AnimeSuki Choice Awards 2014 Winners

[Haak]

Winners of the 2014 AnimeSuki Choice Awards!

74 people voted this year so thank you, everyone, for your participation. Any feedback on how the awards can be improved are welcome. Thanks to felix for all the hard work in organising the Awards and thanks to Konagaka, Triple_R, Sackett and Blue-kun for their help as well.

Feel free to add any discussion, but please try to keep it friendly and refrain from flaming winners that you didn't support (I'm looking at you, Pocari Sweat).

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Final Results

-{A1}- [Best Storyline & Plot] 63 votes / 11 abstained

• Mahou Shoujo Madoka Magica Movies — 22 votes (29%)
• Nagi no Asukara — 15 votes (20%)
• Ping Pong The Animation — 13 votes (17%)
• Hunter x Hunter (2011) — 13 votes (17%)

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-{A2}- [Best Visuals & Animation] 65 votes / 9 abstained

• Mahou Shoujo Madoka Magica Movies — 26 votes (35%)
• Space Dandy — 17 votes (22%)
• Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn — 15 votes (20%)
• Shingeki no Bahamut: Genesis — 7 votes (9%)

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-{B1}- [Best Action-Adventure] 64 votes / 10 abstained

• Kill la Kill — 29 votes (39%)
• Hunter x Hunter (2011) — 19 votes (25%)
• Sword Art Online II — 8 votes (10%)
• Shingeki no Bahamut: Genesis — 8 votes (10%)

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-{B2}- [Best Fantasy & Supernatural] 65 votes / 9 abstained

• Mahou Shoujo Madoka Magica Movies — 21 votes (28%)
• Mushishi Zoku Shou — 20 votes (27%)
• No Game No Life — 16 votes (21%)
• Shingeki no Bahamut: Genesis — 8 votes (10%)

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-{B3}- [Best Science Fiction] 50 votes / 24 abstained

• Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn — 18 votes (24%)
• Sidonia no Kishi — 17 votes (22%)
• Space Dandy — 8 votes (10%)
• Psycho-Pass 2 — 7 votes (9%)

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-{B4}- [Best Drama] 62 votes / 12 abstained

• Nagi no Asukara — 18 votes (24%)
• Love Live! School Idol Project 2nd Season — 16 votes (21%)
• Ping Pong The Animation — 15 votes (20%)
• Isshuukan Friends — 13 votes (17%)

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-{B5}- [Best Romance] 50 votes / 24 abstained

• Isshuukan Friends — 15 votes (20%)
• Nagi no Asukara — 14 votes (18%)
• Soredemo Sekai wa Utsukushii — 11 votes (14%)
• Ao Haru Ride — 10 votes (13%)

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-{B6}- [Best Comedy] 62 votes / 12 abstained

• Gekkan Shoujo Nozaki-kun — 36 votes (48%)
• Amagi Brilliant Park — 15 votes (20%)
• Space Dandy — 6 votes (8%)
• Hoozuki no Reitetsu — 5 votes (6%)

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-{B7}- [Best Slice of Life] 62 votes / 12 abstained

• Love Live! School Idol Project 2nd Season — 20 votes (27%)
• Barakamon — 17 votes (22%)
• Gin no Saji — 15 votes (20%)
• Gekkan Shoujo Nozaki-kun — 10 votes (13%)

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-{B8}- [Best Sports Series] 62 votes / 12 abstained

• Ping Pong The Animation — 24 votes (32%)
• Saki: Zenkoku-hen — 20 votes (27%)
• Baby Steps — 11 votes (14%)
• Haikyuu!! — 7 votes (9%)

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-{C1}- [Best TV Series] 60 votes / 14 abstained

• Hunter x Hunter (2011) — 19 votes (25%)
• Love Live! School Idol Project 2nd Season — 17 votes (22%)
• Ping Pong The Animation — 12 votes (16%)
• Mushishi Zoku Shou — 12 votes (16%)

