They were all so damn good that I can't decide on AOTY.
This hasn't happened in many years, usually theres one or none that shine clearly over everything else but this year theres 3.
Even jap polls and Sup Forumss own polls tend to have these 3 on stalement with each of them winning some
Nolan Gomez
Made In Abyss > Houseki no Kuni >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> K*mono bronies
Brandon Wright
alright what's the twist in kemono friends?
Logan Turner
Houseki no Kuni > Made in Abyss > Kemono Friends
Aaron Sanchez
There's no twist, it's just SoL with new characters every episode
Charles Fisher
Kemono Friends = Houseki no Kuni > Made in Abyss
Oliver Morgan
All Human are DEEEEEAD!
Ryan Williams
good
Isaiah Kelly
Fuck off.
Bentley Phillips
That's not Lu Over The Wall.
Lucas Walker
Weak i have 80 AOTY
Colton Adams
The twist is that it's good.
Hunter Parker
Kemono Friends>Made in Abyss=Houseki no Kuni Any other year and HnK or MiA would have easily taken my AOTY.
Nicholas Wilson
Universal truths:
MiA: Best lore, best ost, best artstyle
HnK: Deepest Lore, best action scenes, best twists, best MC
KF: Best characters and character growth, best world building, best fanbase, best memes
Carter Flores
Maid Dragon = SSR > Glasslip > MIA > dogshit > all 3DPDCG
Adam Sanders
reminder that Akihito Tsukushi is an assumed pedophile.
Liam Nguyen
HnK lore is fucking stupid tho, its equally dum dum to Kemono friends where its "people died, now we have magic people for no reason". Mia is the only one with an actual world that isnt 100% magic. Mia action sequences have much more weight behind them emotionally.
I'd say KF fanbase got hit hard by the Kadokawa business decisions drama. Mia has a bunch of pedos talking about how much they want to fuck Reg/mark so I guess HnK wins there.
Gabriel Ross
>Maid Dragon you really have a shit taste. what next? ...fate:apocrypha?
Connor Lee
>Houseki no Kuni Best characters, best cinematography, best pacing, best storyboards, best development, best setpieces, best psychological and philosophical themes, best iconography
>Made in Abyss Best ost and sound design, best intro and finale episodes, best worldbuilding, best 'visceral' scene
>"people died, now we have magic people for no reason" they also killed a penguin in a zoo irl
Zachary Perez
KF fanbase was supposed to be more prosperous with Kadokawa in charge and letting more experience take helm with even more budget.
We just refuse to take our director out of the picture we killed it out of spite. Kadokawa would gain nothing and lose money from failed investments and hastened death of Nico
Rest assure that we are coming back once Irodori release their new work, which was already announced
Gavin Moore
Sorry but no. The Shiro fight from HnK was improved upon from the manga and highly memorable and talked about. The Ozen fight was butchered and lacked any impact whatsoever. Those are the only big fights in the season.
Oliver Richardson
Kemono Bros
Lucas Johnson
I can only imagine their wives facepalming at what their daughter is laughing at
Adam Miller
Replace KF with SSR and I agree.
Brayden Perez
SSR was fucking trash.
Joseph Wright
>Showing up buff and dressed like that along with your cute young daughter dressed as Kaban. Is it possible to win best cosplay and best dad award at the same time?
Josiah Wright
>all 4 either aots's or close contenders >Everyone gets mad about their relative placements
Brandon Evans
ITT: contrarians who haven't seen KF
Chase Bennett
You must need to defeat slug dad and his genki Toki daughters
Daniel Lee
>serval men Even got the mask
Ayden Butler
This.
Why are people so cruel?
Grayson Reed
Or contrarians who decided to force themselves to watch 1 or 2 episodes out of hate then dropped it when it didn't live up to whatever perceived hype they thought it had.
Daniel Price
>SSR what SSR stand for?
Wyatt Thompson
rolling girls
Brayden Miller
an antidepressant
Matthew Reyes
really? that anime was shit
Joshua Robinson
It's funny because none of these are in the top 3 best of the year.
