{"id":65249,"date":"2023-12-22T13:28:41","date_gmt":"2023-12-22T13:28:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lostinanime.com\/?p=246852"},"modified":"2023-12-30T13:28:41","modified_gmt":"2023-12-30T13:28:41","slug":"2023-anime-year-in-review-honorable-mention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gamefootballmobileanimeiphone.com\/index.php\/2023\/12\/22\/2023-anime-year-in-review-honorable-mention\/","title":{"rendered":"2023 Anime Year in Review: The Top 10 \u2013 #3"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>#3 &#8211; Tengoku Daimakyou<\/h2>\n<p>As I noted yesterday, #3 and 4 on this list are basically a tie (and that&#8217;s true of the top two as well).\u00a0 As I also noted any of those four could easily be a #1 series in many a year, and that certainly applies to <em>Tengoku Daimakyou<\/em>.\u00a0 It just has the <em>feel<\/em> of an AotY &#8211; it checks all the requisite boxes.\u00a0 And you can bet your ass it took a couple of pretty amazing shows to beat it this year.<\/p>\n<p>The common thread running through number five (<em>Kimi wa Houkago Insomnia<\/em>) and #4 (<em>Boku no Kokoro no Yabai Yatsu<\/em>) is that they&#8217;re phenomenal manga (well, and both romance) which got relatively by the book adaptations.\u00a0 Nothing wrong with them at all, they just didn&#8217;t surpass the source material.\u00a0 <em>BokuYaba<\/em> certainly injected more stylish flair, but both those shows were broadly straightforward efforts that had source material that didn&#8217;t need a lot of embellishment.<\/p>\n<p>This is why anime based on manga are so interesting to consider.\u00a0 I love Ishiguro Masakazu, and <em>Heavenly Delusion<\/em> is a wonderful manga.\u00a0 But for my money not quite as superlative as <em>Insomnia<\/em> or especially <em>BokuYaba<\/em>, yet it finished ahead of them (albeit with the latter it was basically a coin flip).\u00a0 The reason is simple &#8211; this is a perfect adaptation, for all intents and purposes.\u00a0 It had great source material to draw on, but it elevated that material to new heights.\u00a0 Talented young director Mori Hirotaka put together a sterling team, Production I.G. imparted their usual seal of quality, and the rest is history.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s another element that needs to be addressed here.\u00a0 Production I.G. is certainly one of the elite studios in the game, but even by their standards <em>Tengoku Daimakyou<\/em> really stands out.\u00a0 And a big reason is that Mori and his team were given (by anime standards) enormous leeway in the scheduling.\u00a0 It was widely reported that the series was basically done before the first episode aired, and you could tell from the very first preview that this adaptation was going to be something special.\u00a0 I&#8217;m not going to hold my breath waiting for that to become a trend &#8211; this is the production committee system we&#8217;re talking about.\u00a0 But it does illustrate what&#8217;s possible if talented animators are actually given adequate time to do their jobs.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s another commonality to these last three series &#8211; sequels.\u00a0 At least theoretically.\u00a0 It&#8217;s only official with <em>Boku no Kokoro<\/em>, and that&#8217;s also the one of the three which always seemed likeliest to get one.\u00a0 But then, <em>Tengoku Daimakyou<\/em> was clearly given a huge budget (that&#8217;s not why it was so glorious but it didn&#8217;t hurt), evidence that the production committee really believes in it despite it only being a minor hit.\u00a0 Even if that leak is accurate we&#8217;re still probably looking at 2026 before a second season could be produced, but as I noted in my series review post, anime this good can&#8217;t be rushed.\u00a0 <em>Tengoku Daimakyou<\/em> was one of the most beautiful, creatively ambitious, and elegant anime we&#8217;ve seen in many years, and fully deserving of this spot on the 2023 list.<\/p>\n<h2>#4 &#8211; Boku no Kokoro no Yabai Yatsu<\/h2>\n<p>Now we come to the next phase of the list.\u00a0 I spoke of tiers earlier, and they&#8217;ll all even-numbered this year.\u00a0 12 was a tier, so was 8 &#8211; and so is 4.\u00a0 These are the series that clearly stand above the others for me in 2023.