Thank you everybody for participating in the awards process! NineSwords and I simply wanted this to be a fun thing to wrap up the year with, and I hope that you all had fun with this. We certainly learned a lot about ways we might want to run things differently if we ever do this again, so thank you for all the feedback you have given us through this process.

If you are interested in analyzing the vote data, I have created a github repo here where I have uploaded both the voting data and the code I used to process the data and calculate the election results. Feel free to use this data in any way you see fit!

Without further ado, here are the winners and runner-ups for each of the categories:

2024 Anime of the Year

Winner - Frieren: Beyond Journey's End / Sousou no Frieren
Runner-up - Delicious in Dungeon / Dungeon Meshi

Best Comedy

Winner - Delicious in Dungeon / Dungeon Meshi
Runner-up - Dan Da Dan

Best Drama

Winner - The Apothecary Diaries / Kusuriya no Hitorigoto
Runner-up - Oshi no Ko Season 2

Best Animation

Winner - Frieren: Beyond Journey's End / Sousou no Frieren
Runner-up - Dan Da Dan

Best Fantasy

Winner - Frieren: Beyond Journey's End / Sousou no Frieren
Runner-up - Delicious in Dungeon / Dungeon Meshi

Best Soundtrack

Winner - Frieren: Beyond Journey's End / Sousou no Frieren
Runner-up - Oshi no Ko Season 2

Best Duo: Romantic or Otherwise

Winner - Momo Ayase & Ken Takakura (Okarun) from Dan Da Dan
Runner-up - Holo & Kraft Lawrence from Spice and Wolf: MERCHANT MEETS THE WISE WOLF

Best Voice Acting

Winner - Atsumi Tanezaki as Frieren in Frieren: Beyond Journey's End (Japanese)
Runner-up - Saori Hayami as Rin Nanakura in Pseudo Harem (Japanese)

Best Romance

Winner - Spice and Wolf: MERCHANT MEETS THE WISE WOLF / Ookami to Koushinryou: MERCHANT MEETS THE WISE WOLF
Runner-up - Makeine: Too Many Losing Heroines! / Make Heroine ga Oosugiru!

Best Opening or Ending Sequence (OP/ED)

Winner - "Otonoke" by Creepy Nuts for the Dan Da Dan OP
Runner-up - "Shika-iro Days" as the My Deer Friend Nokotan OP

Best Action

Winner - Dan Da Dan
Runner-up - Solo Levling / Ore dake Level Up na Ken

Best Slice of Life

Winner - Frieren: Beyond Journey's End / Sousou no Frieren
Runner-up - Jellyfish Can’t Swim in the Night / Yoru no Kurage wa Oyogenai

Best Suspense

Winner - The Apothecary Diaries / Kusuriya no Hitorigoto
Runner-up - Oshi no Ko Season 2

Best Character

Winner - Frieren from Frieren: Beyond Journey's End / Sousou no Frieren
Runner-up - Maomao from The Apothecary Diaries / Kusuriya no Hitorigoto

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