Comments on: American Anime Awards Results

By: Limey

Limey — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 10:57:07 +0000

there is a huge “manga revolution” led by Tokyopop, so the American Anime awards (this phrase goes right up there with “jumbo shrimp” and “military intelligence”. total oxymoron) is probably a part of that.
but i do think that voice actors, theme song writers/performers, translators, and other people involved in producing manga deserve some kind of recognition. Except the whole Fruits Basket thin seems…. eh… just screwed up.

By: jiv

jiv — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 04:01:25 +0000

The way the voting system worked, it seemed to me more like a popularity contest than a real award for “the best” anime/manga. Things with a great critical reception, such as Kamichu or Monster, were nominated, but obviously, they didn’t stand a chance against the most popular titles. So I didn’t really cared about this.
However, I feel relieved that FMA was the big winner. It’s not an old series (like most of the nominees) and it’s pretty good, at least until they invented that Dante crap for the anime. The manga is way better :p

By: MaverickRonin

MaverickRonin — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 19:09:16 +0000

Hehe It’s more like the “Licensed In America Anime Awards” Easy to tell becasue everything is at least 2-3 years old (or 7 for FLCL, and it was even on Adult Swim like 3 or 4 years ago). I got an email telling me to vote online from adv and only ended up voting in few categories because I hadn’t heard nearly any of the dubs. Where are the real seiyuu!?! As it stands now awards for englishs dub are pretty useless because 99% of them are crap. Occasionally there will be something quite good (Cowboy Bebop, GITS:SAC) or absolutely perfect (Azumanga Daiou). If something like this serves to increase the quality of english dubs then it will be quite a good thing but this doesn’t look like a breakthrough to me.

By: Bata-kun

Bata-kun — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 04:25:06 +0000

Ugh! IGN. You know, I’d rather be hit with a Salamander Stream than see anything that deals with IGN.

By: Os

Os — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 02:17:24 +0000

>>Best Theme Song: Rewrite (Fullmetal Alchemist)

Eh, I suppose some people know what’s good for them at least.

By: Bluestreak2

Bluestreak2 — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 02:10:39 +0000

I agree that the idea of giving awards for best Dubs/Dubbers/VAs for Dubs is a good idea. But it is rather bogus to give awards for Anime Feature, Best Long/Short Anime, and such.
Though it cracks me up to see FMA easily stealing the show.

By: Hao

Hao — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 01:59:16 +0000

Voice actors in US are no where as celebrated as voice actors in Asia, so I can’t see how this award can catch any attention from the general public. It probably would even backfire amongst “hardcore” anime fans since general consensus on quality of dubs is pretty negative. Personally I watch most stuff subbed so I don’t really care, I would imaging that to be the view of majority.

Btw, is there an Academy Award equivalent for animes in Japan? I’ve never heard of one.