Thank you everybody for taking the time to submit nominations for these awards. It took some work to sort through all of them, but it was also a lot of fun to know that so many people took the time to contribute to a community-run event like this.
I thought I would take the opportunity to share the final nominees with you now that I have done the tally and have the final list put together. The final nominees are the ones that received the most nominations from you, the community. I capped the number of nominees in each category at 5. In cases where there were multiple nominees that were tied at the cutoff, then I did my best to act as a kind of jury to decide which were included and which didn’t make it.
Just a reminder that voting opens up next week. So start thinking about your votes now! We will be using STAR voting to determine winners. So, that means you will be able to give each nominee a score from 0-5 (giving the same score means no preference). For more on STAR voting, see wikipedia.
Without further ado, here are the nominees. Note that the order I list them within each category has been randomized.
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)
Surprised that Bleach is not there for best animation.
I also expected more One Piece nominations in best animation, but I am guessing they might not be popular shows among the lemmy crowd willing to fill in random surveys.
Frieren would win Best Slice of Life from me hands down if it weren’t for the fact that most of its slice of life episodes were in the first half of the season that aired in 2023.
Anyways, this is gonna be a busy week for me. Things I feel compelled to watch before casting my vote:
- Look Back
- Re:Zero Season 3
- The Dangers in my Heart
- Orb
In addition to all the manga I’ll be reading there’ll hardly be time for anything else!
Not surprised to see Frieren all over the place. Kind of surprised to see Dan Da Da when the season isn’t even over yet, right? It has been very entertaining though.
Finale airs this week. There is definitely some recency bias that happened in the nominations, but I don’t think it undeserving in the categories it was nominated. Those two shows received the most nominations overall compared to any others (Delicious in Dungeon wasn’t too far behind).
People sure have short memories. Earlier this year everyone was going crazy for a certain anime and it never made it to the nomination list.
Earlier this year everyone was going crazy for a certain anime and it never made it to the nomination list.
Which one?
One Piece!
Some behind the scenes info:
- The anime nomination form ended up submitted the most of any of the three mediums (anime, manga, light novels). It beat manga by just 2 submissions!
- 2024 Anime of the Year received the most nomination entries at 78 consisting of 28 different shows/movies.
- Best Character received the most unique submissions at 42 different characters (best OP/ED was at 41).
- Best Voice Acting received the fewest nominations.
Edit: I forgot to call out whoever it was that nominated Blue Lock for Best Animation. You made me chuckle really late at night when I was working through these.
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I capped the number of nominees in each category at 5.
I was under the impression that anything that have been nominated is fair game for voting.
I understand if the number of nominees have to be cut down to make voting easier. IMO this could have been avoided by having a better form / frontend.
Can you please share the number of nominations that each anime receive within each category after the voting round is over? I’m surprised at the nomination result for some categories (e.g. Apothecary Diaries not being in top 5 for Anime of the Year)
Same thing applies to the manga nominees.
Allowing all the nominations to be finalists eligible for voting would have been a lot. Not just asking people to read through ~20-40 nominees for each category, but taking the time on my end of creating a survey with that many entries. I simply do not have the time to do that. I apologize if I was misleading during the nomination round. Like I mentioned elsewhere, this came together pretty quickly, and I am absolutely open to feedback like this for if/when we do something like this again.
As for sharing nomination data, I don’t want to be completely transparent to that degree. It’s not that I rigged the system or anything, but I just think it invites people to argue over every case of where I made any kind of judgement call and I don’t think that will be productive. In the specific case of Apothecary Diaries, this was surprising to me too. I can share a bit about this category specifically.
Here is a graph of the number of nominations for the top 10 most-nominated titles. I marked generally on the graph where Frieren and Apothecary fall to offer a comparison due to the two shows straddling the 2023/2024 seasons in the same way.
In future iterations of this process, I think I (or somebody) might have to take a more active role in adjudicating nominees. I do worry now that people know I made these calls based on number of nominations that they could simply fill out the form a bunch of times. There are some steps I can take on my end to prevent or filter that, but it would also mean doing things like attaching browser cookies to the form or recording ip addresses, which I haven’t wanted to do out of respect for the users.
e.g. Apothecary Diaries not being in top 5 for Anime of the Year
This in particular I was surprised about
oh damn I must’ve missed the initial post
Thank you for compiling and creating this event!🤗
It kind of came together pretty quickly over the course of a couple days. I made the announcement and opened up submissions in last week’s general thread. The voting will start with next week’s general thread.
