I am pleased to announce the nominees for the 2025 Fediverse Anime Awards. You can see a full list of the nominees in each category below. To receive a ballot with voting instructions, send a private message that says !ballot to @kurisu@ani.social. She checks for new messages every five minutes. I have tried to pre-emptively answer some questions in a comment below.
Without further ado, here are your nominees:
2025 Anime Series of the Year
- CITY The Animation
- Apocalypse Hotel
- The Summer Hikaru Died
- Orb: On the Movements of the Earth
- Dan Da Dan Season 2
2025 Anime Film of the Year
- cocoon: Aru Natsu no Shoujo-tachi Yori
- 100 Meters
- The Colors Within
- Mononoke The Movie: Chapter II - The Ashes of Rage
- Chainsaw Man – The Movie: Reze Arc
- Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Infinity Castle
2025 Anime Character of the Year
- Oguri Cap (Umamusume: Cinderella Gray)
- Yoshiki Tsujinaka (The Summer Hikaru Died)
- Reze (Chainsaw Man – The Movie: Reze Arc)
- Yachiyo (Apocalypse Hotel)
- Renako Amaori (There’s No Freaking Way I’ll Be Your Lover! Unless…)
- Izumi Wako (City the Animation)
Best Comedy
- The 100 Girlfriends Who Really, Really, Really, Really, REALLY Love You Season 2
- A Ninja and an Assassin Under One Roof
- Apocalypse Hotel
- Milky☆Subway: The Galactic Limited Express
- From Bureaucrat to Villainess: Dad’s Been Reincarnated!
- City the Animation
Best Drama
- Medalist
- The Summer Hikaru Died
- Takopi’s Original Sin
- Umamusume: Cinderella Gray
- The Apothecary Diaries Season 2
- SHOSHIMIN: How to become Ordinary Season 2
Best Fantasy/Adventure
- Clevatess
- Gachiakuta
- Lord of Mysteries
- Zenshu
- Secrets of the Silent Witch
Best Romance
- The Fragrant Flower Blooms with Dignity
- Kaguya-sama: Love Is War -Stairway to Adulthood-
- Honey Lemon Soda
- Kowloon Generic Romance
- My Dress-Up Darling Season 2
- There’s No Freaking Way I’ll Be Your Lover! Unless…
Best Slice of Life
- Ruri Rocks
- With You and the Rain
- Apocalypse Hotel
- City the Animation
- mono
- Catch Me at the Ballpark!
Best Action
- Chainsaw Man – The Movie: Reze Arc
- Zenshu
- To Be Hero X
- Dan Da Dan Season 2
- Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuuX
- Solo Leveling Season 2
Best Animation
- Zenshu
- Milky☆Subway: The Galactic Limited Express
- City the Animation
- Solo Leveling Season 2
- Chainsaw Man – The Movie: Reze Arc
- Ruri Rocks
Best Soundtrack
- The Summer Hikaru Died
- Rock is a Lady’s Modesty
- Chainsaw Man – The Movie: Reze Arc
- The Apothecary Diaries Season 2
- bâan: The Boundary of Adulthood
- Umamusume: Cinderella Gray
Best Voice Acting (specific role in any language)
- Aoi Yuuki - Maomao in The Apothecary Diaries - Japanese
- Shion Wakayama - Momo Ayase in Dan Da Dan - Japanese
- Miyuki Sawashiro - Anko Uguisu in Call of the Night - Japanese
- Jun Fukushima - Kazuma Satou in Konosuba - Japanese
- Rie Takahashi - Alina Clover in I May Be a Guild Receptionist, but I’ll Solo Any Boss to Clock Out on Time - Japanese
- Mikako Komatsu - Midori Nagumo in City the Animation - Japanese
Best Musical Sequence (OP/ED or insert song)
- Hunting Soul by HAYASii - Dan Da Dan Season 2, Episode 6 insert song - https://youtu.be/ZEdiws1rDMY
- skirt by aiko - Apocalypse Hotel OP - https://animethemes.moe/anime/apocalypse_hotel/OP1
- Hibi no Kage - The Summer Hikaru Died Episode 7 insert song - https://youtu.be/FF5XYoaaWsQ
- Watch me! by YOASOBI - Witch Watch OP - https://animethemes.moe/anime/witch_watch/OP1
- Actor by Lilas Ikuta - Spy x Family Season 3 ED - https://animethemes.moe/anime/spy_x_family_season_3/ED1
- Kaseijin by Yorushika - Shoushimin Season 2 OP - https://animethemes.moe/anime/shoushimin_series_2nd_season/OP1
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FAQ Time!
Why limit the number of nominees in each category?
As you might be able to tell, I capped the number of nominees in each category to six. Going through all the nominations, this seemed like a reasonable tradeoff between the amount of work I needed to do while still capturing entries that were nominated the most often. Going beyond 6 entries basically meant that for most categories, I was having to choose from a long list of potential titles that were only nominated by a single person. For example, there were 42 distinct songs nominated in the musical sequence category. However, the vast majority of those were nominated by just one person. It is frankly too much work on my part to try to jury or tally votes for that many nominees.
Why is X series in Y category?
Well, because it was nominated there. I didn’t impose any kind of limits this year on how many categories a title could appear in. Instead, it was purely based on your nominations. If there were any that were obviously wrong (like Orb in Comedy or something), I would have intervened, but that didn’t happen at all.
Voting methodology?
Ranked choice voting! You will submit your ballot and order the nominees that you want to vote for (or delete ones you don’t want to vote for) in order of preference within each category. Then I will process the ballots and run an RCV election in each category. I don’t yet have the code written to do this, but will soon.
How long will voting stay open?
Probably a bit over a week or so? I don’t have a set end time yet and it kind of depends on my irl workload. It probably won’t extend much past March 1st if at all.
Happy to answer any additional questions you might have in the comments!
Edit: thanks to @crank@ani.social for the post’s artwork.
Is there a prize for the person who get the closest to the final results?
Must we fill up all 6 slots for each category?
Are we allowed to change our votes after we have submitted our ballots?
Must we fill up all 6 slots for each category?
No
Are we allowed to change our votes after we have submitted our ballots?
Yes
It’s all written in the message with a ballot Kurisu sends you
You can delete categories and nominees as needed if you do not want to cast any vote for them. If you resubmit this form, your existing vote will be overwritten.
Cool, thanks.
