What a comfy time we've had this winter! A handful of very good shows that all got their times to shine within our club, and now, let's see if we are able to determine who's actually the best!
Eligible anime (every anime included in your vote has to be part of this list)
- 2.43: Seiin Koukou Danshi Volley-bu
- Azur Lane: Bisoku Zenshin!
- Beastars 2nd Season
- Bungou Stray Dogs Wan!
- Horimiya
- I★Chu: Halfway Through the Idol
- Idoly Pride
- Non Non Biyori Nonstop
- Show by Rock!! Stars!!
- Tenchi Souzou Design-bu
- Uma Musume: Pretty Derby (TV) Season 2
- Wave!!: Surfing Yappe!! (TV)
- Yatogame-chan Kansatsu Nikki Sansatsume
- Yuru Camp△ Season 2
Vote categories
- Best Anime
- Positive Anime Surprise
- Best Character
- Best OP
- Best ED
Example_post said:
watched: Horimiya, Non Non, Tenchi, Yuru Camp
best anime: Non Non Biyori
surprise: Horimiya
character: Hori Kyouko
OP:
ED: Yuru Camp
Please also list all anime you have watched, which will help us reduce the factor of popularity when determining the winner by then making votes for popular series slightly less effective. If you feel like having a fair opinion of a show, add it to this list as well (thus no need to have it finished already, or it could even be dropped).
The voting will stay open until we get enough posts in. Everyone may vote exactly once on each category. It is also possible to vote on our discord server.
watched: Azur Lane: Bisoku Zenshin!, Horimiya, Idoly Pride, Non Non Biyori Nonstop, Show by Rock!! Stars!!, Uma Musume: Pretty Derby (TV) Season 2, Yatogame-chan Kansatsu Nikki Sansatsume, Yuru Camp△ Season 2
best anime: Idoly Pride
surprise: Idoly Pride
character: Toukai Teiou (Uma Musume)
OP:"Doremifa Stars!!" (Show by Rock!! Stars!!)
ED: all from Idoly Pride are so good...but "The Last Chance" (LizNoir) wins
watched: Horimiya, Yuru Camp△ Season 2
best anime: Horimiya
surprise: Horimiya
character: Hori Kyouko
OP: Iro Kousui (色香水)" by You Kamiyama
ED: Yakusoku (約束)" by Friends (フレンズ)
Watched: Beastars 2nd Season, Idoly Pride, Non Non Biyori Nonstop, Tenchi Souzou Design-bu, Uma Musume: Pretty Derby (TV) Season 2, Yuru Camp△ Season 2
Best Anime: Uma Musume: Pretty Derby (TV) Season 2
Positive Anime Surprise: Tenchi Souzou Design-bu
Best Character: Toukai Teiou
Best OP: Uma Musume: Pretty Derby (TV) Season 2
Best ED: Uma Musume: Pretty Derby (TV) Season 2
Watched
Azur Lane: Bisoku Zenshin! / Idoly Pride / Non Non Biyori Nonstop / Tenchi Souzou Design-bu / Uma Musume: Pretty Derby (TV) Season 2 / Yatogame-chan Kansatsu Nikki Sansatsume / Yuru Camp△ Season 2
Best Anime
The battle was fierce, but I ultimately have to gave this vote to the awesome Uma Musume S2 Positive Surprise
I knew that it would be be good, but Uma Musume S2 far exceeded all my expectations. So once again it earned my vote. Best Character
This one goes for Tokai Teio (I spot some kind of pattern here...), seeing how she went through seemingly never-ending hardships to keep her dreams alive, while still loving what she was doing and helping McQueen to get past her own problems. Best OP
With its catchy song and great visuals, the OP of Yuru Camp S2 definitely earned this one. But even without them, just seeing Nadeshiko warm smile would probably be enough. Best ED
The cute and comfy ED of Non Non Biyori Nonstop got this one.