\u00a0 These are the ones that could, in some years, have been my #1 series (which tells you this was a very good year at the top).\u00a0 I love every show on this list but these four especially are truly exceptional.<\/p>\n<p>As the above would suggest, this show and the one immediately above it were extremely close.\u00a0 I&#8217;ll go into details about why it fell the way it did with tomorrow&#8217;s entry (for obvious reasons).\u00a0 But rest assured, <em>Boku no Kokoro no Yabai Yatsu<\/em> could very easily have been #3 this year.\u00a0 Some years it would have been #2 or #1.\u00a0 And for a variety of reasons I fully expect the second season the place even higher than the first when the anime year 2024 is reckoned up.<\/p>\n<p>About that &#8211; eligibility is worth addressing here.\u00a0 By my own rules <em>BokuYaba<\/em> doesn&#8217;t qualify as a split cour, because of the gap between seasons and the fact that the timing was not announced immediately.\u00a0 In a year like this it would have made my life easier to roll it over to 2024&#8217;s list (<em>Rurouni Kenshin<\/em> as well) but I try to be as consistent as I can.<\/p>\n<p>Again, Spring &#8211; wow.\u00a0 What a season, especially for romcom.\u00a0 I consider <em>BokuYaba<\/em> the best romcom manga currently running by a good distance.\u00a0 As with <em>Kimi wa Houkago Insomnia<\/em>, the anime didn&#8217;t surpass the manga here, but it was faithful in spirit enough to capture the essence of the manga.\u00a0 Director Akagi Hiroaki has already proved his mettle with romcoms, elevating the <em>Karakai Jouzu no Takagi-san<\/em> manga to far greater heights in anime form.\u00a0 He didn&#8217;t need to make the kind of changes here that he did there, but he clearly gets <em>BokuYaba<\/em>.\u00a0 The art isn&#8217;t quite to the standard of the source &#8211; Sakurai Norio&#8217;s brilliance with character expression (especially Kyoutarou) would be hard to match.\u00a0 But when a manga is this phenomenal, almost as good is still great.<\/p>\n<p>To say I&#8217;m excited for Season 2 would be an understatement.\u00a0 The material covered this year is great &#8211; what&#8217;s coming is even better.\u00a0 The reaction to the anime among new viewers mirrored what happened with the manga almost perfectly.\u00a0 Initial resistance and low aggregator scores, gradual buy-in, eventual acclaim.\u00a0 Kyoutarou is for my money the best protagonist in romcom (and maybe in currently manga) and he and Anna are my favorite couple beyond doubt.\u00a0 It just gets better from here, and I can hardly wait.<\/p>\n<h2>#5 &#8211; Kimi wa Houkago Insomnia<\/h2>\n<p>Spring 2023 will surely, at least for me, go down as the greatest romcom season of all-time.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>It had volume, it had depth, and it had elite quality at the top.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Every age-bracket was covered, from Akane and Taiyou in elementary to college and adulthood.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>If you love the genre as much as I do, it was an embarrassment of riches.<\/p>\n<p><em>Kimi wa Houkago Insomnia<\/em> is a high school romance and of course, anime has never had a shortage of those.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>But there are good reasons for that, as this is the age bracket that most easily lends itself to the sort of romantic tension that manga and anime seek out (just ask Bill S. from Stratford).<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>I tend to prefer the dynamic in junior high romcoms these days, but great HS romcoms are no less to be treasured merely because lesser ones are fairly common. <span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Is <em>Kimi wa Houkago Insomnia<\/em> a great romcom?<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Yes, no doubt &#8211; not as great as the manga, but great nonetheless.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>It took a true monster of a series and a historically great couple to beat it and Ganta\/Isaki out as the best series and couple of Spring and of 2023.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Lidenfilms has proven itself capable of doing stylish romance adaptations that eclipse the source material with <em>Yofukashi no Uta<\/em>.