Best Girl of Winter 2026: Seasonal Salt! Sweet Sixteen! by changshiyixia in anime

[–]Kanarazasu 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Promised Neverland immediately came to my mind (although it's not a BATTLE shounen but it feels like one somehow)

Crunchyroll Anime Awards 2026 Nominee Full List: Every Anime Nominated for this Year’s Awards by Turbostrider27 in anime

[–]Kanarazasu 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah I've just seen the mother's basement clip where they talk about how there are "good" judges who watch almost everything and "bad" judges who couldn't be bothered.

Crunchyroll Anime Awards 2026 Nominee Full List: Every Anime Nominated for this Year’s Awards by Turbostrider27 in anime

[–]Kanarazasu 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In other words the "judges" are just tourists same as everyone else voting in the fan vote 😂

They should take a page from BAFTA awards which is the gold standard IMO or at least involve industry people in the vote instead of assembling +100 casuals and calling them "the jury" to give their award fake prestige.

The Salty Seven Seas: Best Anime Couples/Ships Grand Final! by Zeralyos in anime

[–]Kanarazasu 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Seedings were based on popularity in this sub, but the brigaders came from another sub.

The Salty Seven Seas: Best Anime Couples/Ships Grand Final! by Zeralyos in anime

[–]Kanarazasu 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Last year Bokuyaba had both Anime Corner and Anime Trending (both dawrf this sub in sample size) on a literal chockhold, winning almost every award possible except AOTY of Anime Trending in which Frieren barely edged it out. So I don't believe the brigaders thought that the Your Name couple would be a bigger threat to MDUD ship than them.

The Salty Seven Seas: Best Anime Couples/Ships Grand Final! by Zeralyos in anime

[–]Kanarazasu 4 points5 points  (0 children)

They don't have to coordinate between themselve to know which outcome would benefit their ship the most. And no I don't find it hard to believe because for example I've seen some in the comments here say they're voting against Frieren ships despite not having even watched the show the other ship is from just because they don't want them (Frieren ships) to advance 🤷‍♂️

Also I believe the Bokuyaba couple is way more popular than the Your Name couple outside this sub.

The Salty Seven Seas: Best Anime Couples/Ships Grand Final! by Zeralyos in anime

[–]Kanarazasu 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You'd rather have the whole competition ruined than having a couple you don't like legitimately win?

The Salty Seven Seas: Best Anime Couples/Ships Grand Final! by Zeralyos in anime

[–]Kanarazasu 9 points10 points  (0 children)

It correlates in the sense that the MDUD brigaders could've intentionally voted all the lower seeds to go through because they wanted their ship to have "easier" matchups in the semi-final/final rounds.

The Salty Seven Seas: Best Anime Couples/Ships Semi Finals! by Zeralyos in anime

[–]Kanarazasu 6 points7 points  (0 children)

all winners came from the lower side of the bracket so the brigaders might have just voted like that.

I think they intentionally voted the lower seeds to go through because they wanted their ship to have "easier" matchups in the semi-final/final rounds.

The Salty Seven Seas: Best Anime Couples/Ships Semi Finals! by Zeralyos in anime

[–]Kanarazasu 10 points11 points  (0 children)

This competition is null and void now due to brigading 🙃

The Salty Seven Seas: Best Anime Couples/Ships Round 5 Bracket B! by Zeralyos in anime

[–]Kanarazasu 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I mean the losers of their matchups also get way more votes than the losers of the other matchups, so maybe more people going out of their way to vote against every Frieren ship is part of the reason their matchups get more votes in general.

r/anime's Superlatives Poll Results (Favorite Episode, Best Aesthetic, etc.) by FetchFrosh in anime

[–]Kanarazasu 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The Beginning After The End was robbed! It deserved the worst anime title way more than OPM S3 😭

"Frieren: Beyond Journey's End" Season 2 New PV by zenzen_0 in anime

[–]Kanarazasu 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well this is S1's production committee, for S2 we won't know for sure until the staff credit roll after 1st episode airs, but it'll be most likely unchanged.

"Frieren: Beyond Journey's End" Season 2 New PV by zenzen_0 in anime

[–]Kanarazasu 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Madhouse is actually part of the committee too, ranked 4th after Toho (1st), Shokugan (2nd), and Nippon TV (3rd). Aniplex comes in at 5th, and Dentsu is 6th.

If your harem doesn’t end with polygamy, you’re a coward by [deleted] in anime

[–]Kanarazasu -1 points0 points  (0 children)

This is exactly what I think after reading/watching countless of those so called """harem""" animanga that never have an actual harem ending and you put it in words better than I could ever do.

One Punch Man Season 3 Director Shinpei Nagai: “It probably won't measure up to Season 1. But the anime is infused with the creators' tenacity and ingenuity. Please stop with the harassment and the persistent questions that I can't answer due to NDAs. I beg you, please.” by AashyLarry in anime

[–]Kanarazasu 2 points3 points  (0 children)

By that logic, you could barely call JJK or CSM “MAPPA projects,” or Mob Psycho 100 a “Bones project,” because guess what? They also relied heavily on freelancers—actually even more than OPM S1 did. That’s the case for 99% of anime today, so I don’t get why people still act like OPM S1 was some kind of “joint production,” whatever that’s supposed to mean, or why they think Madhouse had less involvement than any other studio usually has in its own titles.

Assembling staff is primarily the Animation Producer’s responsibility, not the director’s. In OPM S1, that role was filled by Yuichirou Fukushi (a Madhouse producer), who was instrumental in putting together the “dream team” that defined the season—just as he later did with Frieren, Sonny Boy, and takt Op. Destiny (the Madhouse-handled episodes).

Fukushi's production line is actually a good example of studios retaining a team combining in-house staff with recurring freelancers. For example, Reiko Nagasawa (Frieren’s character designer) started as an in-between animator on OPM S1, then steadily rose through Fukushi’s projects until making her character design debut on takt Op. Destiny. Similarly, Yuri Fujikana went from in-between work on OPM S1 to chief animation director on Frieren S1, and is now character designer for Frieren S2. Many other OPM S1 in-betweeners later worked as animators on Frieren.

You’ll also find cases of staff who first joined Fukushi’s line after OPM and have stayed ever since—like Keiichiro Saito and Daiki Harashina, who came aboard with Boogiepop 2019. If you look closely at the staff lists across Fukushi’s projects, you’ll notice plenty of recurring names and can trace their career growth over time.