Jan4
By Meta Cast,
posted under Aku no Hana, ANIME, Ars Nova: Arpeggio of Blue Steel, Boku wa Tomodachi ga Sukunai, Chihayafuru, Coppelion, Date A Live, Fate/kaleid liner Prisma☆Illya, Free!, Freezing, Galilei Donna, Gatchaman Crowds, Girls und Panzer, Hentai Ouji to Warawanai Neko, High School DxD, IS: Infinite Stratos 2, JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, Kakumeiki Valvrave, META PROJECT, MetaVerse Episode, Monogatari Series Second Season, Outbreak Company, PODCAST, Sekai de Ichiban Tsuyoku Naritai!, Shingeki no Kyojin, Stella Jogakuin Koutou-ka c3-bu, Toaru Kagaku no Railgun S, Vividred Operation, Yozakura Quartet: Hana no Uta 
Handing out silly awards for the good and not so good from anime in 2013
Welcome folks to the first ever Metacademy Awards! Are we revealing our anime of the year? No. Are we revealing best OST? No. Those real awards are to come later, but for now the MetaCast compiled a list of fun awards to hand out for achievements, fails, orgies and… wait, what orgies? yes… and much more. We spoil a lot, so listen with caution, but hopefully you’ll enjoy!
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MUSIC
OP: “Angel” by Angela from Coppelion
Eyecatches from the Yozakura Quartet ~Hana no Uta~ OST, Disc 2
Suma’s Song: “Town Song” better known as TsunTsun Dere TsunTsun
ED: “Tsukiyomi” by phatmans after school from Yozakura Quartet ~Hana no Uta~
Sumairii’s Awards
There could’ve been so many great dockings! Opportunities missed, Vividred!
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Fosh’s Awards
Kurumi’s yandere vibes are celebrated with an award from Fosh
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Jrow’s Awards
Best Crossdresser by a longshot. Arguably best female character design of 2013.
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- Most Disappointing Full Version of a Song: “Before My Body is Dry” from Kill la Kill
- Best Cross Dresser: Rui from Gatchaman Crowds (Runner-ups: Banri from Golden Time & Yasaburou from Uchouten Kazoku)
- Best Waifu Material: Myucel from Outbreak Company
- Worst Scene: Galilei Donna ep. 4, Hozuki falls from a 6-story building, catches cold
- Worst Parents Award: Kotoura-san
- Best Short-Length Show: Muromi-san
- Best Matchup: Chihayafuru 2 finals, Misuzawa High vs. Fujisaki High
- Most Fanservice: Fairy Tail
- Best Girl of the Year: Candidates: Chihaya (Winter), Mikasa Ackerman (Spring), Lucy (Summer), Kotoha (Fall)
- The “I Wish I Were Him” Award: Hyoudou Issei from High School DxD New
- Funniest Scene: Picking a swimsuit for Petralka in Outbreak Company
lvlln’s Awards
Hanekawa with the best confession in anime in 2013
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- Worst Role Model For Young Athletes: 3-way tie between Arata Wataya from Chihayafuru 2 for illegally entering the team tournament, then exploiting his privileged position as superstar to get off scot-free , Yura Yamato from Stella Women’s Academy, High School Division Class C3 for cheating by getting the last kill as a zombie, and all members of the Iwatobi swim team from Free! for illegally substituting one of their swimmers with one from another team for relay
- All-Time Best Anime Based On a Type-Moon Property Ever: Fate/kaleid liner Prisma Illya
- Worst Opening Theme: Shinobu Time opening sung by Maaya Sakamoto from Monogatari Series Second Season
- Best Confession: Hanekawa Tsubasa to Araragi Koyomi in Monogatari Series Second Season
- Worst Spiritual Successor: tie between Vividred Operation and Gatchaman Crowds
- Hottest Sister-On-Sister Action: Nishizumi Miho (and team) vs. Nishizumi Maho (and team) tank duel from Girls und Panzer
- Most Shameless Recycling of Material: I Couldn’t Become a Hero, So I Reluctantly Decided to Get a Job (Yuushibu) for reusing animation from episode 1 for the finale, as well as trumpeting out Sphere for cameos on two consecutive episodes.