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>They didn\u2019t do that with <em>Insomniacs After School<\/em> &#8211; they delivered a solid, faithful adaptation that mostly stuck to what was on the page.<\/p>\n<p>Given how great the manga is, that\u2019s certainly a desirable result.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>If the anime lacks a certain wow factor it would have had with an auteur director or a studio that would have really doubled down on the source material\u2019s stunning art, it also avoids any real missteps and looks quite lovely.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Its depiction of the Noto Peninsula is immediately engrossing.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>And that\u2019s important, because a sense of place (with <em>Insomnia<\/em>, almost entirely <em>real<\/em> places) is crucial to this series\u2019 appeal.<\/p>\n<p>The manga has ended, but whether we\u2019ve seen the last of <em>Kimi wa Houkago Insomnia<\/em> in anime form is an open question.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>There were leaks from generally reliable sources that a second season had been greenlit.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>But that would have been somewhat surprising to be honest (the series is more a modest commercial success than a major hit), and there\u2019s been no news since.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>If this is all we get, I have no complaints, as the adaptation did justice to a truly great source material.<\/p>\n<h2>#6 &#8211; Boku no Hero Academia Season 6<\/h2>\n<p><em>Boku no Hero Academia<\/em> holds a very significant record at Lost in Anime, similar in vein to yesterday\u2019s Top 10 series but doing it one (two) better.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Six seasons, six appearances on the list.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Admittedly Season 5 was touch and go, thanks to awkward-to-adapt material and severe depletion of production resources thanks to a concurrent theatrical film (which also prompted some unwise tweaks in the narrative progression). It required a weak year to sneak in but it did, keeping <em>HeroAca\u2019s<\/em> perfect run alive.<\/p>\n<p>Season 6 was a glorious return to form.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>One I predicted, mind you &#8211; the TV series finally had Bones\u2019 full attention and it was adapting some top-shelf material.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Deku\u2019s descent into darkness is some of Horikoshi\u2019s best work, because Deku is such a superficially sunny and optimistic boy.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Horikoshi of course had laid the groundwork for this, but to see those seeds in Izuku\u2019s arc come to fruition at last was really a powerful experience.<\/p>\n<p>Was this <em>BnHA\u2019s<\/em> best season?<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>I\u2019ve thought about that, and it might just be.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>The first cour of Season 3 is the best single cour of the series, of that I have no doubt. But for consistent excellence over two I think S6 has it beat.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>And it\u2019s no coincidence that the hands-down best antagonist of the series, Stain, was the centerpiece of that S3 arc and makes an important return in the final stages of Season 6.<\/p>\n<p>Big shounen (especially <em>Jump<\/em>\u00a0shounen) series are notorious for toxic fanbases (just look at the dialogue over Togashi\u2019s hiatuses over the years).<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Even so, I think <em>Boku no Hero Academia\u2019s<\/em> is the worst in some ways.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>I certainly don\u2019t think there\u2019s another fandom that loves to complain so much.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Everything from the manga and the anime gets nitpicked to death, and it can be hard to find anyone saying anything positive a lot of the time.