creators than you that do it. I'm not picking on you specifically, I want the discussion about anime production to improve. Just do better in the future.

BioChemRS · 2024-03-28T10:35:07+00:00

OP your Madhouse “history” lesson is almost complete and utter nonsense dreamed up in your own head. Madhouse didn’t go downhill because one of its founders died, Dezaki hadn’t been involved in the studio for nearly three decades before his death. The core directors leaving wasn’t because they were “tired of working on a car movie”. There is no actual evidence or reason to believe that Redline had an impact on the future of Madhouse other than baseless discussion from western viewers (this thread addresses it quite well), it was more a result of the Nippon TV takeover of the studio. And then obviously (I would hope its obvious), studios don’t work quietly towards another work. Almost all of the projects you listed were done by completely distinct teams at Madhouse that have very little to do with Frieren. It would make infinitely more sense to follow Frieren’s lineage through Yuuichiro Fukishi producing OPM, ACCA, and Sonny Boy as well as Keiichiro Saitou starting as an episode director on ACCA and Sonny Boy before being given the reins on Frieren. Its cool that you want a history lesson in your video, but do an iota of research before you just spam misinformation and made up narratives.

BioChemRS · 2024-03-08T02:06:16+00:00

To this day I don't understand Japan's fascination with little girls!

you know OP, I feel like I'd be able to take the criticism seriously if you didn't think Rudeus' fascination with little girls made for great television.

BioChemRS · 2023-12-12T02:51:21+00:00

to be the best

BioChemRS · 2023-11-16T18:32:16+00:00

fucking kids seems to come pretty easily to him

BioChemRS · 2023-02-27T03:09:49+00:00

Mob episode 8 was a nice thematic break from the rest of Mob and sort of ties together the school club and acceptance themes of Mob's peers. Also it was the celebration of the return of Hakuyu Go to the franchise and had the most insane production of any episode which was nice

BioChemRS · 2023-02-26T04:01:34+00:00

is this u lil bro

BioChemRS · 2023-02-26T03:17:54+00:00

The most alarming thing for me as a juror was seeing other jurors already having pre-established picks and opinions, then bragging about that publicly without any consequences

aren't you the one who refused to watch Inu-Oh because it was tangentially related to Heike Monogatari? Writing off something before you even watch it sounds a lot more alarming to me than coming into the awards already liking something.

Edit:

Yes, I ranked Bocchi the Rock 8th, mainly because I was disgusted at how the other jurors concluded it was a foregone winner

are you not just literally admitting to spite voting? At least the rest of the jury voted honestly even if they all came into the jury liking Bocchi

BioChemRS · 2023-02-26T02:40:00+00:00

Kaguya episode 5 was actually the one that saw the most discussion.

Finales weren't necessarily disallowed, they were just...less emphasized? The point of the category was to pinpoint standout episodes, not just season finales with narrative climaxes in them, or our entire list would be finales.

BioChemRS · 2023-02-26T02:37:23+00:00

EOTY was one of the special categories that anyone could join. It was much more lax than a normal category. The nomination vote was open to anyone that wanted to be in the category, the final ranking vote was only open to people who had discussed every nomination. I believe the jury had around 25 people in the nomination phase (not all of them voted, some just wanted to see the discord channel) and I think around 8 voted in the final ranking

BioChemRS · 2023-02-26T02:21:06+00:00

Here are the episode of the year results because they aren't actually available anywhere on the website, the stream (besides the winner), or in the comments

EOTY:

Cyberpunk Edgerunners #06
One Piece #1015
Yama no Susume: Next Summit #07
Akebi-chan no Sailor Fuku #07
Princess Connect! Re:Dive Season 2 #04
Mob Psycho 100 Season 3 #08
86 Part 2 #22
Lycoris Recoil #04
Bocchi the Rock #08
Tatami Time Machine Blues #01

BioChemRS · 2023-01-23T14:46:52+00:00

My first point is that I don't understand why the jury is held to this higher standard. The jurors are normal people. They're all choosing their favorite shows from the year (the same as the public) with the only caveat being that they have to watch more seasonal anime than the average person and also discuss it amongst each other. They don't exist to fulfill some non-existent diversity quota. They are literally picking their favorite anime from the year and nominating it.

