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I say “Reader’s Choice Awards” but it’s really more of an article with polls. Enjoy~

Fall 2012 Reader’s Choice Awards!

Swaggest Male Protagonist

1. Speedwagon [JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure]

Cred: Robbed a corpse for his pimp hat. And he knows how to suit up like a boss. Speedwagon? More like Swagwagon.

2. Dark Flame Master [Chuunibyou]

Undeniable swagger.

3. The entire cast of K (generally male, so we’ll say it counts)



I’d wear every outfit here. That’s how you know the fashions are good.

4. That guy from Ixion Saga DT

Cred: It writes itself. (But I wrote it anyway.)

Swaggest Male Protagonist Dark Flame Master [Chuunibyou]

Speedwagon [JoJo's Bizarre Adventure]

That guy from Ixion Saga DT

The entire cast of K View Results

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Best Battles

1. Girls und Panzer

2. JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRrQgq5IZp0

3. Chuunibyou Demo Koi Ga Shitai!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Q4UjnOFafQ

4. Teekyu

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bZJAf6p_cA

Best Battles Chuunibyou Demo Koi Ga Shitai!

Girls und Panzer

JoJo's Bizarre Adventure

Teekyu View Results

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Most Annoying Use of Quoting

1. Psycho-Pass

An entire arc is devoted to a girl who won’t stop fucking quoting Shakespeare and just when you think it’s over with, she quotes it some fucking more. Then at the end of her arc, the main villain quotes Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus. Fucking hell, Psycho-Pass.

2. Zetsuen no Tempest

The entire plot and half the script is derived from Shakespeare’s Hamlet and The Tempest. If you thought Psycho-Pass was annoying, just try a show that bases its entire existence around quoting shit.

3. Robotics;Notes

“Hey, did you ever notice how children’s poems can sometimes be creepy? Yeah, let’s make that a central plot point. Kagome, Kagome. So deep amirite?”

Yeah, thanks, Robotics;Notes.

Most Annoying Use of Quoting Psycho-Pass

Robotics;Notes

Zetsuen no Tempest View Results

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Best Unhealthy Relationship Between a Naive High School Girl and a Controlling Man With Emotional Issues (in a Shoujo)

1. Shizuku x Haru [Tonari no Kaibutsu-kun]

Her: Shizuku is unable to deal with other people in anything other than a dismissive fashion. She focuses on her grades to the degree that her social skills are at the same level of a kindergartner entering their first day of school. She gains her first friends (ever) in high school and is emotionally manipulated by others quite easily. She can’t grasp the concept of “balance”, so she focuses on one thing at a time, leading her to have severe deficiencies when it comes to interacting with others and, ultimately, handling what is known as “real life”.

She will likely end up sucking dick in the back room of a Denny’s for $20 a pop after she fails to deal with the pressures of college.

Him: Haru hurts Shizuku both physically (punching her in the face) and emotionally (he says whatever he thinks regardless of how it will affect others). He threatened to rape her and refuses to learn Japan’s societal norms. He physically asserts himself on Shizuku multiple times and never manages to learn from the consequences of his actions. Haru is also “protective” to the point of absurdity, vowing violence on anything that disrupts his fragile mental state.

His actions will likely land him in jail, which to be honest is probably where he belongs.

2. Nanami x Tomoe [Kamisama Hajimemashita]

Her: Nanami’s the typical shoujo protagonist — she meets a guy and falls in love with him because he’s a dick to her and, gosh darnit, assholes are hot (for the record, ladies, I can corroborate this statement). She refuses to understand that loving a spiritual creature may not end the best for her, and her belief in the innate goodness in others almost causes her death in every episode. Even after Tomoe keeps telling her that humans can never be together with demons (almost every episode) and flat-out rejects her, she still believes they have a future together.

Him: Tomoe is a violent demon whose go-to solution seems to be turning enemies into food and eating them. He tried to kill Nanami early on and is seriously against humans and demons loving each other. The mere thought of Nanami being around other male demons causes him to flip out and attack them, and he has no qualms with manipulating Nanami to get whatever he wants.

3. Sakura x Rei [Code:Breaker]

Her: Does she have a personality? She just stumbles around, being all “Rei, OMG, I know you tried to kill me but I can’t help but stick around you, ya cute guy you.” She is so hopelessly stupid that it’s a wonder she can interact at all with other people when her ability to read the room is akin to that of a blind guy with braille dyslexia. (Every single episode jokes about how she doesn’t know what other people think about her, which says a lot about her mental state.)

Him: Rei tried to kill Sakura like the first time he saw her, and then some more times after that. Luckily for her, he can’t kill her with his flames, so he lets her live. This jerkoff stays around her in the show because she won’t leave his side (and his organization wants him with her).

He has no problem with killing people when Sakura’s in the area and constantly makes internal and external threats on the safety of Sakura and her friends. “Psychopath” is a good word to describe this guy.

4. Mei x Yamato [Sukitte Ii Na Yo]

Her: Mei believes that since Yamato was the first guy that was nice to her, they’re destined to be together forever. To this end, she lets him take advantage of her, defending his infidelity with whatever sad excuses she can come up with. She is also terrible when it comes to interacting with other people, so she really has no benchmark for how humans are supposed to act with each other. Going from a strong, independent character at the start of the series to what is, for lack of a better term, “Yamato’s bitch”, is possibly the worst example I’ve seen of character de-development.

