 Hey everybody welcome back to the channel today. I thought I would make a quick video on the crunchy roll anime awards 2023 edition Pretty strange overall. I got to say I am a little bit disappointed with the or actually super disappointed with the selections The nominees if you will I'd like to cover this because I think it is important I am a huge fan of animation in general. I love anime and I think it does deserve a A western award recognition show thingamajig. So it's really cool when they do this sort of thing I'm not a fan of the popularity contest that forms out of this Essentially, you have a couple days to vote for your favorite and everybody just mass Votes for a particular series to win and then that happens and it's kind of cheesy and lame in my opinion If you're going to do it right at least get a panel get a Board to supervise this and they make the voting and selection and we just enjoy The process and the actual show and all that stuff But first things first I got to point out the anime of the year segment I'm going to vote on that last but I need to show you guys the six nominees Out of hundreds of shows. I thought Maybe they'll do like Oscar style and just pick ten shows because again, there were a lot of cool series that aired in 2022 The choices are baffling to me. You got attack on titan final season part two cyberpunk edge runners demon slayer the entertainment district arc Licorice recoil ranking of kings the second half of that and all of spy family Now what's interesting here is and I've seen other websites that do polls and anime of the year stuff as well They included demons layer and ranking of kings the later halves of both shows aired at the start of the year however I Don't like to count them because they started The year prior that's just me You could make an argument like it counts because it aired a huge chug or whatever But I want to see an award for show that aired in completion all of it during that year I will not be Voting for anything ranking of kings and demons layer. I think that's a very safe decision to do that And pick something that was part of 2021 also A lot of famous shows are missing. You're not seeing uh, bochi the rock and you're not seeing the bleach anime You're not seeing chainsaw man mob cycle 100 the list goes on and on Instead it's it's kind of a mixed bag. I don't think this is the best of the best in my opinion But that's what they chose. So I guess we'll have to live with it Let's uh go over the categories real quick and and share my thoughts now best voice artist performance English I will not be voting on that because I don't watch Dubbed anime. So I have no idea about these performances. I have no idea about the voice actors. So I will Skip that one. Best voice artist performance Japanese the say use if you will Uh, let's see if I can remember these names and pronounce them correctly. Probably not Atami Tanezaki voiced Anya for spy family Chika Anzai, she voiced Chisato for the chorus recoil. You got uh, Fidu's eye. I butchered that. Sorry voicing Joine for uh, Jojo's bizarre adventure stone ocean Misaki Kuno was Faputa if I remember correctly on maiden abyss season two Uh, Natsuki Hanai, of course, Tanjiro and Yuki Kaji for Eden pretty solid list on that one and honestly, I It it's between spy family Maiden abyss and the court's recoil for me and I'm going to have to go with Chika I think she just did a phenomenal job with that series Even though I don't think it's the best, uh, anime of the year I do think it's one of the best acted shows of the year. Okay, there we go. I am going to vote for Chika as Chisato Best romance now this is pretty interesting He got call of the night Kaguya-sama love his war ultra romantic or season three komi can't communicate The second season love after world domination. I think this was a really underrated anime My dress up darling was fantastic and Shikimori is not just a cutie. I wasn't a fan of that at all I'm going to go with call of the night. That is one of my favorite shows of last year And I started reading the manga for the first time last year as well There we go. Gotta represent one of my favorites best fantasy Got demon slayer. Also, uh, a lot of of the anime of the year Shows are going to be spread throughout the categories, which I always find extremely boring Again, I apologize. I I love demon slayer. I have all the manga volumes. I've seen the show Ranking of kings is one of my favorite shows. I think it's uh, one of wood studio's best productions Or adaptations, I should say sorry But I'm not I'm not gonna touch that at all Instead I'm gonna focus on other stuff like mushiko tensei season one part two You got made in abyss here season two overlord Four season four the case study of vanitas the second part of that series Again that aired also in 2021. I am as for best fantasy For me, it's either made in abyss or mushiko tensei mushiko tensei is fantastic and it has a really cool world building, but I think made in abyss should have been A contender a nominee for anime of the year. It was a masterful season, if you will best drama Got 86 part two again that aired 2021, but okay attack on titan final season part