Board 8 > ~^~ Board 8's 2017 Anime Awards ~^~ The Results

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LapisLazuli posted...

I cannot believe how hard it is to find OPs on YouTube nowadays.

dude, use https://www.reddit.com/r/AnimeThemes/
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Best Vocal Performance

Third Place
Naomi Oozora as Satania from Gabriel DropOut
With 10.00% of the Vote

https://www.anime-planet.com/images/people/naomi-oozora-16409.jpg

Kokoro
"How Evil"

In terms of like capturing a character I don't think there's a much better choice for this season. Just the pure fun, mischievousness, and cuteness of Satania is just a 100% bullseye with the performance.
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Augh forgot about Maidragon with couple nominations. Glad to see Tohru/Kobayashi up there though. Kanna/Riko would've been good too. Surprised Moriko/Yuuta missed out completely.
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Mac Arrowny posted...

LapisLazuli posted...

I cannot believe how hard it is to find OPs on YouTube nowadays.

dude, use https://www.reddit.com/r/AnimeThemes/

Figured people might not appreciate me linking to actual downloads.
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I am really interested in seeing like a full list of what was voted for in best vocal performance, for the record. I was kind of lost in that category.
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Shows I should probably check out based on the awards so far:

Made in the Abyss
Land of the Lustrous
Ancient Magus Bride
Re:Creators
Fate/Apocrypha (after I see Zero probably)
Dragon Maid
Gabriel Dropout

Best Vocal Performance

Second Place
Tomoyo Kurosawa as Phosphophyllite from Land of the Lustrous
With 11.11% of the Vote

https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/thumbnails/hotlink-full/encyc/P86495-692777158.1432937388.jpg

Kokoro
"Perfect. Cute. Dignified."

Tomoyo Kurosawa has been gaining a lot of recolonization within the anime community and its fandom. Much of it had to do with voicing Kumiko in Hibike! Euphonium and what has become known as the "Kumiko noise". Basically her non verbal sound effects she makes with her voice and does it jut better than anyone else in the business. She continues doing this with standout character Phosphophyllite. But not only do we get to see just how much she can add without words we also get to see the range of what she can do. She just has a level natural and genuine emotion in just about everything she says. I fully expect that she'll start to break into full stardom within the next couple of years.
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LapisLazuli posted...

Figured people might not appreciate me linking to actual downloads.

They...aren't downloads though?
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I was soooo close to voting Phos.

Mac Arrowny posted...

LapisLazuli posted...

Figured people might not appreciate me linking to actual downloads.

They...aren't downloads?

Must load up differently off of mobile. Clicking them on my phone auto downloads.
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I would have bumped up Rei/Hina probably if I had gotten through the most recent arc when I sent in my noms. I had the Netjuu couple on top, surprised no representation.

EDIT: Though technically I had 'Hayashi and Lily' on top, so maybe I was intended to distinguish that from Moriko and Yuuta? I don't know.
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Best Vocal Performance

First Place
Aki Toyosaki as Altair from Re:Creators
With 12.12% of the Vote

https://www.anime-planet.com/images/people/aki-toyosaki-2822.jpg?t=1457961048

Mac
K-ON! was a pretty cool little show for voice actors. KyoAni has a history of using unknown voice actors that later become superstars, and I think K-ON probably has more of those than any of their other shows do. However, while Yoko Hikasa is amazing for the strength of her voice and the power of her performances, Aki Toyosaki has, IMO, surpassed her. I didn't think too much of her back in her early days of voice acting. She had a bit of an annoying voice, and she often played cutesy characters I didn't really care for. Since then, however, she's shown an incredible range. I often don't even recognize her and am shocked when I check the VAs for the show after. Altair in Re:Creators was another of those examples, and quite possibly her best role yet. She conveys a quiet intelligence throughout the show, infused with a smoldering hatred that lets you know just how contemptuous she is of the creators, and climaxes with some incredible emotional scenes as well. RC had a couple of my very favorite vocal performances of the year, with even many of the minor roles being done in unusual or interesting ways, but Aki Toyosaki's Altair was the best of them.
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Altair....huh. Didn't expect that. I didn't end up picking anybody from Re:Creators, but even the ones I was considering from that show weren't Altair. (If anyone it probably would have been Meteora?)
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For the record, my third vote in Best Couple was Maika/Dino from Blend-S

As for Best Vocal Performance, I didn't vote in that one just because it didn't seem right. I'm still new to anime so I don't even know the names of the famous voice actors and I certainly won't recognize their voices. I would've just given points to the people voicing characters I liked most for no reason other than that I liked them and that didn't seem fair.
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Just realized I snubbed Best Couple from the master list whoops.
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Best Art - Land of the Lustrous / The Ancient Magus' Bride
Best Battle - Deku vs. Todoroki
Best Story - Made in Abyss
Best Opening/Ending Theme - "The Other Side of the Wall"
Best New Male Character - Elias Ainsworth
Best New Female Character - Phosphophyllite
Best Couple - Chito & Yuuri / Araragi & Senjougahara
Best Vocal Performance - Aki Toyosaki as Altair
Best Cast
Best Comedy/Slice of Life
Best Drama/Action
Most Disappointing Show of the Year.
Most Anticipated Show of 2018
Studio of the Year
Film of the Year
Anime of the Year

More awards in an hour or so!
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Oh, cool, Altair won! Really thought that was deserved.
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+5 Naomi Oozora as Satania (Gabriel Dropout)
+3 Mamiko Noto as Morioka (MMO Junkie)
+1 Aki Toyosaki as Altair (Re:Creators)

as I said in my Kanna write up, Kanna's VA should be here but oh well
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Good winners thus far!

pyresword posted...