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-{C2}- [Best OVA] 41 votes / 33 abstained

• Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn — 23 votes (31%)
• Natsume Yuujinchou: Itsuka Yuki no Hi ni — 7 votes (9%)
• Harmonie — 5 votes (6%)
• Shinryaku!! Ika Musume OVA — 4 votes (5%)
• Hayate no Gotoku! OVA — 2 votes (2%)

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-{C3}- [Best Movie] 59 votes / 15 abstained

• Mahou Shoujo Madoka Magica Movies — 36 votes (48%)
• Kaguya-hime no Monogatari — 12 votes (16%)
• Kara no Kyoukai: Mirai Fukuin — 6 votes (8%)
• Berserk Movies — 5 votes (6%)

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-{D1}- [Best Female Lead] 66 votes / 8 abstained

• Homura Akemi — 22 votes (29%)
• Chiyo Sakura — 21 votes (28%)
• Chisaki Hiradaira — 12 votes (16%)
• Honoka Kousaka — 11 votes (14%)

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-{D2}- [Best Male Lead] 59 votes / 15 abstained

• Ginko — 16 votes (21%)
• Shiroe — 16 votes (21%)
• Yuuji Kazami — 12 votes (16%)
• Yugo Hachiken — 8 votes (10%)
• Sora — 7 votes (9%)

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-{D3}- [Best Antagonist] 59 votes / 15 abstained

• Meruem — 22 votes (29%)
• Satsuki Kiryuuin — 19 votes (25%)
• Esdeath — 10 votes (13%)
• Shinkawa Shouichi — 8 votes (10%)

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-{D4}- [Best Side-Character] 64 votes / 10 abstained

• Mako Mankanshoku — 21 votes (28%)
• Wenge Kong — 16 votes (21%)
• Eli Ayase — 15 votes (20%)
• Mikoto Mikoshiba — 12 votes (16%)

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-{D5}- [Best World Setting] 64 votes / 10 abstained

• Log Horizon — 21 votes (28%)
• Nagi no Asukara — 17 votes (22%)
• Mushishi Zoku Shou — 15 votes (20%)
• Hunter x Hunter (2011) — 11 votes (14%)

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-{D6}- [Best Credits Theme] 57 votes / 17 abstained

• ebb and flow — 17 votes (22%)
• Sidonia — 16 votes (21%)
• Shiver — 13 votes (17%)
• Kimi ja Nakya Dame Mitai — 7 votes (9%)
• Tada Hitori — 4 votes (5%)

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-{D7}- [Best Soundtrack] 60 votes / 14 abstained

• Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn — 20 votes (27%)
• Zankyou no Terror — 17 votes (22%)
• Mahou Shoujo Madoka Magica Movies — 15 votes (20%)
• Kill la Kill — 8 votes (10%)

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-{D8}- [Best Ongoing Series] 62 votes / 12 abstained

• Fate/Stay Night: Unlimited Blade Works — 22 votes (29%)
• Shirobako — 19 votes (25%)
• Kiseijuu: Sei no Kakuritsu — 12 votes (16%)
• Aldnoah.Zero — 9 votes (12%)

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Previous Winners:

• 2013 Winners
• 2012 Winners
• 2011 Winners
• 2010 Winners
• 2009 Winners
• 2008 Winners
• 2007 Winners

[Sagitta Luminis]

Madoka won so many awards. As expected of one of the best anime ever.

[cyth]

I wonder how many people voted for Madoka because they liked the TV anime.

Other than that, thank you guys for all the hard work. If there's going to be a next year, I hope we get to advertise it around sooner so more people come vote.

[Triple_R]

First of all, big thanks to Haak and felix for all of their considerable work in helping to organize these awards. Also thanks to Blue-kun, Sackett, and Konakaga who helped Haak and felix in this endeavor.

This may be the most varied list of award winners ever, with no show winning two or more genre awards. It's good to see a truly varied array of winners, which I think reflects the varied tastes and preferences of the Anime Suki community.

