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INTEREST: Crunchyroll Announces Nominees for 5th Annual Anime Awards


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Hal14



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PostPosted: Fri Jan 15, 2021 12:48 pm Reply with quote
Great Pretender: 12 nominations
Eizouken:11
Jujutsu Kaisen:10
BEASTARS: 9
Dorohedoro: 6
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Appare-ranman: One

Even as someone who liked Appare, it feels almost cruel to nominate it alongside those other five shows. As if they picked those five first, and then randomly drew Appare's title from a hat to fill the sixth slot.
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ab2143



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PostPosted: Fri Jan 15, 2021 12:56 pm Reply with quote
Jujutsu Kaisen shouldn’t really be nominated for Anime of the Year. The show hasn’t even finished yet! Would be better to include it in next year’s (if it does happen) nominations
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CatSword



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PostPosted: Fri Jan 15, 2021 1:05 pm Reply with quote
My votes:

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Anime of the Year: Beastars
Best Protagonist: Catarina Claes
Best Antagonist: En
Best Boy: Legoshi
Best Girl: Kaguya Shinomiya
Best Opening: Wild Side
Best Ending Sequence: NIGHT RUNNING
Best VA Performance (JP): Mutsumi Tamura
Best VA Performance (EN): Aaron Phillips
Best Director: Masaaki Yuasa
Best Animation: Beastars
Best Character Design: Genice Chan and Yuusuke Yoshigaki
Best Fight Scene: Deku vs. Overhaul
Best Drama: Beastars
Best Comedy: Kakushigoto
Best Score: Yutaka Yamada
Best Couple: Legoshi & Haru
Best Fantasy: Dorehedoro


I'm glad to see Beastars get the recognition it deserves after missing out last year due to the technicalities of Netflix sitting on anime for months.
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Zeino



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PostPosted: Fri Jan 15, 2021 1:23 pm Reply with quote
If Eizouken wins most of the nominations, will people stop claiming these awards are a joke?
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Ryuji-Dono



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PostPosted: Fri Jan 15, 2021 1:31 pm Reply with quote
Zeino wrote:
If Eizouken wins most of the nominations, will people stop claiming these awards are a joke?


Given the excessive tribalism at the moment, I think not.
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HueyLion



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PostPosted: Fri Jan 15, 2021 1:31 pm Reply with quote
Not a bad list, I kind hope Great Pretender gets some love here with it votes
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Ryuji-Dono



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PostPosted: Fri Jan 15, 2021 1:37 pm Reply with quote
CatSword wrote:
My votes:

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Anime of the Year: Beastars
Best Protagonist: Catarina Claes
Best Antagonist: En
Best Boy: Legoshi
Best Girl: Kaguya Shinomiya
Best Opening: Wild Side
Best Ending Sequence: NIGHT RUNNING
Best VA Performance (JP): Mutsumi Tamura
Best VA Performance (EN): Aaron Phillips
Best Director: Masaaki Yuasa
Best Animation: Beastars
Best Character Design: Genice Chan and Yuusuke Yoshigaki
Best Fight Scene: Deku vs. Overhaul
Best Drama: Beastars
Best Comedy: Kakushigoto
Best Score: Yutaka Yamada
Best Couple: Legoshi & Haru
Best Fantasy: Dorehedoro


I'm glad to see Beastars get the recognition it deserves after missing out last year due to the technicalities of Netflix sitting on anime for months.


Oh yeah, nice picks.

These are mine:

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Anime of the Year: Great Pretender
Best Protagonist: Natsume
Best Antagonist: Ryoumen Sukuna
Best Boy: Satoru Gojo
Best Girl: Abigail Jones
Best Opening: Wild Side
Best Ending Sequence: The Great Pretender
Best VA Performance (JP): Yuichi Nakamura
Best VA Performance (EN): Johnny Yong Bosch
Best Director: Sunghoo Park
Best Animation: Jujutsu Kaisen
Best Character Design: Naoyuki Asano
Best Fight Scene: Jin Mori Vs Han Daewi
Best Drama: Beastars
Best Comedy: Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken!
Best Score: Kevin Perkin
Best Couple: Legoshi and Haru
Best Fantasy: Deca-Dence
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Brook09



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PostPosted: Fri Jan 15, 2021 1:40 pm Reply with quote
I'd be more interested in the chinese version of such awards, I presume bilibili would be outlet to make ones.

At the end of the day China is the big big big player, what's popular there counts, I wouldn't be surprised if some isekai scores the anime of the year there.
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DatRandomDude



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PostPosted: Fri Jan 15, 2021 1:47 pm Reply with quote
What the hell did they smoke to put Appare-ranman as Anime of the Year and ONLY nominated as Anime of the Year, nowhere else.
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#920022



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PostPosted: Fri Jan 15, 2021 1:48 pm Reply with quote
Nothing from Kengan Ashura? shame...

Best fight scenes is from this anime.
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anpansparking



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PostPosted: Fri Jan 15, 2021 1:51 pm Reply with quote
Catarina and Maria seems like a weird nomination for best couple. I know people ship them, and Maria obviously likes Catarina, but her feelings seem pretty one-sided for the moment, and it's really up in the air who Catarina will end up with, if anyone (based solely on the anime, at least).

It just kind of seems like the category should be for, if not actual couples, at least pairings where both parties have clear romantic feelings for each other.
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Takkun4343



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PostPosted: Fri Jan 15, 2021 1:55 pm Reply with quote
You know what this awards ceremony needs? Write-in candidates.
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Erufailon4



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PostPosted: Fri Jan 15, 2021 2:23 pm Reply with quote
That is... actually a pretty good nominee list. Better than I was expecting.
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Abraham Omosun



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PostPosted: Fri Jan 15, 2021 4:09 pm Reply with quote
As long as Jujutsu Kaisen wins best ED and Kanamori wins best girl, I will be content (though Eizouken should really get best animation). Akudama Drive only having one nomination Crying or Very sad Favorite anime of 2020 with Eizouken and Jujutsu Kaisen. Justice for Akudama Drive!
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KitKat1721



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PostPosted: Fri Jan 15, 2021 4:37 pm Reply with quote
Fairly same-y list, but overall some good choices (although Appare-Ranman in just AOTY is super weird).

I still maintain that the CR English VA nominees are terrible. Once again, its only LA actors (which already looks pretty bad, CR) and there are a couple performances in there that are only for one or two episodes (like really... the one old dude from Babylonia? I didn't even particularly like the Babylonia dub because the script was so restricted, but there were still some decent main performances).

The nominees here feel like such an afterthought compared to the JPN VA nominees (which I thought were all pretty solid), and I can't tell if its because they don't have enough judges who actually watch, let alone like, English dubs outside of the occasional one on Netflix or the judges overall just don't care.
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