The polls for Anime of the Year and 27 other categories for the 8th Anime Trending Awards are now open! These polls will run until January 26, 2022. We highly encourage everyone to watch as many of the anime nominations as possible before casting your votes.
Each winner from the 28 categories will be revealed on the 8th Anime Trending Awards night on February 20, 2022.
The 28 categories are divided into six classifications which are as follows: (You may click on the links to start voting!)
- Anime of the Year (18 nominees)
- Anime Movie of the Year (12 nominees)
- Boy of the Year (21 nominees)
- Girl of the Year (23 nominees)
- Supporting Boy of the Year (13 nominees)
- Supporting Girl of the Year (12 nominees)
- Couple-Ship of the Year (15 nominees)
- Best in Adapted Screenplay (10 nominees)
- Best in Animation (10 nominees)
- Best in Character Design (10 nominees)
- Best in Original Screenplay (10 nominees)
- Best in Sceneries and Visuals (10 nominees)
- Best in Soundtrack (10 nominees)
- Best in Voice Cast (10 nominees)
- Opening Theme Song of the Year (10 nominees)
- Ending Theme Song of the Year (10 nominees)
- Action or Adventure Anime of the Year (10 nominees)
- Comedy Anime of the Year (10 nominees)
- Drama Anime of the Year (10 nominees)
- Fantasy Anime of the Year (10 nominees)
- Music Anime of the Year (10 nominees)
- Mystery or Psychological Anime of the Year (10 nominees)
- Romance Anime of the Year (10 nominees)
- SciFi or Mecha Anime of the Year (10 nominees)
- Slice of Life Anime of the Year (10 nominees)
- Supernatural Anime of the Year (10 nominees)
[Click here]Voice Acting Awards
- Best Voice Actor (10 nominees)
- Best Voice Actress (10 nominees)
Anime Trending has been holding annual awards since 2015. A total of seven anime have since been crowned Anime of the Year, with Akudama Drive being the most recent winner. In addition to providing polls for the awards, Anime Trending has recently invited the production team behind each Anime of the Year to deliver a message to the fans. Here is the one from Akudama Drive:
18 anime are contending to claim that top title of Anime of the Year 2021: :
- 86 EIGHTY-SIX
- Attack on Titan: Final Season
- Banished from the Hero’s Party
- Bottom-Tier Character Tomozaki
- Fruits Basket: The Final Season
- HIGEHIRO
- Komi Can’t Communicate
- Mieruko-chan
- Miss Kobayashi’s Dragon Maid S
- Mushoku Tensei: Jobless Reincarnation
- Re:Zero – Starting Life in Another World- S2 Part II
- Remake our Life!
- Taisho Otome Fairy Tale
- That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime
- The Case Study of Vanitas
- To Your Eternity
- Vivy –Fluorite Eye’s Song
- Wonder Egg Priority
