Board 8 > Anime of the Decade - Results

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Best Comedy
+8 Asobi Asobase
+5 Kaguya-sama: Love is War
+3 Aggretsuko
+2 My Roommate is a Cat
+1 Skullface Bookseller Honda-san

Best Opening
+8 Jojo's Bizarre Adventure Golden Wind - Uragirimono no Reqiuem
+5 Beastars - Wild Side
+3 Mob Psycho 100 - 99
+2 Carole and Tuesday - Kiss Me
+1 Fate/Zero - Oath Sign

Maybe I should have gone for Great Days knowing it probably had the best chance of the Jojo openings (and is one of my favorites as well) but I really really love the Golden Wind openings. They really upped their game with the second one in particular so that's why I decided to go for it.

Oh whoops I somehow didnt read Kaguya in second, ok well at least I got one thing on

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yeah both Golden Wind openings were god tier. I ultimately gave Great Days the vote, but I could've easily justified including both Fighting Gold and Traitor's Requiem in the top five if I wanted to. Those three are a cut above the rest of the Jojo OPs

The top three for comedy is perfect. 3/4 of the honorable mentions were drops for me.

Kogarashi Sentiment is good. I wasn't expecting to hit on anything in that category.

Best Comedy
+8 Kaguya sama Love is War
+5 Konosuba
+3 Monthly Girls' Nozaki-kun
+2 The Disastrous Life of Saiki K
+1 Samurai Flamenco

Best Opening
+8 Mushishi - Shiver
+5 Nozaki-kun - Kimi ja Nakya Dame Mitai
+3 Katanagatari - Katana to Saya
+2 Eccentric Family - Uchouten Jinsei
+1 Konosuba - Tomorrow

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Did you forget that you're supposed to be listing five winners for these categories?
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I cant believe people think Kaguya was even that funny. So much comedy snubs for a show that ruins itself with excessive narration over skits that arent even funny to begin with.

Best Opening
+8 Let Me Hear - Parasyte The Maxim
+5 Watashi ga Motenai no wa Dou Kangaete mo Omaera ga Warui - Watamote
+3 Kawaki Wo Ameku - Domestic Girlfriend
+2 Kimi No Sei - Bunny Girl Senpai
+1 Wild Side - Beastars

I am disappointed but totally unsurprised WRT best OP.

Best Comedy
+8 Konosuba
+5 Kaguya-Sama: Love Is War
+3 Oregairu/My Teen Romantic Comedy SNAFU
+2 Highschool Of The Dead
+1 Grand Blue

Comedy went p well tho.

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have you considered that, perhaps, you're the one with uniquely bad taste here?

like, I didn't even vote Kaguya for anything (Though I absolutely would've in several places if I factored in the manga too, which is probably a sign I was too hard on it), but this is absolutely a case of "if you smell shit everywhere you go, check your own shoe first"

Best Opening
+8 Guilty Crown OP1 - My Dearest
+5 Mahou Shoujo Madoka Magica OP - Connect
+3 Toaru Kagaku no Railgun OP2 - LEVEL 5 -judgelight-
+2 No Game No Life OP1 - This game
+1 Fate/Zero OP - oath sign

I definitely feel the HMs were stronger than the OPs that won. I've never really been much of a fan of the Jojo OPs and Kogarashi Sentiment is one of the Monogatari OPs I don't really care for.

Best Comedy
+8 Gintama
+5 K-On!!
+3 Chuunibyou demo Koi ga Shitai!
+2 Haiyore! Nyaruko-san
+1 Kono Subarashii Sekai ni Shukufuku wo!

Mostly good picks won here and I wasn't expecting much from most of my entries anyways.
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Best Drama:

Honourable Mentions: Attack on Titan, A Place Further than the Universe, From the New World, Re: Zero-Starting Life in Another World-, March Comes in Like a Lion

Few former winners in that batch, Drama will often be the favourite to win out AOTY.

3rd Place: Monogatari Series

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Runner: Puella Magi Madoka Magica

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Winner: Steins;Gate

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Maybe a sign of things to come, but Steins;Gate and Madoka were ahead of the rest by a significant margin. They both had good results in Best Story, now best drama, theres a clear trend. And why wouldnt something like Steins;Gate do well well here. Its one of the best received anime series outright, with a very well-liked lead and at the very minimum two cool girls that were his driving motivation to save the day. Steins;Gate has the ingredients to be considered one of the top contenders for AOTD, it winning best overall drama for the decade is not surprising, nor is it undeserved.

