Hello !anime@ani.social! I am happy to announce that nominations are now open for the 2025 Fediverse Anime Awards! I have included a list of the award categories below, so take some time and think about shows/movies that you think are worthy of your vote. To submit a nomination, send a private message to @kurisu@ani.social that says !nominate and she will send you a template for you to fill out (she checks every 5 minutes). Feel free to nominate as many items (or as few) as you want in each category. Also, in this nomination phase, if you submit an additional nomination ballot, then the new nominations will just be added to your previous ones. So, feel free to resubmit the form again to include those shows that you forgot about!

Anime Award Categories

Overall Best

  • 2025 Anime Series of the Year
  • 2025 Anime Film of the Year
  • 2025 Anime Character of the Year

Genres

  • Best Comedy
  • Best Drama
  • Best Fantasy/Adventure
  • Best Romance
  • Best Slice of Life
  • Best Action

Production

  • Best Animation
  • Best Soundtrack
  • Best Voice Acting (specific role in any language)
  • Best Musical Sequence (OP/ED or insert song)

I have tried to pre-emptively answer some questions in the comments below. Let me know if you have any other questions/feedback!

Edit: thanks to @Crank@ani.social for the donated graphics.

  • ReluctantlyZen@ani.socialEnglish
    3·
    10 hours ago

    Regarding the formatting, the anime series themselves are relatively straight forward, but what about the OPs/EDs and VAs? There are many ways of writing this down. Is the song name + anime sufficient? Or just the anime + OP 1/2? Or do you need song + artist + anime? Does the order matter? Do you want streaming links?

    • wjs018@ani.socialOPMEnglish
      2·
      10 hours ago

      It needs to be clear enough that I, as a human, can know what you are talking about. I am going to be sifting through nominations myself. The bot and formatting is mainly there so that it can organize the entries so that I can review them quicker.

      For the songs, a show and song title would be fine (or just OP/ED as long as it just had one). For VAs, you can give me character + language, or show and actor name, or whatever combination of those you like so that I can look it up easily.