- Most Incompetent Military Training: Attack on Titan narrowly beats out Coppelion for the apparent utter lack of desensitization in the training program.
- Worst Character: Hajime Ichinose from Gatchaman Crowds
- Worst Harem Lead: Kanade Amakusa from My Mental Choices are Completely Interfering with my School Romantic Comedy (NouKome)
Highway’s Awards
From ep. 8 of Freezing Vibration. Click to remove dumb text.
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- Co-op w/ Kara | Best Arm-Related Injury Sustained By a Yuki Kaji Character: Eren Jaeger (bitten off and regrown), Q-vier (arm blown off along with most of body), Alibaba (arm bitten, then broken, and bitten again) and Issei Hyoudou (Dragon Arm)
- Best OP Nobody Listened to. Nominees: “Angel” by angela (Coppelion), Synchromanica (Galilei Donna)
- Biggest Trainwreck Harem: IS: Infinite Stratos 2 or Hyakka Ryouran Samurai Bride
- Best Harem Sequel: High School DxD New, honorable mention Boku wa Tomodachi ga Sukunai NEXT
- Best Nipples in Anime: Unnamed girl from Freezing Vibration
- Most Embarassing ED Song to Be Heard Listening To: “14 to 1” from Brothers Conflict
Kyokai’s Awards
They were in 4 of your top 5 anime last year. Trust us.
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- Uprising Seiyuu with big breaks in 2013 – Nobunaga Shimazaki, Ryouta Ohsaka in males, while Emiri Katou and Mikako Komatsu in females
- Overused Seiyuu – HanaKana and Fukuyama Jun (holy crap)
- Badass Seiyuu with Variety – Miki Shinchirou for Monogatari series’ Kaiki, Gintarou from Gingitsune, Hakkenden’s pink haired bishie, Robotic;Notes anti-hero and that hentai freak from Azazel-san Z
- Previews That Did Not Help – Hiroshi Nagahama (Director) and Mangaka (Oshimi Shuuzou) actually flipping the proverbial finger to everyone on every preview of Aku no Hana.
- Shaft and NisiOisin became a Match made in heaven for Monogatari Series Second Season
- Best fights – JOJO! with all of its fabulousness!
Karakuri’s Awards
How screwed are all those kids if this guy didn’t want to liberate Dorssia?
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- Best Equal Opportunity Fanservice: Kill la Kill
- Most Fabulous Cast: Uta no Prince-sama 2000% (or actually a tie with JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure, since that was pretty damn close too)
- Silliest Case of (Almost) Incest: Galilei Donna wins over OreImo due to inexplicable time travel
- “Just as Keikaku” Award: L-Elf from Kakumeiki Valvrave
Anaaga’s Awards
When not tossing around the pigskin, Dio & Jojo hate each other’s guts
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- Best Yaoi Ship of the Year: Haruto x L-Elf from Kakumeiki Valrave
- Best Frenemy: Jonathan x Dio from JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure and Eren x Every Titan in Shingeki no Kyojin
- Best Yaoi Orgy: all characters in Free!
- Most Disappointing Yaoi Orgy: all the male characters in Uta no Prince-sama 2000%
- Best Yuri Orgy with Potential: Senki Zesshou Symphogear G: In the Distance, That Day, When the Star Became Music…
- Cutest Yuri Pairing: Ilya x Miyu in Fate/kaleid liner Prisma Illya
- Best Yaoi Ship with Potential: Taichi x Arata in Chihayafuru 2
- Best Bittersweet Yaoi Pairing: H-neun x X-eins in Kakumeiki Valrave
- That Guy Everybody Wanna Do: tie between Haru from Free! and Eren from Shingeki no Kyojin
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POWUH: iLurker with 7 comments
I think I’ll enjoy the wards here so much more than the real awards coming up later.