Madoka, turns out this might be Urobuchis crowning glory, hes worked on other highly regarded shows, but its going to be difficult to step out of Madokas shadow. Everything kinda broke right for it. Shafts animation style, combined with a darker edge for whats normally a lighter hearted genre and a haunting soundtrack, youve got yourself a winner.

Monogatari was kept relevant by releasing content regularly enough and it might have the highest number of great individual scenes. Maybe not the highest of highs, but a pretty good floor and some consistency to the quality is what kept it up there. Maybe if all of Attack on Titan had been covered this decade it would taken its spot or even won the whole thing. Its also possible A Place Further than the Universe if released earlier would have gained more esteem, or it might have been forgotten the way Erased has been since release.

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Best Drama
+8 Fate/Zero
+5 The Promised Neverland
+3 Attack on Titan
+2 Steins;Gate
+1 Land of the Lustrous

Only expected Steins;Gate and Attack on Titan to land of my choices so I was kind of right

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There were comedy anime that were significantly better than the 2nd and 3rd place winners and I like Nozaki-kun quite a bit. Lots of amazing stuff just got nothing. Hell pretty much any random episode of Prison School is funnier

I think I watched the first episode of Prison School once or maybe just clips from the first episode and it seemed kind of awful to me but I've always been super not into the pervy anime humor type

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Man I COMPLETELY flopped in OP.

Best Opening
+8 Serendipity Flip Flappers - https://youtu.be/hlVDEmtnZ78
+5 Open Your Eyes Occultic;Nine - https://youtu.be/0WI33IX_gUI
+3 Connect - Puella Magi Madoka Magica - https://youtu.be/OrgpX-_bFqM
+2 Flashback Kokkoku - https://youtu.be/fhBA6ynorvc
+1 Crowds Gatchaman Crowds - https://youtu.be/UwMi7KSDf5g

Nothing even close, huh? To be fair, I totally forgot Kogarashi Sentinent for some reason.

Best Comedy
+8 Konosuba
+5 Asobi Asobase
+3 Yuru Yuri
+2 Kaguya-sama
+1 Nichijou

Great results for comedy. Wish Yuru Yuri had at least got an HM. A lot of people have just forgotten about it I fear, truly a fantastic series.

swordz, you're horrifically biased against anything with a lead girl you feel is "mean", you gotta realize that that's going to make you feel like an outcast in this crowd. I mean hell, you completely ignored Rascal and decided it was shit without even watching it because Mai "looked like another Senjougahara".

I watched the first episode and didnt care for it. I dont even hold the personalities against Kaguya. It was just borderline painfully unfunny almost entirely because of excessive narration. It might as well have had a sitcom laugh track every 30 seconds

Best Drama
+8 Steins;Gate
+5 Puella Magi Madoka Magica
+3 Land of the Lustrous
+2 Bakemonogatari
+1 Re:Zero

S;G is taking this whole thing, which I'm very pleased by.

Best Drama
+8 Mushishi Zoku Shou
+5 From the New World
+3 Usagi Drop
+2 Space Brothers
+1 Ping Pong

From the New World was the only thing I expected to hit on here. A Place Further than the Universe, Monogatari, and AoT are pretty good though.

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Best Drama
+8 Mahou Shoujo Madoka Magica
+5 Angel Beats!
+3 Ano Hi Mita Hana no Namae wo Bokutachi wa Mada Shiranai.
+2 Yahari Ore no Seishun Love Comedy wa Machigatteiru.
+1 Shingeki no Kyojin

I didn't realize I didn't vote for Steins;Gate until now. That's what I get for rushing my entry. I probably would have put it either above or below Anohana. In any case, very good choices for winners here.
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....holy shit, I completely forgot a Mushishi sequel happened. Wooooooooow.

voltch posted...

Is Humanity has Declined really that good? I only saw the first ep (maybe 2) and besides having a catchy theme song, it didnt grab me straight away like the top 3 shows did.

Been a while since I watched it but I had an extremely high opinion of it. Note that each arc is pretty different thematically. Some are very goofy (including a truly dreadful pun), I remember the last one being somewhat melancholy, but they're all interesting in their own way.

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Best Drama
+8 Monogatari series
+5 Bunny Girl Senpai
+3 Violet Evergarden
+2 Puella Magi Madoka Magica
+1 Kanata No Astra

Could have been better could have been worse. I'm def feeling like a hipster when it comes to Steins;Gate but honestly I'm not sure if I ever even watched it or just played the VN >_>

swordz9 posted...

I watched the first episode and didnt care for it. I dont even hold the personalities against Kaguya. It was just borderline painfully unfunny almost entirely because of excessive narration. It might as well have had a sitcom laugh track every 30 seconds

Well literally everyone else likes the narration so... You're just kinda the odd one out here.