Josiah King
i only watched the opening and even that looked completely unfinished. although the song was a bit catchy.
Austin Martin
Super super rare
Zachary Cruz
KF was awful in theirs of animation. Everything was on the script
Robert Bell
too embarrassed to share?
Andrew Davis
This
Luis Carter
Uchouten Kazoku 3-gatsu no lion Mahoujin Guru Guru
Joseph Gomez
Guaranteed Rakugofag
Brody Johnson
I didn't like the second Rakugo season at all.
Christian Lopez
I'll watch it someday, if my memory stop being garbage.
Nicholas Martinez
Just embarassing how Guru Guru fags just keep forcing their unfunny moe crap. And what do they say is the justification for it? Nothing, its just "look at this moeblob. you like moeblobs right? No? WELL FUCK YOU THEN". Obviously they dont even attempt to say the show is funny.
Leo King
Not bad, you're excused for guruguru.
Ian Hill
I never post GuruGuru images and I legit liked it. It had some funny bits, more so than your average comedy anime
Colton Torres
>BEST TV ANIME 1. Houseki no Kuni 2. Rakugo S2 3. Uchouten S2 4. Made in Abyss 5. Girls Last Tour 6. 3-gatsu S2 7. GuruGuru 8. Owari S2 9. Ai Mai Mii S3 10. Maid Dragon
>BEST OTHER ANIME 1. Night is Short, Walk on Girl 2. Lu Over the Wall 3. Kizumonogatari III 4. The Dragon Dentist 5. Blade Runner 2022 6. Yama no Susume OVA 7. Hibike: Todoketai Melody 8. Mary and the Witch's Flower 9. Fate: Heaven's Feel 10. Yuyushiki OVA
Thomas Garcia
>HnK lore is fucking stupid tho, its equally dum dum to Kemono friends where its "people died, now we have magic people for no reason". Mia is the only one with an actual world that isnt 100% magic. Sorry that you haven't been spoonfed all the secrets of HnK lore.
Jordan Flores
Winner of best:
>Atmosphere KF >Thrills MiA >World-Building HnK >Animation HnK >Art Direction MiA >Themes KF >Act 1 MiA >Act 2 KF >Act 3 MiA >Memes KF >OP KF >ED MiA >MC Hnk >Supporting characters KF >Pacing KF >Sound design MiA
Looks like KF wins by a bit.
Gavin Wood
Technically he isn't wrong, there's a lot of stuff that's basically magic. MiA is pretty magic too but there's not really enough information to make a judgement on how the whole thing works yet.
Jordan Green
The first cour was funny enough, but at some point it overstayed its welcome and the second cour was a chore to watch.
Ryder Ross
I don't think the story needs to be hard sci-fi. There are things that don't make sense realistically, but the point of the story isn't about the future.
Bentley Phillips
The only thing that barely counts as magic in MiA are the relics.
Cooper Garcia
Well sure, but with Buddhist themes don't expect everything to have a scientific explanation.
Out of the three species the only ones kind of magical would be Lunarians.
Josiah Martin
Shoujo Shuumatsu is clearly AOTY. Made in Abyss wasn't bad, but not as good as Shoujo Shuumatsu.
Ethan Moore
>2ch's list BTFO'D Sup Forums >Maid Dragon and Kemeno fags bros on suicide watch OH NO NO NO NO NO NO
John Morales
Boring moeshit
Aaron King
DELETE F-FLOP DRAGON IS A-AOTY
Nathan Brooks
Shill list
Nathaniel Flores
>Sup Forums's favorite shit show isn't here LOOK AT THE TOP OF HIS HEAD
David Peterson
>OH NO NO NO NO Back to Sup Forums
Levi Davis
It's not my ideal, but I can settle with this. The only real problem is LWA being in a top ten.
I liked Maid Dragon, but I'm glad it's not still being pushed so hard here as AOTY when it was just an okay show with pretty visuals.
Xavier Foster
Not even the best Yuasa movie of 2017, friend.
Luis Collins
Why do you people like MiA so much? I watched it, and just don't get why would you still consider it AOTY past episode 3.