Watched: I★Chu: Halfway Through the Idol, Non Non Biyori Nonstop, Tenchi Souzou Design-bu, Yuru Camp△ Season 2
Best Anime: Yuru Camp△ Season 2 Positive Anime Surprise: Tenchi Souzou Design-bu Best Character: Nadeshiko Best OP: Non Non Biyori Nonstop Best ED: Yuru Camp△ Season 2
Watched: - Azur Lane: Bisoku Zenshin! - Bungou Stray Dogs Wan! - Horimiya - Idoly Pride - Non Non Biyori Nonstop - Show by Rock!! Stars!! - Tenchi Souzou Design-bu - Uma Musume: Pretty Derby (TV) Season 2 - Yatogame-chan Kansatsu Nikki Sansatsume - Yuru Camp△ Season 2
Best Anime: This can only be Yurucamp S2. I have it at my #1 spot for one-season anime. I don't have an exact count of how many of those I've seen but it's somewhere in the vicinity of 650. There were some great anime this season, club-related and not, but only one made it onto my favorites list.
Pleasant Surprise: This one's tough! Do I reward Yurucamp for somehow exceeding expectations despite knowing it was going to be a 9 at worst? How about Non Non Biyori, a show that I've never really liked before this season but finally won me over on its 3rd go-around? Uma Musume s2 becoming my highest rated correctly tagged sports anime? I wasn't even planning to watch Tenchi-souzou Design-bu and that almost ended up as an 8. How do I choose? In the end I'm going to have to go with Non Non Biyori Nonstop as the winner here.
Best Returning Character: Yurucamp's ability to be the ultimate 10/10 anime is highlighted by me not really loving any of the characters, though I do like them all quite a bit. Even asking me to choose who I like more between Shimarin and Nadeshiko is impossible. On top of that, my favorite Uma Musume girl was completely absent this season, not just phone-only like Suzuka but even more gone. That leaves this category open for a different anime where instead it's Delmin taking this category edging out Howan and Cyan as well as Renge and her butt-monkey sister whom I affectionately call 'Purple McSmugs'.
Best New Character - I have to first shout out PAPAMIN here and while I would love to vote for Non Non Biyori's Shiori as she was absolutely precious, she just did not appear enough and NNB could have been even better had she been in the show from the start. Likewise, as much as I loved the precious super fans of Mejiro Mcqueen and Tokai Teio they were sorely lacking in screentime as well. Instead I will reward the full-season performance of the quite funny Meido from Heaven's Design Team. Kyouko Hori did end up growing on me by the end of her series but it wasn't enough to take this. Mei in Idoly Pride was a lot of fun too but basically had her role played out by the halfway point.
Best OP: Show By Rock Best ED: Yurucamp s2
Best New Uma Musume: [TIE] Satono Diamond and Kitasan Black Best Musical Group Inadvertently Named After Pretty Cures: Sunny Peace Tastiest New Food: Tombolos Stretchiest Cheeks: [TIE] Nadeshiko and Ayasaki Remi
Including previous season's holdovers the top of this season was impossibly strong, I don't think there's been another one like it. It's a far cry from last summer's pandemic disaster where Umayon won my votes with its 3 minute run time.
Watched:
- Azur Lane: Bisoku Zenshin!
- Beastars 2nd Season
- Horimiya
- Idoly Pride
- Non Non Biyori Nonstop
- Tenchi Souzou Design-bu
- Uma Musume: Pretty Derby (TV) Season 2
- Yatogame-chan Kansatsu Nikki Sansatsume
- Yuru Camp△ Season 2
Best Anime: Yuru Camp△ Season 2 (while not even taking the easy path of simply continuing what S1 did well, but also exploring new spheres of character interaction and ways of camping)
Positive Anime Surprise: Tenchi Souzou Design-bu
Best Character: Toukai Teiou (my least dominated category. Renge, Legosi and ShimaRin all came close)
Best OP: Horimiya (always a proper blast to get me right into the mood for anime. Honourable mention to Tenchi Souzou Design-bu and its catchiness, and both NNB and Yuru Camp too. So many great OPs this season!)
