Anime

Instead, what I plan on doing for the manga community is to have the next general discussion thread be a discussion of favorites from the past year so that both communities are having this kind of conversation at the same time.

I apologize for people that might have been looking forward to those awards, but as I was trying to think about how to run them and looking back over the responses from last year's awards, it just seemed less and less feasible. As an example, many categories consisted of nominees with 1-2 nominations at most that I hadn't read because it was relatively rare for two users to nominate the same series. This led to a situation where it was a ton of work on my part to try to read enough of every series to try to jury the nominations. I just don't have that kind of time this year.

Another change from last year is broadening the musical sequence category to be either OP, ED, or insert song. There were some that asked for this category to be split up into OP and ED separately, but looking through the nominations from last year, I don't think there was enough of both category (it was almost all OPs) to separate them.

A category that was dropped from last year is the best duo. This category led to lots of nominations that were permutations of characters from ensemble shows and basically resulted in romantic interests being the most nominated. I thought about turning this into a best couple or best ship category, but at the end of the day, I just opted to drop it so that I have fewer categories to sort through the nominations for.

Finally, I clarified that the voice acting award is for a specific role instead of all of a performer's roles in the past year, and in a specific language.

I will reply to this comment with Kurisu so that it is easy to click her username and compose a message that is simply !nominate.

!nominations

# 2025 Anime Series of the Year

- Sanda
- Tsuyokute New Saga
- mono

# 2025 Anime Film of the Year

...and so on for the rest of the categories.