It feels more like a teaser but that sure is a teaser for Frieren S2
AceMos posted...
i really want to know the metrics they used to decide this
was it viewership
cus while social media is far from the deciding factor of popularity
i saw infinitly more social media presence for frieren than i did solo leveling
tons and tons of fan art and discussion videos on youtube
frieren was everywhere last year
A panel of judges decides what gets on the category and then we, the audience/public, make up 30% of the vote and the judges make up 70%
So it was voted on that Solo Leveling was the best of the six (for the record, I haven't seen Solo Leveling so I can't speak to the quality of it compared to the others)
Although the Crunchyroll Anime Awards have been really bad for a couple years
I did a bit of a deeper dive but ever since 2022, only two anime (Bocchi the Rock and Lycoris Recoil) didn't hit first or second in their season in popularity on MyAnimeList and the only one not to break 500k users on MAL was Delicious in Dungeon
If it was ever "legitimate", it hasn't been in the past couple years, Frieren win or not