A few of the awards got me laughing for real. Here’s a obligatory text of me laughing. LOL!
POWUH: and LOLi Defender with 10997 comments
That is a great collection of Railgun Theories.
Worst opening theme: Shinobu Time opening sung by Maaya Sakamoto for Monogatari Series Second Season She shares this with Christoper Eccelston and his Worst Doctor to appear in the 50th Anniversary Doctor Who special. I call it the Diva Award.
POWUH: and LOLi Defender with 10997 comments
I always kept my eyes on Ao.
It was a four story building, and she hit three cars. But yeah, that was a nasty cold.
POWUH: and Yaoi Fangirl~ with 2320 comments
With bunch of guys swimming together, “admiring” Haru’s swimming style, wanting to “become” Haru or guys who are worth it to “swim” with Haru, that’s definitely an orgy right there.
I’m surprised, since Fosh turned out to be the most uke out of you guys. Even Min turned into seme for his guy choice, considering how uke his voice is.
POWUH: and LOLi Defender with 10997 comments
…the truth is out…
POWUH: Meta Team and PreCure Mastah with 9203 comments
ahahahaha Anaaga you always make me laugh xD
POWUH: and Vampire Lover with 11746 comments
We must tread lightly.
POWUH: Meta Team and Meta-Analyst with 3844 comments
Kurumi should just go 目からビーム. That would be enough…-nyo.
Just what happened to Galileo Donna. It was quite hyped up preseason and now it seems to have drifted off the radar.
You all also left out the Trappu award…
The Blazblue production team knew they were going to be sucky and all the episode previews were 4th wall nonsensical.
Henneko is actually cute yet serious. And it manages to mix the seriousness with the silly. Like how Yokodera suggest to loli-Tsukushi to play strippy-strippy~ and Tsukiko threatening to report him to the police – 10 years later. Plus it also has *cute* bedsheets as BD extras. Definately cute and not ecchi is any sense. >_>
POWUH: and LOLi Defender with 10997 comments
Hen’neko. Like Ryo-ku-bu, Kaki Yuki can relax. No arms lost.
POWUH: Meta Team and PreCure Mastah with 9203 comments
Were there any traps besides Haganai s2? I can’t really remember any…
POWUH: Meta Team and Meta-Analyst with 3844 comments
Gasper (DxD, not Mondaiji)
POWUH: Meta Team and PreCure Mastah with 9203 comments
Gasper is probably the only one I can actually remember as an official trap character from 2013!
POWUH: 600-699 and Romance Expert with 652 comments
I think I ended up stopping at ep 8 somewhere in vividread operation and forgot to follow/lost interest. were there more variations in the docking part, by that I mean did the other girls fuse with each other instead of the MC?
if not then im not missing out on anything.
POWUH: 700-799 and Parkouring Fanboy with 776 comments
If you saw thru ep 8, you saw all but one of the Docking combos. Unfortunately, the one you missed wasn’t much of a variation, involving Akane as one of the 2 like all the others.
POWUH: 600-699 and Romance Expert with 652 comments
with the “mysterious transfer girl”, right?
yep, didnt really miss anything.
POWUH: and Vampire Lover with 11746 comments
I’m with Fosh on a number of his awards: giving Kurumi an award for her profound yandere vibes. She’s creepy yet hot at the same time and we’ll be seeing more of that next season since “Date A Live II” is slated for Spring 2014. Can’t wait!!
Anyone who can cross-dress and look that convincing is absolutely scary because you’d take them for the real thing and Rui does so well. I’d say he’d have competition with Phi Brain’s Ana but season 3 is still ongoing so Rui wins by default.
Multiple season appearances for Kana Hanazawa is right. She’s all over the place and at a young age, too. I don’t know if most remember this but for the prior “Year Ender” posts, she singlehandedly dominated 2011 for the favorite female seiyuu category. Her work ethic is nothing to sniff at. The girl is a voice acting machine.