two cyberpunk edge runners dance dance dance or another series that I think should have been On the anime of the year list if you have not seen it and I get it. It's not popular enough. That's why they didn't put it there It's a popularity contest But I like to take these things seriously and I think People should as well because they are fantastic shows overall and they all deserve wonderful recognition Kotaro lives alone. I've not seen that so I can't talk about that one Made in abyss season two This is drama It has to go for uh Dance dance dance or that was a fantastic beautiful series. I highly recommend you guys check it out if you have it Wonderful overall best comedy You got kaguya sama season three Kotaro lives alone. I guess I need to watch this. It's dominated multiple times. What the hell My dress of darling spy family You got uncle from another world if it ever finishes broadcasting And yaboi kong me This is a solid one and actually it's pretty hard My initial thought is to go with kaguya sama lovers war season three I think it's the best of the seasons so far. They they knocked it out of the park with the Writing and acting and all that stuff. My dress of darling was a really nice surprise and genuinely a fun show spy family was phenomenal and Took everybody took the world by storm everybody fell in love with that show Yaboi kong me is amazing Can't recommend that enough uh done by pa works adapting the manga of the same name and uncle from another world I I've genuinely laughed out loud watching that series. I'm going to go with that honestly Yeah, I'm gonna go with that uncle from another world solid super fun show Best action attack on titan final season part two cyberpunk edge runners demon slayer judges Was our adventure stone ocean the chorus recoil spy family for action. I'm gonna go with uh cyberpunk edge runners for sure There you go must protect that all-cost character. I absolutely hate this category. It's cringy and stupid Uh, of course, you get the cute characters. You got ania boji kage kotaro marine and shoko or komi It has to be ania, of course There we go. Best supporting character You got eye hayasaka from kaguya sama ania forger from spy family You got kage from a ranking of kings rebecca from cyberpunk Your double duty here for a spy family. Okay and tengen uzui I am going to go with Let's let's let's go to your she's a great character And i'm realizing as i'm voting that a lot of people are going to hate this video They're probably going to dislike it. I don't really care. At least you watched it. So thank you for that The best main character you got boji. He is one of the best characters. I'll give you that but not for this voting session Uh chisato nishikigi Nishikigi? Yeah, I said that right. Uh david martinez, Eren Yeager, Lloyd forger, uh, marine kitagawa Best main character Um, I'm I'm going to go with marine because she's great Uh, next up we got best director. I am going to go with Even though it's not my Anime of the year pick. I think the direction on the chorus recoil Is quite phenomenal. It's an action-packed show with great Uh, great characters gunfights drama Overall I've really enjoyed it. I'm I'm going to give it to shin go adachi Here you go best anime song which is different. They usually just do openings and endings We're going to see those in a bit. So this is just A the song not the animation for the opening. A lot of people tend to confuse that online. You'd be surprised You got new genesis uta from one piece film red Shall we dance from what is this shadows? Shadow sounds there we go. That's the name With studio and cloverworks comedy spy family cheeky cheeky bun bun Man, this is a tough one cheeky cheeky bun bun You got my nonfiction from kawai asama and the rumbling Damn it Damn it. Damn it. Damn it. Um I'm going to go with the rumbling because I played the crap out of that on my spotify playlist. So Best film now this one's pretty interesting. I Yeah, I'm not going to be able to vote on this because the only one I've seen Is the deer king, which is phenomenal. I haven't seen bubble. I want to watch inuo Once I get that on blu-ray one piece film red. No I'm not a fan of dragon ball super and I haven't seen jiu-jitsu kaizen zero So unfortunately, I can't vote on this It's unfair to me to just go. Oh deer king because that's the only one I've watched I don't know whatever. I probably only want thinking like that Best music score Spy family yaboi kong mean of course it is a music anime made in abyss Cyberpunk you got attack on titan and demon slayer For the music I actually think Um, it has to be attack on titan Best ending sequence you got attack on titan. You got my dress up darling kaguya sama spy family Komi can't communicate. That's super underrated and the obvious winner one of the best songs out of 2022 And that is of course call of the night from that's the actual translation of Call of the night a no-brainer. This was one of the best songs out of last year I cannot recommend it enough and that ending is just amazing. So of course Best opening sequence now. This is a little bit easier. You got cheeky cheeky banban From your boy konming naked hero from ranking of