Vote Here!
Voting is officially open for the 2024 Lemmy Anime Awards. The voting window will remain open until ~05:00 UTC on Dec. 30th (1 week from this post). I have included the final list of nominees (in case you missed it earlier this week) below with each category as a spoiler tag to help keep them organized.
Voting is done using STAR Voting. So, you will be able to assign each nominee a score from 0-5. The higher your score, the more you want that candidate to win or think it is more deserving. You can assign multiple nominees the same score, indicating that you have no preference between the two of them. For more info on STAR voting, check wikipedia. I have also included below, a quick visual reference to help:
Handy Reference Image
Thank you everybody for taking the time to submit nominations for these awards. I have learned a lot of lessons from this endeavor and have already thought of lots of ways that these can be improved on for next year. So, if you have thoughts/ideas/concerns, definitely share them with me either in this thread or reach out to me privately.
Finally, a reminder that there are also elections happening for manga and light novels as well:
Happy Voting!
As a reminder, here are the nominees:
2024 Anime of the Year
- Frieren
- Dan Da Dan
- Delicious in Dungeon
- Bravern
- Oshi no Ko Season 2
Best Comedy
- My Deer Friend Nokotan
- Dan Da Dan
- Konosuba Season 3
- Bravern
- Delicious in Dungeon
Best Action
- Shangri-La Frontier (both season 1 and season 2 have aired this year, so I didn’t differentiate)
- Nier:Automata Season 2
- Dan Da Dan
- Kaiju No. 8
- Solo Leveling
Best Fantasy
- Konosuba Season 3
- Delicious in Dungeon
- Frieren
- Re:ZERO Season 3
- Mushoku Tensei Season 2 Part 2
Best Romance
- Spice and Wolf: Merchant Meets the Wise Wolf
- Pseudo Harem
- Makeine: Too Many Losing Heroines!
- Cherry Magic!
- The Dangers in My Heart Season 2
Best Slice of Life
- Laid-Back Camp Season 3
- 'Tis Time for “Torture,” Princess
- Tonari no Yokai-san
- Frieren
- Jellyfish Can’t Swim in the Night
Best Drama
- Monogatari Series: Off & Monster Season
- Look Back
- Jellyfish Can’t Swim in the Night
- The Apothecary Diaries
- Oshi no Ko Season 2
Best Suspense
- Shoshimin: How to Become Ordinary
- Blue Lock Season 2
- Orb: On the Movements of the Earth
- Apothecary Diaries
- Oshi no Ko Season 2
Best Animation
- Oshi no Ko Season 2
- Dan Da Dan
- Makeine: Too Many Losing Heroines!
- Delicious in Dungeon
- Frieren
Best Soundtrack
- Oshi no Ko Season 2
- MF Ghost
- Nier:Automata Season 2
- Frieren
- Kaiju No. 8
Best Opening or Ending Sequence (OP/ED)
- “Otonoke” by Creepy Nuts as the Dan Da Dan OP
- “Shika-iro Days” as the Nokotan OP
- “Abyss” by YUNGBLUD as the Kaiju No. 8 OP
- “Rouge” by YU-KA as the Metallic Rouge OP
- “Baban to Suisan! Bang Bravern” as the Bravern OP
Best Voice Acting
- Aleks Le as Sung Jinwoo from Solo Leveling (English dub)
- Saori Hayami as Rin Nanakura from Pseudo Harem
- Fuuka Izumi as Utena Hiiragi from Gushing Over Magical Girls
- Fairouz Ai as Yumiella Dolkness from Villainess Level 99
- Atsumi Tanezaki as Frieren from Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End
Best Character
- Bravern (Bravern)
- Maomao (Apothecary Diaries)
- Frieren (Frieren)
- Anna Yanami (Makeine)
- Utena Hiiragi (Gushing)
Best Duo: Romantic or Otherwise
- Holo & Lawrence (Spice and Wolf)
- Fujino & Kyomoto (Look Back)
- Momo Ayase &
Ken TakakuraOkarun (Dan Da Dan) - Bravern & Isami (Bravern)
- 2B & 9S (Nier)
Now that I’m voting I’m realizing that this system seems especially harsh on shows that not many people watched. If a user leaves a bubble blank that’s equivalent to a 0? Ouch. If people don’t read the instructions they might not realize that they’re unintentionally trashing shows they know nothing about.
I agree with you, but I don’t think there is a good way around the issue of name recognition. My preferred voting method (ranked-choice voting) still would have had that issue, but perhaps a bit less punishing. However, the problem that I ran into with the ranking question type used by this survey software is that it wasn’t compatible across browsers. That is why I fell back to doing STAR voting instead. I think either is better than simple multiple choice in which you can only vote for a single nominee in each category though.
This is something I am going to try to work on for the future if we do something like this again.
I have ideas. Something I wanted for the LN community since day one but don’t see ever happening there. Let’s get some mods together on discord after this one is done
I think that’s true of any kind of awards voting…
It’s kind of “majority rules” embodied…
Yes, but the effect is stronger with some voting systems than others.
If not many people watch a particular show, then it doesn’t deserve to be at the top of its category.