Him: What Yamato wants, Yamato gets. That’s been his modus operandi since he entered high school and it’s been working quite well for him. When he wants Mei (soon after meeting her), he gets Mei, and when he wants other women, he definitely gets other women. Loyalty isn’t a word that rests within his internal dictionary and he absolutely does not care about what happens to others after they stop mattering to him (see the anorexic girl). Throughout the series he takes advantage of Mei’s relationship inexperience to get away with whatever he wants to, with absolutely no negative consequences.

He’ll probably get a happy ending because the anime is shit, but I’m pulling for a nice boat.

Best Unhealthy Relationship Between a Naive High School Girl and a Controlling Man With Emotional Issues (in a Shoujo) Mei x Yamato [Sukitte Ii Na Yo]

Nanami x Tomoe [Kamisama Hajimemashita]

Sakura x Rei [Code:Breaker]

Shizuku x Haru [Tonari no Kaibutsu-kun] View Results

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Least Likable Intentionally Pathetic Male Protagonist Created so That the Majority of Anime Viewers in Japan Could Relate to His Failings

1. The main character dude [Busou Shinki]

Qualifications: Devotes his life to playing dress-up with dolls. Dolls have to cook for him because he only eats microwaveable meals. Has no friends.

Here’s the plot for episode 5: This guy wins a prize vacation to Okinawa (because one of his dolls entered into a doll race) and decides to go on it, but only with his dolls (whom he applies sunscreen to in a very erotic way). But he ends up forgetting his dolls at home (because he’s dumb), meaning he’s left to enjoy his vacation without them. So he does what any Japanese otaku would do — he spends the entire episode alone, throwing rocks into the sea, waiting for his vacation to end.

This anime is best enjoyed by assuming the dolls aren’t actually sentient and that everything that happens is just in the main character’s mind. It’s somehow less pathetic that way.

2. MC-kun [Btooom!]

Qualifications: Dude graduates from high school and spends two years as a NEET, playing shitty Xbox 720 games. Though he tries to get a job with a gaming company, they keep telling him they don’t have any space for him on their team, which he takes to mean he’ll totally score the job one day (he doesn’t).

He falls in love with a girl online and then his mom finally gets sick of his shit and sends him off to an island to die. On the island he remains just as stupid as he was in real life, with his reaction skills from playing his favorite 720 game being the only things that save him from his own white knighting naivete.

Oh, and that company he tried to work for before? Yeah, the game he’s playing on the island is the game they were working on, so he essentially ended up being a tester for them for free.

Way to get used, bro.

3. Sakurasou’s main character

Qualifications: At the start of the show, this guy gets off on telling his dorm mates that he absolutely does not want to be around them any longer than he has to be (classy!). When he gets paired with an autistic artist, he gets off on it because he likes feeling superior to others. After realizing that he’s a failure at life compared to everyone (even that artist), he decides to create a video game in a month. Yes, that’s his brilliant plan to find worth in his life. As he continues with his video game plans (doomed to end in failure) he has to deal with everyone around him being plain better than him in every noticeable way as they look toward their (mostly) bright futures.

He has nothing going for him besides circumstance, and even that doesn’t work well in his favor. I guess this hits a chord with the otaku watching the show because undoubtedly they know people who succeeded where they failed and, well, this guy isn’t a succeeder.

4. Those MCs from To Love-Ru and OniAi. Because, well, they’re the same character.

Qualifications: They’re drowning in pussy but wear life preservers. Though I guess Japanese men can’t relate to that… Hmm…

This might work better: “They can’t handle interacting with members of the opposite sex and are woefully inadequate at everything they do, relying on others to help them out of nearly every mess they’re in. Their advice lacks logic and their IQ is so low it’s started to hit oil.” Yeah, that works much better.

Least Likable Intentionally Pathetic Male Protagonist Created so That the Majority of Anime Viewers in Japan Could Relate to His Failings MC-kun [Btooom!]

Sakurasou's main character

The main character dude [Busou Shinki]

Those MCs from To Love-Ru and OniAi. View Results

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Best Socially Retarded, Almost Assuredly Autistic, Blonde-ish High School Girl Intended for Creepers to Masturbate To

1. Kud [Little Busters]

A socially retarded, almost assuredly autistic, blonde-ish high school girl intended for creepers to masturbate to.

2. Frau Kojiro [Robotics;Notes]

A socially retarded, almost assuredly autistic, blonde-ish high school girl intended for creepers to masturbate to.

3. Shiina Mashiro [Sakurasou no Pet na Kanojo]

A socially retarded, almost assuredly autistic, blonde-ish high school girl intended for creepers to masturbate to.

4. Neko [K]

A socially retarded, almost assuredly autistic, blonde-ish high school girl that is… morally acceptable to masturbate to because, let’s face it, she’s smoking hot.

Best Socially Retarded, Almost Assuredly Autistic, Blonde-ish High School Girl Intended for Creepers to Masturbate To Frau Kojiro [Robotics;Notes]

Kud [Little Busters]

Neko [K]

Shiina Mashiro [Sakurasou no Pet na Kanojo] View Results

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Worst, Most Vapid Plot

1. Chousoku Henkei Gyrozetter

Drive transforming cars to beat your enemies! Yeah! Oh, and don’t forget to play our shitty arcade games and buy some merch!

2. Aikatsu

Girls buy trading cards in the anime to become idols, so girls who are watching this show: please buy trading cards too. (Yeah, it’s like Yu-Gi-Oh but somehow worse.)

3. Hidamari Sketch X Honeycomb

There are these girls in an art school and sometimes they talk to each other.

4. Girls und Panzer

Girls battle each other in tanks because… Because.

Worst, Most Vapid Plot Aikatsu

Chousoku Henkei Gyrozetter

Girls und Panzer

Hidamari Sketch X Honeycomb View Results

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Best Original Anime