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Voting is officially open for the 2024 Lemmy Manga 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. Special thanks to @NineSwords@ani.social for creating the graphics in each category.
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 Chart
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 anime and light novels as well:
Happy Voting!
2024 Manga of the Year
- RuriDragon
- The Demon King’s Daughter Is Too Kind!! / Maou no Musume wa Yasashi Sugiru!!
- Kagurabachi
- DAN DA DAN
- Love Bullet
Best Comedy
- The Gals Who Always Say Insane Things: My Daily Life at a Private Paranormal High School / Shiretto Sugee Koto Itteru Gal. - Shiritsu Paranomaru Koukou no Nichijou
- The 100 Girlfriends Who Really, Really, Really, Really, Really Love You
- The Eminence in Shadow / Kage no Jitsuryokusha ni Naritakute!
- Turns Out My Dick Was a Cute Girl / Ore no Kokan wa Bishoujo Datta no ka
- IseGure: After Constantly Being Used as a Foil for OP Isekai Protagonists, The Elite Knight Has Finally Had It / IseGure - Isekai Cheat Musou Ore TUEEE-kei Ikiri Tenseisha ni Kamaseinu ni sare Tsuzuketa Elite Kishi, Chou Gureru
Best Action
- Chained Soldier / Mato Seihei no Slave
- I Got a New Skill Every Time I Was Exiled, and After 100 Different Worlds, I Was Unmatched / Tsuihousareru Tabi ni Skill o Te ni Ireta Ore ga, 100 no Isekai de 2-shuume Musou
- Chainsaw Man
- Omniscient Reader’s Viewpoint
- Kagurabachi
Best Fantasy
- Witch Hat Atelier
- Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End / Sousou no Frieren
- Welcome to Japan, Ms. Elf! / Nihon e Youkoso Elf-san
- Speedrunner Cannot Return from the Game World / RTA Sousha wa Game Sekai kara Kaerenai
- Made in Abyss
Best Romance
- Don’t Toy With Me, Miss Nagatoro! / Ijiranaide, Nagatoro-san
- The 100 Girlfriends Who Really, Really, Really, Really, Really Love You
- The Girl I Like Forgot Her Glasses / Suki na Ko ga Megane wo Wasureta
- The Fragrant Flower Blooms with Dignity / Kaoru Hana wa Rin to Saku
- Journey Home After School / Houkago Kitaku Biyori
Best Slice of Life
- RuriDragon
- The Demon King’s Daughter Is Too Kind!! / Maou no Musume wa Yasashi Sugiru!!
- Gal Can’t Be Kind to Otaku!? / Otaku ni Yasashii Gal wa Inai!?
- SPY×FAMILY
- Tsumiki Ogami & the Strange Everyday Life / Ogami Tsumiki to Kinichijou
Best Drama
- Villains Are Destined to Die
- Love Bullet
- The Apothecary Diaries / Kusuriya no Hitorigoto
- Vinland Saga
- Tales Of Akane / Akane-banashi
Best Suspense
- Miyu-chan Will Always Be Your Friend / Miyu-chan wa Zutto Tomodachi
- Oshi no Ko
- The Summer Hikaru Died / Hikaru ga Shinda Natsu
- Mieruko-chan
- MAD
Best Artwork
- Mieruko-chan
- One Punch Man
- Akebi-chan’s Sailor Uniform / Akebi-chan no Sailor Fuku
- Fate/type Redline
- Witch Hat Atelier
Best Character
- Ruri Aoki from RuriDragon
- Frieren from Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End / Sousou no Frieren
- Cid Kagenou from The Eminence in Shadow / Kage no Jitsuryokusha ni Naritakute!
- Maomao from The Apothecary Diaries
- Urumin (Moegi Urushibara) from The Useless Idol and Her Only Fan in the World / Damedol to Sekai ni Hitori Dake no Fan
Best Duo: Romantic or Otherwise
- Nazuna Nanakusa & Kou Yamori from Call of the Night / Yofukashi no Uta
- Hakari Hanazono & Karane Inda from The 100 Girlfriends Who Really, Really, Really, Really, Really Love You
- Hayase Nagatoro & Naoto Hachiouji from Don’t Toy With Me, Miss Nagatoro! / Ijiranaide, Nagatoro-san
- Chinatsu Kano & Taiki Inomata from Blue Box / Ao no Hako
- Mirai Misato & Shouko Taira from The Gals Who Always Say Insane Things: My Daily Life at a Private Paranormal High School / Shiretto Sugee Koto Itteru Gal. - Shiritsu Paranomaru Koukou no Nichijou
Did a fair bit of reading (at least 5 chapters, sometimes 10) for most of the ones I didn’t know, with exception of 2 or 3. In most cases, this equated at least 1 volume, or at least almost, which I think is a fair amount.
I liked them all, but some of the nominees I didn’t really see why they’d be on this list to be honest, but tastes differ. Maybe some of them get really good later on. I’ll probably keep up with them.
We had a decent number of responses, but when the nominations are spread out among so many potential titles, all it takes is a couple dedicated fans to push one up the list. By comparison, it took significantly more to get an anime nomination because the number of potential series is way less.
One of my ideas for doing this again is to align categories with tags on either Mangadex or AniList and, if a series isn’t listed with that tag, it isn’t eligible for that category. Even then, some can be a bit of a stretch, but it should at least be easier to assign eligibility. I think one of the reasons that Best Suspense got so few nominations is because that category is a bit vague and ill-defined.
Good idea. I struggled with some categories too because I didn’t quite know what counted and what didn’t. Suspense is one of them.