What Is the AOTY?

It's almost the end of the year, and you know what that means!

Blend S.

Inuyashiki

Kemono Friends, probably. I don't know that it's my favorite of the year, but it will be the one that stands out, ten years down the road

KemoFure

Maidragon

gotta give it to owari

Gabriel Dropout

AOTY was decided months ago. The real question is which will come in second after Maid Dragon.

Acca 13 for me

Hello twitcher

A lot of anime gets streamed on twitch. Out of the shows posted so far Kemono and GabDro have also been streamed in that site.

Re:CREATORS

Hoozuki no Reitetsu S2

Well, duh
Those are pretty casual-friendly too

Sakura Quest

Every anime is casual friendly nowadays

Yeah? You know a lot of average folk who watched Rakugo?

There are only two reasonable patrician choices, Rakugo and Uchouten Kazoku.

Yes.

We got some good contenders this season, so far SYMPHOGEAH has been my favourite

>Kemono Friends
>casual-friendly
Only in glorious Nippon.

Shoujo Shuumatsu Ryokou or LWA, have to see how the former ends first.

Houseki no Kuni or MiA

Dragonmaid

BNH

1. The Night Is Short, Walk on Girl
2. Lu Over the Wall
3. Ai Mai Mi: Surgical Friends
4. Lupin III: Ishikawa Goemon's Spray of Blood
5. Mary and the Witch's Flower

Come on nigga, this thread is clearly about series

Owari S2

OP didn't specify, Ai Mai Mi then

Rakugo S2

Made in Abyss

Shorts do not fall under this category either. I appreciate your dedication to being a snowflake though.

>Blend S
Discount GochiUsa, which wasn't that good to begin with.
>Inuyashiki
Edgefest, no characterization, nonsensical plot and plot holes galore. Typical Hiroya Oku flare
>Kemono Friends
This is Sup Forums trying to fit in with Japan's tastes, as we all know Japan doesn't have critical thinking skills and like garbage like KemoFure
>Maidragon
Possible candidate
>Owari
More Monogatari trash, at this point the series is a husk of its former self, nothing but self-fellating inside jokes and winks to previous seasons.
>Gabriel Dropout
This is when I realized Dogakobo had become a one trick pony, the show has no charm, follow the same exact formula of Mangirl, Umaru, New Game and Sansha Sanyou. All the characters are complete trash with the exception of Satanichia.
>ACCA
All style no substance
>RE:Creators
Wish fullfulment shows need not apply for AOTY status
>Hoozuki no Reitetsu
Another possible candidate.
>Sakura Quest
Just no
>Rakugo S2
Weaker than S1, which wasn't that good to begin with, only like 8 fedora tippers on Sup Forums liked it to be contrarians and show their "patrician tastes"
>LWA TV
Horrible, just horrible. It has absolutely no redeeming qualities
>Hero Academia
Laughing my ass off
>Girls Last Tour
Another substanless show. Some anons like it because of the contrast moeblobs make with a post apocalyptic setting and its "comfy" feel, other than that it's a show about nothing.
>Ai Mai Mi
Was good but it's just a 3 minute/episode show. Jokes are great but jokes alone can't carry a show to AOTY status

Then Uchouten Kazoku, what the fuck is with all these arbitrary rules?

Any of the following options are correct:
Kemono Friends
Little Witch Academia
Sakurada Reset
Tsuki ga Kirei
Made in Abyss
Mahoujin Guru Guru
Shoujo Shuumatsu
Inuyashiki

Congratulations, you are awesome!

>muh substance
Hello deepfag

Aho Girl

>Sakurada Reset

Made in Abyss is the only correct answer

Tsuki Ga Kirei, easily.

Frame
Arms
Girl

Substance is not depth. Substance is the why to character motivations and reasoning behind the way plot progresses a certain way. Depth is a meaning hidden between the lines.

(You)

Because barely anyone cares about shorts.

LWA.
Rakugo.
Girls Last Tour.
Tsuki ga Kirei.
Hoozuki.