I am really interested in seeing like a full list of what was voted for in best vocal performance, for the record. I was kind of lost in that category.

Same, I just picked the voices I liked.

+5 Ozen (Made in Abyss)
+3 Senjougahara (Owarimonogatari 2nd Season)
+1 Ange (Princess Principal)
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Ougi and Senjougahara would be on my list but I was respecting new characters in this one even if it wasn't an explicit rule
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Vocal Performance was pretty all over the place. Here's all of the vote-getters:

Aki Toyosaki - Altair - Re:Creators
Amamiya Sora - Aqua - KonoSuba 2
Aoi Yuuki - Tanya Degurechaff - The Saga of Tanya the Evil
Ayaka Imamura - Ange le Carre - Princess Principal
Chiwa Saito - Hitagi Senjougahara - Owarimonogatari 2nd Season
Fumiyo Kohinata - Ichirou Inuyashiki - Inuyashiki
Go Inoue - Stain - My Hero Academia 2nd Season
Hanazawa Kana as Nogi Sonoko (Yuuki Yuuna wa Yuusha de Aru: Washio Sumi no Shou)
Hiroshi Kamiya - Koyomi Araragi - Owarimonogatari 2nd Season
Hitomi Nabatame (Akane Kosaka - Saekano Season 2)
Kana Hanazawa - Hinata Kawamoto - March Comes in Like a Lion
Kayano Ai as Sakurame Kirie (UQ Holder)
Maaya Sakamoto - Magane Chikujouin - Re:Creators
Mamiko Noto as Morioka (MMO Junkie)
Maria Naganawa - Kanna Kamui - Miss Kobayashis Dragon Maid
Megumi Han - Atsuko Kagari - Little Witch Academia
Naomi Oozora - Satanichia Kurumizawa McDowell - Gabriel Dropout
Nijirou Murakami - Hiro Shishigami - Inuyashiki
Oono Yuuko as Yuzu (Konohana Kitan)
Sayaka Ohara - Ouzen - Made in Abyss
Setsuo Itou - Kai Musashisakai - Animegataris
Shiori Izawa (Nanachi - Made in Abyss)
Tomoyo Kurosawa - Phosphophyllite - Land of the Lustrous

Nearly everyone just received one vote
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Yeah here were my votes

+5 Tomoyo Kurosawa (Phos - Land of the Lustrous)
+3 Hitomi Nabatame (Akane Kosaka - Saekano Season 2)
+1 Shiori Izawa (Nanachi - Made in Abyss)

Regardless of anything else I have to say about LotL I do think the VA for Phos did an excellent job with what had to be a pretty wide range of styles. I'm not surprised at all that nobody else voted for this random Saekano side character that appears for like 1 episode, but man I'll be damned if the VA didn't knock one out of the park whenever her character was on-screen. Nanachi just sounds adorable and I'm kind of sad she didn't win anything, though with the way this category worked out I'm not too surprised there either.
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I should look up what won best Seiyu when I still ran it.

Probably Risa Taneda/Saori Hayami grabbed the wins. Though when I used to run it, it was very heavily skewed towards female performers.

Not a bad thing, since as Mac pointed out, we've had a number of recent years with stronger depth for women characters.
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I really liked the scene from March Comes in like a Lion with 'I don't regret anything at all! I can't! Because what I did was definitely not wrong!" so I voted for Kana Hanazawa as Hina. I didn't find a lot of other standout performances from the year.
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give Tomoyo Kurosawa more main roles
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Best Cast

Third Place
KonoSuba: God's Blessing on This Wonderful World! 2
With 10.19% of the Vote

https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/thumbnails/hotlink-max600x600/cms/news/109524/ks1.jpg

Kokoro
With the powerhouse known as Megumin in the cast it's no surprise that this one came home with placement in this category. I'll be honest I don't think the overall cast is as strong as DropOut but Megumin is undoubtedly a top tier tier girl. If you don't know I really like things like witches hats. But she really takes things up to another level in the second season. TBH if she was eligible she'd be on or near the top of my best character ballot. However, I've always been taking a bigger like into Aqua as well. I was kind of annoyed at her in S1 but now she's become suddenly almost endearing in a way. It's at the point where I might even like her more than Megumin.
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Best Cast

First Place TIE
My Hero Academia 2nd Season
With 12.04% of the Vote

https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/thumbnails/max450x450/cms/news/110022/1-1-.jpg

First Place TIE
Re:Creators
With 12.04% of the Vote

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/2f/ReCreators_Main_Visual.jpeg

