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I feel it's a sign of something when of the five front-running Sugoi Japan anime titles all have been licensed in the US and only one has been picked up here :(

R
 
Psycho-Pass? I wouldn't mind the choice if we were in 2013, but season two was really underwhelming.

I like Nozaki-kun, but didn't it finish airing over a year ago? Not sure how it can be eligible for that award. :lol:

I hope MVM can get the Nozaki CE. I really want to get it.
 
Buzz201 said:
Intermediate results have been released for the Yomiuri Shimbun's Sugoi Japan Awards, which award the anime, manga, light novels and entertainment novels from the past 3.5 years (1 for anime) that Japanese fans and experts think should become international successes. Voting continues until January 3rd, but the results so far have been released (ANN doesn't say if they're listed in any particular order).

Top 5 Anime:
Monthly Girls' Nozaki-kun (Sentai Filmworks/no UK distributor)
Psycho-Pass (FUNimation/Manga UK)
Your Lie in April (Aniplex of America/no UK distributor)
Shirobako (Sentai Filmworks/no UK distributor)
Sound! Euphonium (PonyCanUSA/no UK distributor)


Top 5 Manga:
My Love Story!! - Kazune Kawahara (Viz Media)
Twittering Birds Never Fly - Kou Yoneda (DMP)
Tokyo Ghoul - Sui Ishida (Viz Media)
Haikyu!! - Haruichi Furudate (Viz Media)
One-Punch Man - ONE and Yuusuke Murata (Viz Media)

Top 5 Light Novels:
Amagi Brilliant Park - Shoji Gatoh (no English distributor)
Overlord - Kugane Maruyama (Yen Press)
How to Raise a Boring Girlfriend - Fumiaki Maruto (no English distributor)
SHIMONETA: A Boring World Where the Concept of Dirty Jokes Doesn’t Exist - Hirotaka Akagi (no English distributor)
Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon? - Fujino Ōmori (Yen Press)
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No Fate WTF.
 
thedoctor2016 said:
Buzz201 said:
Intermediate results have been released for the Yomiuri Shimbun's Sugoi Japan Awards, which award the anime, manga, light novels and entertainment novels from the past 3.5 years (1 for anime) that Japanese fans and experts think should become international successes. Voting continues until January 3rd, but the results so far have been released (ANN doesn't say if they're listed in any particular order).

Top 5 Anime:
Monthly Girls' Nozaki-kun (Sentai Filmworks/no UK distributor)
Psycho-Pass (FUNimation/Manga UK)
Your Lie in April (Aniplex of America/no UK distributor)
Shirobako (Sentai Filmworks/no UK distributor)
Sound! Euphonium (PonyCanUSA/no UK distributor)


Top 5 Manga:
My Love Story!! - Kazune Kawahara (Viz Media)
Twittering Birds Never Fly - Kou Yoneda (DMP)
Tokyo Ghoul - Sui Ishida (Viz Media)
Haikyu!! - Haruichi Furudate (Viz Media)
One-Punch Man - ONE and Yuusuke Murata (Viz Media)

Top 5 Light Novels:
Amagi Brilliant Park - Shoji Gatoh (no English distributor)
Overlord - Kugane Maruyama (Yen Press)
How to Raise a Boring Girlfriend - Fumiaki Maruto (no English distributor)
SHIMONETA: A Boring World Where the Concept of Dirty Jokes Doesn’t Exist - Hirotaka Akagi (no English distributor)
Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon? - Fujino Ōmori (Yen Press)
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No Fate WTF.
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Weren't a lot of people disappointed with UBW? Pretty sure I saw some hefty backlash on Reddit.
 
UBW is shortlisted, it's just not currently in the top five. Also F/Z was miles better! *runs*

Jatz said:
Psycho-Pass? I wouldn't mind the choice if we were in 2013, but season two was really underwhelming.