Side note: Actually, a lot of animes we’ve seen in 2013 are getting immediate sequels.
POWUH: Meta Team and PreCure Mastah with 9203 comments
I can’t wait for freaking Date-a-live s2! I saw the OVA and was like damn I really miss these characters.
POWUH: and Vampire Lover with 11746 comments
What has me really excited for the second season is that the preview (with translating help from the ANN post) said the entire first season was just a prologue which means there’s a lot more to come.
POWUH: Meta Team and PreCure Mastah with 9203 comments
Ohhh? That sounds great 😀
POWUH: Meta Team and Meta-Analyst with 3844 comments
I want Kurumi to cosplay! Like in Date-A-Akihabara…Show ▼
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POWUH: and Vampire Lover with 11746 comments
I find that would be conflicting with how seductive Kurumi looks.
POWUH: Metanorn Lover with 151 comments
Kana Hanazawa has been getting role after role since 2010, and still no sign of her losing steam. I’m expecting more good stuff from her this year, and of course, more Noto Mamiko.
POWUH: Meta Team and Ringleader Extraordinaire~ with 6433 comments
Loved the podcast and everything that everyone came up with. I liked the scandalous ones more of course. xD
Btw, by uprising seiyuu, I meant these people hit fame in 2013 with major roles as in:
Nobunaga Shimazaki – Date A Live (Shidou), Free! (Haru), Photokano (Kazuya), with upcoming roles in Pupa, Nobunagun, Nobunaga the Fool and Buddy Complex.
Ryota Ohsaka – Blood Lad (Staz), Gatchaman Crowds (Sugane), Hataraku Maou-sama! (Maou), Valvrave (Haruto), Oregairu (Eita), Rozen Maiden (Jun), with upcoming roles in Hamatora, Nagi to Asukara and Strike the Blood.
Emiri Kato – Monogatari (Mayoi), Madoka Magica (Kyuubey), with roles in Hamatora, D-frag! and Wake up, girls!
Mikako Komatsu – Gundam Build Fighters (Sei), Henneko (Youto), SNAFU (Totsuka), with upcoming roles in Noragami, Nisekoi and Nagi no Asukara.
Also good catch of tsundere tsundere of Quartet, really, people need to see this series more. As well, am I the only one who finished Aku no Hana. Yes, it was horribly painful but I did it somehow.
POWUH: Meta Team and Spammy Tamer with 7115 comments
Yozakura Quartet really has some great incidental music, like the Town Song and especially the eyecatch bumpers. Hopefully it won’t make the show feel too dated for those who rewatch it in a few years, but it’s probably good because the music has a more classic feel to it, unlike something like the Love Hina OP song (Sakura Saku) which uses record scratches because they were cool at the time (and now just sounds “Wow, oooold”).
POWUH: Meta Team and Ringleader Extraordinaire~ with 6433 comments
I loved the usage of eyecatch bumper and definitely applaud Jrow’s usage of it. I’m sure the Quartet music would stay fresh at least for a decade. And isn’t the fun of watching old shows is us saying, ‘Oh man this happened or so oldschool?’ 😉
POWUH: Meta Team and Meta-Analyst with 3844 comments
Oh yeah, biggest disappointment here: Nyaruko W. Did not live up to the first season and recycled stuff too much.
POWUH: and Vampire Lover with 11746 comments
That hurt a lot to see it tank so severely and the first season did so well. What wasted potential.
POWUH: and LOLi Defender with 10997 comments
Oh, yes. I feel that pain. They did good with Cthuko x Mahiro, but it ended up to naught….
POWUH: Meta Team and Spammy Tamer with 7115 comments
The problem was that there just wasn’t much material left for them to use. That was really obvious just a couple of episodes in. But in reality, the last few episodes of the first season were losing steam the same way. It really was a show that probably shouldn’t have had a second season.
POWUH: and Vampire Lover with 11746 comments
It was a gamble because the end of the first season made it clear that another was the way.
