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Best Voice Actor (JP) Jun Fukuyama for Code Geass' Lelouch Kappei Yamaguchi for Death Note's L Katsuyuki Konishi for Gurren Lagann's Kamina
Best Voice Actor (EN) Samuel L. Jackson for Afro Samurai Resurrection's Afro and Ninja Ninja Dave Wittenburg for Naruto's Kakashi Hatake Kyle Hebert for Gurren Lagann's Kamina
Best Voice Actress (JP) Riisa Naku for The Girl Who Leapt Through Time's Makoto Konno Maaya Sakamoto for Garden of Sinners' Shiki Ryogi Junko Takeuchi for Naruto's Naruto Uzumaki
Best Voice Actress (EN) Laura Bailey for Shin Chan's Shin-chan Michelle Ruff for Gurren Lagann's Yoko Michelle Ruff for Bleach the Movie: Memories of Nobody's Rukia Kuchiki
Best Casting Director Jaime Simone for Bleach Jaime Simone for Afro Samurai Resurrection Kaeko Sakamoto for Gurren Lagann
Best Character Design Masaru Kitao for Death Note (Madhouse) Yuji Iwahara for Darker than Black (Bones) Daisuke Nakayama for Tweeny Witches (Studio 4°C)
Best Mechanical Design Yoh Yoshirari for Gurren Lagann (Gainax) Takeshi Takakura for Genesis of Aquarion (Satelight) Niohiro Washio for The Third: The Girl With The Blue Eye (Xebec)
Best Male Character Tamaki Suou, Ouran High School Host Club L, Death Note
Best Female Character Rukia Kuchiki, Bleach the Movie: Memories of Nobody Revy, Black Lagoon Sei Sato, Maria Watches Over Us
Best Mascot Character Kon, Bleach Boota, Gurren Lagann
Best Background Design Ogura Workshop for The Girl Who Leapt Through Time GREEN for Hell Girl Minoru Nakamura of Studio Pierrot for Bleach
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Best OVA KITE Liberator (Media Blasters) BALDR FORCE EXE (FUNimation) Lucky Star OVA (Bandai Entertainment)
Best Feature Film The Girl Who Leapt Through Time (Bandai Entertainment) Bleach the Movie: Memories of Nobody (VIZ Media) Vexille (FUNimation)
Best TV Series Shin Chan (FUNimation Entertainment) Naruto (VIZ Media) Gurren Lagann (Bandai Entertainment0
Best Original Score Yoshihisa Hirano and Hideki Taniuchi, Death Note Yoko Kanno and Hokari Hisaaki, Aquarion Kanihiko Ryo, Emma: A Victorian Romance
Best Original Song Beat Crusaders, “Tonight, Tonight, Tonight” from Bleach Yui Makino (performer), Mina Kubota (music), Eri Kawai (Lyrics), “Undine” from ARIA the Animation RZA and P.DOT, “Combat” from Afro Samurai Resurrection
Best Director (JP) Tetsuro Araki, Death Note Mamoru Hosoda, The Girl Who Leapt Through Time Hiroyuki Imaishi, Gurren Lagann
Best Director (EN) Karl Willems, Death Note Joe DiGiorgi, The Third: The Girl With The Blue Eye Mike McFarland, One Piece
Best Manga – Action CLAMP, Tsubasa: RESERVoir CHRoNiCLE (Del Rey Manga) Kohta Hirano, Hellsing (Dark Horse) Rei Hiroe, Black Lagoon (VIZ Media)
Best Manga – Comedy Hiro Mashima, Fairy Tail (Del Rey Manga) Yusaka Hanakuma, Tokyo Zombie (Last Gasp) Takagi Satoshi, Kitsune no Yomeiri (Kodansha)
Best Manga – Drama Naoki Urasawa, Monster (VIZ Media) Miyuki Kobayashi and Natsumi Ando, Kitchen Princess (Del Rey Manga) Okuse Saki and Meguro Sankichi, Ghost Talker's Daydream (Dark Horse)
Best Publication Shonen Jump (VIZ Media) Style School (Dark Horse) Shojo Beat (VIZ Media)
Best Full Motion Video In Video Game Afro Samurai (Namco Bandai) Final Fantasy IV (Square Enix) Left 4 Dead (Valve/Electronic Arts Inc.) |
So, let's see...wow. FUNi, Bandai, and VIZ literally each got 13 nominations for various anime titles (that's including Japanese voice actors and directors, and setting aside anything that's unlicensed in those categories). Right Stuf also picked up four nods, and Media Blasters got one.
