NEO awards open for public voting

chaos

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Neo Magazine annual award has opened for public vote.
The nominations are in! After an intense year packed with the biggest franchises, the hottest new releases and some of the most exciting live shows to ever hit the United Kingdom, NEO Magazine puts the power in the hands of its reader to choose the very best of it all.
The NEO Awards 2012, sponsored by the MCM Comic Con, is now open for voting! To take part and have your voice heard head over to vote here.
 
Ian Wolf said:
Some things missing from that list. I would have like to have voted for Seven Seas as "Best Manga Distributor".

Definately, I can't say i've ever heard of sweatdrop and Seven Seas have a selection of well liked titles even if they don't release hundreds of titles.
 
Just about to post my entry. Noticed a couple of errors in the anime movie list - Gantz: Perfect Answer is a live action movie so is included in the wrong list and Berserk: Egg of the King is included twice (once under Manga and once under Kaze).
 
A typically bizarre selection of nonsense. I voted anyway. Do they populate these surveys based on reader suggestions or is it entirely random? :s

R
 
I agree with the lack of Seven Seas in the Manga poll being absolute nonsense. Lately I've been buying more Seven Seas titles than others. Guess I'll go with Yen Press instead.
 
st_owly said:
They are?

Sorry - I got confused between Anime-On-Line and Anime On Demand.

Joshawott said:
I agree with the lack of Seven Seas in the Manga poll being absolute nonsense. Lately I've been buying more Seven Seas titles than others. Guess I'll go with Yen Press instead.

I went with Yen in the end. They and Seven Seas two of the best publishers that I've dealt with during my reviewing work at MyM.
 
Ian Wolf said:
Rosencrantz said:
Ian Wolf said:
Some things missing from that list. I would have like to have voted for Seven Seas as "Best Manga Distributor".

Definately, I can't say i've ever heard of sweatdrop and Seven Seas have a selection of well liked titles even if they don't release hundreds of titles.

Sweatdrop are Britain's biggest producer of OEL manga.

http://www.sweatdrop.com/

That'll probably be why i've not heard of them, never really been a fan of OEL stuff and I do hope they treat their talent better than tokyopop used to.

I'd probably vote either Seven Seas or Yen for best distributor, but overall some of those sections make little sense to me such that I don't feel like voting. I gladly participated in funimation's survey recently (though I wish i'd spent 5 more mins remembering the very best series i've seen in the last 3 years) but this feels like a waste of time to me.
 
I gave up. Too many categories where I would have to guess the answer - don't watch Asian movies, haven't read any of those manga, haven't used any of those specialist retailers, don't have any of those games, couldn't name a single song from any fo those acts other than Gangnam Style...
 
vashdaman said:
In light of what we now know about NEO (read this thread everyone: http://forums.animeuknews.net/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=15851) should we really continue to promote these scandalous swine's?
Oh my, here we go again..... Can't we just let that thread die already? As far as any of us know, this can be either true or false.
I'm still reluctant to accept what someone who shows up at the high of the anime magazine wars and only posts on the two threads about the magazines.
 
Why should we let it die? It's an informative thread for anyone interested in UK anime industry. I'd wager that a good chunk of what Muu_Puklip describes is true. I don't think Muu has a particular agenda, as he/she was plenty critical of MYM when they were initially running ads for fake products too. In fact I think that thread should have been in this section of the forum, it's not about conventions, events, or even really websites. It's a revealing look at some of the less than upstanding undertakings of the UK's most prominent anime magazine. So why hide it?
 
I think it's justified. The internal magazine squabbling is neither here nor there, but that they are knowingly part-funded by illegal activities is easily verifiable fact and since the official channels continue to take no action (MCM and Neo both benefit financially from turning a blind eye, after all), fans who are bothered by that kind of attitude must be free to question it. In the interests of balance I am not biased towards either magazine as I read neither of them (and if MyM has gone back on its word about receiving advertising revenue from that store, if anything they're behaving even more badly than Neo by soliciting goodwill then taking the money too).

Having said that, I had no personal qualms with using Neo's bandwidth to cast a vote for something tasteful, even if it won't make a difference to the eventual winners.

R
 
vashdaman said:
Why should we let it die? It's an informative thread for anyone interested in UK anime industry. I'd wager that a good chunk of what Muu_Puklip describes is true. I don't think Muu has a particular agenda, as he/she was plenty critical of MYM when they were initially running ads for fake products too. In fact I think that thread should have been in this section of the forum, it's not about conventions, events, or even really websites. It's a revealing look at some of the less than upstanding undertakings of the UK's most prominent anime magazine. So why hide it?
Because from all I know for sure, it's only rumours.

Do they carry ads stores we know for sure that stock counterfeit? Yes, that's true.

But instead of coming online wouldn't it be more productive to report said stores to the authorities? As far as I know it's not NEO's job to tackle or even care about counterfeits. This job belongs to the police.

With that said, my point about letting it die is because with what I've got, I can't tell if this is caused by the magazine wars or by real concerned fans. It is where it is, because as far as I'm concerned it's just a disgruntled ex-employee bashing at their former boss.
 
As far as I know it's not NEO's job to tackle or even care about counterfeits. This job belongs to the police.

They should care more than the police or any other authorities do! This is the industry that NEO are supposed to be supporting and representing, yet they are knowingly continually damaging it, and rather supporting counterfeiters. NEO is setting an awful example. How anyone can defend this is beyond me.

I can't tell if this is caused by the magazine wars or by real concerned fans

It's easy to tell that it's not magazine wars. Muu called out and criticized MYM for doing the exact same thing. As far as I know they are the only two dedicated anime mags in the country.
 
Let's agree on disagree here.

I think the work both the anime magazines do is way more important than any perceived damage they cause by allowing shops like Tokyo Toys to put ads in them.

chaos said:
I never asked, because I'm sure they'd never answer me. But why companies like Manga, Kodansha, Kaze, et al won't pursue the counterfeit industry?
It's my personal belief that they don't because it works better for them to have people with a counterfeit plushie of any of their shows, and therefore advertise it for free, than any possible gains they would have by pursuing this.

I've "quoted" the above, because this is my opinion, and not AUKN view on the subject.

It saddens me to say, but there is no anime industry in the UK without a certain level of illegality.

I've heard of two persons who never ever pirate anything. And one of them, I'm not even sure it's a real person....
 
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