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<blockquote data-quote="D1tchd1gger" data-source="post: 562981" data-attributes="member: 4379"><p>Alright, here we go. Definitely best season of the year so far. A couple of categories were really hard to choose and the order of the 1 cour shows was difficult as I liked each of the 6 8s in different ways.</p><p></p><p>Before the awards here is what I watched:</p><p></p><p><strong>2 cour series finishing (in order)</strong></p><p><strong>Fruits Basket (2019) 9</strong></p><p><strong>Demon Slayer 8</strong></p><p><strong>YU-NO 7</strong></p><p><strong></strong></p><p><strong>2 cour continuing (in order)</strong></p><p><strong>Vinland Saga 9*</strong></p><p><strong>Dr. Stone 8*</strong></p><p><strong>Fire Force 7*</strong></p><p>I'll talk more about Vinland Saga in the awards. Dr. Stone started of on the wrong foot even though the story was interesting other aspects dragged it down, but those were jettisoned and it improved. Fire Force also has interesting ideas, but implementation has been poor and pace seems off.</p><p></p><p><strong>Short</strong></p><p><strong>Hakata Mentai! Pirikarako-chan 5</strong></p><p><strong></strong></p><p><strong>1 Cour Series Ranking:</strong></p><ol> <li data-xf-list-type="ol"><strong>Wasteful Days of High School Girls 8</strong></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol"><strong>Astra Lost in Space 8</strong></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol"><strong>How Heavy Are the Dumbbells You Lift? 8</strong></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol"><strong>GRANBELM 8</strong></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol"><strong>O Maidens in Your Savage Season 8</strong></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol"><strong>given 8</strong></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol"><strong>Cop Craft 7</strong></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol"><strong>The Demon Girl Next Door 7</strong></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol"><strong>Are You Lost? 7</strong></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol"><strong>BEM 7</strong></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol"><strong>Lord El-Melloi II 6</strong></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol"><strong>Kochoki 6</strong></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol"><strong>Hensuki 6</strong></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol"><strong>Magical Sempai 6</strong></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol"><strong>If It's for My Daughter... 6</strong></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol"><strong>To the Abandoned Sacred Beasts 5</strong></li> </ol><p></p><p><strong><u>Seasonal Awards</u></strong></p><p><strong><u>Music</u></strong></p><p><strong>OST - Dr. Stone</strong></p><p>My favourite just for the use of the bagpipes (or which ever instrument in the same family they used). Demon Slayer continued to be great as well, but already took this award last season.</p><p></p><p><strong>OP Song - Wa! Moon! Dass! Cry! by Nozomu Tanaka (Chinatsu Akasaki), Akane Kikuchi (Haruka Tomatsu), Shiori Saginomiya (Aki Toyosaki)</strong></p><p><strong>[MEDIA=spotify]track:5zTnib6aOMCkrQqVxQ8s6m[/MEDIA]</strong></p><p>Easily the toughest scrap for best OP Song since I started with these awards. Nearly every show had a good to great track whether it be rock tunes like Vinland Saga, Fire Force and Dr. Stone, jazzy tunes like Cop Craft and BEM, J-popy stuff like O Maidens and catchy earworms Magical Sempai, Are You Lost?, Dumbbells and the winner Wasteful Days of High School Girls.</p><p></p><p><strong>ED Song - Torches by Aimer</strong></p><p><strong>[MEDIA=spotify]track:1HyKEziXzDtvnlg3dTLos2[/MEDIA]</strong></p><p>Also pretty tough with again most having good tunes. Stand outs are from Fruits Basket, Wasteful Days, GRANBELM, O Maidens, Cop Craft, BEM and Lord El-Melloi II. But the run away is Torches from Aimer which has been on rotation since it came out on Spotify!</p><p></p><p><strong><u>Production</u></strong></p><p><strong>OP Sequence - Vinland Saga</strong></p><p><strong>[SPOILER][MEDIA=youtube]0A8hK-KBRjs[/MEDIA][/SPOILER]</strong></p><p>Another pretty tough category to decide on especially between the winner and Wasteful Days, but though WDs OP is an excellent intro to the characters and the antics to come VS just gets you pumped with some excellent animation of the action. Other stand outs include Are You Lost? with the dance routine, Cop Craft goes excellently with the track and Magical Sempai is well animated.