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4th Annual GB Anime Poll For Duders: Home for the Holidays Edition

Hello Duders and Dudettes of Giant Bomb! Hope you've been enjoying your holiday season, because now it's time to get voting on your favorite anime of 2015! In years past, we've had Daily Lives of Highschool Boys take home the first one in 2012, and then Kill la Kill seasons 1-2 taking home consecutive victories in 2013 and 2014, respectively. Now this year the field's open for someone else to take home the crown.

My unbiased, objective guess of the one that might win this year.
My unbiased, objective guess of the one that might win this year.

We've had some good times and bad times this year. We've had plucky heroes fighting off entire kingdoms, children discovering the value of family, highschoolers fighting their oppressive/dystopian governments, the return of a few great franchises, and more monster girls than you could shake a stick at. Seriously, you should find something better than a stick to wield against them.

Agent Smith knows what you've been watching...
Agent Smith knows what you've been watching...

How do I vote?

Click here, and enter your username and choices in the respective fields. You can ignore all but the first two questions if you wish, but you'll be missing out! If you need help remembering which anime aired this year, @takashichea has compiled a handy list for you to peruse through and pick out which show(s) are "Best of 2015" worthy.

Is this an official Giant Bomb thing?

Unless shadow Anime Editor @austin_walker says otherwise, no. This is all me and taka, with love from the GB Anime Duders.

What if my favorite show started before but continued into this year?

You'd be only considering the episodes that aired this year when making your choice. I don't have a real way of enforcing this, so we're just going to go on the honor system here.

Can I still vote for a show that's not on the list?

If it aired this year and it's missing, let myself and takashichea know and we'll add it. If it didn't air this year, then feel free to vote for it anyways, just know that it probably won't count.

Anime is for Jerks!

Yes. Also, that's not a question.

How long do I have to vote?

I'll end this around the second weekend of January.

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golguin

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I already submitted my list, but I didn't notice the official spellings listed in the anime list. Is there a way to edit a submission? If not how do I correct the names?

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@golguin: Don't worry about it, I can correct the show name within the results. If you're really concerned, send me a PM and I'll make the change.

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Submitted my list, though I have a pretty strong hunch I know who's going to win.

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I think much like last year I ended up writing way more than I originally intended in the reasons. Oh well!

It was also shockingly hard to cut it down to five, so I ended up cutting some more obviously popular stuff that I did love (Assassination Classroom, JoJo) to make room for stuff that just really did it for me personally. The non-#1 spots should be interesting.

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Filled out my ballot earlier, and I think I only ended up watching 5-6 shows this year. I am ashamed.

Here's hoping the Giant Bomb community can redeem themselves for last year's tragedy.

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@dochaus said:

@golguin: Don't worry about it, I can correct the show name within the results. If you're really concerned, send me a PM and I'll make the change.

No it's fine. The show names are pretty much the show names listed. It's just small things like "One Punch Man" instead of "One-Punch Man" so it's fine.

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Yuri Kuma Arashi is my personal number one, but I kind of doubt it'll win. Oh well. It'll be interesting to see the results.

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I didn't watch a lot this year at all... Skipped a whole stack of shows I actually wanted to watch and probably would have liked. Oh well. Tossing my vote in the pile anyways!

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Don't really have a sense of how well my favorite series of the year will do, but I hope they make a decent showing!

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@recspec: What happened last year?

I haven't watched much but I threw my hat in the ring anyway with Death Parade taking the top spot because I think it's beautiful and One-Punch Man second because it was the fun I needed. :)

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I think Zombiepie presents Zombiepie's Kill la Kill should win again.

(But really it is School Live!)

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@golguin said:
@dochaus said:

@golguin: Don't worry about it, I can correct the show name within the results. If you're really concerned, send me a PM and I'll make the change.

No it's fine. The show names are pretty much the show names listed. It's just small things like "One Punch Man" instead of "One-Punch Man" so it's fine.

Fixed it.

If anyone spots anything missing, feel free to PM DocHaus or me or leave a Tweet at both our Twitter accounts. I'll try to be fast and responsive.

Edit:

It's One-Punch Man already when I went to double check it.

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@cirdain said:

@recspec: What happened last year?

I haven't watched much but I threw my hat in the ring anyway :)

Kill la Kill had a mediocre second half but rode the coattails of the superior first season to victory anyway.

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This interests me because I haven't actually watched any anime since p4ga. Was that this year? Either way the only new anime I have seen in a few years is p4a/p4ga. Prior to that I think it was ttgl.

