2010 Awards, Part 3: Genre and Medium

Well, it’s the final day of our awards, and after covering the music and characters awards, then the special interest ones, we come the actual meat of them, the genre and medium awards. Here are the shows we considered to be the very best in their respective genres or mediums. The ones that we could point to and say, “This is what other anime should strive to be like.” The ones that we fell in love with. The ones that left us wanting more or overwhelmingly satisfied. In short, these were the best anime of 2010.

Note: due to a dearth of good OVAs this year, we have decided to omit that category and to create a new one, Best TV Show With An OVA-like Release Format. (I’ll give you 12 guesses as to which show won that one).

2010 Awards, Part 2: Special Interest

Yesterday, we kicked off our 2010 awards with the Music and Characters section. We continue today with the special interest awards. This is for all the niche categories, for works that we enjoyed or suffered through in some notable and specific manner. As promised, Biggest Letdown is among them, but to complement it, we also have the Biggest Pleasant Surprise, as well as a bunch of others. But why don’t we start off with what is surely the most obvious of the special interest categories…

2010 Awards, Part 1: Music and Characters

So 2010 is in the books and has been for almost 3 weeks now. And just like last year, we here at Borderline Hikikomori have come together to decide on which works of anime released last year we liked the most – and sometimes the least – and in what ways (Because this is an English language blog run and read primarily by English speakers, we considered works that only became widely available to the English speaking public in 2010 as well, even if they had been released earlier).

In order to properly reflect the variety of opinions of the 4 different bloggers here, each category also has a “dissenting opinion” portion in which one of us who might disagree strongly with our selection makes his case for another one that he deems more or just as worthy (It also helped to prevent us from wanting to tear each other’s eyes out during our discussion).

Unlike last year, due to the sheer number of awards, we’ve decided to split this up into 3 parts. We’re starting today with Music & Character awards, while we’ll present the more niche Special Interest awards tomorrow, and finally finish up with the more classic best-in-class Genre and Medium awards the day after.

So, without further ado, let’s look at our Music and Character category winners for 2010.

Borderline Hikikomori’s 2009 Awards~!

At the beginning of the year, the biggest mayhem surrounded the announcement of a second season of Fullmetal Alchemist and rumor of a second Haruhi series. Now, though, we’re all hyped up over the potential of SoRaNoWoTo and other ambitious projects scheduled for 2010. Lots can change over 365 days, and anime fandom is one of those things that’s fickle and subject to change in as little as 25 minutes of an episode.

It’s basically been a crazy year, with some particularly crazy things happening in the anime world. Now it’s time for BH’s writers to discuss and vote on the Bests and Worsts of 2009. A few quick notes on the proceedings:

- Only series that A) aired in 2009 or B) were released in North America in 2009 are eligible for awards.
- “Continuing Manga” refers to series that began serialization before 2009 and continued into/through 2009. “New Manga” refers to series that started in 2009.
- BH’s staff were allowed to compose “Dissenting Opinions” if they strongly disagreed with the winner of an award and wanted to argue on behalf of what/who they think should have won.

Now without any further jabbering…

Top Seven shows of the Summer Season

            I tried to write a part 3 of the awards, but it sounded either bullshity, or like I had no idea what I was talking about. Between voice acting, music, and art, I kinda have an appreciation of music, and a large appreciation of art, but those two just wasn’t enough to make a post. So I’ve skipped ahead to the top seven of the season.

 Without further to do…

 

Top Picks Summer 2009 Part 2:Genre and Misfit awards

Once again, you should check out the The Null Set if you haven’t. But as this is great advertising space, I’d like to add on that you should check out www.rabbitpoets.com for another great blog.

Now for the winners…

Top picks Summer 2009 Part 1: Cast and Character Awards

Again, credit goes to The Null Set for the idea and the catagories. Check the blog out!

And without futher to do, the winners.

Tops Picks Summer 2009-Preaward, the everyone wins awards

Alright, I wanted to do an awards for the summer season, based on the awards that The Null Set always does. But I’m one of those people who wants to give everyone an award, and I thought this be a good way to introduce all the canidates for the catogories. So without further to do, let’s give out the awards.