POWUH: Meta Team and Meta-Analyst with 3844 comments
In a sense you’re right. The Nyaruani 5-minute episodes were actually better than the full 24 minute shows. Quick and sharp witted humour. There is only so much fork’ing around (haha – bad pun) until it becomes mundane.
Speaking of material, and many will disagree with Shana Final was the best of the 3 seasons. Why? It is how the first two seasons should have been done; instead they concentrated on school melodrama instead of fleshing out the world. We don’t really get to see the Flame Hazes, Guze no Ou and the backstory until S3 when appear left, right, centre, up, down, left, right, etc2.
POWUH: Meta Team and PreCure Mastah with 9203 comments
Yeah they ran out of crazy anime references to use and the “romance” was just bad.
POWUH: Meta Resident and LN Informant with 1529 comments
Re Galilei Donna:
The Galileo Donna director has revealed in a radio interview that executive meddling may have been partly responsible for the show’s downfall.
The anime was originally designed to span 20+ episodes, and the story had already been planned to that extent.
However, the Aniplex producers suddenly asked the show’s run to be reduced to 11 episodes, and thus the creative team were forced to cut down the entire story to fit the new length.
http://forums.animesuki.com/showpost.php?p=4952213&postcount=574
POWUH: Meta Team and Spammy Tamer with 7115 comments
Probably cause they saw how it was going to be and said “Man, we can’t show this for two cours”. And I’m one of the people who enjoyed Galilei Donna. You just can’t deny that a lot of the story is just dumb.
POWUH: Meta Team and Meta-Analyst with 3844 comments
Translation: They decided to euthanise it but did not do a good job of it.
That is why Mondaiji and Prisma Illya were good: They knew when to stop without dragging it out. If you have material to do 10 eps, do 10, no need to drag it out (although I would say Prisma Illya DID drag episodes out – see my series review). Mondaiji just chose a good point in the series to end and leave it open to further seasons (which sadly I understand is unlikely because the disc sales were poor).
POWUH: Meta Team and Meta-Analyst with 3844 comments
*Kicks spamcatcher yet again. There must be a word it does not like.
One other thing. Watched Suisei no Gargantia after reading the commentaries. While it was decent, the issue I had was the pacing. It had a decent storyline/plot but much of it was concentrated on the last few episodes, in a sense just like Gene’i Taiyou. Surprisingly, not enough people died for an UroButcher show. 😛
POWUH: and Vampire Lover with 11746 comments
Maybe he was taking a breather to gear up for the continuing story because Suisei no Gargantia has another season in the works along with another season of Psycho-Pass that has yet to be announced with a release date.
POWUH: and Yaoi Fangirl~ with 2320 comments
With all the “squid-like” creatures being killed and trampled during the main character’s search in the ocean, blood and “squid” pieces all over the place, I’d say there were more than enough death already.
POWUH: 800-899 and Mad Scientist with 814 comments
Don’t forget those poor, vaporized pirates. Never forget. o7
POWUH: Meta Team and Meta-Analyst with 3844 comments
All don’t count as they are not MC or support! Or are you implying that Madoka, Sayaka, Mami, Iskandar, Diarmurd, Gilles are faceless grunts? (Lancelot was faceless for a while and assassins are just… sadly Hougu fodder. T_T)
POWUH: 800-899 and Mad Scientist with 814 comments
I don’t recall there being a requirement for characters who die to be part of the main cast.
POWUH: Meta Team and Meta-Analyst with 3844 comments
/me thinks the spamcatcher needs to be retrained.
POWUH: Meta Team and Ringleader Extraordinaire~ with 6433 comments
POWUH: Meta Team and Spammy Tamer with 7115 comments
Nah, it’s not the yaoi mentions that do that, but there is sometimes some *other* stuff on her twitter feed…
yikes.
POWUH: and Yaoi Fangirl~ with 2320 comments
Whoops, and here I thought I’ve toned myself down a little bit, teheh
POWUH: Meta Team and Spammy Tamer with 7115 comments
I’d have to say that you have in the last few months. 🙂