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Maybe literally everyone of the like 5 people here, sure.

I mean it's perfectly fine to not find Kaguya funny, not everything hits for everyone. It's just complaining "UGH I CAN'T BELIEVE ANYONE COULD FIND KAGUYA FUNNY" is a bit silly so warrants poking fun at it

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swordz9 posted...

Maybe literally everyone of the like 5 people here, sure.

It's also one of the most popular shows on reddit, 8.4 on MAL, etc. You are in the minority option to dislike Kaguya. I don't know why you find it so incomprehensible that people find it funny in the context of how successful it is.

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I don't think it's a good idea to start insulting people who liked the show.
Why is a comedy category getting someone so worked up.


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Clearly comedy is no laughing matter

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Best Comedy
+8 Daily Lives of Highscool Boys
+5 Konosuba
+3 Dragon Maid
+2 Nichijou
+1 Hinamatsuri

Best Opening
+8 Kogarashi Sentiment (Monogatari)
+5 Kawaki wo Ameku (Domestic Girlfriend)
+3 Brave Shine (F/SN UBW)
+2 Raise Your Flag (Iron-Blooded Orphans)
+1 My Dearest (Guilty Crown)

Nichibros snubbed smh. admittedly i forgot prison school not that it mattered

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tazzyboyishere posted...

Clearly comedy is no laughing matter

https://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=bMdU_OT0fgU&t=1m0s

Best Opening
+8 Uragiri no Yuuyake (Durarara OP1)
+5 Great Days - Bites the Dust Ver(Jojo DiU OP3.5)
+3 Mathemagics (Owarimonogatari OP2)
+2 Flyers (Death Parade OP)
+1 Kimi Ja Nakya Dame Mitai (Nozaki-kun OP)

Best Comedy
+8 Gekkan Shoujo Nozaki-kun
+5 Humanity Has Declined
+3 Level E
+2 Working!
+1 The Devil is a Part-Timer

Best Drama
+8 March Comes In Like a Lion
+5 The Eccentric Family
+3 Blast of Tempest
+2 Ping Pong: The Animation
+1 Sound! Euphonium

I know no one remembers this show but me, but the Eccentric Family is excellent.

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Eccentric Family is great. I nominated it for a couple categories. Wish I could have found room for more.

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Me like Haganai and Kore Wa Zombie, but those two shows are uh now super niche.

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Best Female Character:

Honestly for both character awards, you can throw out everyone, turns out this decade was all about the two winners.

Honourable Mentions: Oshino Shinobu, Oumae Kumiko, Phosphophyllite, Homura Akemi,

3rd Place: Mai Sakurajima Rascal does not Dream of Bunny Girl Senpai

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Runner up: Senjougahara Hitagi Monogatari Series

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Winner: Makise Kurisu Steins;Gate

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Ok so Christinas everyones favourite tsundere both in show & IRL. Shes a good foil for Okabe, always calling him out whenever his shit gets too weird. She comes off as a smart and serious character, but very quickly some of her own quirkier traits get exposed. Shes got a good blushing game to boot.

Her romance angle with Okabe didnt feel forced either. The more you learn about her backstory, the more you can empathise with her initial behaviour. And as much as she spends time fighting Okabe, in his time of need, shell be one of his strongest allies.

I do wonder if the movie did anything to bump up her standings with the fandom. She takes a more active role there

Best Character Male:

Honourable Mentions: Saitama, Askeladd, Arataka Reigen, Hisoka, Araragi Koyomi, Keima Katsuragi

3rd Place: Joseph Joestar Jojos Bizarre Adventure

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Runner up: Hachiman Hikigaya My Teen Romantic Comedy SNAFU

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Winner: Okabe Rintaro Steins;Gate

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Now I wonder how on earth Okabe x Kurisu didnt win in a landslide the best couple award. It could just be that Araragi x Senjougahara are better together, but individually the Steins;Gate pair crushed it.

Okabes of course a total heroic character, saving the girl and more, but a huge number of main characters are all about saving their loves ones or the world or something. So why is he so far ahead of the rest?
Mad Scientist Houoin Kyouma, catchphrase El Psy Congroo. Hes the kind of guy youd never want to associate with IRL and his eccentric behaviours always getting called out by more normal characters. For the viewer though, you love to see a guy act so confidently in such a weird way. It helps that not everything is bullshit as he really did achieve time travel, which makes him a weirdo genius. This goofs just much more charismatic than the rest.

