The Real Anime Awards of 2023 part 2
Every year, I become increasingly disappointed in the Crunchyroll Anime Awards, so I started making my own Anime Award lists THAT ARE FOR THE ACTUAL YEAR IN ANIME! IF CRUNCHYROLL WON'T INCLUDE FALL SHOWS THEN I WILL! I've already done my silly version for 2023, so now it's time for my serious picks. But it's still just for fun, so don't take any of my nominees too seriously or get offended that I didn't include your favorites. Even I can't watch everything.
Full disclosure, I don't include all the same categories that Crunchyroll does (just most of them). These are also only for television shows, so I didn't include any movies (and I really don't watch enough anime movies on a yearly basis to include a movie category).
Anime of the Year
Vinland Saga season 2
Zom 100 Bucket List of the Dead
Oshi no Ko
Frieren Beyond Journey’s End
Pluto
Scott Pilgrim Takes Off (I don’t care what MyAnimeList says. It’s made by Science Saru, so I'm counting it.)
Best Continuing Series
Vinland Saga season 2
Dr. Stone New World
Horimiya: The Missing Pieces
Jujutsu Kaisen season 2
Spy x Family season 2
Attack on Titan the final season (just assume I mean the last special from here on out)
Best New Series
Buddy Daddies
Oshi no Ko
Tengoku Daimakyou
Zom 100: Bucket List of the Dead
Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End
Migi to Dali
Best Animation
Tsurune season 2
Trigun Stampede
Demon Slayer: Swordsmith Village arc
My Happy Marriage
Jujutsu Kaisen season 2
Attack on Titan the final season
Best Character Design
Overtake!
Bleach Thousand Year Blood War part 2
Oshi no Ko
Blue Lock cour 2
Tokyo Revengers season 2
Mou Ippon! (Yes I'm 100% serious. I actually respect this show’s character design a lot, considering the artists were able to make realistic, distinct, varied female characters of all shapes and sizes without making them into moe blobs. So that's why this is on here instead of another shounen of the week.)
Best Romance
Tomo-chan Is A Girl
My Love Story With Yamada-kun at Lv999
Sacrificial Princess and the King of Beasts
Skip to Loafer
Insomniacs After School
Horimiya: The Missing Pieces
Best Comedy
Buddy Daddies
Cool Doji Danshi cour 2
Skip to Loafer
My Love Story with Yamada-kun at Lv999
My New Boss is Goofy
The Hundred Girlfriends Who Really Really Really Really Really Love You
Best Action
Trigun Stampede
Demon Slayer Swordsmith Village arc
Zom 100: Bucket List of the Dead
Jujutsu Kaisen season 2
Attack on Titan the final season
Hell’s Paradise
Honorable mention: Bleach Thousand Year Blood War season 2 (sorry, I just wasn’t as impressed with the action in this season, but it still deserves a shout out)
Best Fantasy
To Your Eternity season 2 cour 2 (is it cheating if it's only counting the last cour of the season 😅)
Ousama Ranking: Yuuki no Takarabako
Hell’s Paradise
Mononogatari season 2
Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End
Mushoku Tensei season 2
Honorable mention: Hikari no Ou (I never finished it but the vibe was there.)
Best Drama
Vinland Saga season 2
Oshi no Ko
Pluto
Ooku: The Inner Chambers
Tengoku Daimakyou
Migi and Dali
Honorable mention: Undead Girl Murder Farce- it's more of a mystery than a drama, but I still wanted to include it somewhere.
Best Slice of Life
Horimiya: The Missing Pieces
Kubo Won’t Let Me Be Invisible
Cool Doji Danshi cour 2
My New Boss is Goofy
Insomniacs After School
My Clueless First Friend
Best Protagonist
Thorfinn (Vinland Saga season 2)
Mitsumi Iwakura (Skip to Loafer)
Maomao (The Apothecary Diaries)
Arikoto Madenokoji (Ooku: The Inner Chambers)
Frieren (Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End)
Kouya Madoka (Overtake!)
Best Antagonist
Eisuke Nikaido (Tsurune season 2)
Canute (Vinland Saga season 2)
Millions Knives (Trigun Stampede)
Taiju (Tokyo Revengers season 2)
Ibara (Dr. Stone New World part 2)
Reiko Ichijou (Migi to Dali)
Honorable mention: *SPOILERS* The Bureau of Traditional Music (Mononogatari season 2). These guys were squad goals, not gonna lie.
Best Boy
Vash the Stampede (Trigun Stampede)
Every Single Boy from Cool Doji Danshi cour 2- THEY’RE ALL GOOD BOYS OKAY!?
Sousuke Shima (Skip to Loafer)
Taiyou Takada (My Clueless First Friend)
Einar (Vinland Saga)- Yes Einar instead of Snake. Snake is a lovable antihero, but Einar is best boy material
Yukichi (The Masterful Cat Is Depressed Again Today)
Best Girl
Tomo (Tomo-chan Is A Girl)
Runa Shirakawa (You Were Experienced, I Was Not: Our Dating Story)
Kana Arima (Oshi no Ko)
Amit (Niehime to Kemono no Ou)
Akane Kinoshita (My Love Story with Yamada-kun at Lv999)
Mitsuri Kanroji (Demon Slayer: Swordsmith Village arc)
Best Score
Trigun Stampede
Vinland Saga season 2
Insomniacs After School
Bleach Thousand Year Blood War part 2
Jujutsu Kaisen season 2
Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End
Best OP (yes there are 8 nominations, I couldn't decide 😭)
Jujutsu Kaisen season 2 (“Specialz” King Gnu)- I really think this season’s OPs should be taken as a pair, but when it comes down to which OP will stand the test of time, I think this one will be more iconic.
Vinland Saga season 2 OP2 (“Paradox” Survive Said the Prophet)
Oshi no Ko (“Idol” YOASOBI)
High Card (“Trickster” Five New Old)
Hell’s Paradise (“Work” Millennium Parade)
Tengoku Daimakyou (“Innocent Arrogance” BiSH)
Bleach Thousand Year Blood War part 2 (“Stars” w.o.d.)
The Legendary Hero is Dead (“Shinda” Masayoshi Ōishi)
Zom 100: Bucket List of the Dead (“Song of the Dead” Kana-Boon)
Honorable mention: Link Click season 2 (honestly this is probably the best OP of the year, but since the show isn’t Japanese, I have to exclude it 😣)
Best ED
Tengoku Daimakyou (“Dare mo Kare mo Doko mo Nani mo Shiranai” ASOBI Doumei)
Oshi no Ko (“Mephisto” Ziyoou-vachi)
Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End (“Anytime Anywhere” milet)
Dr. Stone New World part 2 (“Suki ni Shinayo” Anly)
Spy x Family season 2 (“Todome no Ichigeki” Vaundy ft. Cory Wong)
Migi to Dali (“Skyline” Nulbarich)
Best VA Performance Japanese
Uemura, Yuuto As Thorfinn (Vinland Saga season 2)
Takahashi, Rei as Tomo (Tomo-chan is a Girl)
Satao, Gen as Ganta Nakami (Insomniacs After School) His laugh is so pure and genuine, I could listen to it forever!
Inoue, Marina as Armin Arlert (Attack on Titan the final season)
Tanezaki, Atsumi as Anya Forger (Spy Family season 2)
Nakamura, Yuuichi as Satoru Gojo (Jujutsu Kaisen season 2)
So there you have it! My picks for the real anime awards of 2023. Like I said, don't take this seriously at all, it's just something fun I like to put together every year. I always try not to nominate the same things, but it's easy to end up playing favorites. It's so hard to try to include a variety!
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