<\/p>\n<p>Despite all that, <em>HeroAca<\/em> continues to prosper. \u00a0Volume sales have actually trended up over the last couple of years (highly unusual with kaijuu of this age) and it ranks even higher in English sales than Japanese. \u00a0I get the feeling that it &#8211; and Horikoshi &#8211; are only going to be truly appreciated once this series is over and done. \u00a0The anime hasn\u2019t been a totally smooth ride, but it\u2019s performance in my rankings ably attests to my feelings about it.<\/p>\n<h2>#7 &#8211; Golden Kamuy 4th Season<\/h2>\n<p>By rights <em>Golden Kamuy<\/em> should have been on the 2022 Top 10 list.\u00a0 But the final half of the season was delayed for about six months, in one of the oddest turns of events I can remember in anime.\u00a0 All we were ever told was that it was due to the death of a critical staff member.\u00a0 But as far as I know that staff member was never identified, and there was no news of the passing of an obvious candidate for who it might have been.\u00a0 I have no idea what happened here but it certainly wasn&#8217;t business as usual.<\/p>\n<p>All four seasons of <em>GK<\/em> have appeared in the Top Ten lists, of course.\u00a0 In fact Season 3 was my anime of the year in 2020.\u00a0 So in that sense one could say S4 placing seventh is no big deal or even a disappointment.\u00a0 But the truth is, four for four is pretty impressive.\u00a0 And the competition was pretty strong in 2023 &#8211; there have certainly been years when Season 4 would have placed higher.<\/p>\n<p>I do think this season suffered a bit by having its momentum snuffed out by the delay and then getting literally dumped in the middle of the strongest anime season in several years.\u00a0 I also think it lacked the cohesiveness and narrative drive of S3, which among the manga&#8217;s material was uniquely suited to a seasonal anime format.\u00a0 I also think under a new director at a new studio (Brain&#8217;s Base) just a touch of <em>Golden Kamuy&#8217;s<\/em> usual sharpness was absent.\u00a0 But this is all relative, and we&#8217;re talking about an awfully high bar.<\/p>\n<p>Among Noda-sensei&#8217;s greatest strengths is his ability to keep introducing larger-than-life characters in seemingly endless numbers, usually ones who don&#8217;t neatly present as either heroes or villains.\u00a0 Boutarou is only the latest example, and he was the best new addition of the season.\u00a0 The fifth season &#8211; already announced &#8211; should be the final one.\u00a0 And I have total faith that Noda will, as always, continue to expand both the story and cast in ways that make you shake your head in admiration.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve said it before &#8211; there&#8217;s nothing in the world like a <em>Golden Kamuy<\/em> episode.<\/p>\n<h2>#8 -Jijou wo Shiranai Tenkousei ga Guigui Kuru.<\/h2>\n<p>Now we reach the point where every show was a dead-lock certainty to make the list from the moment I started seriously compiling it.\u00a0 As I said a couple days ago I mentally had 12 top ten series this year, and the last four were in a pitched battle for the last two spots.\u00a0 The top 8 were a clear step above that (though there are tiers within that group too).<\/p>\n<p><em>Jijou wo Shiranai Tenkousei ga Guigui Kuru.<\/em> was an adaptation of a manga I knew and liked, but the anime still exceeded my expectations.\u00a0 Why?\u00a0 I&#8217;m not sure if I just sold the manga a little short, or if the anime improved on it substantially.\u00a0 I think it&#8217;s some combination of both (though the anime did cut the single funniest scene in the manga).\u00a0 This was a great year for romcom anime and <em>The Clueless Transfer Student is Assertive<\/em> is part of arguably the greatest romcom season ever, Spring 2023.<\/p>\n<p>Romantic comedy about grade schoolers is a very tough needle to thread.\u00a0 Tonally speaking the balance is almost impossible to get right, but this series really gets it right.\u00a0 It&#8217;s innocent with enough substance to the relationship to feel as if it&#8217;s not just a childish crush, and just enough mild ecchi to keep the laughs coming.\u00a0 <em>Jijou wo Shirananai Tenkousei<\/em> also gets the balance just right when it comes to the bullying element in the story.\u00a0 It treats it &#8211; and the pain it causes &#8211; with the respect it deserves.\u00a0 But the series isn&#8217;t dragged into tragedy &#8211; the focus on the natural resilience of children and the importance of having someone to support you make sure that never happens.