As for Joseph and Hachiman, they couldnt be any more different. Ones a large ham, confident, strong but rash, though its ok because everything will eventually work itself out. While the others a loner than apparently a lot of fans of the show identified with. Though acting like just his loner self IRL might not be the best idea. His character does grow thanks to his association with some pretty wonderful girls, and he does work really hard to solve whatever the issue of the day is. So as much as he isolates himself, hes still capable of some heroic feats.

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Best Male Character
+8 Reigen Arataka (Mob Psycho 100)
+5 Haida (Aggretsuko)
+3 Yoshikage Kira (Jojo)
+2 Kiritsugu Emiya (Fate/Zero)
+1 Hisoka (Hunter X Hunter)

Best Female Character
+8 Kurisu Makise (Steins;Gate)
+5 Hanako Honda (Asobi Asobase)
+3 Mai Sakurajima (Rascal)
+2 Emma (The Promised Neverland)
+1 Satsuki Kiryuin (Kill La Kill)

I had Joseph Joestar in my original vote actually and then tossed him out to put Kira in. I don't regret it but that's a shame. Really wish Reigen placed but oh well.

I did a bit better on female though, so that's nice

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Guys, what I'm trying to say is....Steins;Gate is super popular and super good.

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Shouldnt those have 4th and 5th place too? Knew none of the girls I picked would get anything, but the guys didnt turn out terribly at least

Best Male Character
+8 Subaru (Re:Zero)
+5 Hachiman (SNAFU)
+3 Takeo Gouda (Ore Monogatari)
+2 Satoru (Erased)
+1 Kaiki (Monogatari)

Best Female Character
+8 Mai Sakurajima (Bunny)
+5 Rem (Re:Zero)
+3 Chizuru (ReLIFE)
+2 Altair (Re:Creators)
+1 Yui Yuigahama (SNAFU)

purposely didnt vote for Araragi or Gahara

forgetting Euphonium messed up my female votes and I also probably wouldnt give Mai +8 if I did it again but whatever. Subaru not getting even an HM damn

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I was hoping Phos would pull ahead further since they won in their year, but can't argue with these results!

Best Male Character
+8 Okabe Rintarou
+5 Arataka Reigen
+3 Hisoka
+2 Kaiki Deishu
+1 Kotaro Tatsumi

Best Female Character
+8 Kumiko Oumae
+5 Phosphophyllite
+3 Homura Akemi
+2 Makise Kurisu
+1 Rem

Kumiko is real good people.

Best Male Character
+8 Koyomi Araragi (Monogatari)
+5 Sakuta Azusagawa (Bunny Girl Senpai)
+3 Deishuu Kaiki (Monogatari)
+2 Satou Kazuma (Konosuba)
+1 Miyuki Shirogane (Kaguya-Sama)

Best Female Character
+8 Hitagi Senjogahara (Monogatari)
+5 Mai Sakurajima (Bunny Girl Senpai)
+3 Izuko Gaen (Monogatari)
+2 Kanbaru Suruga (Monogatari)
+1 Shinobu Oshino (Monogatari)

P good.

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KommunistKoala posted...

Subaru not getting even an HM damn

The lack of Re:Zero mentions so far is probably the best and most correct thing about any of these results so far tbqh

Ew
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2 more months until the Re:Zeaisance.

Best Male Character
+8 Keima Katsuragi
+5 Rintaro Okabe
+3 Hachiman Hikigaya
+2 Joseph Joestar
+1 Sora (No Game No Life)

Best Female Character
+8 Satanichia Kurumizawa McDowell (Gabriel Dropout)
+5 Koko Hekmatyar (Jormungand)
+3 Satou Matsuzaka (Happy Sugar Life)
+2 Satsuki (Kill la Kill)
+1 Shiro (No Game No Life)

Best Drama
+8 Monogatari Series
+5 Attack on Titan
+3 Jojos Bizarre Adventure
+2 Made in Abyss
+1 Parasyte

Best Comedy
+8 Sasami-san@Ganbaranai
+5 No Game No Life
+3 My Love Story/Ore Monogatari
+2 Humanity Has Declined
+1 Prison School

Best Opening
+8 Zan Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei Bangaichi OP2 - Ringo Mogire Beam -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhx-qWDMGyo
+5 Concrete Revolutio S2 OP - Wareru Doukoku - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qdcDlt2c6y0
+3 Gundam IBO OP1: Raise Your Flag - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82HM0z6qd20
+2 Encourage of Climb S2 - Summer-Colored Present - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NTeLGxA1rrU
+1 Angel Beats - My Soul, Your Beats https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hA4na_3jT0

Pretty big consensus for male character, huh?

