{"id":3537,"date":"2018-08-12T00:27:38","date_gmt":"2018-08-12T07:27:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/?p=3537"},"modified":"2024-09-13T23:41:03","modified_gmt":"2024-09-14T06:41:03","slug":"tada-never-falls-in-love-reigns-supreme-in-the-spring-2018-anime-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/2018\/08\/12\/tada-never-falls-in-love-reigns-supreme-in-the-spring-2018-anime-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"Tada Never Falls in Love Reigns supreme in the Spring 2018 Anime Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Love is in the air once again as <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Tada Never Falls in Love<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> was officially crowned as the Anime of the Season (AOTS) for Spring 2018, making it the fifth Romance Anime to win the top seasonal title in 6 seasons. The anime also took home 5 other awards which included two side category awards (Favorite Romance and Favorite Original Anime), Favorite Opening Theme Song for \u201cOtomodachi Film\u201d by Masayoshi Ooishi \u2013 which beats the popular songwriter Sawano Hiroyuki\u2019s \u201cBinary Star\u201d in a close margin of 68 votes; Kaoru Ijuuin meanwhile wins the Favorite Supporting Male Character for the anime series, this after successfully leading the ship to sail for the series\u2019 lead couple, Mitsuyoshi Tada and Teresa Wagner, who in turn wins as this season\u2019s Favorite Couple-Ship.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none; overflow: hidden;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/post.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2FAnitrendz%2Fphotos%2Fa.2227061617531346.1073741972.1423488371222012%2F2225634501007391%2F%3Ftype%3D3&amp;width=500\" width=\"500\" height=\"657\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"3539\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/2018\/08\/12\/tada-never-falls-in-love-reigns-supreme-in-the-spring-2018-anime-awards\/spring2018template_top10\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/spring2018template_top10.png?fit=785%2C1222&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"785,1222\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Spring 2018 Top 10 Anime\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/spring2018template_top10.png?fit=193%2C300&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/spring2018template_top10.png?fit=658%2C1024&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"wp-image-3539 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/spring2018template_top10.png?resize=696%2C1084&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"696\" height=\"1084\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/spring2018template_top10.png?w=785&amp;ssl=1 785w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/spring2018template_top10.png?resize=193%2C300&amp;ssl=1 193w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/spring2018template_top10.png?resize=768%2C1196&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/spring2018template_top10.png?resize=658%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 658w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 696px) 100vw, 696px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Tada Never Falls in Love<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> becomes the first AOTS title for Doga Kobo winning by a commanding lead of 370 votes over <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Steins;Gate 0 <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2013 which in turn fails to give White Fox its first AOTS title, marking the third time that the studio ends up being a bridesmaid in the seasonal awards. <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Steins;Gate 0<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> dominated though in the side categories, winning 4 awards that includes Favorite Drama, Favorite SciFi or Mecha, Favorite Sequel or New Season, and Favorite Mystery or Psychological Anime. Though it was not able to win as AOTS, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Steins;Gate 0<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> still has episodes to air this coming Summer and has a chance to make a better impression for fans before the polls begin for the Anime of the Year (AOTY) title for the upcoming 5<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">th<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Anime Trending Awards (ATA 2019).<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none; overflow: hidden;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/post.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2FAnitrendz%2Fphotos%2Fa.2227061617531346.1073741972.1423488371222012%2F2225633674340807%2F%3Ftype%3D3&amp;width=500\" width=\"500\" height=\"657\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none; overflow: hidden;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/post.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2FAnitrendz%2Fphotos%2Fa.2227061617531346.1073741972.1423488371222012%2F2225625687674939%2F%3Ftype%3D3&amp;width=500\" width=\"500\" height=\"657\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none; overflow: hidden;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/post.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2FAnitrendz%2Fphotos%2Fa.2227061617531346.1073741972.1423488371222012%2F2225627421008099%2F%3Ftype%3D3&amp;width=500\" width=\"500\" height=\"657\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none; overflow: hidden;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/post.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2FAnitrendz%2Fphotos%2Fa.2227061617531346.1073741972.1423488371222012%2F2225626801008161%2F%3Ftype%3D3&amp;width=500\" width=\"500\" height=\"657\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none; overflow: hidden;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/post.