Submit Nominations Here
Hey everybody! A couple days ago, @NineSwords@ani.social reached out to me with an idea. Why don’t we try to set up some year-end awards for the communities we moderate? Well, a bit of back and forth, and today, I am glad to announce that we have opened nominations for the 2024 Lemmy Anime Awards. The nomination round will remain open until I post next week’s general discussion thread (usually late Sunday/early Monday US time). Note that there are partner awards for the manga and light novel communities as well.
Like normal, feel free to also use this thread just like you would a normal discussion thread.
As always, remember to be mindful of spoilers. If you want to know more about how to handle spoilers in this community, check the guide here (also linked in the sidebar).
Hey all! Welcome to my meta comment about the year-end awards. I am going to try to pre-emptively answer some questions you may have:
Are the awards just for anime?
No! There are three different awards: anime, manga, and light novels. Check out each one here:
What counts as a 2024 anime?
I am taking a broad view of 2024 anime. Basically, if it broadcast in the calendar year of 2024, it is fair game. That means that stuff that ran into 2024 from Fall 2023 is ok (Frieren, Apothecary, etc.). Also, stuff that will continue on into 2025 is ok (Orb, Re:Zero, etc.). The one exception to that would be OP/ED. So, Frieren OP1, which only aired in 2023, would not be eligible, but Frieren OP2 would be.
Who chose these categories and why is my favorite category missing?
Well, like I wrote up top, this all came together pretty quick. So, I did my best to come up with a good sprinkling of categories that covers a broad range, but not so many categories that it is annoying to actually submit votes for all those things.
Please let me know if you don’t like some stuff or want changes. It’s kind of too late for this year, but rest assured that I will incorporate feedback for the future.
What is this survey site? It looks super sketchy...
I am hosting it! It is a dockerized instance of LimeSurvey (thanks martialblog for creating a docker image). I initially ran into problems hosting this on my VPS that I use for things (like rikka), because this service takes a ton of memory. So, this is now running on my homeserver, literally in my office, right next to my desk.
Here is a fun little peek into how figuring out setting up the site went:
As for privacy/security, I have all the surveys configured to not record IP numbers or other identifying information. I know you can only take my word for it, but I hope that I have earned at least a little trust at this point running this community.
One thing to note for the voting round is that the survey will place a cookie into the browser to try to prevent voting multiple times (feel free to do multiple rounds of nomination). Frankly, this is the flimsiest of defenses because private browsing easily circumvents it, but that is the extent to which this site should mess with your browser.
Nominations...but what about the voting?
Voting comes next! The nomination window will be open for one week (week 50). Then, week 51, the nomination submissions will be sorted through by NineSwords and I for our respective communities. Then, the voting period will be over the course of week 52, the final week of the year. Winners, should everything go as planned, will be announced on the 31st of December.
For nerds that care a lot about voting methodologies...
I am right there with you. For the voting round of these awards, in each category, you will be able to rank-order the nominees in the order you want. Then, at the close of the voting, a ranked-choice election will take place. I haven’t written the code yet, but I plan on using PyRankVote to run the election using the Instant Runoff Vote (IRV) method since it is just single winner elections.
The other option in consideration right now is STAR voting. Basically, you would be able to assign each nominee a score from 0-5 where 5 means it is most deserving of winning (non-exclusive, meaning you can give multiple nominees a score of 5). Then, I would use the starvote python package to process the data and determine the winner.
Awards!?! What are we, Buzzfeed? Reddit? I hate this!
First, chill…but I get it. I thought this would be a fun community thing, but if the community hates it, then we won’t do it again. Simple as that. Do please let me know. I hope that I have proven by this point a willingness to incorporate community feedback, even when it is critical.
Regarding voting methodology, can we please use STAR voting instead? I like the acronym.
I’ll take a look at this. From some initial reading and poking around the survey software, I think I can create the questions for this (0-5 scale) and the methodology seems nice. I also found the starvote python package that I could use to process the ballots. It might come down to which of the methods are easier to wrangle the data into shape. The exported csv from the survey software is a bit messy, so if one of them is easier to bash the data into shape, then that will probably be the winner.
