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 The last day to vote is Friday, January 12th. Posts after 12am CST on January 13th will not be counted.This feels like one of the strongest years in anime in a long while, so good luck making your shortlist! The usual rules apply: Rules: - Pick up to 5 series from the list. - Rank them if you want. I feel like it's more interesting when people do, but it's totally optional. - Write something about your choices!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I added more exclamation points this year, so you better do it. - Feel free to discuss picks, but don't be a prick. If you notice anything missing that finished this year, let me know so I can update the list accordingly. I did purposely ignore some stuff like Beyblade b/c I don't suppose anyone here watches it (if it even has subs), and some split-cour shows have been collapsed into a single list entry. Movies/OVAs are in kind of a gray area but I did include some OVA series that concluded this year and I know some high profile movies actually got subs within their release year...so feel free to throw in votes for those. I also wrote the list like last week, so if anything on it is unclear just ask and I'll try to figure out what I meant at the time. code:dogsicle fucked around with this message at 05:03 on Jan 5, 2018 |
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i'm glad we got gorf to finish acca
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Dec 26, 2017 05:47
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kater posted:Rakugo and Owari so far tied in last place with zero votes. ADTRW declaring unanimously: gently caress stories. i think after the fourth season of gatari people should probably have resigned themselves to it getting few to no votes by virtue of investment required
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Dec 26, 2017 14:06
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Lustrous gives a lot more thematic meat to chew on, on top of being gorgeous. there's definitely some recency bias but if we're really going to equate the two because of setting/premise, i feel like there are ways Lustrous edges it out. weigh those against the underdog factor of Kemofure, i guess.
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Dec 26, 2017 22:49
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1. ACCA - Out of everything I watched this year, ACCA is the only show I feel perfectly content with. Studio Pablo's stellar background work made this world (or rather its many individual, smaller worlds) distinct and beautiful as the show treated me to a strangely relaxed travelogue for a show ostensibly about a coup. The character design work was also excellent, adapting Ono's original designs handily while giving them a bit more variety and also life through use of color. I loved that food was such a central focus as a representation of both culture and history. Characters whether complicated (Nino, Grossular) or petty/shallow (Schwan, Rail) were all a delight to follow, and I really enjoyed the sort of mythologizing of the second princess' disappearance. To cap it all off, the show had an excellent OST that never felt particularly overbearing or misused, even when using a vocal insert song during Nino and Jean's flashback. 2. Showa Genroku Rakugo Shinju Sukeroku Futatabi-hen - Honestly this one just fell from top spot because I really disliked the implications of the tail end, and wonder why they had to be included at all. Otherwise this was an excellent conclusion to the series and honestly the better of the two halves for me. 3. Land of the Lustrous - Lustrous was the only show I followed so closely that I was watching episodes the day they aired with no exceptions. It turned me on to reading the manga early on, and I grew to love the characters and be deeply intrigued by the world they live in and how their actions might change it. The anime was an absolute masterwork of CG anime both for when it indulged in full CG and when it blended CG and 2D. The backgrounds and use of color (a gem's hue falling over "their" scenes) brought new depth to the world, sharply defining the often sparse environments of the manga. Similarly, the well-placed OST and excellent VA performances elevate the action on screen and fill the characters with a life that I don't feel was as present in the manga. My main detraction would be preferring the stronger androgyny of the manga's artstyle, and the few scenes where I feel their surreal nature was enhanced by the almost void-like quality of the manga backgrounds. 4. Made in Abyss - I came to Abyss as someone having already read the manga (in preparation for the anime, really), so the beginning felt a bit slower than I would like and some scenes (Ozen vs Reg) lacked significant impact in comparison. Outside of those complaints, Abyss hit every note with amazing backgrounds, music/VA, and Kou Yoshinari's unsettling monster animation. Some format decisions like stopping for an original episode following Riko and a double-length finale worked even more in the show's favor for me, and get points for modifying the source to better create a narrative. 