<\/p>\n<p>Yep, it&#8217;s another great Pierrot (Signpost) adaptation.\u00a0 My Top Ten lists are peppered with them and have been since the very beginning, and they do it without huge budgets or lavish animation.\u00a0 I don&#8217;t think there&#8217;s another studio out there that captures the essence of the source material as consistently and comprehensively as Pierrot does.\u00a0 This is just a wonderful anime through and through, with an incredibly charming main pair in super-chad Taiyou (aptly named) and uber-sweet Akane, and the greatest sideman around in Dai-chan.\u00a0 I&#8217;m glad so many people seemed to enjoy this series, but I suspect a lot of them don&#8217;t realize just how deep it really is.<\/p>\n<h2>#9 &#8211; Rurouni Kenshin 2023<\/h2>\n<p>I just wrote a <a href=\"https:\/\/lostinanime.com\/2023\/12\/rurouni-kenshin-meiji-kenkaku-romantan-2023-24-end-and-series-review\/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss\"  rel=\"noopener\">series review post<\/a> on <em>Rurouni Kenshin<\/em> <em>2023<\/em>, and as is my wont I won&#8217;t rehash at length here.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve spilled a lot of ink on this series over the past year, but there are good reasons for that.\u00a0 It&#8217;s one of the most important shounen in history, incredibly formative for me as a fan, and attached to major controversy.\u00a0 It&#8217;s also a series where fans were crying out for a reboot for close to two decades before finally getting one.\u00a0 In anime terms, <em>RuroKen<\/em> is a very big deal.<\/p>\n<p>To summarize what I wrote last week, I don&#8217;t think one can judge this show until after it adapts the part where the manga gets really great.\u00a0 That&#8217;s the Kyoto arc, it&#8217;s coming in 2024, and once we have that in the bank we can really start to assess Lidenfilms&#8217; work here.\u00a0 The Tokyo arc had its ups and downs in the 1996 anime, and there were things this version did better (and others that one did).\u00a0 It was a great series on the whole, but the source material isn&#8217;t uniformly great during the chapters it adapted.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t think we&#8217;re getting an ultra-premium, <em>Tengoku Daimakyou<\/em> level adaptation here &#8211; just a very good one that&#8217;s by design sticking very close to the manga.\u00a0 That&#8217;s an improvement over the &#8217;96 for me &#8211; the casting and music are not.\u00a0 We also don&#8217;t get as much directorial flair this time, but Furuhashi&#8217;s flourishes didn&#8217;t always improve things for the better.\u00a0 I like both series and there&#8217;s absolutely no reason one can&#8217;t and shouldn&#8217;t do that.\u00a0 And the Kyoto arc is so sublime that a faithful adaptation is exactly what the doctor ordered.\u00a0 If it finishes in 2024 (we still don&#8217;t know when it will premiere, and for how long it will run), &#8220;Kyoto Douran&#8221; will almost certainly place higher on next year&#8217;s Top 10 list.<\/p>\n<h2>#10 &#8211; Undead Girl Murder Farce<\/h2>\n<p>I know I&#8217;m a broken record on this subject, but this is usually the toughest spot on the year-end lists.\u00a0 2023 being a good anime year is obviously a good thing, but it makes that final cut that much harder.\u00a0 And as usual, my tiers don&#8217;t neatly give me 10 series.\u00a0 The cutoff for me this year was twelve &#8211; it often seems to be for some reason.\u00a0 As such this series and the first two on the 11-20 list are basically interchangeable.\u00a0 And certainly all good enough to be top ten shows in an average year.<\/p>\n<p><em>Undead Gil Murder Farce<\/em> was kind of an outsider in my deliberations for a long time &#8211; I was leaning in another direction.\u00a0 What turned it for me was remembering just how astonishing that finale was.\u00a0 It was a magnificent display by Hatakeyama Mamoru and a brilliant team of animators, probably &#8211; well, certainly &#8211; the most visually impressive episode of any anime this year.\u00a0 That on top of the fact that there were so many brilliant episodes over the run got <em>UGMF<\/em> over the line.<\/p>\n<p>While the final arc wasn&#8217;t the strongest <em>Undead Girl Murder Farce<\/em> had to offer, the whole package was really impressive.