Thanks for the patience and for answering all my questions @wjs@ani.social
I have submitted my nominations. Unfortunately, you may see a few duplicate submissions from me because I wasn’t sure if I have submitted some of them previously.
Anyway, I’m predicting that these anime would take the top spots:
Now, gotta go nominate some manga 😭
This is a cool idea. I pinned the thread to local so hopefully more people see it!
The nominations have closed as of now, so you might want to unpin these threads from local.
I would appreciate it If you could do the same for the Light Novel Thread, please.
Done! Sorry, I didn’t see it.
This was a lot easier than the manga awards.
The nominations have been mostly Frieren, Apothecary Diaries, Euphonium, Monogatari, Makeine and Nier Automata for me. With 1 curve ball: Metallic Rouge for best OP. Anime sucks, but OP is fire
Weekly ranking roundup:
- Anime Corner - Full Results - Weekly Winner: Bleach: TYBW
- Reddit Karma - Weekly Winner: Dan Da Dan
- Anime Trending - Weekly Winner: Blue Box
Credit to /u/Abysswatcherbel for making the chart for reddit karma and /u/Nooble5 for the Anime Trending chart.
Three different winners this week. Blue Box made a small jump up the AT chart this week to claim the top spot. I saw a lot of hype for Blue Box at the beginning of the season, but it seems to have died down a lot as the season has gone. It has fallen out of the top 10 this week in the reddit karma chart for instance.
I love the idea of awards, but with only a few notable exceptions, I don’t watch currently airing anime, so…
And on that note, the first thing I watched this past week was the rest of Katanagatari, which I started last week. And I loved almost everything about it. The artstyle and character design particularly stood out, but it was all notably high quality. Though I still have to say I loved almost everything about it, because there was one part I really did not like at all:
spoiler
I hate the fact that they killed Togame. Partly I just hate it from a personal standpoint, because I adored her, but that’s not really the problem. There was another I watched recently (I won’t specify since nested spoilers would be sort of dumb if they work at all) in which they killed off the adorable FMC late in the series and I should’ve hated it, except that her death was glorious and noble and ultimately a vital part of the story. Togame’s death is mostly just stupid and pointless. She could have and should have been redeemed. All the way through the story, we watched as she grew and changed and opened up and started to overcome her obsessiveness and dishonesty and self-centeredness, and then at the 11th hour, they just threw it all away. And it still pisses me off.
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So… I needed to decompress a bit from that, and I already had an obvious choice lined up - a series that I knew I wanted to watch, but hadn’t gotten around to because I hadn’t quite been in the mood for the particular sort of stupidity I knew it was going to offer - KonoSuba. And it was pretty much just what I expected - shallow, goofy, egregiously ecchi mindless fun. The only thing I didn’t like about it is that Kazuma is, not to put too fine a point on it, a petulant, bitchy, self-absorbed asshole, and I really wanted to punch him in the face. Repeatedly.
And now I’m in the middle of something completely different - Boogiepop wa Warawanai. I watched the original version - Boogiepop Phantom - years ago and mostly enjoyed it, though I also mostly had no clue what was going on. The story is strange and complex and mysterious, and it’s told non-linearly through multiple viewpoints, so it’s opaque at best. The biggest problem with the original though is that it came in the wake of the success of things like Evangelion and Serial Experiments Lain, so it took what was already a complex and mysterious story and buried it in surreal symbolism. This one is still complex and non-linear, but at least it sheds a bit of the surreal symbolism in favor of more straightforward storytelling, and to its benefit. I have a lot of episodes left, but it’s shaping up well.
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This survey made me realize how little anime I actually watched this year. I can’t even fill in all the categories! The few shows I did watch were really damn good. At least it makes it easy to pick my favorites!
I spent WAAAAAY too much time on MyAnimeList narrowing down my choices. I felt like there wasn’t a whole lot of suspense anime to pick from, and Adventure wasn’t a category. I also thought Isekai/Reincarnation would get its own category but I guess we can just lump that in with Fantasy for the most part.
Seriously though, in some categories I had a really hard time narrowing it down to just 3, and in others I left spots blank simply because there wasn’t much I had seen in that category at all. I guess that’s normal though.
IKR? I spent too much time weeding out stuff that I wanted to nominate, but didn’t actually show up in 2024…