Colton James
>Engaging plot and unique world >Or SoL brony tier shit
Hudson Allen
what a waste of fucking time this shitty movie was
Aiden Gray
>AOTY >polls guaranteed replies from dumb Sup Forums
Bentley Anderson
What happened Kemeno bros? No S2 and now this......
Zachary Flores
We honestly don't care.
Tyler Gonzalez
>Kemeno s2 cancelled while MiA gets s2 despite muh sales fags >Literally SEETHING when list was first posted >W-We d-don't care
Charles Myers
KF is getting an s2 though. It's just going to suck.
William Flores
Moetrash like SSR cannot be AOTY.
Aaron Allen
New anime announced Same director, studio, and judging by the exposure, more fans.
See you next year and your posts about cheap CGI ruining the industry
Ryder Cox
>Defending shit cgi Nu/a/
Jordan Cook
Why bother with 2D if 3D sells more at 1/4 the price?
Anthony Nelson
Tsuki ga Kirei is the AOTY, Princess Principal is close second.
Carson Howard
>kf wins in nearly every category except 1 >use that 1 category to shitpost endlessly, then make up random nonsense about kf fanbase being mad you must have been pretty desperate to 1up us on something. how pathetic, lol.
John Wood
I watched all of it and MiA still was better to me. Haven't watched gems though yet, currently watching Children of the Whales.
Joshua Lewis
>It's ok to be lazy
Sebastian Jackson
It's called "working smart"
Hudson Collins
>Half assed shit is "working smart" Name one good looking entirely cgi show
Kevin Lee
Only the money matters. You want 2D to remain? Go buy 2D
Austin Hall
Butthurt guru guru is aoty??
Landon King
Finally a man who understands what to do, just love them all.
Brody Anderson
That polycount is so much higher than it needs to be.
Evan Thomas
hijacking the thread for my dumbass houseki no kuni questions
what the fuck is going on? The anime explained nothing. Not what the lunarians where, why they're kidnapping gems, what the gems were, what happened to humans, literally nothing. Part of a plot begins to appear with sensei hiding shit and BAM it fucking ends. blueballs: the anime. All buildup for no payoff.
Jaxon Stewart
Its based on an ongoing manga where some of those things are explained poorly.
Zachary Hernandez
I love them all but i feel MiA start is a bit slow and the anime didnt get to the best parts of the manga For me it's : Hnk=Kemono friends > MiA
Easton Diaz
Read the manga, It's a good and painful ride
Cameron Jenkins
Curse of the Abyss?
Robert Rogers
>Made in Abyss Surprisingly well done adaptation with great visuals and music. A few hiccups, but it delivered hard when they needed to. Especially with Mitty's mutation and goodbye. I'm a bit sad that we didn't just get Bondrewd's arc, but that's fine since we got all the other stuff that was awesome. Bondrewd OVA/S2 when? >Houseki no Kuni I knew nothing about the series, so I went in blind and enjoyed it. NuPhos wasn't as good as genki dumbass Phos though. Beautiful visuals and music, and surprisingly good animation. The gems were all unique and likeable, Sensei is objectively the best dad of 2017 (Sorry Bondrewd, you didn't get your time to shine), and the Lunarian fights were absolutely spectacular. >Kemono Friends Looked promising from the teaser images (2D), then saw it was low budget 3D. Stuck around for the 3 episode rule, and every episode just got better. Something about it was just relaxing to watch. Definitely most hype ending of the three; you just don't expect that sort of thing from this sort of show. Hell, you don't expect ANYTHING since it was essentially fresh work using the content of a dead mobile game as the director pleased, and he did damn good.
All three were good.
Grayson White
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Brandon Ortiz
I haven't seen the inner workings of other CG anime, but I figured that was the normal amount.
Reminder Serval & Kaban were originally supposed to helplessly watch Aardwolf being slowly devoured by the Big Cerulean towards the end of Episode 1. That's why Serval looks frustrated after killing the Cerulean.
Carson Garcia
Slighty Sour Raisins
Evan Ortiz
Redpill me on Kemono Friends. I thought it was just another shitty moe show. Why are people praising it so much?