Vote Here!
Voting is officially open for the 2024 Lemmy Manga Awards. The voting window will remain open until ~05:00 UTC on Dec. 30th (1 week from this post). I have included the final list of nominees (in case you missed it earlier this week) below with each category as a spoiler tag to help keep them organized. Special thanks to @NineSwords@ani.social for creating the graphics in each category.
Voting is done using STAR Voting. So, you will be able to assign each nominee a score from 0-5. The higher your score, the more you want that candidate to win or think it is more deserving. You can assign multiple nominees the same score, indicating that you have no preference between the two of them. For more info on STAR voting, check wikipedia. I have also included below, a quick visual reference to help:
Handy Reference Chart
Thank you everybody for taking the time to submit nominations for these awards. I have learned a lot of lessons from this endeavor and have already thought of lots of ways that these can be improved on for next year. So, if you have thoughts/ideas/concerns, definitely share them with me either in this thread or reach out to me privately.
Finally, a reminder that there are also elections happening for anime and light novels as well:
Happy Voting!
2024 Manga of the Year
Image - RuriDragon - The Demon King’s Daughter Is Too Kind!! / Maou no Musume wa Yasashi Sugiru!! - Kagurabachi - DAN DA DAN - Love Bullet
Best Comedy
Image - The Gals Who Always Say Insane Things: My Daily Life at a Private Paranormal High School / Shiretto Sugee Koto Itteru Gal. - Shiritsu Paranomaru Koukou no Nichijou - The 100 Girlfriends Who Really, Really, Really, Really, Really Love You - The Eminence in Shadow / Kage no Jitsuryokusha ni Naritakute! - Turns Out My Dick Was a Cute Girl / Ore no Kokan wa Bishoujo Datta no ka - IseGure: After Constantly Being Used as a Foil for OP Isekai Protagonists, The Elite Knight Has Finally Had It / IseGure - Isekai Cheat Musou Ore TUEEE-kei Ikiri Tenseisha ni Kamaseinu ni sare Tsuzuketa Elite Kishi, Chou Gureru
Best Action
Image - Chained Soldier / Mato Seihei no Slave - I Got a New Skill Every Time I Was Exiled, and After 100 Different Worlds, I Was Unmatched / Tsuihousareru Tabi ni Skill o Te ni Ireta Ore ga, 100 no Isekai de 2-shuume Musou - Chainsaw Man - Omniscient Reader’s Viewpoint - Kagurabachi
Best Fantasy
Image - Witch Hat Atelier - Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End / Sousou no Frieren - Welcome to Japan, Ms. Elf! / Nihon e Youkoso Elf-san - Speedrunner Cannot Return from the Game World / RTA Sousha wa Game Sekai kara Kaerenai - Made in Abyss
Best Romance
Image - Don’t Toy With Me, Miss Nagatoro! / Ijiranaide, Nagatoro-san - The 100 Girlfriends Who Really, Really, Really, Really, Really Love You - The Girl I Like Forgot Her Glasses / Suki na Ko ga Megane wo Wasureta - The Fragrant Flower Blooms with Dignity / Kaoru Hana wa Rin to Saku - Journey Home After School / Houkago Kitaku Biyori
Best Slice of Life
Image - RuriDragon - The Demon King’s Daughter Is Too Kind!! / Maou no Musume wa Yasashi Sugiru!! - Gal Can’t Be Kind to Otaku!? / Otaku ni Yasashii Gal wa Inai!? - SPY×FAMILY - Tsumiki Ogami & the Strange Everyday Life / Ogami Tsumiki to Kinichijou
Best Drama
Image - Villains Are Destined to Die - Love Bullet - The Apothecary Diaries / Kusuriya no Hitorigoto - Vinland Saga - Tales Of Akane / Akane-banashi
Best Suspense
Image - Miyu-chan Will Always Be Your Friend / Miyu-chan wa Zutto Tomodachi - Oshi no Ko - The Summer Hikaru Died / Hikaru ga Shinda Natsu - Mieruko-chan - MAD
Best Artwork
Image - Mieruko-chan - One Punch Man - Akebi-chan’s Sailor Uniform / Akebi-chan no Sailor Fuku - Fate/type Redline - Witch Hat Atelier
Best Character
Image - Ruri Aoki from RuriDragon - Frieren from Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End / Sousou no Frieren - Cid Kagenou from The Eminence in Shadow / Kage no Jitsuryokusha ni Naritakute! - Maomao from The Apothecary Diaries - Urumin (Moegi Urushibara) from The Useless Idol and Her Only Fan in the World / Damedol to Sekai ni Hitori Dake no Fan
Best Duo: Romantic or Otherwise
Image - Nazuna Nanakusa & Kou Yamori from Call of the Night / Yofukashi no Uta - Hakari Hanazono & Karane Inda from The 100 Girlfriends Who Really, Really, Really, Really, Really Love You - Hayase Nagatoro & Naoto Hachiouji from Don’t Toy With Me, Miss Nagatoro! / Ijiranaide, Nagatoro-san - Chinatsu Kano & Taiki Inomata from Blue Box / Ao no Hako - Mirai Misato & Shouko Taira from The Gals Who Always Say Insane Things: My Daily Life at a Private Paranormal High School / Shiretto Sugee Koto Itteru Gal. - Shiritsu Paranomaru Koukou no Nichijou
Endmaker@ani.social 1 week ago
Nice banner for the categories.
By the way, it looks like I’m able to submit the form - and hence vote - multiple times (though I did not try). Is this intentional?
wjs018@ani.social 1 week ago
Shhh!
I had planned on enabling this software’s cookie to prevent multiple votes, but after doing some testing with @NineSwords@ani.social, found that the cookie was way too aggresive. If somebody opened the survey and then closed it without any interaction, the cookie would then prevent them from coming back and completing it. The way it blocked you as well is by emulating a server error rather than a friendly message about multiple votes. That caused me some headaches when I thought I had a configuration problem on the backend.
The only other tool available to me with this software to try to filter out multiple voters is IP tracking. There is fortunately an option to anonymize IPs. So, instead of telling me what a submitter’s real IP is, it will assign a fake one, but if they submit multiple times, that fake IP will show up multiple times. So, that is what I have turned on right now instead. It isn’t a perfect solution. Things like VPNs and mobile connections are easy to circumvent that, while CGNAT might cause some different people to show up as the same voter.
For next year, I plan on verifying votes through lemmy so that each vote is tied to a lemmy account. It’s going to take some effort on my end to figure that part out though. So, for now, it remains a plan on paper.