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2FAnitrendz%2Fphotos%2Fa.2227061617531346.1073741972.1423488371222012%2F2225627801008061%2F%3Ftype%3D3&amp;width=500\" width=\"500\" height=\"657\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><b>\u201cYou\u2019ll Never See It Coming\u201d<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Joker, Ren Amamiya (<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">PERSONA5 The Animation<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">) wins as the \u2018Favorite Male Character\u2019 for Spring 2018, denying the red-head chef, Souma Yukihira (<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Food Wars! The Third Plate 2018<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">) the chance to score a three-peat for the award. Amamiya, who seems to be successful in carrying over that \u2018bae\u2019 aura to the anime itself, was also able to <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/2018\/05\/25\/amamiya-takes-lead-in-latest-spring-2018-male-charts-ends-yukihiras-22-week-unbeaten-streak\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">cut Yukihira\u2019s 22 consecutive winning streak<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in the weekly male character charts during the 5<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">th<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> week of the season and was able to win 2 more weeks after that. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"3542\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/2018\/08\/12\/tada-never-falls-in-love-reigns-supreme-in-the-spring-2018-anime-awards\/male-characters\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Male-Characters.png?fit=785%2C1222&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"785,1222\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Male Characters\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Male-Characters.png?fit=193%2C300&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Male-Characters.png?fit=658%2C1024&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3542 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Male-Characters.png?resize=696%2C1083&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"696\" height=\"1083\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Male-Characters.png?w=785&amp;ssl=1 785w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Male-Characters.png?resize=193%2C300&amp;ssl=1 193w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Male-Characters.png?resize=768%2C1196&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Male-Characters.png?resize=658%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 658w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 696px) 100vw, 696px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It has been a rocky season for Yukihira who was only able to win 3 out of the 9 charting weeks for the Character Charts, getting passed through once by not only Amamiya, but also by the Rintarou Okabe (<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Steins; Gate 0<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">) and Mitsuyoshi Tada (<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Tada Never Falls in Love<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">). For someone who was able to have two seasonal clean sheets, the competition he faced is quite unexpected for many, most especially for the red-haired chef \u2013 which as the lyrics of one of <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">PERSONA5<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2019s theme songs go \u2013 had \u201cnever seen it coming\u201d. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Despite not winning this season, Yukihira is still though included for next year\u2019s nominees for Man of the Year (MOTY), marking his 4<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">th<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> straight appearance for the said title, which he first won back in 2016. His nomination will be the only nomination that the <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Food Wars! <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">will have in the upcoming 5<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">th<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Anime Trending Awards in February 2019. For Amamiya, his nomination is just one of the 7 nominations that <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">PERSONA5 The Animation<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> would have, notably also including Best in Soundtrack, in which the anime\u2019s original source is already well-known for.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Yukihira\u2019s power to dominate an entire season seems to have transferred to Karen Kohiruimaki (<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">SAO Alternative: Gun Gale Online<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">) who won as this season\u2019s Favorite Female Character. The pink loli shooter won 8 out of the 9 charting weeks and was only interrupted once during the season\u2019s 4<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">th<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> week by Teresa Wagner (<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Tada Never Falls in Love<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">), but went on to win for 7 consecutive weeks \u2013 the longest winning streak ever by a female character since Shirayuki\u2019s (<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Snow White with the Red Hair<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">) 9-week winning streak in Winter 2016. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none; overflow: hidden;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/post.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2FAnitrendz%2Fphotos%2Fa.2227061617531346.1073741972.1423488371222012%2F2225631517674356%2F%3Ftype%3D3&amp;width=500\" width=\"500\" height=\"657\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Kohiruimaki\u2019s voice actress\u2019 (Tomori Kusunoki) song \u201cTo see the Future\u201d won as this season\u2019s Favorite Ending Theme Song for <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">SAO Alternative: Gun Gale Online, <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">after staying undefeated for the whole duration this season\u2019s soundtrack charts. The anime series itself had a very good showing in this season\u2019s top anime charts, placing 3<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">rd<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> overall in the end and earned a spot as a nominee for ATA 2019 Anime of the Year \u2013 something many would also say, they \u201cnever saw \u00a0it coming\u201d especially for an anime that was actually a spin-off of the original show that seems to have a polarized perception among the anime community. <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">SAO Alternative: Gun Gale Online<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> earned quite a lot of positive reviews and is nominated for a total of 10 awards in the upcoming ATA 2019, almost getting nominated in all 6 Aspect Awards except for Best in Sceneries and Visuals. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none; overflow: hidden;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/post.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2FAnitrendz%2Fphotos%2Fa.2227061617531346.1073741972.1423488371222012%2F2225629624341212%2F%3Ftype%3D3&amp;width=500\" width=\"500\" height=\"657\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Noobles, Anime Trending\u2019s Editor-in-Chief was able to have a <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/2017\/10\/16\/crunchyroll-expo-kinos-journey-author-keiichi-sigsawa-interview\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">chance to interview<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> the anime\u2019s original author, Keiichi Sigsawa, who was also the author of <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Kino\u2019s Journey, <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">back in last year\u2019s Crunchyroll Expo.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">Aside from Best in Sceneries and Visuals, the 6 Aspect Awards includes Best in Animation Effects and Sequences, Best in Adaptation, Best in Character Design, Best in Ensemble and Best in Soundtrack<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><b>Domination<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hinamatsuri<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> dominates the nomination count tally for ATA 2019 among the Spring 2018 anime, earning a total of 12 nominations, which includes Anime of the Year and most coming from Character Awards. The anime was almost able to fill out the entire \u2018Girl of the Year\u2019 nomination slots for the season, having 3 of the 5 spots available occupied by Hina, Anzu, and Hitomi Mishima \u2013 quite reminiscent of <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Blend S<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2019 stint of occupying all of the Supporting Man of the Year spots for Fall 2016. \u00a0The latter two girls mentioned are also nominated for \u2018Supporting Girl of the Year\u2019.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"3541\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/2018\/08\/12\/tada-never-falls-in-love-reigns-supreme-in-the-spring-2018-anime-awards\/female-characters-2\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Female-Characters.png?fit=785%2C1222&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"785,1222\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Female Characters\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Female-Characters.png?fit=193%2C300&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Female-Characters.png?fit=658%2C1024&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3541 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Female-Characters.png?resize=696%2C1083&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"696\" height=\"1083\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Female-Characters.png?w=785&amp;ssl=1 785w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Female-Characters.png?resize=193%2C300&amp;ssl=1 193w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Female-Characters.png?resize=768%2C1196&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Female-Characters.png?resize=658%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 658w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 696px) 100vw, 696px\" \/><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As mentioned, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hinamatsuri<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> also qualifies for the \u2018Anime of the Year\u2019 (AOTY) title for the 5<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">th<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Anime Trending Awards in February next year, thanks to it being the highest-ranking anime during the Last Week Advantage Polls of Spring 2018 that didn\u2019t secure the 5% trailing benchmark and for at least reaching the top spot once. \u00a0The number of nominations the anime got, especially for the character awards alone is somewhat not surprising given that based on feedback by most viewers, the anime was comedy gold, distinctly marked by the picture below:<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none; overflow: hidden;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/post.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2FAnitrendz%2Fphotos%2Fa.2227061617531346.1073741972.1423488371222012%2F2225627064341468%2F%3Ftype%3D3&amp;width=500\" width=\"500\" height=\"657\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This season alone, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hinamatsuri<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> was able to win the award for Favorite Comedy and Favorite Supernatural, while Anzu wins the Favorite Supporting Female Character, which can be attributed to the observable emotional attachment of its fans to her story.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none; overflow: hidden;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/post.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2FAnitrendz%2Fphotos%2Fa.2227061617531346.1073741972.1423488371222012%2F2225630651007776%2F%3Ftype%3D3&amp;width=500\" width=\"500\" height=\"657\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><b>My Hero Academia fails to qualify for AOTY \u2013 for now<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Hinamatsuri<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> was able to luckily cling onto the AOTY nomination by a thread, for the third season of <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">My Hero Academia<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, it\u2019s an entire different story. The anime which placed 6<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">th<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> overall in the final tally of polls for ATA 2018 Anime of the Year was shockingly not able to secure a third consecutive AOTY nomination for ATA 2019, after a disappointing chart performance for Spring 2018 that almost booted the show \u00a0out of the Top 10 during the 8th week of the seasonal charts. As fate might have it, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">My Hero Academia <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">only finished \u00a0at 6<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">th<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> place overall for the season. The anime didn\u2019t even win a single award this season, losing to <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">SAO Alternative: Gun Gale Online<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> for Favorite Action or Adventure; and to <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Steins;Gate 0<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Lostorage conflated WIXOSS<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> for Favorite Sequel or New Season Anime.