Crunchyroll Doesn't Know Anything About Music

0:00 [Music] and the anime award goes to attack on Titan final season final chapter special one no God no God please no no no no all the crunchy roll Awards this probably isn't the first time that you've heard someone complain about them and I'm certain not going to be the last one to do so the country roll anime Awards have been going on since around 2016 allowing fans to vote on their favorite categories for their favorite anime that happened to air over that previous year this is set up more or

0:45 less the same way things like the Oscars are set up with different categories like Best Director best voice acting performance in the case of anime and things like best art best character designs all sorts of different categories that fans can vote on just based on their own personal thoughts and feelings and to be honest in the very beginning of the awards Inception I thought it was kind of a fun way to engage the fans because crunchy roll was basically just an anime streaming site it had nothing to do with the industry as a larger whole and it just gave fans a chance to show what kinds of shows they liked and things that they were appreciating with no bigger consequences fast forward to 2024 where the previous year of 2023 was being judged and we have a full red carpet production hosted

1:31 in Tokyo with IND veterans and professionals coming in and various anime related and not even anime related celebrities coming to present Awards in all sorts of different categories to celebrate anime as you can see these Awards have gotten a lot bigger than they were probably ever intended to become and as much as I really don't care that much about Awards shows in general this year just really bothered me a lot specifically because as you can see from the title crunchy roll doesn't know anything about music now it's a little bit weird for me to put it in those words particularly because Crunchyroll themselves as a company doesn't have anything to do with how these categories or I guess the nominations for each category are selected from some light research online

2:16 you can find that their judging pool is actually selected from industry veterans and professionals as well as a lot of anime related content creators my gripes are very much more specifically geared towards things like music and this doesn't just go for the music C or itself but because Music and Sound related things always seem to be very offputting for people who don't really understand the finer nuances of how music works it seems to be weirdly judged by people who clearly don't have any knowledge on the matter it doesn't seem like they know a lot of people that know how to talk about music and given that they have so many industry connections as they've put it it seems weird that the music picks are always so

3:04 lackluster and kind of basic my biggest argument against the way that they judge things right now is that they probably should shift more towards an Oscar like approach where only people within the industry are actually doing the judging and then I suppose if they wanted to they could have some people who do anime reviews but again all these people who are online whether their huge content creators or maybe smaller people like me were really nothing more than just fans with a platform and so I feel like it's not fair for people like us to be judging unless it's on more broad categories I think fans hold about 30% sway which is pretty significant when you consider that that's like almost a third of the power of the whole voting

3:49 base but if they want to keep it that way then I feel like they should do fan favorite Awards so they could have just one category that's a fan favorite of best anime or whatever sort of broad thing they can do or having something a little more specialized so doing something like having the awards show presenting what the judges and the industry professionals and all of those related people have voted for in the actual awards show and then maybe in the bottom third or something you could have a little box that just shows what the fans voted for or even just posting all of the things online so that we can see what the fan vote was versus the professional vote for each section it's kind of bad to keep letting the fans vote in such a way that they have all

4:35 this power over it fans are just going to vote for what their favorite is they don't care about what the category is and of course this is not exactly a failure but it's a carryover from the old system when it was just an online fan pole whether we like to admit it or not the crunchy roll Awards have become something of a prestigious award ceremony for anime on a Global Perspective more disillusion fans like myself and obviously everyone else who has complained about it online just don't really see these meaning anything even with all the prestige attached to them getting back to the main point my biggest gripe with the Crunchyroll Awards is of course the music section best opening and best ending are usually pretty decent because that's not necessarily just about the song There's a whole animated section and so when

5:21 people are voting on the favorite song They're Not Just voting on the song They're voting for the actual intro or outro sequence that goes with it but like I've said in the past before and in honestly a lot of real life conversations people in general just don't really know how to talk about music I mean even people who know a lot about music don't always know what to say I often find myself at a loss for words when I'm trying to describe something because music is a lot about feeling but I'm always very conscious of it so I'm kind of a weird outlier when it comes to listening to background music and soundtracks and scores and things like that so just to kind of go over again how Crunchyroll or rather their judging panel don't really know what they're doing when they're nominating music sections let's just look at every past Year's nominations

6:06 and winners and just go over them really quickly to see where things went wrong so starting off with the year of 2016 and would you look at that there is no music category or at the very least there was no soundtrack category maybe there was an opening and ending thing uh I just have the list that I've written out here and there wasn't one for the best soundtrack I'm not going to be too upset about it again this started out as just a fan pole online and they would just show off whatever came up it just seems like they hadn't really refined their categories yet because again it was just a pull for fun honestly I didn't mind it that way I don't remember necessarily liking a lot of the results that won or anything like that but I mean it was just a fun way to see what people were interested in next we have 2017 the year that arguably I think is

