The Autumn 2017 anime season is nearly at its end and the poll will close at the end of December so be sure to vote if you haven’t and please share the post. The more votes, the more reliable the poll will be.
The top three anime for best haven’t changed since the beginning of this poll, however the order changes almost daily with only 1 or 2 votes splitting them and some days the three being in deadlock. Every vote will matter as we close in on the end of December for best anime. I wish I could say worst anime was close, but there’s a pretty clear ‘winner’ at this point.
Reminder that once this poll closes, I will be running the best of the year poll with the top 3 choices from each season up for voting on. So start thinking about what your anime of the year was.
By ‘best’ anime, a reminder this is not about technical proficiency but merely the anime you found the most entertaining this season for whatever reason. Which anime do you like the most?
For ‘worst’ anime of the season I ask that you only vote for an anime you are actually watching through. So while this is the anime you like the least, you didn’t drop it.
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Just a reminder to put in your vote for best and worst of the Autumn 2017 anime season. The poll will close at the end of December and then voting for best of the year can commence. I’m really looking forward to seeing what everyone ends up voting for.
By ‘best’ anime, a reminder this is not about technical proficiency but merely the anime you found the most entertaining this season for whatever reason. Which anime do you like the most?
For ‘worst’ anime of the season I ask that you only vote for an anime you are actually watching through. So while this is the anime you like the least, you didn’t drop it.
Thanks for reading.
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The Poll is closing this Sunday so this is your last chance to vote. Shows have either finished or moved into the new season and people have had some time to finish up what they are going to watch. I will point out that the Worst anime of the season has more or less been decided as it seems people agreed on that. Best anime however has been interesting. At first there was a clear winner and then not one, but two other titles caught up. Last I checked, there were only a few votes in it so now is the time to have your say.
Poll Information (for those who missed it): This is the reader’s poll and the winning anime will be announced late in July (poll closes July 9 to give the last few shows that are ending a chance to wrap up). Yes this poll includes shows that are continuing onto the next season and sequels and pretty much everything else. For the first time I’ve also allowed you multiple choices and a write your own title because I can’t remember every show that came out nor do I really want to write all those options into the poll.
For best of Spring 2017, please vote on the show you found the most entertaining to watch or had the most fun with this season. If you want to share your reasons, please comment below.
For worst of Spring 2017, please vote for a show you watched (or watched at least half of) that you found tiresome, painful or boring to watch.
Thanks for your votes and please remember to share this post.
Last week I asked what you thought the best and worst of the spring season was. If you haven’t cast your vote yet, or if you are still waiting on shows to finish, here’s the poll again. Please share it as the more votes the better for knowing what the readers are really thinking.
Poll Information (for those who missed it): This is the reader’s poll and the winning anime will be announced late in July (poll closes July 9 to give the last few shows that are ending a chance to wrap up). Yes this poll includes shows that are continuing onto the next season and sequels and pretty much everything else. For the first time I’ve also allowed you multiple choices and a write your own title because I can’t remember every show that came out nor do I really want to write all those options into the poll.
For best of Spring 2017, please vote on the show you found the most entertaining to watch or had the most fun with this season. If you want to share your reasons, please comment below.
For worst of Spring 2017, please vote for a show you watched (or watched at least half of) that you found tiresome, painful or boring to watch.
Thanks for your votes and please remember to share this post.
It’s been a season of sequels and some surprisingly pleasant anime that seemed to come out of nowhere as well as some incredibly generic fantasy but as we close in on the end of the season it is time to decide which anime have been the best and the worst of the season.
This is the reader’s poll and the winning anime will be announced late in July (poll closes July 9 to give the last few shows that are ending a chance to wrap up). Yes this poll includes shows that are continuing onto the next season and sequels and pretty much everything else. For the first time I’ve also allowed you multiple choices and a write your own title because I can’t remember every show that came out nor do I really want to write all those options into the poll.
First up, the best of spring 2017. Now this is not about technical best of anything like that. This vote is based on pure entertainment and enjoyment. So you, as the viewer, decide which anime you had the most fun watching this season and vote for them. If you’d like to explain your choice, please share in the comments.