I like Nozaki-kun, but didn't it finish airing over a year ago? Not sure how it can be eligible for that award. :lol:

I hope MVM can get the Nozaki CE. I really want to get it.
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It's not a standard calendar year they're using, it's July 2014 to July 2015. It suffers from time drift like our character battles :D

Sadly a UK Nozaki-kun license will come too late for me. If they can't announce a show before the US preorders are up, I'm lost as a customer - and the prospect of a CE was too sweet to pass by.

R
 
Yeah, Fate was subject to a lot of debate.

If I had my way, I'd have swapped something (not sure what) for My Hero Academia in the manga category (Edit: Inuyashiki would also have been a great shout), but overall it looks like an interesting list. Still have to check out Shirobako at some point though...
 
Jatz said:
I like Nozaki-kun, but didn't it finish airing over a year ago? Not sure how it can be eligible for that award.
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They didn't place hard dates on the range of titles they chose to put up for voting, it was more like... guidelines.

You can see which titles are in the vote here:

http://sugoi-japan.jp/en/nominees/manga.html
http://sugoi-japan.jp/en/nominees/anime.html
http://sugoi-japan.jp/en/nominees/ranobe.html
http://sugoi-japan.jp/en/nominees/novels.html

edit: changed links to English pages, but you can actually vote if you go through the JP pages.
 
Thinking about it, have any Pony Canyon USA titles been licensed for release in the United Kingdom? Yuki Yuna Is A Hero was mysteriously added to Netflix recently and a number of their titles are available on Crunchyroll, but I can't recall anything on home video.

I wouldn't be surprised to see Animatsu pick up Monthly Girls' Nozaki-kun and Shirobako (although I'm hoping for a fancy Anime Limited release of the latter), while I think Your Lie In April will likely go to Anime Limited or maybe even MVM.

EDIT: I'm actually really surprised that Miss Hokusai currently isn't in the Top 5 list for anime.
 
Rui said:
UBW is shortlisted, it's just not currently in the top five. Also F/Z was miles better! *runs*

Jatz said:
Psycho-Pass? I wouldn't mind the choice if we were in 2013, but season two was really underwhelming.

I like Nozaki-kun, but didn't it finish airing over a year ago? Not sure how it can be eligible for that award. :lol:

I hope MVM can get the Nozaki CE. I really want to get it.
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It's not a standard calendar year they're using, it's July 2014 to July 2015. It suffers from time drift like our character battles :D

Sadly a UK Nozaki-kun license will come too late for me. If they can't announce a show before the US preorders are up, I'm lost as a customer - and the prospect of a CE was too sweet to pass by.

R
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F/Z was more than miles better. *runs in opposite direction*

Ah. That probably explains it. I'd like to know where Parasyte ended up. Probably one of my favourites in the past year.

Completely what you said. I think someone mentioned that Sentai were going to do smaller print runs, so I don't think I could wait for news of the preorder period opens up. Such a pretty set.

NormanicGrav said:
Not to worry the Psycho Pass award I'm pretty sure is for the film.
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You're probably right.
 
ilmaestro said:
They didn't place hard dates on the range of titles they chose to put up for voting, it was more like... guidelines.

You can see which titles are in the vote here:

http://sugoi-japan.jp/en/nominees/manga.html
http://sugoi-japan.jp/en/nominees/anime.html
http://sugoi-japan.jp/en/nominees/ranobe.html
http://sugoi-japan.jp/en/nominees/novels.html

edit: changed links to English pages, but you can actually vote if you go through the JP pages.
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Thanks for the info ilmaestro. I wonder if Cinderella Girls could even get a home release. :lol: (would love to see my favourite girl on BD)
 
Buzzkillington said:
Oh sorry, are people not allowed opinions of their own then? My bad.
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Yes, but Im the only who likes UBW it seems so I shall state that fact. Yes I was sounding arrogant and like opinion was the only correct one, i apologise all are valid and equal.
 
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