On a personal note, I'm glad to see Madoka Magica, Love Live!, and Kill La Kill do well, as all three are amongst my all-time favorite anime shows.


Haak has given me the go-ahead to share with you an alternate banner for Best Female Lead, as there was some disagreement on that particular banner. So for the Homura fans here, you now have two banners for your girl!

[RRW]

well deserve

I dont like madoka tv much but rebellion is masterpiece

[MartianMage]

Nice to see some of the series/characters I voted for won.

Thanks for all the hard work! Voting was really easy this time around. I hope we can get more voters for next year!

[GreyZone]

Very Good, F/snUBW made it for ongoing. Also good thing I voted this time and didn't forget it like in the preeliminaries, else Shiroe would not have tied for first place, but would have become 2nd instead.

[Obelisk ze Tormentor]

Oh, Gundam Unicorn managed to snatch three awards (Best Sci-fi, Best Soundtrack, Best OVA). That is sweet and well deserved. I thought it will lose the soundtrack category since there's a lot more Madoka Magica fans here in Asuki, I'm glad that many people appreciate Sawano's stellar work in Unicorn. I'm also glad that Unicorn managed to win the Sci-fi category after fierce competition with Sidonia which is equally good.

All in all, it's a very nice result. I think all the winners deserve the awards they got (especially that tie between Best Male Leads XD). Also, Hunter x Hunter Best TV series!! Yyyyeeeeaaaaah!!! *fist pump* And Mako actually wins! Never thought my favorite loony side-character will actually win considering the other contenders. I also wanted to praise Madoka Magica for the job well done (love the Rebellion movie) but I'm afraid I'll just preaching to the choir . I'll let the other fans do it.

[Akito Kinomoto]

Originally Posted by Obelisk ze Tormentor

I also wanted to praise Madoka Magica for the job well done (love the Rebellion movie) but I'm afraid I'll just preaching to the choir . I'll let the other fans do it.

Hey!

Hey hey!

We're not that predictable...

I think

But yah, always bet on Ginko. Eh spirit whisperer and doesn't afraid of anything.

[Sheba]

I am surprised to see that tie between Shiroe and Ginko. For some time, I thought that Ginko would have the lead. Now Log Horizon winning best world setting *fistpump*.

[Flower]

Even if it did not win often I was pleased to see Nagi no Asakura in the number second place in more areas than expected. Also nice to see Log Horizon doing as well as it did.

And Ginko certainly does deserve recognition in my opinion, so that was nice to see too.

Thanks so much to all who made the effort to organize and see through to the end these awards this year again. ^^

[Jan-Poo]

Almost everything as predicted. I just feared Log Horizon wouldn't win anything so I'm positively pleased that it won in world setting and Shiroe tied with Ginko as the best male lead.

I'm surprised though that Barakamon didn't win anything and I expected F/SN fans to be more dominant. Ping Pong in the end won only in its own genre category in spite of all its many nominations.

[Obelisk ze Tormentor]

Question to the organizers: Why all three Gundam Unicorn banners must be the pictures of the said mecha? You'd think with three winnings, the human characters at least deserve to be featured in one of the three banners. Gundam Unicorn is a story about people and their struggles, you know. At least give us a banner with Banagher, Mineva, or Char Full Frontal in it .

[GreyZone]

Oh, I researched a bit and it seems the picture that was used for the UBW banner was from the UBW movie and not the ufo TV series.

Just wanted to point it out.

[felix]

Originally Posted by Obelisk ze Tormentor

Question to the organizers: Why all three Gundam Unicorn banners must be the pictures of the said mecha? You'd think with three winnings, the human characters at least deserve to be featured in one of the three banners. Gundam Unicorn is a story about people and their struggles, you know. At least give us a banner with Banagher, Mineva, or Char Full Frontal in it .

