AniBloggers Choice Anime Awards
Seeing as its the end of the year and Award season is looming, I had the idea to make an article stating my favourite anime picks of the year. But the only problem with this is that I have not seen all the anime produced this year and at this point if you follow me on twitter it should be pretty obvious what my picks would be. So to make things interesting I decided to put it in….the Ani-Bloggers hands, dont worry you guys will have a say as well.
The reason I chose Ani Bloggers is because by having them pick their favourite shows and talking about them on their blogs, a whole lot more anime fans will get a chance to know about it. I do have to say this can only work with their participation and without that this entire thing will fall flat on its face, so Ani Bloggers please participate. Allright without further ado here is how this thing is going to work.
This is how its going to work
- There will be four categories, 1 for each season. Bloggers will pick their top 3 anime from each season stating which was their favourite. The number 1 show will get 3 points, the 2nd 2 points and the 3rd 1 point.
- Bloggers must then pick 1 show from their list that they consider their anime of the year, that will get an extra 2 points. e.g If Metanorn (good blog read it) pick Fate/Zero as their number 1 show for autumn (giving it 3 points) and also as their anime of the year (giving it an extra 2 points) the total score for Fate/Zero from Metanorn will be 5.
WINTER 2011 (January -March)
SPRING 2011 (April – June)
SUMMER 2011( July – September)
AUTUMN 2011 (October – December)
BONUS Category : LICENSOR AWARDS
I thought we should give the anime licensors some love as well so I figured a licensors award was in order. The same rules apply except each blogger only picks one Licensor and states their favourite DVD/BD release of the year. In case you forgot here is a brief list of some of the bigger titles they have released this year.
FUNimation: Summer Wars, Evangelion 2.22
Viz: Naruto Shippuden, Bleach, Vampire Knight
Bandai: K-on!, Gundam Unicorn
Section 23/ Sentai Filmworks: Angel Beats!, High School of the Dead
Manga Entertainment: Redline
Right Stuf/ Nozomi : Revolutoinary Girl Utena, Martian Successor Nadesico
Media Blasters: Squid Girl, Bakuman
ANIPLEX: Durarara!!, Oreimo, Blue Exorcist
NIS America: Wagnaria!!, Arakawa Under The Bridge
Crunchyroll: Lots of Stuff…
Thats about it, hope you guys participate and enjoy it. You can contact me on Twitter if you have any questions.
Kidd's Anime Blog 
Count me in! Well I’ll pass the licensors award since well, me being French would make me judge only French releases, I’d feel lonely, but I’m definitely in for the rest.
That being said, I have a question, for shows running for more than a season, do you consider the season when they started or when they ended?
Awesome, I’ll be looking forward to your picks.
I will only be considering shows that started this year.
I’m in, but as a suggestion maybe we should just do a straight top 10 or even a top 5 since some seasons had more good (or bad) shows than others. For example, for Winter I only watched 3 shows and one was Infinite Stratos. I thought the show was pretty terrible and I would HATE to give Infinite Stratos a vote on a technicality or vote for a show I didn’t watch. Just a suggestion, I’d be happy to participate either way.
You raise a good point.I was just going through my picks and realised there are some shows I would rather have on the list from other seasons. Allright we could subtitute some shows from other seasons or I could scrap the whole point system and ask you guys to pick your best 12 plus 1 for anime of the year regardless of season. what do you think?
I agree with jel here, I would have to go and give shows like Fractale points because the overall season they aired in sucks and not be able to give shows I enjoyed way more than Fractale points because I already gave points to three better shows that season. Best twelve, regardless of season fits better, I think because it is the anime that counts, not the season.
Oh man, this sounds like a lot of work. I’m not sure I’ll be able to get around to picking my top anime, but if I do manage to get it done by mid-December you’ll get a trackback from me.
You can just list them if its too much hard work. Or you can even just contact me through twitter or Google+ or whatever.
Count me in! I don’t think I’ll be able to contribute to the reader’s choice section as my blog is really new. However, I’ll definitely give my personal favorites for the individual seasons. 🙂
Great! just look out for the updated rules this week,
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