Best ED: Yuru Camp△ Season 2 (as perfect as the ED of S1)
Watched: Non Non Biyori Nonstop, Yuru Camp s2
Best anime: Non Non Biyori Nonstop
Positive anime surprise: Yuru Camp s2
Best character: Renge/Hikage Miyauchi
Best OP: Yuru Camp s2
Best ED: Yuru Camp s2
Watched: Azur Lane: Bisoku Zenshin!, Idoly Pride, Non Non Biyori Nonstop, Show by Rock!! Stars!!, Uma Musume: Pretty Derby (TV) Season 2, Yuru Camp△ Season 2
Best anime: Non Non Biyori Nonstop
Positive Anime Surprise: Idoly Pride
Best Character: Tokai Teio
Best OP: Yuru Camp△ Season 2 - Seize The Day
Best ED: Yuru Camp△ Season 2 - Haru no Tonari
Best Anime - Uma Musume - Pretty Derby Season 2
- Positive Anime Surprise - Tenchi Souzou Design-bu
- Best Character - Rice Shower
- Best OP - "Give It Up?" by 96neko (Tenchi Souzou Design-bu)
- Best ED - "The Last Chance" by LizNoir (Rio and Aoi Version) (IDOLY PRIDE)
Watched: 2.43: Seiin Koukou Danshi Volley-bu, Azur Lane: Bisoku Zenshin!, Beastars 2nd Season, Horimiya, I★Chu: Halfway Through the Idol, Idoly Pride, Non Non Biyori Nonstop, Tenchi Souzou Design-bu, Uma Musume: Pretty Derby (TV) Season 2, Wave!!: Surfing Yappe!! (TV), Yatogame-chan Kansatsu Nikki Sansatsume, Yuru Camp△ Season 2
Best Anime: Non Non Biyori Nonstop
Positive Anime Surprise: Uma Musume: Pretty Derby (TV) Season 2
Best Character: Tokai Teio
Best OP: Beastars 2nd Season
Best ED: Non Non Biyori Nonstop
Watched: 2.43: Seiin Koukou Danshi Volley-bu, Horimiya, Non Non Biyori Nonstop, Yuru Camp△ Season 2
Best Anime: Non Non Biyori Nonstop
Positive Anime Surprise: Sadly... None. Things I liked I kind of expected to like as much as I did.
Best Character: Shinoda Akane (NNB), even if I'll be the only one on this, I'll die on my train of liking this poor girl.
Best OP: 2.43
Best ED: NNB
If we now apply our usual system (each vote counting one point and total points of a certain anime in a category then divided by number of people watched to mitigate popularity effects), while also only giving those entries with at least two votes a chance to win, we conclude that:
best
Horimiya 2/13, Uma 3/10, Yuru 6/19, NNB 6/15
surprise
Idoly 3/12, Horimiya 4/13, Tenchi 6/10, NNB 2/15, Uma 2/10
character
teio 7/10, hori 2/13, nadeshiko 2/19, miyamura 2/13
op
ShowRock 2/6, Horimiya 5/13, Uma 2/10, Yuru 4/19, Beastars 3/5
ed
Idoly 2/12, Horimiya 2/13, Uma 2/10, Yuru 9/19, NNB 3/15
✿ Best Anime ✿ Non Non Biyori Nonstop
✿ Positive Surprise ✿ Tenchi Souzou Design-bu
✿ Best Character ✿ Toukai Teiou (Uma Musume: Pretty Derby (TV) Season 2)
The club has spoken!
Very fascinating to see this strong season result in three anime being extremely close to each other as Best Anime (NNB, Yuru Camp, Uma Musume), whilst all other categories are easily dominated by single winners. Personally I couldn't ask for more out of such a voting, and I certainly hope that this Winter will become a warm memory in many ways =w=