</p><p></p><p><strong>ED Sequence - Fruits Basket (2019)</strong></p><p><strong>[SPOILER][MEDIA=youtube]nJNnWCyltMg[/MEDIA][/SPOILER]</strong></p><p>Just love the way the zodiac animals are represented and the artwork in general. Vinland Saga is great too and Cop Craft has some good parts.</p><p></p><p><strong>Writing - Vinland Saga</strong></p><p>If you adapt an already awesome source material well you're on to a winner. Even the anime original parts blended in well.</p><p>Shout out to an anime original plot that was pretty good in GRANBELM.</p><p></p><p><strong>Episode - given episode 9 - A Winter Story</strong></p><p>The performance from the group with Mafuyu's lyrics was moving, even if I didn't understand them.</p><p>Shout out to Demon Slayer ep 19, of course, pure Sakuga porn and a moving story. Also ep 22 of Fruits Basket, although I think it had more to do with the fact it was focused on my favourite character.</p><p></p><p><strong>Animation - Demon Slayer</strong></p><p>I said earlier I wasn't going to give the same award to the same show again, but you really can't look past ufotable's work. Shout out to Vinland Saga and Fire Force.</p><p></p><p><strong>Character Design - Dr. Stone</strong></p><p>You really wouldn't mistake these designs for any others, even in silhouette, which is a sign of good design. The ladies seem to have a bit of a retro look to them.</p><p></p><p><strong><u>Characters</u></strong></p><p><strong>Best New Girl - Nozomu Tanaka (aka Baka) Wasteful Days of High School Girls</strong></p><p>Another hotly contested category. In the running where Bakas fellow MCs Robo and Wota, Kohaku from Dr. Stone, the Dumbbell girls especially Hibiki, Rika Sonezaki from O Maidens and Tilarna from Cop Craft. But you've got to love a Chaotic Good character like Baka.</p><p></p><p><strong>Best New Boy - Kei Matoba from Cop Craft</strong></p><p>A tough no nonsense detective with a soft side. Others in the running were Kanata from Astra and Askeladd from Vinland Saga (although he's new to anime he isn't new to me, so I thought I'd go with another character)</p><p></p><p><strong>VA - Naoya Uchida (Askeladd from Vinland Saga)</strong></p><p>To skirt the problem above I'll use this award for Askeladd, especially as he's been portrayed pretty much the same way I read him in the manga (although obviously would sound a bit more authentic if/when dubbed hopefully with a Scandinavian accent).</p><p>Uchida-san has been doing anime for a while, but apart from a few notable roles (Cobra (Space Cobra), Light's dad (Death Note) and Oda Nobunaga (Drifters)) has mostly played bit parts. Randomly I've actually seen all those characters, but all dubbed though!</p><p>Also shout out to Ai Fairouz as Hibiki from Dumbbells in her first gig. As you can tell from her name she has an interesting family history as she's half Egyptian!</p><p></p><p><strong><u>ANIME</u></strong></p><p><strong>Vinland Saga</strong></p><p>It maybe only be halfway through (didn't stop me last season, but that was relatively poor in comparison), but the adaptation has been great so far and I can't see it dipping. Probably a little bit of bias as it's historical fiction, which is right up my alley, and I've read the manga.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="D1tchd1gger, post: 562981, member: 4379"] Alright, here we go. Definitely best season of the year so far. A couple of categories were really hard to choose and the order of the 1 cour shows was difficult as I liked each of the 6 8s in different ways. Before the awards here is what I watched: [B]2 cour series finishing (in order) Fruits Basket (2019) 9 Demon Slayer 8 YU-NO 7 2 cour continuing (in order) Vinland Saga 9* Dr. Stone 8* Fire Force 7*[/B] I'll talk more about Vinland Saga in the awards. Dr. Stone started of on the wrong foot even though the story was interesting other aspects dragged it down, but those were jettisoned and it improved. Fire Force also has interesting ideas, but implementation has been poor and pace seems off. [B]Short Hakata Mentai! Pirikarako-chan 5 1 Cour Series Ranking:[/B] [LIST=1] [*][B]Wasteful Days of High School Girls 8[/B] [*][B]Astra Lost in Space 8[/B] [*][B]How Heavy Are the Dumbbells You Lift? 8[/B] [*][B]GRANBELM 8[/B] [*][B]O Maidens in Your Savage Season 8[/B] [*][B]given 8[/B] [*][B]Cop Craft 7[/B] [*][B]The Demon Girl Next Door 7[/B] [*][B]Are You Lost? 7[/B] [*][B]BEM 7[/B] [*][B]Lord El-Melloi II 6[/B] [*][B]Kochoki 6[/B] [*][B]Hensuki 6[/B] [*][B]Magical Sempai 6[/B] [*][B]If It's for My Daughter... 