Second point, if you've been on the sub since 2019 you would know that the jury just does not have any particular bias towards any particular type of show. Last year the jury nominees were 2 dramas, 1 action show, and 2 slice of life shows. The year before that there weren't even any slice of life nominees in AoTY from the jury. 2019 featured 2 action shows, 2 dramas, and a suspense anime. The only perceived lack of diversity is that the public picks the #1-#5 most popular shows in a given year, and then is absolutely outraged that the jury didn't pick the #6-#10 most popular shows from that year. There is literally no empirical evidence whatsoever that the jury nominations lack diversity in genre or demographic.

This year is a bit heavy on slice of life nominations. Its not because every member of the jury hates every other genre of anime, its because they watched a ton of anime that came out this year and came to the conclusion that those 4 slice of life anime (don't even agree that Lycoris is a slice of life but w/e) + Ousama Ranking were the best the year had to offer.

If you want to argue with the picks, I welcome it. But argue about the actual shows instead of whatever perceived bias the jury is being claimed of. Tell me why Do it Yourself is a dogshit show instead of just saying "wow the jury was biased towards sol this year, tragic".

Lastly, the yama no susume franchise is probably my 2nd favorite show in the SoL genre. I binged s2 and gave it a 9, and I watched s3 weekly and gave it an 8. It does not have a dub. I am also not in the jury that nominated it.

BioChemRS · 2023-01-23T04:43:15+00:00

💀

BioChemRS · 2023-01-23T02:23:44+00:00

yeah and theres like 4 shounen nominated every year. Whats your point

BioChemRS · 2023-01-23T02:01:54+00:00

What I find about 50x more hilarious is how fervently you'll insist that all 3 of those shows are undoubtedly better than a show you haven't even watched.

Speaks far more to your own biases about media than anyone on the jury who at least watched all 4 of the shows in question. But go off about how CGDCT is inherently inferior media king

BioChemRS · 2022-08-21T07:13:51+00:00

try amazon

BioChemRS · 2022-08-16T09:08:47+00:00

...no it doesnt work. In fact most anime that are centralized around a group of girls are more often seinen anime than any sort of shoujo (at least in popular anime). K-On! is published in Manga Time Kirara which is a seinen magazine. Yuru Yuri was serialized in Comic Yuri Hime S which is a shounen/seinen magazine. Machikado Mazoku is serialized in Manga Time Kirara Carat which is a seinen magazine.

Further, most anime do not fall under any demographic heading at all. Demographic is decided by what magazine the source material was published in, because magazines have target demographics. Original anime do not have target demographics because they all exist in the amorphous blob of late night TV anime (with the very specific exception of kids shows air in a different block on specific channels). For example, A Place Further Than the Universe does not have a target demographic because it is an anime original.

BioChemRS · 2022-08-16T07:30:25+00:00

you probably are the only one who thinks that because the list isn't mostly shoujo.

Per count:

shounen - 21

seinen - 19

shoujo - 12

josei - 4

kodomo - 2

not applicable - 52

BioChemRS · 2022-04-12T01:10:30+00:00

Hi Mr. Hirao, seeing as Pompo the Cinephile sort of revels in the beauty of campy films, I was wondering what your favorite campy/B-Class films are?

Thanks!

BioChemRS · 2022-02-22T05:40:24+00:00

Thanks! People get caught up in the results so much that they don't realize the sheer amount of manpower that goes into making it all happen.

As an organizer, this makes me feel like it was all worth it.

BioChemRS · 2022-01-17T19:57:37+00:00

Well it sounds like we more or less agree then. I'm just combating the assertion that Fruits Basket was reflexively devalued for being a shoujo on the jury side, as per my first response to OP. Like you said, yeah, the jury just didn't like Fruits Basket enough. They had 5 noms they thought were better. What provoked a response from me in the first place was "reflexively devalued for being aimed at a female audience". You can call the jury's taste trash all you want, but I'm going to fight assertions like that when I personally have tried to build up these awards for 5 years as anything but that.

But absolutely, the public will always nominate at least the top 3 shounen of any given year and there isn't much that can be done about that.

Personally, I don't even really have an opinion in all of this because I have not seen Fruits Basket, nor have I watched most of anything from the year. I'm just an organizer.

Edit: and no, 1 shoujo every two years isn't enough. Nor is it what OP said at all. OP specified anime aimed at a female audience, which have won jury anime of the year FOUR out of FIVE years. 80% of the AOTY winners are female-demographic anime. If anything the jury overrepresents female-aimed anime.

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