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">My Hero Academia <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0still has \u00a0a second chance though to qualify for AOTY if it \u00a0manages to win the Leftover Polls this coming summer and make it to Wildcard Rounds in December, facing the other seasonal leftover winners and those anime that had a bundled release. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">For now, the anime at least secured a nomination for Man of the Year and Supporting Man of the Year, courtesy of Izuku Midoriya and Shouto Todoroki. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><b>Road to #ATA2019: the 5<\/b><b>th<\/b><b> Anime Trending Awards <\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A total of 20 anime were able to at least secure a nomination for the 5<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">th<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Anime Trending Awards. Listed below are the anime that qualified in the order of most number of nominations<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><b><i>Hinamatsuri<\/i><\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u2013 12 nominations<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><b><i>SAO Alternative: Gun Gale Online<\/i><\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u2013 10 nominations<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><b><i>Tada Never Falls in Love<\/i><\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u2013 10 nominations<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><b><i>Steins;Gate 0<\/i><\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u2013 8 nominations<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Wotakoi: Love is Hard for Otaku<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u2013 8 nominations<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">PERSONA5 the Animation<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u2013 7 nominations<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">My Hero Academia S3<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u2013 7 nominations<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Lostorage conflated WIXOSS<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u2013 5 nominations<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Legend of the Galactic Heroes &#8211; Die Neue These<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> &#8211; 5<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Tokyo Ghoul:re<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> &#8211; 4<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Megalo Box<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> &#8211; \u00a05 nominations<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Comic Girls<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u2013 3 nominations<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Kakuriyo -Bed &amp; Breakfast for Spirits<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u2013 2 nominations<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Food Wars! The Third Plate (2018)<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u2013 1 nomination<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Uma Musume: Pretty Derby<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u2013 1 nomination<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Golden Kamuy<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u2013 1 nomination<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Real Girl<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u2013 1 nomination<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">My Sweet Tyrant<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u2013 1 nomination<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Dragon Pilot: Hisone and Masotan<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u2013 1 nomination<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Highlighted in <\/span><b>bold<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> are the anime nominated for Anime of the Year<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Updated List of Nominees of the 5th Anime Trending Awards can be seen\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/ata\/2019\/nominees\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">here<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Full Results can be seen\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pg\/atawards.official\/photos\/?tab=album&amp;album_id=2044661708886415\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">here<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tada Never Falls in Love is the 5th Romance Anime to win AOTS in the past 6 seasons<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":3550,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,272,137],"tags":[170,291,201,307,197,127],"class_list":["post-3537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-anime","category-anime-awards","category-feature","tag-food-wars","tag-hinamatsuri","tag-my-hero-academia","tag-persona5","tag-steinsgate","tag-sword-art-online-alternative-gun-gale-online"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/ATA-2018-Nominees-from-a-Season2.png?fit=900%2C503&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8n4QV-V3","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3537"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3537"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3537\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3861,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3537\/revisions\/3861"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}