6[/B] [*][B]To the Abandoned Sacred Beasts 5[/B] [/LIST] [B][U]Seasonal Awards Music[/U] OST - Dr. Stone[/B] My favourite just for the use of the bagpipes (or which ever instrument in the same family they used). Demon Slayer continued to be great as well, but already took this award last season. [B]OP Song - Wa! Moon! Dass! Cry! by Nozomu Tanaka (Chinatsu Akasaki), Akane Kikuchi (Haruka Tomatsu), Shiori Saginomiya (Aki Toyosaki) [MEDIA=spotify]track:5zTnib6aOMCkrQqVxQ8s6m[/MEDIA][/B] Easily the toughest scrap for best OP Song since I started with these awards. Nearly every show had a good to great track whether it be rock tunes like Vinland Saga, Fire Force and Dr. Stone, jazzy tunes like Cop Craft and BEM, J-popy stuff like O Maidens and catchy earworms Magical Sempai, Are You Lost?, Dumbbells and the winner Wasteful Days of High School Girls. [B]ED Song - Torches by Aimer [MEDIA=spotify]track:1HyKEziXzDtvnlg3dTLos2[/MEDIA][/B] Also pretty tough with again most having good tunes. Stand outs are from Fruits Basket, Wasteful Days, GRANBELM, O Maidens, Cop Craft, BEM and Lord El-Melloi II. But the run away is Torches from Aimer which has been on rotation since it came out on Spotify! [B][U]Production[/U] OP Sequence - Vinland Saga [SPOILER][MEDIA=youtube]0A8hK-KBRjs[/MEDIA][/SPOILER][/B] Another pretty tough category to decide on especially between the winner and Wasteful Days, but though WDs OP is an excellent intro to the characters and the antics to come VS just gets you pumped with some excellent animation of the action. Other stand outs include Are You Lost? with the dance routine, Cop Craft goes excellently with the track and Magical Sempai is well animated. [B]ED Sequence - Fruits Basket (2019) [SPOILER][MEDIA=youtube]nJNnWCyltMg[/MEDIA][/SPOILER][/B] Just love the way the zodiac animals are represented and the artwork in general. Vinland Saga is great too and Cop Craft has some good parts. [B]Writing - Vinland Saga[/B] If you adapt an already awesome source material well you're on to a winner. Even the anime original parts blended in well. Shout out to an anime original plot that was pretty good in GRANBELM. [B]Episode - given episode 9 - A Winter Story[/B] The performance from the group with Mafuyu's lyrics was moving, even if I didn't understand them. Shout out to Demon Slayer ep 19, of course, pure Sakuga porn and a moving story. Also ep 22 of Fruits Basket, although I think it had more to do with the fact it was focused on my favourite character. [B]Animation - Demon Slayer[/B] I said earlier I wasn't going to give the same award to the same show again, but you really can't look past ufotable's work. Shout out to Vinland Saga and Fire Force. [B]Character Design - Dr. Stone[/B] You really wouldn't mistake these designs for any others, even in silhouette, which is a sign of good design. The ladies seem to have a bit of a retro look to them. [B][U]Characters[/U] Best New Girl - Nozomu Tanaka (aka Baka) Wasteful Days of High School Girls[/B] Another hotly contested category. In the running where Bakas fellow MCs Robo and Wota, Kohaku from Dr. Stone, the Dumbbell girls especially Hibiki, Rika Sonezaki from O Maidens and Tilarna from Cop Craft. But you've got to love a Chaotic Good character like Baka. [B]Best New Boy - Kei Matoba from Cop Craft[/B] A tough no nonsense detective with a soft side. Others in the running were Kanata from Astra and Askeladd from Vinland Saga (although he's new to anime he isn't new to me, so I thought I'd go with another character) [B]VA - Naoya Uchida (Askeladd from Vinland Saga)[/B] To skirt the problem above I'll use this award for Askeladd, especially as he's been portrayed pretty much the same way I read him in the manga (although obviously would sound a bit more authentic if/when dubbed hopefully with a Scandinavian accent). Uchida-san has been doing anime for a while, but apart from a few notable roles (Cobra (Space Cobra), Light's dad (Death Note) and Oda Nobunaga (Drifters)) has mostly played bit parts. Randomly I've actually seen all those characters, but all dubbed though! Also shout out to Ai Fairouz as Hibiki from Dumbbells in her first gig. As you can tell from her name she has an interesting family history as she's half Egyptian! [B][U]ANIME[/U] Vinland Saga[/B] It maybe only be halfway through (didn't stop me last season, but that was relatively poor in comparison), but the adaptation has been great so far and I can't see it dipping. Probably a little bit of bias as it's historical fiction, which is right up my alley, and I've read the manga. [/QUOTE]
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