VIZ picked up four manga nominations, as did Del Rey Manga. Dark Horse got two, and Last Gasp picked up one.
As for individual series...Gurren Lagann topped the list with nine nominations, while Bleach (with an advantage of being both anime and manga and both TV and movie) came away with eight, while Death Note has six noms.
If you're curious about how this compares to last year, here are the nominations, and here are the winners.
...If you're keeping track of these kinds of things, anyway. And no, after how long it took to link all this stuff manually, I'm not going to count up the Japanese companies. But if you do, feel free to share your results! And in the meantime, share your thoughts and opinions in the comments.
I also don't know why Yen+ didn't get a nom for best publication, why Ghost Hunt and Gurren Lagann weren't nominated for best soundtrack, why Libera Me wasn't nominated for best song...
For Best TV Series why do I have to chose between Shin Chan (FUNimation Entertainment) and Gurren Lagann (Bandai Entertainment) I love them both. Same thing with Mokona and Boota in the best Mascot.
However to me Hellsing is the best manga and I for anything that is Left 4 Dead
I find it strange that Yen+(plus) is not even in the running for best publication. Unless I'm thinking of it in the wrong way.
Michelle Ruff is awesome too, I liked her work as Arcueid the most, but she did a good job as Yoko too.
"Sigue: I don't know-- and I don't know why Tamaki IS nominated for it. Don't get me wrong, I love Ouran and Tamaki, but if anyone from that show was going to get nominated it should have been Haruhi. I also don't know why Yen+ didn't get a nom for best publication, why Ghost Hunt and Gurren Lagann weren't nominated for best soundtrack, why Libera Me wasn't nominated for best song..."Maybe they just don't want Gurren Lagann to win everything..?
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Cutting Edge: New Anime Spring 2010
Not a full season preview, but a spotlight on some interesting-looking shows...
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Monster Mecha Or Skimpy Suit?
When it comes to mecha, how big is TOO big?
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How Can Cosplay be this Good? Kiss Your Sailors Edition
Your weekly look at sweet and sexy cosplay.
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New Adult Swim Anime #1: Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood
It's official!
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So, Uh, There's This Haruhi Movie Coming Out Saturday
A bit of fanfare for The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya, 'cause I felt like it.
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Japan Responds (Minimally) to Upcoming Marvel Anime
Shocking news: Japan is less excited about Marvel anime than we are.
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Ode to the Girls of Gradient Hair
I dunno what it is, but I just really dig this style.
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Super-Sexy Figure I Can't Afford #31,926.5
This delicious figure from Jun Tsukasa and Yamato's Creators' Labo.
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Japan Responds (Minimally) to Upcoming Marvel Anime
Shocking news: Japan is less excited about Marvel anime than we are.
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How Can Cosplay be this Good? Kiss Your Sailors Edition
Your weekly look at sweet and sexy cosplay.
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Canada's YTV Drops Naruto and Bleach
Mwah-mwah-mwahhhhhhhh.
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Monster Mecha Or Skimpy Suit?
When it comes to mecha, how big is TOO big?
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New Adult Swim Anime #1: Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood
It's official!
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New Virtual Girlfriends! Meet Love Plus...Plus?
Terrible name, obvious insta-hit game.
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So, Uh, There's This Haruhi Movie Coming Out Saturday
A bit of fanfare for The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya, 'cause I felt like it.
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Ode to the Girls of Gradient Hair
I dunno what it is, but I just really dig this style.
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on May 4, 2009