 Hey everybody, welcome back to your week in geekdom, Geo here and today we're going over the nominees for that famous anime popularity contest or rather I should say the Crunchyroll Anime Awards for 2022. Obviously people are divided with this, a lot of people don't like the categories or the nominees and I can see that and I agree for the most part, they're pretty spot on. As you can see here at the time of recording this video, vote now until January 25, vote daily. A lot of categories, anime of the year, best boy, best girl, best protagonist, best antagonist, best fight scene, best director, best animation, best character design, best score, vocal performance in the original Japanese and English dubbing, and English dubbing, best opening sequence, best ending sequence, best action, comedy, drama, romance, fantasy, and best film. We're going to start with best film and you know lead up to the big one like the anime of the year of course of 2021. Okay so for best film, the nominees are Belle which just came out theatrically in the US. Unfortunately I have not seen it yet. I'm probably going to wait for a whole media release unless somebody decides to stream it or you can rent it early digitally or something like that but if not I'm just going to wait for a Blu-ray release. Demon Slayer, Mugen Train, the movie, Shido Bako the movie, Evangelion 3.0 plus 1.0 thrice upon a time or also known as the final rebuild of Evangelion movie, Josie the tiger and the fish and words bubble up like soda pop. Now from what I remember, Evangelion you can watch on Amazon Prime, Josie the tiger and the fish did have a theatrical release but it's not streaming. It comes out in February if I remember correctly. Words bubble up like soda pop I think you can watch on Netflix, I don't know about Shido Bako and Mugen Train you can watch it anywhere at this point. It's out on Blu-ray, it's out on Crunchyroll and Funimation and etc. The only one I haven't seen from this batch as of this episode unfortunately I have not seen Shido Bako, Bell and Evangelion. I've been holding up to watch that I wanted to do a marathon of the whole series and then my rebuild Ava Blu-rays and then watch the new movie so I might still do that I might not I might just go ahead and watch even going to the movie so that said in good conscience I can't vote for it because I technically haven't seen it and I've heard wonderful things from people and I've also heard people complain about the film so I can't pick that. I haven't seen Bell, words bubble up like soda pop it was alright it was fun I like the color palette for that one. Demon Slayer Mugen Train was good but I am going to have to go with Josie the Tiger and the fish. So let's do that confirm that's my pick for best film out of that. Although I suspect even Galion would win. Best fantasy series now this is interesting a lot of people are complaining because there are a bunch of series that missed out on being nominated and stuff that's not airing on Crunchyroll like Mochiko Tensei for example but hey at least it's here on the best fantasy section you know whatever. So we have Mochiko Tensei jobless reincarnation that time I got reincarnated as a slime season two to your eternity ranking of kings the case study of Vanita's Wonder Egg priority. Wonder Egg is a gorgeous looking series but I cannot vote for it because I think that ending was not that great it did not stick the landing in my opinion. The case study of Vanita's was not my thing but it looks great from bones. Ranking of Kings is one of my favorite shows of last year so I'm partial to this one to your eternity again one of my top five shows of last year that time I got reincarnated as a slime a lot of fun and Mochiko Tensei one of my favorite shows from last year so this one's a little bit tough. I know Mochiko Tensei is not nominated for anime of the year but I'm inclined to give it to your eternity honestly or Mochiko Tensei ranking of Kings is up there with the best show of this animated series so we'll go over that in a second but fantasy series I got to give it to your eternity or Mochiko Tensei the animation from Studio Bind just stellar a beautiful series and to your eternity just a beautiful series with right with emotion and character work and just a beautiful journey of this character of Fushi the immortal going through life and experiencing the lives of other people and all that stuff just a great series overall and the manga is one of my all-time favorite ongoing manga at the moment. Oh that's a tough one I think I'm going to give it to you to your eternity even though I really like Mochiko Tensei and Roxy is one of my favorite characters so I'm gonna go with that and I represent my boy