5. Heybot! - There were plenty of other shows that may be better crafted from even a slightly objective standpoint, but Heybot (like the runners-up below) was a show that really clicked with me. Animegataris is getting attention this season for its consistent metacommentary, but Heybot spent an entire year engaging in similar subjects while also slowly turning what it initially presented as throwaway nonsense into recurring characters and details central to the plot. The show's constant playfulness with anime tropes, its status as a toy tie-in, the various ways it toed the line of appropriateness, and its relationship to its viewers culminated in a climax that was incisive against children's entertainment while going out on a touching note of appreciation for fans and the powers of fandom. Heybot was really more of an experience, and one I was glad to have. Runners Up Time Bokan 24 - Like Heybot, this was another show that really resonated with me and for similar reasons. As a revival of the Time Bokan franchise, it takes the classic formula but brings a sensibility that comments on the expectations and history of past entries, and also directly addresses the audience in as much of a real-time basis as a traditional anime production could. Sourcing humor from corruptions of history also allowed for a breadth of gags that were enriched by knowing history trivia, while also having educational accuracy unexpected for a show that was on it's face irreverent. This is even more notable given the currently airing season's shift to a rote trivia show approach that blatantly states facts. Laughing Salesman NEW - I'm just gonna steal my own tiny spiel for this show, that I posted when it finished earlier this year: "It was a rare show that was so obviously aimed at an older audience and dealt with the social pressures and issues that come with age, employment, and family, while keeping a sense of humor. The visual style stood out when compared to most modern anime, and beyond that uniqueness it was just very solid and had the proper cartoony-ness to complement the show's tone." Magical Circle Guru Guru - This was an adorable sorta-rom-com with some impressive animation. I enjoyed the light-hearted skewering of JRPG tropes, even if some jokes were a bit played out. Between that, the hyperactivity, and some of the crassness, it really did evoke a feeling of 90's anime that I enjoyed going back to. Children of the Whales - I was skeptical about this show for far too long, but when it so readily bucked my expectations in the first third it really started to grow on me. Despite being an adaptation of ongoing manga, this show built an intriguingly odd world with a hint of mystery that is satisfyingly "solved" by the end. The sketchbook and watercolor style of the backgrounds is beautiful, as are the designs of the strange psychic mollusc-gods central to the plot. The show lacks a particularly strong central character, but the early focus on the Mud Whale as a society and later characters like Ouni and Lykos' brother step out to carry the story well on their own.
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Dec 30, 2017 04:26
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i don't believe it but i also question the need to give it that place in the story. yakumo was sufficiently complicated and that element didn't need to introduced, especially as some posthumous stinger.
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Dec 30, 2017 17:37
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as i understand it, the movie votes are still being counted so I'm not sure what the problem is
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Dec 31, 2017 17:01
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it's goofy time
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Jan 1, 2018 00:00
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soma was added to the list
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Jan 1, 2018 06:18
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in the past, voting went on until the second week of January and even though we probably don't have many outstanding voters left, i think setting the deadline at January 12th would be fine. so get your votes in before the 13th, CST I'll pop the deadline in the OP later today and probably crosspost this in season and chat threads so we don't miss anyone.
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Jan 3, 2018 15:21
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a red link on the adtrwiki
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Jan 3, 2018 16:09
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no that's hokuto no ken dd
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Jan 3, 2018 17:37
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i'm glad karen got a part time job...as a fisherwoman?
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Jan 4, 2018 14:28
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good list this year thanks to y'all for voting, and especially thanks to anaconda for collecting and arranging all the data!
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Jan 13, 2018 18:16
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david production will rise from the ashes this year when captain tsubasa comes out, i'm sure of it
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Jan 13, 2018 19:23
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i can't parse the first one since i'm in the middle of the good taste clusterfuck, but i guess kater and allarion are my anime buddies and i'm high on the grimdark adult axis
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Jan 23, 2018 01:59
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why the gently caress is reg a "husbando" jfc
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Jan 25, 2018 06:16
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nudity and some of the suggestive jokes seem at least pg-13 to me
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Jan 25, 2018 19:09
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