Winners of the 2024 Lemmy Anime Awards

Submitted ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨wjs018@ani.social⁩ to ⁨anime@ani.social⁩

Thank you everybody for participating in the awards process! NineSwords and I simply wanted this to be a fun thing to wrap up the year with, and I hope that you all had fun with this. We certainly learned a lot about ways we might want to run things differently if we ever do this again, so thank you for all the feedback you have given us through this process.

If you are interested in analyzing the vote data, I have created a github repo here where I have uploaded both the voting data and the code I used to process the data and calculate the election results. Feel free to use this data in any way you see fit!

Without further ado, here are the winners and runner-ups for each of the categories:

2024 Anime of the Year

- Winner - Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End / Sousou no Frieren - Runner-up - Delicious in Dungeon / Dungeon Meshi

Best Comedy

- Winner - Delicious in Dungeon / Dungeon Meshi - Runner-up - Dan Da Dan

Best Drama

- Winner - The Apothecary Diaries / Kusuriya no Hitorigoto - Runner-up - Oshi no Ko Season 2

Best Animation

- Winner - Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End / Sousou no Frieren - Runner-up - Dan Da Dan

Best Fantasy

- Winner - Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End / Sousou no Frieren - Runner-up - Delicious in Dungeon / Dungeon Meshi

Best Soundtrack

- Winner - Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End / Sousou no Frieren - Runner-up - Oshi no Ko Season 2

Best Duo: Romantic or Otherwise

- Winner - Momo Ayase & Ken Takakura (Okarun) from Dan Da Dan - Runner-up - Holo & Kraft Lawrence from Spice and Wolf: MERCHANT MEETS THE WISE WOLF

Best Voice Acting

- Winner - Atsumi Tanezaki as Frieren in Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End (Japanese) - Runner-up - Saori Hayami as Rin Nanakura in Pseudo Harem (Japanese)

Best Romance

- Winner - Spice and Wolf: MERCHANT MEETS THE WISE WOLF / Ookami to Koushinryou: MERCHANT MEETS THE WISE WOLF - Runner-up - Makeine: Too Many Losing Heroines! / Make Heroine ga Oosugiru!

Best Opening or Ending Sequence (OP/ED)

- Winner - “Otonoke” by Creepy Nuts for the Dan Da Dan OP - Runner-up - “Shika-iro Days” as the My Deer Friend Nokotan OP

Best Action

- Winner - Dan Da Dan - Runner-up - Solo Levling / Ore dake Level Up na Ken

Best Slice of Life

- Winner - Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End / Sousou no Frieren - Runner-up - Jellyfish Can’t Swim in the Night / Yoru no Kurage wa Oyogenai

Best Suspense

- Winner - The Apothecary Diaries / Kusuriya no Hitorigoto - Runner-up - Oshi no Ko Season 2

Best Character

- Winner - Frieren from Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End / Sousou no Frieren - Runner-up - Maomao from The Apothecary Diaries / Kusuriya no Hitorigoto

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hitagi@ani.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
I was expecting a Dan Da Dan sweep but it was a Frieren sweep all along! Congrats to the winners in !manga@ani.social and !lightnovels@ani.social too!

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Thank you for organizing the events @wjs018@ani.social and @NineSwords@ani.social!

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mo_lave@reddthat.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
Ah yes, Frieren sweep

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- Endmaker@ani.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  POV of any anime contending with Frieren for an award:
  
  Frieren at the top
  
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RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
Do people on Lemmy only watch Frieren and Dungeon Meshi? Lol

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- ReluctantZen@feddit.nl ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  I mean, they are really good. Even if they weren’t my pick for everything, I definitely understand it
  
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- hisao@ani.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  I mostly watch shows when they’re finished. It’s nice to be able to watch an episode every day, but the downside is I lag behind everyone else and can’t really participate in polls like this since the only two shows I watched from this year is Frieren and Dungeon Meshi. So I decided not to vote at all. Overall I watched 25 shows this year, most from 201x, some from 200x and a few from 202x.
  
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- NineSwords@ani.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  Why would someone spent their time on something else?
  
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- djsoren19@yiffit.net ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  Hey, I also watched DanDaDan!
  
  Tbf, I think there’s a pretty big dip from the super popular anime to everything else that was nominated this year. I ended up giving up on voting, just because there was category after category where I’d only seen one or two of the shows listed.
  
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- sj_zero ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  I know I went to see the lists and saw most of 2024s anime wasn't there so I didn't vote.
  
  Maybe for the best because I'm a trash anime enjoyer.
- wjs018@ani.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  Haha, they certainly had the most broad voting base it seems.
  
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- nyan@lemmy.cafe ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  I didn’t watch either. Then again, I also didn’t vote, so . . .
  
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  - Endmaker@ani.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    You are missing out.
    
    Try giving them a chance.
    
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hisao@ani.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

Frieren

Ah yes, my favorite slice of life 😏

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- CsXGF8uzUAOh6fqV@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  Technically everything can be a slice of life. But preferably it is used for stuff that focuses on daily life. Is frieren actually a slice of life or is this a case of shounen fans calling everything with less than 50% action a SOL? I also heard frieren is a slow show. Is it actually slow or just by shounen standards?
  
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  - wjs018@ani.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    The first cour was much more SOL than the second cour. Frieren’s different arcs tend to bounce back and forth between slow, and action.
    
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- Unboxious@ani.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  That one felt a little weird. I feel like you could make a good argument that the first half of the first season is slice of life, but most of the rest of the series is not.
  
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ReluctantZen@feddit.nl ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
I think this outcome makes sense, especially the Frieren sweep

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Endmaker@ani.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
Poor Oshi no Ko, it had to go up against Apothecary Diaries for Best Drama and Best Suspense, and faced off against Frieren for Best Soundtrack

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- wjs018@ani.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  I know, I was super bummed about the Oshi no Ko second place finishes. I also think it deserved better in the Best Animation category.
  
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Enkers@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
Aww, I guess I missed the vote. Would’ve liked to have seen Orb win something, but I’m glad to see Kusuriya and Makeine made it!

Thanks for organising this, it was fun!

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Mako_Bunny@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
I’m glad Solo Leveling got something at least ^^

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- USSEthernet@startrek.website ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  Such a great show, manwha, and novel
  
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sag@ani.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
Dungoen Meshi overrated bruh 1 star not ever worth watch i hate it please destroy !dungeonmeshi@ani.social mental edge is brainwashing u

I am just mad Nokotan didn’t win for Best Comedy

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- wjs018@ani.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  Looks like Senshi cooked up some nice venison for dinner! /s
  
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  - sag@ani.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    Also my DanDaDan propaganda didn’t help much.
    
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Endmaker@ani.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
Gotta echo what others already said: thanks for running this award.

Will this be done more frequently? e.g. every season

It will mean more work till the process of nomination and voting get automated or simplified, but it also means a shorter turn-around time to gather feedback and improve the process (i.e. be agile)

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- wjs018@ani.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  
  Will this be done more frequently? e.g. every season
  
  Depends how quickly I learn flask + some basic javascript. I have some ideas right now on how to integrate all these different things to create a site where I can make polls and then have rikka reach out and let you verify your votes via pm. However, the web dev work is where I need to do a ton of learning. I have never worked on web dev stuff before, so the past week of me exploring it has been a huge learning curve.
  
  Stay tuned…
  
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