So,
voting is now open for the aforementioned SPJA awards. I'm going to
disclose to you my voting process. It's very technical, so I hope
you're able to keep up.
Best
Voice Actor (JP):
Well,
I don't know who Lelouch LampeROUSE is (ahem), so that leaves L
and Kamina.
Now, I love both characters to a pretty distressing degree, but I
think that the voice played more of a role in Kamina's success-- L
was an amazing character even when he was an audio-less manga
character. So, Katsuyuki
Konishi it is.
Best
Voice Actor (EN):
I'm
pretty sure that if I don't vote for Samuel
L. Jackson I'll get my ass kicked. Besides, how many times will I
have the opportunity to do that anyway? Also, who is KYLA Hebert?
(Ahem part II.) (Yes, I know it's supposed to be Kyle Hebert.)
Best
Voice Actress (JP):
I
love Maaya
Sakamoto, but I haven't seen Kara
no Kyoukai/Garden of Sinners. That said, how many dozens more
times will we see Naruto
get nominated for things over the next few years? My vote's for Riisa
Naku in The
Girl Who Leapt Through Time.
Best
Voice Actress (EN):
Sorry,
Michelle--
I love Yoko
to death, and I'm rather fond of Rukia
as well. But Laura Bailey takes the cake as Shin Chan.
Best
Casting Director:
Even
if it's something he wants to do, landing Sammy can't be an easy
task. So Jaime Simone gets my vote for Afro
Samurai Resurrection.
Best
Character Design:
I'm
giving this one to Yuji Iwahara for Darker
than Black. I don't know Tweeny
Witches all that well, but the credit for Death
Note's designs should really go to Takeshi
Obata, who drew the manga in the first place--- not that Masaru
Kitao didn't do a good job, just that he already had a lot of good
stuff to work with. Iwahara would have been working from scratch, and
I love the character designs in DtB: they're distinct, but they
generally make functional sense, too.
Best
Mechanical Design:
Sorry,
but this one's kind of a lock, I expect. Gurren
Lagann.
Best
Male Character:
As
I mentioned before, I have no clue why Tamaki
is in this category-- he's a fun character, but he's incredibly
simple. And I love Hei,
but he's also kind of an archetype. So this time, I vote L.
Best
Female Character:
Revy.
Revyrevyrevyrevyrevy. REVY!
Best
Mascot Character:We'll
probably have more Mokona
and Kon to come,
and Boota is
too adorable with his little sunglasses and mysteriously re-growing
butt.
Background
Design:
Bleach
is good, but Hell
Girl had some really beautiful visuals. That said, it's almost
unfair to compare to TV series-- with budgets stretched over many
episodes –to a movie like The Girl Who Leapt Through Time, which
might have had a bigger budget to begin with and only a couple of
hours to fill. Still, I have to be honest and vote for the best-- The
Girl Who Leapt Through Time.
Best
OVA:
Lucky
Star...but I haven't seen Kite or Baldr Force EXE. Sorry!
Best
Feature Film:Vexille
was good, but it's all about The Girl Who Leapt Through Time for me.
Best
TV Series:
Now,
this is a tougher choice. I'm not much of a Naruto fan, and again,
it'll continue to appear on these nomination lists for a few more
years. Likewise for Shin
Chan. So my vote goes to Gurren Lagann.
Best
Original Score:
I'm
still bitter that neither Gurren Lagann nor Ghost
Hunt were on this list, but I'm going to give my vote to Emma.
Death Note had great music, but I prized Emma's light touch a bit
higher.
Best
Original Song:Again...no
Libera Me? I'm voting for the RZA's “Combat.”
Best
Director (JP):
Now,
this is a really tough choice. All three are amazing. (Psssst-- it's
MamorU Hosoda, not Mamory, SPJA. Ahem III!) That said, I think I have
to hand it to Mamoru Hosoda for The Girl Who Leapt Through Time.
Gurren Lagann would be a very very very close second.
Best
Director (EN):
Now,
again, I'm not really the best person to judge these things since I
don't follow a lot of dubs, but I've seen some of what Mike McFarland
is doing with One
Piece and am happy to give him the win on this one.
Best
Manga (Action):
I
haven't read the Tsubasa
manga, only seen the anime, but I think it might fare better as a
drama-- it's got action, but it's not ABOUT action. That said, my
vote goes to Hellsing:
its final volume is out, whereas Black
Lagoon just got started, so it'll probably come around again.
Best
Manga (Comedy):
I'm
sure you're shocked to hear I haven' read Kitsune no Yomeiri. I like
Fairy Tail
a lot but I can't help but want to vote for something off the beaten
path: Tokyo Zombie it is.
Best
Manga (Drama):
I
voted Monster
before I could even help myself, and now I feel bad for not giving
Ghost Talker's Daydream a more thorough thought. That said, Monster
just finished, so I probably wouldn't have the opportunity to vote
for its manga again.
Best
Publication:
WHY
NO YEN?! That said, I vote Style School-- I like both of VIZ's
magazines, but it's nice to see something new.
Best
Full Motion Video in Video Game:
I
voted for Final Fantasy IV before I remembered that I could abstain
from voting in any category or categories I don't want to vote in. I
probably shouldn't have voted for this, being not a gamer nor having
spent more than five minutes playing Afro Samurai and never having
played Left 4 Dead (though I did watch friends play it and yes, it
was pretty spiffy).
Okay,
give us the run-down of YOUR votes!
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