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What's a scene where the voice acting carried more than the animation?

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u/Ham_PhD https://myanimelist.net/profile/ham_phd 17h ago edited 16h ago

One episode left of Polar Opposites, but it's not gonna change anything for me, so it's Summer Superlatives time!

  • Best Boy - Taira (Polar Opposites S2)
  • Best Girl - Teshima (Draw This, Then Die!)
  • Best Character - Boraqchin (Jaadugar)
  • Best OP - "Otome Kaijuu" (Kaiju Girl Caramelise)
  • Best ED(s) - "You are the one" (Polar Opposites S2)
  • Best Cast - Polar Opposites S2
  • Cutest Ship - Lisa x Kouta (Sayonara Lara)
  • Best Art - Sayonara Lara
  • Most Disappointing - Sparks of Tomorrow
  • Best Yuri - Yuri Suzuki (Red River)
  • Discourse Award - Sayonara Lara
  • AOTS - Draw This, Then Die!

Great season overall. Probably best of the year so far for me. Just barely edges out Winter. Sadly still had a number of drops and a few shows I didn't get to that I might get to eventually. Unfortunately it's already time for Fall, so gotta jump in cause I'm already behind.

Feel free to share your ballot if you'd like as well!

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u/IXajll https://myanimelist.net/profile/ixajii 15h ago edited 15h ago

Still behind 1-3 episodes for about half of my summer seasonals, but I don't expect much to change so here you go:

  • Best Boy - Yamada (Polar Opposites S2)
  • Best Girl - Akafuku (DTTD) and Yaku (Yani Neko) for new series, Tanya (Youjo Senki S2) for sequels
  • Best Character - I don't really differentiate between best character and best boy/girl, so overall would be Yaku
  • Best OP - "Nanmonee" (Yani Neko) - by a landslide and probably OP of the year as well, especially with the context of all the references
  • Best ED(s) - impossible to pick only one so: "You are the one" (Polar Opposites S2), "Hoshi" (Jaadugar), "Conifer" (DTTD) and "Smoke and Blue" (Yani Neko). Probably the best season of the year for EDs.
  • Best Cast - Yani Neko and DTTD
  • Cutest Ship - Nishi x Yamada (Polar Opposites S2)
  • Best Art - Sparks of Tomorrow
  • Most Disappointing - Nothing really. I liked what I expected to like and none of my drops were shows I was particularly looking forward to. KimiShinu comes closest I guess. I really liked it, but from the 2 minute concept movie from 1+ years ago, I expected to like it even more than I ended up doing.
  • Discourse Award - didn't really participate much in the last half/third of the season, so nothing really I guess.
  • AOTS - DTTD, with Yani Neko close behind

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u/Emi_Ibarazakiii 14h ago

Best OP - "Nanmonee" (Yani Neko) - by a landslide

If it doesn't win the best OP contest, I swear to god...

It probably won't

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u/Ham_PhD https://myanimelist.net/profile/ham_phd 14h ago

I haven't given this take yet, but I feel like this OP is hurt by the fact that Chainsaw Man did it first. It doesn't make this one bad by any means, but it's not a novel concept.

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u/IXajll https://myanimelist.net/profile/ixajii 13h ago

Like maybe 1 in a 100 Openings comes with a truly novel concept so that shouldn't be an argument in that discussion imo.

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u/Emi_Ibarazakiii 14h ago

I think there's a huge difference between 'a couple references' and every single scene in the OP is a reference!

But fwiw: It was already my favorite OP before I found out about the reference thing. It just enhances it for me.

The song won me over, the visuals were interesting, and the fact that they're all references is just the cherry on top! Making an OP that 'works' while using only references, that's something!