kings an amazing song Too bad. I'm not gonna choose it This fire from cyberpunk fire, right? Mixed nuts spy family the rumbling. That's a good one and uh, thank you sanca. Hmm Yeah, too bad. I mean this is solid list right here, but fortunately like I mentioned I'm not gonna pick on the 2021 entries. I'm going to go with cheeky cheeky banban Everybody should watch your boy konming. That was such a good wholesome show. I loved it Best continuing series you got again Tackle and Titan final season part two demon slayer judges was our adventure stone ocean kavi asama I love his war season three made in abyss season two and one piece. I'm going to go way Made in abyss as best continuing series that season was just gorgeous loved it It was so tragic and well done best new series now. This is a category where you could have highlighted more shows instead of just Adding the course recoil and spy family again. I know their new series, but again 2022 had a lot of shows and We're just seeing the same ones over and over again You got those two you got call of the night cyberpunk edge runners my dress of darling and your boy konming It's not a bad list and I am going to represent my One of my favorites all of the night and it was an amazing series. So if you haven't seen it, I highly recommend it There you go. Go ahead for that best animation I'm surprised to see akb's sailor uniform as creepy and fetishy as that Series is it does have amazing animation from coberworks They're one of my favorite studios and just knocked it out of the park cyberpunk by trigger was amazing ranking of kings demon slayer, of course attack on titan final season part two and spy family I'm going to go personally. I'm going to go with spy family even though technically you have to acknowledge UFO tables Work on demon slayer. I totally get that so before you get mad at me. You're watching right now Just know that yes in my heart that is the winner But I got to make a stand and I don't I'm not going to go back on my word. So I will pick spy family and We're nearly done best character design Again, uh, the same almost the same as before you got demon slayer. You got spy family Jojo's bizarre adventure stone ocean ranking of kings my dress-up darling and cyberpunk edge runners I think this one has to go to cyberpunk It was so inventive with the with that world and the character designs and all that I'm going to go with that Best original anime there we go. So this is stuff that's not based on On a manga or a light novel you got birdie wing golf Golf girl story. I mean, it's fun, but to nominate it for best original Okay, whatever healer girl is an amazing series highly underrated the orbital children is weird because it was It aired in japan as a movie and then got spliced up into a series on netflix So that's odd vampire in the garden. That's a original net animation on netflix I think and you'd a deco was solid as well I'm going to go with the underdog here And I hope more people do because healer girl had some really interesting ideas and breath-taking animation and music if this should have been nominated in Score and all that stuff because the songs and all that they were just beautiful. So I'm going to represent The girls here for healer girl and well, here it is anime of the year We talked about all these six shows and I got to make up my mind I'm not going to go for ranking of kings or demons there even though they had amazing episodes and arcs or whatever Attack on titan final season part two was phenomenal cyberpunk edge runners was a lot of fun Uh, licorice recoil was a lot of fun as well. I'm I'm going to I'm going to go with spy fouled I think it had a well-rounded package great characters Great visuals a fantastic story It was adapted really well from the manga the animations Super clean and nice to look at the characters are great The voice acting is really good in that I think it's the most well-rounded and should be The one of the anime of the years and in this case, it's going to be the anime of the year that I pick Uh, so there we go I'm not going to do this again. I don't care about it that much to uh continue voting until january 25th If you enjoyed this video, thank you so much. I know it was kind of a bit of a downer because I was uh Complaining a lot about this even though it's just a popularity contest, but hey, I I care about this stuff I'm a huge passionate fan for Animation and anime as a whole and I just wanted I thought we were going to get a really solid best of the year list and Like for example, uh original anime where was uh bleach mob cycle 100 the final season chainsaw man Bochi the rock the list goes on and on There were a lot of great shows last year that I think should have been here Nominated as well, but that's their decision who cares end of the day. It's just uh shows So that's going to be it guys. Thank you so much for tuning in I hope you found this video entertaining or at least you laughed at my hijinks here I will be back with another video soon talking about the uh winter season and then some manga goodness and all that stuff So thank you everybody for the support. 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