To start with, I just want to thank everybody that took the time to vote in the awards for this year. For some meta discussion about the awards themselves, check out my pinned comment. Without further ado, here are your winners:

2025 Anime Series of the Year

  • Apocalypse Hotel

2025 Anime Film of the Year

  • Chainsaw Man – The Movie: Reze Arc

2025 Anime Character of the Year

  • Yachiyo (Apocalypse Hotel)

Best Comedy

  • CITY the Animation

Best Drama

  • The Apothecary Diaries Season 2

Best Fantasy/Adventure

  • Clevatess

Best Romance

  • My Dress-Up Darling Season 2

Best Slice of Life

  • CITY the Animation

Best Action

  • Chainsaw Man – The Movie: Reze Arc

Best Animation

  • CITY the Animation

Best Soundtrack

  • Chainsaw Man – The Movie: Reze Arc

Best Voice Acting (specific role in any language)

  • Aoi Yuuki - Maomao in The Apothecary Diaries - Japanese

Best Musical Sequence (OP/ED or insert song)

  • ReluctantlyZen@ani.socialEnglish
    5·
    14 hours ago

    Total turnout this year (~25 votes) was down quite a bit compared to last year (~90 votes).

    Damn, that’s very low. I figured it’d be higher, given the amount of upvotes.

    The private-message voting system was new, and I don’t think it seems like it was popular.

    Yeah, it wasn’t great tbh. The whole markdown list was a bit tedious. Can’t do it on a phone well either. But also, I find private messaging very unintuitive on Lemmy. I opened my laptop to fill it out, but it took a while before I even found the chat thing (in the notifications area apparently).

    I found it interesting that Maomao absolutely ran away with the voting for best Voice Acting, but she didn’t even make the nomination list for best character. In fact, Shisui received more nominations than Maomao for best character.

    I think Maomao is great, but I think Shisui meant more for this season than Maomao did.