I don't know if I can choose just one, LWA probably edges it. That show was just really good even if the ending was a little disappointing.

>first post is a shitpost
Burn this board already.

Dubs of good taste.

Dies Irae.

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That's stupid

Imouto > Himouto

They're not arbitrary. When someone refers generically to "anime" they mean a TV series. This cannot possibly be a new concept to you

>KyoAnus
>fake imouto
>fake loli
>9gag meme
What normalfag made this?

Houseki no Kuni won hands down

On r/anime probably, yeah

That show is pretty much shit in every way.

La la land

Firstly that's not true secondly short tv shows are still tv shows.

>End of Evangelion isn't anime
>Akira isn't anime
>Ghost in the Shell isn't anime
Leave and never come back.

You're a fucking idiot.

The phrases "anime movie" and "anime short" are commonplace, largely because the generic anime belongs to full length tv series.

>3DCGI
ultimate pleb filter

You can keep saying it but it's not ever going to be true

You're making this up. If someone asked me what my favorite anime is, and I said a movie or a short, no one would ever go "hey you can't do that, that's not ANIME."

If you want to specify TV anime you specify TV anime.

What about the phrase "anime series?"

this

Then why did everyone except one guy immediately know what OP meant?

Maybe everybody's favourite was a tv show?

It exists, but it's not a common classification. OVAs, Films, and Shorts are more likely to be considered a diminutive

Maybe user. Maybe.

Aoty is simply determined with a popularity poll, so why not make a poll about it? I guess MiA wins by a large margin.
If you look at overall success rather than popularity on Sup Forums its 100% kemono friends.

My AOTY is either "The Night is Short, Walk on Girl" or Rakugo. Both were very solid.

Why are multiple people calling you out, then?

It's almost as if there's a more shocking truth; Sup Forums only watches TV anime because its easier to have threads and generals about. The only movies frequently talked about are EoE and others associated with an already existing TV anime. No one mentioned anything other than TV anime because they hadn't watched any.

>Aoty is simply determined with a popularity poll
>>>/MAL/

>Why are multiple people calling you out, then?
Because autists really like arguing over arbitrary classifications and definitions.

Hibikek & Maidragon a shit.

But isn't the guy who said "movies and shorts aren't anime" the one who started this argument?

If movies were commonly accepted for AOTY, all the kyoani dicksuckers saying Maidragon would have switched to Koe no Katachi

ask /mal/

Speak for yourself idiot. I watch OVA and shorts as well as TV series.

I'm not disqualifying myself from the term autist. It's an explanation of why the argument is heated, not a reason to believe one side is right

That came out last year you fucking retard.

>AOTY is decided by a popularity poll
Since fucking when has Sup Forums of all places gone on popularity?

Also , I didn't say they aren't anime. I said that when someone generically says anime, like in the phrase AOTY, they're referring to a full length tv series

It's almost as if I was using hyperbole to prove a point that most of Sup Forums only watches seasonal anime, not all of it, and that's why most of the answers were TV anime.

Since all the election newfags really enjoyed it last year

Since always.

And by most you mean all but one person. Almost as if plenty of people watch more than just TV series, but understand what AOTY is actually referring to.

Kemono Friends

>all but one person
I wasn't aware that all of Sup Forums was in this thread right now.

Look at that post, and tell me where the word most is used.

Id really love to hear how you'd define a "best X of a year" without it being a bunch of people agreeing on something being better than any alternative aka it being popular.
Maybe they're religious and think its just God handing a tablet with the correct answer, maybe they're aliens. No one knows.

Made in Abyss

Well, most active threads consisstently this year have been DBS. I guess that's AOTY.

>most of Sup Forums
I can read. This thread is at most .5% of all of Sup Forums. Claiming "one person" is ridiculous.

>Moeshit Catagory will be taken out of the running for AoTY
how many anime drop off the list from this thread?

There's an unspoken agreement that anime can be measured objectively, even if we don't have the tools.

You're a pedant and I'm wasting my time responding to you.