Unfortunately I personally haven't actually seen it; only very little of it. We have internal quality checks on banners but nobody complained about it. Sorry about that.

[Tempester]

I wonder how many of the people who voted for best movie have actually seen Kaguya-hime no Monogatari and still prefer the Madoka Magica movies over it. I just get the impression that a lot of the voters haven't even given it a try at all. Rebellion is a really well-made film that left me with a strong impression, but I still doubt whether it's a worthy sequel to the TV show.

I honestly expected Love Live to win best TV series, but it's still nice how it got this close. And it did win the SOL award which is great. While I haven't watched a single episode, I guess it's nice for such a well-liked long-running anime like Hunter x Hunter to finally get some real public appreciation.

I certainly did not expect Isshuukan Friends to be voted as best romance. It was a really good show, but it never gave me a strong romantic vibe due to its slow nature and being a partial adaptation. It would have been my vote for SOL had it been eligible and if Love Live wasn't aired.

Finally, I'm very happy to see Nagi no Asukara's 2nd OP win the best credits theme. If only I could vote for Space Dandy's godlike OP though.

[Archon_Wing]

It's sorta true. Rebellion pretty much was voted by me by default because I didn't see much anime and yes I didn't think it was the best thing ever. Homura was going to be voted in even if she appeared for 2 seconds, so that's life. Then again, I couldn't even think of female characaters out of the shows for me to nominate. It could be debated Homura wasn't that well-written in the movie but I mean I nominated a character from that mediocre Glasslip with "Saori Hayami voices this character" so it's not like I was feeling the competition, lol.

Aldnoah is in for ongoing tv series but no Shigatsu lulz. Slaine Cane OP. (Though, i blame myself for forgetting to nominate). But it all seriousness, F/sn barely edging out Shirobako is interesting. I consider Fsn/Shirobako/Shigatsu (87/85/82, while Rebellion would be 78 to make up numbers) to be pretty close together to me personally, with F/sn being the best but not by much.

Also, HxH is the best.

[Dextro]

Well, I have to say that I'm pretty happy with virtually all results. I'm saddened that Sidonia didn't manage to nab at least the SciFi category award and can't say I'm a fan of the overall choices for the best credits theme but those are peanuts.

Also: YEY for Mako getting best side-character!

[Kotohono]

Originally Posted by Tempester

I wonder how many of the people who voted for best movie have actually seen Kaguya-hime no Monogatari and still prefer the Madoka Magica movies over it. I just get the impression that a lot of the voters haven't even given it a try at all. Rebellion is a really well-made film that left me with a strong impression, but I still doubt whether it's a worthy sequel to the TV show.

I'll admit to not having seen it, but personally how much I like and enjoyed rebellion (underwhelming OST compared original aside), I could say with 99.5% certainty I would have voted for Rebellion anyways I thought it deserved all the sections it won in, and didn't win any it didn't earn. I felt it was truly excellent sequel that was very planned and executed compared to say Psycho Pass S2 which was only decent, and didn't quite live up to the name of S1 .

Originally Posted by Tempester

I honestly expected Love Live to win best TV series, but it's still nice how it got this close. And it did win the SOL award which is great.

At least Love Live came close for that than I expected. Would have been nice to see it win there, but I am very happy to see it win SoL since it was truly a great one .

Also pleased so of the other awards especially Kill la Kill for Action, and Gekkan Shoujo for comedy both well deserved in their genres. Log Horizon deserved male for Shiroe even if it will be back next year where I feel more people will vote it in other sections .

[RRW]

Originally Posted by Tempester

I wonder how many of the people who voted for best movie have actually seen Kaguya-hime no Monogatari and still prefer the Madoka Magica movies over it. I just get the impression that a lot of the voters haven't even given it a try at all. Rebellion is a really well-made film that left me with a strong impression, but I still doubt whether it's a worthy sequel to the TV show.

I watch Kaguya-hime just now. while it have great artistic value. I am still enjoy Rebellion more.