Bad choices for comedy. Konosuba sux. Also swordz definitely isn't alone on the narrator hate front - I thought he was lame, and so did a bunch of the people on the anime board here. Thought at least No Game No Life stood a decent chance for Comedy, but it looks like people went for more pure comedy choices there I guess?

Considered Madoka for drama, so that went alright.

None of my noms for female got in, but I wasn't expecting them to. Alas. The winners are three good characters.
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Best Female Character
+8 Homura Akemi (Madoka)
+5 Kumiko Oumae (Sound! Euphonium)
+3 Aika Fuwa (Blast of Tempest)
+2 Suruga Kanbaru (Monogatari)
+1 Shino Asada/Sinon (Sword Art Online)

Best Male Character
+8 Kira Yoshikage (Jojo)
+5 Okabe Rintarou (Steins;Gate)
+3 Gilgamesh (Fate)
+2 Kirei Kotomine (Fate)
+1 Rei Kiriyama (March Comes In Like a Lion)

Mostly misses here.

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Best Opening
+8 Utauyo!! MIRACLE (K-On!! OP2)
+5 Try Unite (Rinne no Lagrange OP)
+3 Tomoshibi no Manimani (Kakuriyo no Yadomeshi OP1)
+2 A Whole New World God Only Knows (The World God Only Knows S2 OP)
+1 Rakuen Toshi (Cop Craft OP)

I want to point out that Utayo!! MIRACLE is a 2010 OP and the animation quality is so good that it would be considered good today. I understand that from a cost perspective it probably cost a lot more per frame than what it would now but It's hard to get over how insane that is.

Best Comedy
+8 Skilled Teaser Takagi-San
+5 Chuu2
+3 No Game No Life
+2 World Conquest Zvezda Plot
+1 Nichijou

Also, I agree with Swordz on the narrator. I don't think this is the first time where I've said that in a lot of cases narrators in anime are usually pretty bad. I understand in a lot of cases its because of something in the source material, but I dont get why people who make anime adaptations dont get that you dont have to put every single thing that was on the page onto the screen.

I also think that Konosuba is a good show, but it's not that good to win best comedy of the decade. I'd say the popular anime choice should be Nichijou. Personally, I actually rather slice of life and romance have their own categories.

Best Female Character
+8 Akane Tsunemori (Psycho-Pass)
+5 Phosphophyllite (Land of the Lustrous)
+3 Nao Tomori (Charlotte)
+2 Nyaruko (Haiyore! Nyaruko-san)
+1 Takagi (Skilled Teaser Takagi-san)

On this one I'm okay with Makise Kurisu winning, but I also feel like she's not as well realized a character as Akane or Phos and also doesn't have the waifu qualities of a lot of other females too. She's not even the best character in her own show.

Best Male Character
+8 Rintaro Okabe (Steins:Gate)
+5 Joseph Joestar (JJBA)
+3 Satoru Fujinuma (Erased)
+2 Askeladd (Vinland Saga)
+1 Keima Katsuragi (TWGOK)

I think this category was a little more clear cut. Rintaro Okabe is the clear best character of the decade. I mean my other 4 slots and the order was hard, but the number 1 was easy.

Best Drama
+8 Steins;Gate
+5 Mawaru Penguindrum
+3 Your Lie in April
+2 Re:Zero
+1 Land of the Lustrous

I don't know. I think calling Monogatari a "drama" is kind of a stretch. It has dramatic moments, but I also think that the only loosely connected stories it has kind of hurts it in the category.

I wonder what anime of the decade will be? Certainly not steins gate.

I really need to go watch it, how's the dub?

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The Steins;Gate dub is very good so I'd the original.

Personally I am VERY much not a fan of Daru's original voice, and as a prominent character, he allone makes me lean dub. The only think you're really missing out on is Dr Pepper product placement.

Wait, Okabe doesn't love Dr Pepper in the dub?

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Not by name. I mean they don't blur it out or anything.

Chaos;Child has the same thing with the Mountain Dew! Robotics;Notes I dunno, I wasn't exactly listening out for Pocarri Sweat references.

Soda product placement is the localized Jojo stand names of the Science Adventure Series.

The narration is a core part of the Kaguya manga and I think its a good decision to include it in the anime. Its playing it safe but cant think of what else they could have done really.

But Im so over these arguments on Kaguya now, its the same people and points every time, hope it doesnt start again when season 2 airs

haven't seen/read kaguya but the narration almost ruined chimera ant for me. certainly ruined neruto/meruem.
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That's basically the best part of Chimera Ant.