6:52 probably the only year that I don't actually have any real arguments against or any problems with because when we take a look at these nominations and the one actually won they're all great the winner was obviously Maiden Abyss Kevin penin I talked about it in a previous video I wasn't super into it and I definitely didn't vote for it in the winning category but you know I'm not upset that it won and it was up against a lot of other great shows like I didn't watch AKA but AKA was there and the soundtrack by Takahashi yo who is just incredible he wrote the soundtrack for healer girl and sing a little bit of Harmony incredible soundtracks so I'm assuming AA also must have had a great soundtrack and we also had land of the lustrous noi by fuwa yoshiaki I have

7:39 talked about many times on this channel and I absolutely love that soundtrack it's still probably one of if not my favorite anime soundtrack to this day just amazing stuff there we also had little witch Academia osim Michu arguably my favorite anime composer of all time with one of my favorite soundtracks I think I might like it a little bit less than land of the lustrous but I mean it was amazing and then there was recreators saano hiroyuki it's not really surprising that uh saano is here because of course he's been popular basically since he stepped onto the scene and then last for that year we had the ancient magas bride by matoto junichi I don't really remember this soundtrack I know it was very pretty I think the music for it was really good I don't remember it off the top of my head

8:24 but very fitting very pretty and all of these were just great things that all could have probably won and the fact that Kevin penin won that year really like put him in the spotlight for now what has become his very well-off career in anime music sad to say that in 2018 they took away the soundtrack category why I don't really know it doesn't make any sense to me especially since 2018 was a fantastic year I mean just some shows that I have listed off here you snub the year with Violet evergarden and S Yi a place further than the universe gridman golden con reviews Starlight udic Camp planet with megalobox heroa season 3 Liz in the bluebird I mean the list goes on there were some amazing

9:11 incredible soundtracks that year why did they take it away I don't know but anyway that's a different argument clearly we're still trying to figure things out it was only the third time they were doing it so you know what we'll let it slide though again they gave up on probably one of the best years for music 2019 we had the winner being uh in Tuesday soundtrack by mcky this is where I have a big problem with crunchy roll listing this category as best score there is a very big difference between a score and a soundtrack to the average person a soundtrack and a score differ in the fact that a score is background music and a soundtrack is whatever music they put into the film or series or whatever

9:56 generally a score doesn't include things like insert songs because insert songs are not scored whereas a soundtrack can have zero original music like you could have an entire soundtrack made up of all just like say radio pop songs and that would be a soundtrack soundtrack is more overarching where score is a narrower section of that where it's original music written for the background Carol and Tuesday is a great example of saying amazing soundtrack not such a great score I don't remember any of the background music really it was mostly just all of the pop songs because they were so well written they should really just call it best soundtrack some of the other shows from that year were kaj Yuki and shin go Kimba Demon Slayer but I remember that year specifically kajira

10:43 had written I think 12 tracks in the entirety of Demon Slayer sheina wrote over 300 tracks for the first season of Demon Slayer alone but because he's not a household name in the anime community and she very much is they put her name first and always like listed her as the composer or main composer totally tangential but like I got mad about something that was not really related we had saano huki for Attack on Titan season 3 again not a surprise that it's here it was really cool in the first season hearing a lot of his music But as time went on he wasn't really doing anything to evolve it with the changing elements of the show Kevin penin again the rising of The Shield hero this is probably his least memorable soundtrack I don't remember at all what it sounds

11:29 like and I sat through the first two seasons of it and I don't remember any of the music and then we had Dr Stone which has three main composers Kia tsumaki and kisaka Yuki amazing soundtrack I will get more into it later k Yugo for Jojo golden wind hands down this should have won this should have been the top pick everything about that whole part was just like really well done the music is so memorable from it it's probably one of the most memed anime songs of all time at this point the JoJo the theme that one specifically because I guess there's a JoJo theme for every season that definitely should have won In fairness I don't remember if they called it best score at that point maybe they just called it best music in which case fair enough if we're going to go

12:15 off best score from here on out I don't think that Carol of Tuesday should have won that category in 2020 we had the winner being Kevin penin for Tower of God uh I remember the vibe of it being really cool but I didn't really watch the show and a lot of his music hasn't really stuck with me until recently but that's a different topic God of high school by Alisa AMA I watched the show but I don't really remember the music for it at all usio kinsuk for Japan sings 2020 again I didn't watch that show but I mean it's usio he's incredible so I'm sure it was really good keep your hands off the aen by U taii cool show I don't remember any of its music so I don't really think that one was worth the nomination though

