Thank you everybody for participating in the awards process! NineSwords and I simply wanted this to be a fun thing to wrap up the year with, and I hope that you all had fun with this. We certainly learned a lot about ways we might want to run things differently if we ever do this again, so thank you for all the feedback you have given us through this process.
If you are interested in analyzing the vote data, I have created a github repo here where I have uploaded both the voting data and the code I used to process the data and calculate the election results. Feel free to use this data in any way you see fit!
Without further ado, here are the winners and runner-ups for each of the categories:
2024 Anime of the Year
- Winner - Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End / Sousou no Frieren
- Runner-up - Delicious in Dungeon / Dungeon Meshi
Best Comedy
- Winner - Delicious in Dungeon / Dungeon Meshi
- Runner-up - Dan Da Dan
Best Drama
- Winner - The Apothecary Diaries / Kusuriya no Hitorigoto
- Runner-up - Oshi no Ko Season 2
Best Animation
- Winner - Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End / Sousou no Frieren
- Runner-up - Dan Da Dan
Best Fantasy
- Winner - Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End / Sousou no Frieren
- Runner-up - Delicious in Dungeon / Dungeon Meshi
Best Soundtrack
- Winner - Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End / Sousou no Frieren
- Runner-up - Oshi no Ko Season 2
Best Duo: Romantic or Otherwise
- Winner - Momo Ayase & Ken Takakura (Okarun) from Dan Da Dan
- Runner-up - Holo & Kraft Lawrence from Spice and Wolf: MERCHANT MEETS THE WISE WOLF
Best Voice Acting
- Winner - Atsumi Tanezaki as Frieren in Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End (Japanese)
- Runner-up - Saori Hayami as Rin Nanakura in Pseudo Harem (Japanese)
Best Romance
- Winner - Spice and Wolf: MERCHANT MEETS THE WISE WOLF / Ookami to Koushinryou: MERCHANT MEETS THE WISE WOLF
- Runner-up - Makeine: Too Many Losing Heroines! / Make Heroine ga Oosugiru!
Best Opening or Ending Sequence (OP/ED)
- Winner - “Otonoke” by Creepy Nuts for the Dan Da Dan OP
- Runner-up - “Shika-iro Days” as the My Deer Friend Nokotan OP
Best Action
- Winner - Dan Da Dan
- Runner-up - Solo Levling / Ore dake Level Up na Ken
Best Slice of Life
- Winner - Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End / Sousou no Frieren
- Runner-up - Jellyfish Can’t Swim in the Night / Yoru no Kurage wa Oyogenai
Best Suspense
- Winner - The Apothecary Diaries / Kusuriya no Hitorigoto
- Runner-up - Oshi no Ko Season 2
Best Character
- Winner - Frieren from Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End / Sousou no Frieren
- Runner-up - Maomao from The Apothecary Diaries / Kusuriya no Hitorigoto
Ah yes, my favorite slice of life 😏
Technically everything can be a slice of life. But preferably it is used for stuff that focuses on daily life. Is frieren actually a slice of life or is this a case of shounen fans calling everything with less than 50% action a SOL? I also heard frieren is a slow show. Is it actually slow or just by shounen standards?
The first cour was much more SOL than the second cour. Frieren’s different arcs tend to bounce back and forth between slow, and action.
That one felt a little weird. I feel like you could make a good argument that the first half of the first season is slice of life, but most of the rest of the series is not.