Forum - View topicINTEREST: All the Winners of the Crunchyroll Anime Awards 2024
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Essedess
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Was the award music circus music? Because that was a clown show.
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Cho_Desu
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Amused by Jujutsu winning for best character design. I've always felt that the series' greatest flaw is just how generic and plain the majority of the characters look. Compared to most other anime that get super popular, I almost never recognize the characters of Jujutsu when gifs and memes get passed around.
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MF65
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That would mean that the judges, in particular, are pretty dumb, no?  It's not like this is the first year when the previous fall season is not eligible. Otherwise, what would be the reason to include Chainsaw Man and Bocchi in the voting categories? At least the judges should know better.
Anyway, I doubt we're gonna hear this much moaning next year when Frieren sweeps all the awards (except for Fantasy, of course. Nothing can top Demon Slayer  )
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ANN_Lynzee
ANN Executive Editor
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Lol, I'm actually a judge and no, I wouldn't consider it an indication that they're dumb. JJK S2's airing situation is not as clear cut. It began airing within the appropriate timeline to be considered (the Premature Death arc) then took a multiple week break before starting the Shibuya Incident Arc. It wasn't a case of "JJK S2 started in October so of course it doesn't count." A group of judges, including myself, talked about this on a podcast because the situation was unclear. Does the whole series get grandfathered in or are we only supposed to consider the episodes that aired in the timeline? Well, asking us to only consider five episodes seems pretty stupid and oh look, the arc isn't defined on the ballot and they're using a more encompassing key visual, context clues point to the whole series.
Also look at how many people who are still confused about the fall cut off in this thread and on social media. A lot of participants or observers don't understand the rules, so it's up to the organizers to communicate these situations clearly. |
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fathomlessblue
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What are you actually talking about? Odd culture war nonsense? The backlash stemmed from the very staff working at the studio you seem so eager to defend, not randos on twitter complaining about ecchi content, etc. It wasn't some anonymous fan artist posting illustrations of Ema Yasuhara putting a noose around her neck; it was an actual animator working at MAPPA making the bluntest analogy for their experience with the studio. People showing solidarity towards numerous artists making a clear cry for help isn't random hating or 'beef' towards the studio - it's the opposite. It's support towards its employers and alarm over its working practices or (in Wada's case) flippant attitudes. The studio was nowhere near this bad under Maruyama's watch, and people genuinely want to see a return to a healthier business model for its own staff's well-being. If you don't care or want to think about any of that, fine, but don't act disingenuous by trying to twist folks giving a shit about the actual artists who make the shows they love into some 'woke hate campaign' (or whatever it is you're implying?), while simultaneously crying "won't anyone think of the poor mangaka!". We know deflection when we see it. |
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-Matthew-
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My congrats to JJK, Nakamura and Buddy Daddies!!
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pi8you
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I understand it's all just a popularity contest and the big tent Shonen cleaning up wherever they appeared (AoT's one episode even being up for Drama though, come onnnn), but man, Horimiya Pieces for Romance? That one actually makes me a bit mad given how strong the other options were (let alone Dangers in My Heart being left off entirely...).
If you find yourself aligned with the winners, that's fine, enjoy what you will, but man, I encourage you to add a random show or two* to your seasonal viewing habits. There's so much good anime out there, stuff that just hits different or will take you on a wildly unexpected ride, and you're missing out if you just follow what CR's hyping. *Preferably avoiding the field of boilerplate overpowered isekais, but you do you. |
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kgw
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I can't understand how people take seriously and un-ironically the demographics of Japanese manga as if they had any sense asides. "Comics for BOYS! No GIRLS allowed!" |
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Saeryen
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I would recommend that you watch the video by Christy Lou called “Do Manga Demographics Matter?” It explains the whole thing a lot better and more in depth than I could. |
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Cardcaptor Takato
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I feel like a lot of the issues with the Crunchyroll awards could be resolved if they had like a critics' choice awards and then you had a separate award for the voters' choice so that way the voters still have a say but maybe the judges can make their own vote to ensure more overlooked titles get acknowledged instead of this weird system where they're trying to combine both votes. My only real surprise is that Chainsaw Man didn't win AOTY over JJK but at least Bocchi won best slice of life. Besides that the only other vote I thought was especially out of pocket was Demon Slayer winning best fantasy. Like even if you're a big superfan of the show there's no way you could argue that the fantasy element is Demon Slayer's strong point over some of the other noms like Ranking of Kings and Ancient Magus' Bride where fantasy is their whole thing. The other choices I'm like I would have picked something else but it's what I expect out of the Crunchyroll awards at this point.
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Elfensjón
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Exactly this. And they should get rid of that stupid "Must protect at all costs category. |
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Elfensjón
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Well then, next weekend are the REAL Anime Awards. The ATAs did it much better than this one imo.
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kgw
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Thanks for the recommendation. Still, no, they don't; it's 1960's sexism: "boys are like this and girls like that, we must keep them separate". And then we have Rumiko Takahashi, Hiromu Arakawa or Kōji Miura in shōnen magazines and people in Western lands losing their minds when a romance series gets edited in Jump or Sunday… Last edited by kgw on Mon Mar 04, 2024 5:57 am; edited 1 time in total |
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Saeryen
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I recommended the video because it’s not nearly that simple. Shoujo manga has a rich history and certain style of storytelling that appeals to the emotions, and taking all that away is just going to hurt fans of the shoujo style of all genders. And that’s where I’m leaving it because I don’t have the energy or desire to argue more. |
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kgw
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Nobody is saying to take away anything. If a style of a way of storytelling is good and popular, it will remain (after all, no publishing house is against earning money). If it's just a niche for things that SHOULD be that way because "boys are boys and girls are girls", the sooner we get away from that, the best.
Is The apothecary diaries shojo, shonen, seinen? If its in a novel it belongs to a gender, but in manga belongs to other? No girls should ever read Frieren because it's a Shonen Sunday manga or Hanako-kun -which run with may classic shojo manga style choices but is a Monthly GFantasy manga? And also, how many good works in shojo magazines are underrated because "you boys shouldn't be reading that"? 
EDIT: but please, don't take it as a personal attack or anything. |
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