I really don't like the fact that male and female voice actors are not separate categories. A couple of years ago, Aoi Yuuki could have easily won for her work in "So I'm a spider, so what", but she was lumped in with the seiyuu for Eren, and didn't have a chance.
Kinda hilarious that average public voters in Anime Trending Awards and Reddit Awards watch more anime and judge fairly than most judges from Crunchyroll Awards.
@@hiborz9705 Which is better than staying at the most popular anime of the year/decade like Jujutsu Kaisen Reminds me of myanimelist ranking where FMA Brotherhood stayed at the top 1 spot for years even if there are newer anime that a new batch of anime watchers can push up.
It doesn't matter what voting system it is, people will always complain. An example is the Ballondor. 100 journalists from different countries are nominated to vote and yet people always complain about the winners and it's not even fan voted.
I take award shows with a grain of salt. It's subjective and there's no perfect system. What award shows do for me is give insight to what others like and topics for discussions, i.e. agree or disagree etc etc
What they should do is take the total number of possible points, and split them between the judges (who are not fans), the fans, and the show's view count. Then the winner would be the show that got the most number of points, overall.
i wonder, how many people already forget about bocchi & chainsawman did not make it last year & made it in this year but the hype die and now its just more jujitsu kaisen. im still extremely mad that no one mention about Heikei monotagari from last year. nobody watched that show. not a single person. that's not fair there's you but i think only you.
If I were a judge, I'd allocate ever last point to Mushoku Tensei, and wouldn't feel bad for a second. ...and yes, I have watched other things (because you run out of MT).
Instead of operating on raw votes you could use ranking instead. The fans could set the ranking of shows by voting, then judges vote could increase or decrease ranking by one or two places. That way it still favors popularity but allows for judges discretion out of top 2/3 positions for the category.
I'd prefer a more fan vote one. The judge system was screwed up when they put vice news of all things on it. Used to watch trash taste. Quickly realized that the only one who actually watches anime is garnt. The anime man doesn't like or watch any new anime. The Connor guy only likes Jojo. And their episode where they trashed ecchi was such a hypocritical moment for them that I stopped watching. Also hidive still could do well, I think all it would take to get hardcore fans is to say they are going to keep their localizers in check. But right now they have one season with terrible localization each season, which is worse because they maybe have 3 to 4 new shows a season.
The only thing I care about an anime's popularity is that the ones' I like are popular enough to complete their stories and get made. Other than that I don't give a damn about awards, especially Crunchyroll's.
If I watch an award show it's to find something unique that missed the limelight. Audience picks are the most popular garbage that everyone has watched. The Crunchyroll awards are literally useless for me, they should split it into two categories, audience and judges.
It is a fascinating debate in a total impasse and difficult to turn around. We need to evaluate what we mean by Award in the first stance. Are we deciding the Best of the year? Or the most popular of the year? And who is voting? Age of the voters? A teen will evaluate an anime as the "best", a man in his 30s has a different take. A person in his 40s like me will never put JJK as anime of the year. Secondly, who are the "critics"? Thanks to RU-vid we all know that putting a video essay or writing a post does not make you a critic. As my experience goes on in this many years, if you exclude the academics of Meiji University who work in the fields of Anime and Manga and some other established academics around the world who have written books on the topic with deep insights connected to culture and the real world. In this platform, I may consider 1 or 2 RU-vidrs who have shown the "critics" tool (And I won't name them). Personally, these awards are like the Academy Awards or "Oscars". A very regional award decided with extreme peripherical parameters and honestly more a farce than a real evaluation. I mean most of the Anime involved is "pop" anime even Oshi no Ko which I guess is in the anime of the year conversation is a "pop" anime. So is it the "pop" winning (Academy Awards), or do we let the critics decide (Cannes, Berlin, Venice awards)? It is a difficult debate.
I mean, there is a reason why the Oscar does their voting by chosen industry people, or something like Ballon d'Or gets voted on by journalists and coaches. Sure, things like the Oscar have similar problems, because members also don't watch shit, but if you curate the list of people that are allowed to vote, for people that are actually critical and watch a large amount of shows you will probably get a way better award system than whatever they have today.
Damn I had no clue you were a judge for the crunchyroll rewards. I stopped caring about it when they rolled out the voting daily cause it has to reason to exist other than marketing and getting on trending.
Ummm was I supposed to give a sh.. about CR Awards? Who knew?!? Def scoped out YTr coverage of What Looks HOT, and then _more to the point _ when the run is done == BEST OF THE SEASON. *THANG IS CR AWARDS JUST NEVA MATTERED!*
Bocchi the Rock anime of the year 2023. What else happened in fall... I can't remember anything except for Bocchi. :P I guess everything that is happening now this fall season is for 2024? So I guess Frieren can be anime of the year next year. Or maybe there JUJUTSU KAISEN Season 2 part one can be anime of the year for 2023 and JUJUTSU KAISEN Season 2 part two can be anime of the year for 2024.
Akiba Maid War, Chainsaw Man, Mob Psycho 100 III, and Reincarnated as a Sword were all Fall 2022 anime. I would guess Demon Slayer might have a good chance for Crunchyroll AOTY 2023, but I wouldn't count out Oshi no Ko, Vinland Saga S2, Hell's Paradise and what you suggested--JJK S2. I'd like to also see Mushoku Tensei and Zom 100 nominated too, but I'm not sure they have enough support to get nominated and Zom 100 still hasn't even finished its first cour.