Mac
Re:Creators is basically a show where they talk 80+% of the time, so it was essential for it to have a great cast, and for the most part, it really did. Due to its gimmick of taking characters from different genres and series, the cast has a huge variety, and the way they interact with each other is incredibly interesting. Magane and Altair are two of my favorite characters of the year, and every single one of the other Creations is good too, IMO. Obviously some are better than others, but I was never disappointed when they were on screen. The human cast isn't quite as strong, but the most important creator (Matsubara) was excellent at least, and the edgy manga creators were pretty fun too. I feel like some series underutilize their excellent casts by never having them interact with each other (Senjougahara never speaks a word to half the cast of Monogatari, for example), but thanks to the huge confrontations in RC basically everyone gets some scenes. Mamika's interactions with pretty much everyone are incredible, and make her character way more interesting than if she'd only gotten to talk to the MC and one or two others. Without RC, I think 2017 would've been a little bit of a weak year for characters, so I'm really glad we got this to reignite my favorites list.
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Thankfully, that is the last first place tie.
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Seeing Shonen shows do well is always nice!
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Good winners. Ended up going with My Hero Academia, but those two were pretty much neck-and-neck for my first place vote. Both had really strong casts. The thing about My Hero Academia's cast though is that it's pretty huge, and even despite that there's a only a very small number of misses. And all of those characters have really fun and quirky (get it?) personalities, and their interactions with each other are great also.

Ancient Magus' Bride was my +1 for the record, though it was a distant 3rd place.
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My votes:

Best Cast
+5 Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid
+3 Anime-Gataris
+1 Gabriel DropOut

...Looking at it now, I really should've flipped MKDM and GD but whatever, both shows had a solid cast of quirky characters. Anime-Gataris was another show where I liked the group dynamic of the entire main cast, and it was also bolstered by solid secondary characters.
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My votes, but there were a lot of great casts.

Best Cast
+5 Tsurezure Children
+3 Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid
+1 Love Live! Sunshine!! 2nd Season
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Best Cast
+5 Re:Creators
+3 Hero Academia 2
+1 Kobayashi's Maid Dragon
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So Re:Creators was actually good then? I heard a lot of people talking about it but I couldn't actually tell if it was praise or not.
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b8anime thought so at least. i dont look for public opinion anywhere else though
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Yeah b8anime really likes it.

Outside of b8 it doesn't seem especially popular, but it also seems like it's one of those shows where a lot of the people that do like it end up liking it a lot.
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I had some problems with a few central concepts in Re:Creators that dragged it down in my eyes, but even I acknowledge that it accomplished what it was trying to do. Almost all of the characters were good and the fights were fun, it just depends if the premise of Re:Creators is what you're looking for.
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Sceptilesolar posted...

So Re:Creators was actually good then? I heard a lot of people talking about it but I couldn't actually tell if it was praise or not.

It was one of the more well received anime of the year. Personally my #1, though not to an enormous degree. Would have been a lot more popular if it were on Crunchyroll, sadly, since nothing can really blow up huge on Amazon.
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Oh, though I guess now anybody who has Prime but never bothered with Strike can go back and watch it.
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Re:Creators is fine but kind of a mess tbqh
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th3l3fty posted...

Re:Creators is fine but kind of a mess tbqh

A mess? I'd be interested to hear why. I could actually see an argument for Re:Creators not being messy enough.
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Re:Creators is the most chuu2 show I have seen thid year.
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voltch posted...

Re:Creators is the most chuu2 show I have seen thid year.

What an asinine way of describing a show
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What's asinine is the show's script.
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Oh?
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Best Comedy/Slice of Life

Third Place
KonoSuba: God's Blessing on This Wonderful World! 2
With 12.04% of the Vote

https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-aEGVryiHdzU/WMaPexzpYsI/AAAAAAAAA9o/5BSg8mrOOFgg0lVw0y_kA2sHtB0gd9pHgCLcB/s1600/Konosuba%2Bcover.jpg

Tazzy
KonoSuba 2 picks up where season one left off. While S1 had a pretty weak conclusion, KonoSuba 2 ramps the comedy back up to its true form, and even with two Darkness-centric episodes in a row at one point, the quality never really hit a snag. Its consistent laughs made from hilarious characters, solid writing, and some of the best voicework this year.
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Best Comedy/Slice of Life
+5 Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid
+3 Konosuba 2
+1 Gabriel Dropout
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Best Comedy/Slice of Life

Second Place
Girls' Last Tour
With 13.89% of the Vote

https://myanimelist.cdn-dena.com/images/anime/12/88321.jpg

Roba
For an anime set in a post-apocalyptic wasteland where humanity will almost certainly soon be extinct, Girls' Last Tour was an excellent comedy. The story so easily could've lost itself in depression, but the focus instead settled on Chito and Yuuri finding ways to have fun in a world where fun almost has no right to exist. Everything was a joy to watch, whether it was their opposing personalities conflicting or their wild guesses at how strange devices might've once functioned. There was also a solid slice-of-life aspect to the anime, of course, showing these two eke out a living no matter how harsh their situation became.
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Girls' Last Tour got robbed.
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Blasphemy.

Konosuba is king.
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Konosuba is lame. At least it only got third.
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