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 Manga of the Year
- Winner - Dan Da Dan
- Runner-up - RuriDragon
Best Comedy
- Winner - The Eminence in Shadow / Kage no Jitsuryokusha ni Naritakute!
- Runner-up - Turns Out My Dick Was a Cute Girl / Ore no Kokan wa Bishoujo Datta no ka
Best Drama
- Winner - The Apothecary Diaries / Kusuriya no Hitorigoto
- Runner-up - Vinland Saga
Best Fantasy
- Winner - Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End / Sousou no Frieren
- Runner-up - Witch Hat Atelier
Best Duo: Romantic or Otherwise
- Winner - Hayase Nagatoro & Naoto Hachiouji from Don’t Toy With Me, Miss Nagatoro! / Ijiranaide, Nagatoro-san
- Runner-up - Nazuna Nanakusa & Kou Yamori from Call of the Night / Yofukashi no Uta
Best Romance
- Winner - Don’t Toy With Me, Miss Nagatoro! / Ijiranaide, Nagatoro-san
- Runner-up - Journey Home After School / Houkago Kitaku Biyori
Best Action
- Winner - Chainsaw Man
- Runner-up - Chained Soldier / Mato Seihei no Slave
Best Slice of Life
- Winner - RuriDragon
- Runner-up - SPY×FAMILY
Best Artwork
- Winner - One Punch Man
- Runner-up - Witch Hat Atelier
Best Suspense
- Winner - Mieruko-chan
- Runner-up - Oshi no Ko
Best Character
- Winner - Frieren from Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End / Sousou no Frieren
- Runner-up - Maomao from The Apothecary Diaries
Biggest surprises for me in these results was Nagatoro taking Best Duo as well as Best Romance. I think it goes to show the effect that having a good ending to a series really helps shape the lasting perception people have. Also interesting that the Best Duo runner-up was also from a series that concluded this year.
Feels like a pretty good choice honestly. They had a fun dynamic and nice chemistry, plus there was a decent amount of character development of both MCsthroughout the series. Granted, I wasn’t familiar with most of the competitors in this category so I can’t say if this is “earned” or not - still, it’s not the worst possible result.
I was ready to throw hands and call a scam but some of the series I’m familiar with managed to nab an award so this was a totally legitimate event. Yeah! (¬‿¬)