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Put in my vote. As stated above the race for second is probably more interesting.

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Voted. I'm always about a year or two behind though. lol But i did manage to come up with 5 shows i completed this year that are current.

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Probably should've mentioned this earlier, but for those who are curious, here were the results for the previous years (with broken youtube links everywhere!):

  • 2012 Results! Danshi Koukousei no Nichijou ("Daily Lives of Highschool Boys") won this year. Also, I mostly limited it to just the anime megathread. Fate/Zero slipped down to third after Hyouka beat it by just one (weighted) vote.
  • 2013 Results! Kill la Kill just barely edged out Attack on Titan by 3 votes in the weighted category. However, my spiritual winner of the year (that no one voted for) was Inferno Cop. First attempt to take it out of just the megathread and tell it to the rest of the forums. Also decided at the last minute to write the Top 10 instead of just 5 because there were more votes than I expected.
  • 2014 Results! Kill la Kill returns, and wins by a mile this time! Space Dandy puts up a good fight but the votes for JJBA's Stardust Crusaders arc are just too strong here, bumping Dandy to third.

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@dochaus:

Interesting results. Kill la Kill is pretty big in Giant Bomb. Here's the Anime Vice's results if anyone's interested.

Anime

  • 2011 - Puella Magi Madoka Magica
  • 2012 - Fate/Zero
  • 2013 - Attack on Titan
  • 2014 - Parasyte: The Maxim

Manga

  • 2013 - Bleach
  • 2014 - Toriko

Here's the link that has the results and Vice Pit videos.

I already voted for Giant Bomb's Best Anime of the Year. It was pretty hard to choose, considering I had a lot of favorites.

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@zombiepie: Look, your "OTP of Homer Simpsons and Lighting" is your business, but don't ask me to agree with it.

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@dochaus: I was more or less referring to my response to your "WHO IS YOU HUSBANDO/WAIFU" question, but yeah there's that too.

@dochaus:

Interesting results. Kill la Kill is pretty big in Giant Bomb. Here's the Anime Vice's results if anyone's interested.

BECAUSE PEOPLE HAVE BAD TASTE! IT'S A BAD SHOW FOR BAD PEOPLE!

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@zombiepie said:
@takashichea said:

@dochaus:

Interesting results. Kill la Kill is pretty big in Giant Bomb. Here's the Anime Vice's results if anyone's interested.

BECAUSE PEOPLE HAVE BAD TASTE! IT'S A BAD SHOW FOR BAD PEOPLE!

Is it though?

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Finished voting just before the new year hit.

5. Haikyuu!! 2nd season - It wouldn't be a top five list of MINE if I didn't include my favorite sports series of the year.

4. Food Wars! Shokugeki no Soma - It's food pornography but it is also so great.

3. JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Stardust Crusaders Egypt Arc - Not as strong overall as the first half of the season or even the first two parts but still appropriately bizarre. Favorite thing is still how twisted the villains are.

2. MY Love Story! - This show ended up being both adorable and hilarious in a completely unexpected way that really bowled me over. Hands down my biggest surprise of 2015.

1. One-Punch Man - I wanna be a saikyou hero. I don't even know why we had a vote this year. Why even build up the anime of the year if something just comes along and wins with one punch?

Honorable Mentions: Gintama, The Seven Deadly Sins, Parasyte -the maxim-

Worst anime I watched this year: Saint Seiya: Soul of Gold. It felt like a soulless cash grab for the franchise. Funny how I didn't care for Omega or Lost Canvas much at all yet those two shows had far higher production values than this abortion from Toei animation. This premise had potential but goodness did they do absolutely nothing interesting with it.

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Finished my list of probably super unpopular opinions. Oh well. At least I took some time to justify them, kinda...?

I used the link from the mega-thread, hopefully nothing's changed between then and this new thread.

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@peregrin38: Don't worry, your vote's been tallied.

Also a reminder that I'll be cutting off voting this weekend and posting the results soon after, so those of you who are still lurking and/or lazy better get crackin.

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@zombiepie:

I do love people's response to Kill la Kill from all spectrum. It's good to hear from you. Sorry for the weird Twitter Tweets. I do admired your style and tried to learn from it.

@dochaus:

I made some updates to the Gdocs over at AV side. If anyone was looking to vote for Shirobako, I apologize for not having it on the sheet. Dang it, I try to be error free this year.

I hope voting goes well on your end. Oh you're cutting this weekend. I look forward to the results. I extended the poll to January 10 since it's hard to increase the turnout in the new site.