Fushi best romance this is a no-brainer Comey can't communicate was cute beautifully animated don't toy with me Miss Nagatouro is surprising we wholesome I really enjoyed that series Beastars I love Beastars but I am not a fan of the anime that animation style the Duke of Death and it's made the same deal Horimia was great a lot of character progression with all the couples and the romance and all that stuff you gotta go with fruits basket the final season that thing was just beautiful all around that's my pick best drama 86 fruits basket odd taxi wonder egg priority to your eternity kageki shoujo this is a tough one odd taxis phenomenal one of my favorites wonder egg we already talked about that fruits basket I'm not gonna repeat another series for another category so I'm gonna skip it for best drama and I already voted for tier to your eternity I am going to I'm gonna pick 86 on that one great drama slash mech slash war whatever type show best comedy Comey can't communicate don't toy with me Miss Nagatouro Miss Kobayashi's dragon made life lessons with Uramichi Onisan heaven's design team really underrated series right there and odd taxi I don't really consider odd taxi a comedy and why is it nominated for drama and comedy okay I'm gonna go with Miss Kobayashi's dragon made s I gotta represent my favorite dragons so that's my pick for best comedy best action action series or like best action sequences and wise did you two I mean did you two guys and yes it did technically finish airing in 2021 but it was already nominated for 2020 stuff I don't I don't know about that VV Flora Flora it's I song wonder egg priority again that although the animation and action sequences were spectacular from Cloverworks Moog and train arc the TV version no thank you attack on Titan season final season part one honestly best action for me would be best action sequences I'm gonna give it to wonder egg even though I don't like the ending for it but it's just a beautifully drawn show yeah I'm not gonna vote for jujutsu guys in sorry but it's a great manga and a great anime but no these are my picks so yeah okay so next up we have the best ending sequence now this of course refers to the ending theme song and the actual animation not just the song a lot of people like to confuse that on the internet so let's go over that list here we got the attack on Titan final season part one ending Beastars shadows house Selma spider so what skate infinity and Demon Slayer Moog and train the TV arc so honestly a lot of great tunes here but visually I think it goes to either skate the infinity you got infinity by Yuri and the Kumoko San no theme Ganbare for Selma spider so what I think this one goes to the spider honestly it's such a fun ending to a great series best opening sequence you guys remember when this came out when the opening for attack on Titan final season part one came out everybody was confused first but it was a banger so many tiktoks were made for that freaking song let's see you got jujutsu kaisen odd taxi a great song cry baby for tokyu revengers yes I know supreme miss Kobayashi's dragon mate s and kaibutsu Beastars this is a lot tougher than it looks I'm going to say just for the pure talent that went into making that series and that opening it's between odd taxi and miss Kobayashi's dragon mate for me and I think I'm gonna give it to the dragons because that opening is beautifully done in my opinion I'm gonna go with that even though all the songs are great I love them but I gotta represent my one of my favorite comedies right yeah yeah let's go with that vocal performance English I don't watch dubbed anime so I'll skip on that best now this was pretty random I don't think this list is the best one honestly why is Ayane Sakura for Gavi in here like add in sure whatever I get and vegan for for Lupin the third part six out of this bunch it's either Odokawa from odd taxi Kumoko so much better so what how we Yuki just knocked it out of the park I think she deserves it honestly so I'm gonna go with that how Yuki as Kumoko best music score we got of course man this is hard I'm a big fan of Sawano and 86 right now is one of the best ones in this list Demon Slayer Mugen train arc I didn't like the score for Mugen train arc I thought it was just okay honestly if anything the red light district art that's airing now as of this video has a better music score that's just my opinion Megalobox it's alright odd taxi odd taxi the score was not a thing that stood out to me or the series it excelled in the story and characters and all that stuff but I didn't watch it thinking man this has a great music score a wonder egg priority same deal it was a lot more subdued Vivi Floret ice's song now this