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Shrine Maiden
The categories and the judges have been announced for the Crunchyroll Awards for the best of 2018s anime.
The awards for actual shows have been streamlined with the categories for Best Comedy, SOL, Drama, Action and Continuing Series all gone. Presumably because there can be a lot of crossover between these categories. Best Film and, of course, Anime of the Year remain the same.
New awards added focus on the production side with Best VA (one for Japanese and one for English), Best Director, Best Character Design and Best Fight Sequence all added, although Best Score and CGI have gone. Best Animation, Boy and Girl remain the same.
Also returning, but with tweaks are Best Opening and Ending with the word Sequence added to them and Hero and Villain are now Protagonist and Antagonist.
The Best Manga category has also been cut.
The 21 judges come from a cross section of the Anime industry encompassing commerce, creation and criticism and from a fairly wide selection of countries with the UK and Germany represented and, of course, the US along with some Latin American and other European countries.
The voting starts on the 11th of January and the awards will be streamed via Twitch on the 16th of February.
What are your thoughts on potential nominees in these categories? And potential winners.
The awards for actual shows have been streamlined with the categories for Best Comedy, SOL, Drama, Action and Continuing Series all gone. Presumably because there can be a lot of crossover between these categories. Best Film and, of course, Anime of the Year remain the same.
New awards added focus on the production side with Best VA (one for Japanese and one for English), Best Director, Best Character Design and Best Fight Sequence all added, although Best Score and CGI have gone. Best Animation, Boy and Girl remain the same.
Also returning, but with tweaks are Best Opening and Ending with the word Sequence added to them and Hero and Villain are now Protagonist and Antagonist.
The Best Manga category has also been cut.
The 21 judges come from a cross section of the Anime industry encompassing commerce, creation and criticism and from a fairly wide selection of countries with the UK and Germany represented and, of course, the US along with some Latin American and other European countries.
The voting starts on the 11th of January and the awards will be streamed via Twitch on the 16th of February.
What are your thoughts on potential nominees in these categories? And potential winners.
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