\u00a0 Talent wins out, and Hatakeyama is just a great director, right at the very top of the pyramid.\u00a0 The cast was fantastic, the music superb, and the entire series had a manic energy, fearlessness, and snappy rhythm that was irresistible.\u00a0 &#8220;Go big or go home&#8221; was this show&#8217;s mantra, and it always chose the former.\u00a0 There&#8217;s still a lot of story to be told here and I don&#8217;t imagine we&#8217;ll see it finished in anime form, but what we got felt complete and self-contained.\u00a0 <em>Undead Girl Murder Farce<\/em> was a testament to the idea that there&#8217;s no substitute for pure artistic genius.<\/p>\n<h2>Honorable Mention &#8211; Hirogaru Sky! Precure<\/h2>\n<p>This is a first, an Honorable Mention for a show (honesty compels me to admit) I dropped.\u00a0 This is a tough category.\u00a0 I try not to just make it a cheat to slot a 21st show into the rankings &#8211; in my ideal at least, it should be a series that&#8217;s either ineligible or one I just wouldn&#8217;t normally blog.\u00a0 I could have picked something like <em>Gamera: Rebirth<\/em> (though it was perfectly eligible), but while the story was underrated the CGI was a big turn-off.\u00a0 <em>Hirogaru Sky! Precure<\/em> (still airing and thus ineligible for the list, by the way)\u00a0 even if I did see my interest in it play itself out, feels more in alignment with the spirit of the category.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d never watched a <em>Precure<\/em> series before this one, not being that much of a mahou shoujo fan to begin with.\u00a0 Frankly what made me curious here was the apoplectic reaction among the fanbase at the idea of a male precure.\u00a0 That turned out to be something of a tempest in a teapot, as Tsubasa (&#8220;Cure Wing&#8221;) was so inoffensive and blended into the vibe so seamlessly most fans seemingly couldn&#8217;t muster much indignation about his presence (and Murase Ayumu is obviously having fun with the role).\u00a0 \u00a0I think this show does what it does quite well, actually &#8211; it&#8217;s just that what it does gets kind of repetitive, and was never really my bag in the first place.\u00a0 But I think it does have a niche in the mahou shoujo landscape, and I&#8217;m glad I got to know it.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s Top 10 time again already!?\u00a0 Indeed it is, and quite a challenge this one is going to be, too.\u00a0 It wound up being quite a solid year, certainly better than average over the last decade (and that&#8217;s two above-average years in a row).\u00a0 As usual my tiers didn&#8217;t neatly align with a top ten or twenty, which makes things a lot harder.<\/p>\n<p>A reminder &#8211; once more I\u2019ll be revealing the #1 series via an \u201cAnime of the Year\u201d video on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCeHJViN0ywNCkP4nLrue7dg?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss\"  rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">LiA YouTube channel<\/a> (a video which I will of course link here).<\/p>\n<p><strong>A Refresher on Eligibility:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m going by the same eligibility standard I used for the 2012-2022 lists \u2013 that is, shows that finished airing during the year or split-cours that finished in 2023 are eligible. Split-cour series which finish in 2024 are not eligible for this list, but series that ended this year and weren\u2019t officially <em>confirmed<\/em>\u00a0as split cour when they did are eligible.\u00a0 Shows that aired for the entire year (there weren\u2019t any in consideration for me this year) are also eligible.<\/p>\n<p>This means that in effect, the only shows not eligible for this list are the multi-cour series that began airing from Spring 2023 onwards and are still airing into Winter 2024, or true split cours that will finish in 2024.<\/p>\n<p>As you know I always like to do a little contest, so here we go\u2026 The winner will be anyone that guesses my Top 10, in order. If no one does that, I\u2019ll go with the closest guess. Guesses made by 2200 JST 12\/23\/23 will be eligible. Here\u2019s the prize: same as last year, I\u2019ll do a \u201cTop 5\u201d list or haiku on any anime theme or topic you choose. 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