is a musical based show so it makes sense but I'm gonna give it to Sawano that score for 86 is a beautiful work of art best character design Jujutsu Kaisen again odd taxi ranking of Kings skate the infinity Vivi and wonder egg priority if there's one thing that this show should win is the character designs it is a beautifully drawn show I'm gonna go with that even though I'm thinking oh I want to give it to ranking of Kings or skate the infinity but no wonder egg just knocked it out of the part with the art Cloverworks did a phenomenal job best animation best overall animation hmm this this is easy it to me at least it's between misko beashi's dragon mate s we should go 10 say you got Jujutsu kaisen demon Slayer mugen train arc Vivi again and wonder egg priority I think the best animation has to go to we should go 10 say that studio buying I love that they were created just to animate the whole series of the whole adaptation of machine for 10 say that's insane and awesome at the same time so yeah I'm gonna go for them even though Kyoto animation just knocked it out of the park with misko beashi's dragon mate but it's a tough one but I'm gonna give it to 10 say here best director this one is easy I am going to go you got Megalobox to nomad attack on Titan final season part 1 Jujutsu kaisen odd taxi wonder egg priority again and sunny boy it's a shame sunny boy isn't dominated for other categories because it's a great show I'm gonna go with that because the story is pretty frickin unique and wonderful for an original only anime I think more people should watch that show best fight scene the nominees are Eden versus the Warhammer Titan Naruto versus Ishiki Yuji itadori versus nobara oh and nobara Kugisaki sorry versus ESO and Ketchizu VV versus Yugo Kakitani another why two fights from Jujutsu kaisen come on guys Elmon versus Tony you know what I'm not gonna vote for Jujutsu guys sorry this fight from VV was really frickin well done like like holy crap movie level animation right there but I gotta go with the dragons Elma versus Toru that was an amazing fight loved it best antagonist this is pretty funny you got Eren Jaeger attack on Titan final season part 1 Tomura Shigaraki from my hero academia season 5 Yano from hot taxi a kid now from re-zero season 2 Tete Kisaki from Tokyo Revengers and Shindo or Adam from Skate the Infinity Adam was hilarious same with Yano I think the best antagonist or villain I gotta give it to a kid now I'm gonna go with that no questions but then you go to best protagonist and you got Eren Jaeger again which is it are we gonna go for antagonist or protagonist come on now give other characters a shot not just stick attack on Titan on every single category because you wanted to win Yuji Itadori or Orukawa hands down Boji is the winner here you got Joe from Megalobox and I from Wonder Egg priority wonderful characters but Prince Boji he's the best protagonist I don't like these two categories best girl best girl you got Milose from 86 Toru from fruits basket Sarasa Sarasa Watanabe sorry from Kageki Shoujo nobara from Jujutsu Kaisen Comey from Comey can communicate and I from from and I from Wonder Egg priority gotta give it to my girl Toru she was the best best boy I already know who's gonna win this you got Senku again that's nice Izumi from Oremia oh and I should have said Dr. Stone season 2 but you're seeing it with me here Orukawa from Odd Taxi Boji ranking of Kings dragon from Tokyo Revengers and Mikey from Tokyo Revengers I'm going all in for Boji he's the best there we go and here we are anime of the year according to Crunchyroll this is a damn shame because we all know that the best anime of 2021 was Heike Monogatari but it's not streaming on Crunchyroll so why would it be here right you got 86 attack on Titan final season part one Jujutsu Kaisen Odd Taxi ranking of Kings and Sunny Boy Sunny Boy is well Sunny Boy isn't airing either but you know Sunny Boy is phenomenal Odd Taxi and ranking of Kings are on my list for best of 2021 I made a video on that if you want to check it out I placed Odd Taxi higher than ranking of Kings I'm going to stick with Odd Taxi a fantastic underrated story with great characters and just an overall great thriller suspense drama series that I highly recommend you check out so yeah that's a no-brainer Odd Taxi so there you go those are my picks for the 2022 edition of the Crunchyroll anime awards what do you think of my picks what do you think of the nominees leave those comments down below thank everybody for tuning in thank you for liking commenting subscribing and being a part of this wonderful community thank you so much I've got to go God bless stay safe out there I will catch all of you our next video