And now, the worst of spring 2017. Once again, this isn’t about the technical proficiency of the animation or anything like that. Just which anime did you actually watch that you really wish you hadn’t. Please do not just vote for a title that has been given a lot of grief. You need to have watched the anime to know how bad it is and how painful it is to watch in order to vote for it here (though if you got half-way and gave up that’s a reasonable effort).
Thanks for your votes and please remember to share this post.
Later today my Best of Winter post will come out and I’ll celebrate all those wonderful moments that got people talking (or at least entertained me during the past three months). But that is not his post. This post shares the worst and the lowest moments of the season as well as the reader’s choice for worst anime of Winter 2017.
My Least Favourite Show
Chosen only from shows that I watched from beginning to end during the Winter 2017 season (or completed in 2017 if they carried over from the previous season), this is the show that I cringed at the thoughts of watching but still managed to string me along with the faintest of hopes that eventually it would reveal something of note.
Yep, Hand Shakers.
And no, it never did produce anything of note other than just how awful it was. Then again, anyone who has been following my blog is not even remotely surprised by this.
It should probably be noted that I literally hated everything about this show, however, in order not to let Hand Shakers get a big head by letting it take out every worst of category, I’ve pretty much excluded it from this point forward.
My Least Favourite Character
So, this had to be someone I bothered to remember but I actively disliked them as a character (so not just because they were a villain). And once again, I had to have finished watching the show so all the characters from Fuuka were removed from potential nomination because otherwise my decision would have been easily made.
I’m kind of going to have to go with Chuta from elDLIVE.
I really wanted to see him grow as a character and I did enjoy the few kind of moments of growth he got, but he pretty much instantly regressed right after and given they are playing his insecurities for laughs it really doesn’t have quite the same appeal as some other emotionally damaged characters this season.
My Least Favourite Story
Again, I had to have finished the story to make this decision so Iron Blooded Orphans Season 2 and Zestiria are momentarily given a reprieve as neither of them have actually finished, though both would have been contenders given their season 2 plots have mostly just gone through the motions and added little of significance. And on that theme we have the winning anime:
Blue Exorcist Season 2
All build up and hints at later plot threads but the plot delivered in this season is strictly side-story material and the final villain is all but inconsequential (and treated as such). Basically, if you have been reading the source material, you might get a lot out of this in terms of the set up for later events, but if you view this just as an anime season and ask it to stand on its own two feet in terms of plot, its going to fail miserably.
My Least Favourite Opening Theme and Visuals
Okay, these categories are only combined because the answer was one and the same. Not a lot to explain about the category other than this is an opening theme I couldn’t stomach listening to and visuals that were just hideous to look at (and I already excluded Hand Shakers from nomination).
I give this dubious honour to Spiritpact.
As much as I ended up enjoying the show by the mid-season point, the opening was terrible as were the visuals. While the visuals improved in the second half, there were still some really questionable choices and to be honest the whole show would benefit from a total remake as the story is actually kind of good once you get into it.
Reader’s Choice – Worst Anime of 2017
Here it is:
Hand Shakers, you did it again.
Admittedly, there was a pretty short time frame on this poll and Fuuka was definitely rallying there at the end so maybe if I’d left the poll open a bit longer we’d have a slightly different result.
Now, I’ve had my say on the worst of Winter 2017. What do you think? Who would you have nominated for worst character? Which show had the worst opening, visuals, or storyline? Share your opinion in the comments below and be sure to check out the best of post later today.
No, I won’t. And now apparently its contagious because other characters are saying it.
Yikes.
Anyway, there’s pretty much nothing else worth talking about in this episode. Instead of developing the guy who might be god, the point of the fighting, what hand shakers are, or anything of consequence, we watch Koyori learn to cook and then they run a stall at a festival. The end. No conflict, no revelations, no relevance, and zero point.
Of course, it seems like even the writers have given up trying to justify some of this nonsense.
Smart move Hand Shakers. Tip your hand to suggest that maybe you would have a point and then just remove all the elements of your show that are still actually interesting.
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