13:02 was probably kind of Indie SL ousy music I'm not a huge fan of Indie music I understand why other people like it but it's not for me B Stars kosaki satoru not one of his stronger soundtracks but definitely I remember it setting a very specific Vibe and kosaki is an amazing composer so no surprise to me at all that it got nominated and I probably voted for oh no I definitely didn't vote for it because the last nomination was great Pretender yamad utaka I definitely voted for that one to win a trend that I've kind of noticed is that regular audiences don't really Vibe with jazz people like listening to Jazz but they don't care about it beond just like oh that's fun in the moment I'm kind of surprised that great Pretender didn't win this one especially since it was one

13:49 of the bigger shows that year who knows I mean again Western audiences are drawn to Kevin penin but I really think that Great Pretenders should have swept that year and then we jump to 2021 where the winner was kaj Yuki EXA go for Demon Slayer the mugan train art I don't think I really liked the picks this year we've got Wonder egg priority de day Mouse and Meo I don't know who those two are but I don't really remember Wonder egg priority's music I think it was kind of whimsical and weird which was cool in its own way but I don't really remember anything about it Vivi by kakis which I looking at this list right now I think that probably should have won that was an amazing soundtrack like just oh so so good meal boox 2 Nomad by maanu that had

14:35 some really cool music and that is a great way of showing off how to evolve a soundtrack with the vibe of the show because Nomad and Megalo box they are so different from each other and so the music changing to fit The Vibes of both of them was so so important and munua captured that just so well odd Taxi soundtracked by puny vava and OMB odd taxi is a weird one because the soundtrack itself there were a lot of weird tracks in it there were a lot of like really good tracks but I only remember a handful I just remember there was one that had like fart noises in it that's my the main takeaway I had from the soundtrack itself 86 saano huki and yamamota that seems to be when they

15:21 started working together I don't know if Yamamoto is sao's prot or something but I seem to work on a lot of things together now it was fine it's your standard kind of sa thing I'm never going to be surprised to see his name but I'm never really going to be happy to see him get propped up over shows that are probably more deserving which leads me into 2022 where he and Yamamoto won for Attack on Titan the final season part two I don't really have anything to say about that the music was it's always good but it just doesn't do anything different and I know people get mad at me when I say that like you don't have to change things for the sake of changing it it's not for the sake of changing it especially since Attack on Titans final final season final Seasons

16:07 all changed the vibe so much from the first one that even though there was a lot of differences with uh yamamoto's more orchestral tracks and things like that this is specifically about part two so we had already gotten kind of accustomed to the changes in the music from part one so this part didn't really deserve to win cyber Punk Edge Runners soundtrack by yamaka Akida I'll admit right now I still haven't watched cyber Punk and I really should because I've heard nothing but amazing things about it the music I'm sure is amazing Demon Slayer kajira and Sheena again doesn't deserve to win for music at least Kevin benan made an abyss season 2 which a th% this is what should have won this year I don't want to say I don't Vibe with his music I don't really connect with it in the same way that a lot of other people do this was kind of the soundtrack that

16:53 started to turn me around towards his music more there was also spy family which got nominated but again General audiences don't like jazz for whatever reason but this was also just such such a good soundtrack such a great score it pains me when people pass up on the Jazz ones because they're Jazz I feel like it's only because they're Jazz and then of course the last one for that year was your boy Kong Ming par Pome by hiot geni I don't remember the score at all the soundtrack it had some great pop music Amazing Music came out of that show but it wasn't the score I know for a fact that they started calling it best score for this year because this was I want to say that this was the first Tokyo hosted red carpet event that they did that one just didn't really deserve it again people don't know the difference between

17:40 the score and soundtrack that includes industry people and random content creators who are nominating it no y no call of the night being like one of the most incredible lowii soundtracks that I've ever heard it was the guy who wrote a lot of the music for nag no ascar how did he go from like writing viby music into just doing like cool lowii beats it was like it was wild and I loved it and then we have last year this is probably the worst year that they've had for nominations so let's go through it quickly the winner being saano and Yamoto again for Attack on Titan again the final season the Final Chapter special one it's going to win again next year for part two and I just like I

18:26 don't even want to see what it beats out this did not deserve the win chainsaw man us Chuke I don't really remember the music from chainsaw man I know it was viby and it was cool but I just don't remember it and then we had Suz by Rad Wims and Gino kma movies in general shouldn't be considered in the same categories as TV shows full length 12 24 episode whatever shows because they're made so differently such a different way there's such a different budget and the way that the budget can be handled as well and because it's a movie it's actually one of the only things on here that has like a score score not just a soundtrack I don't really remember the music from Suz but arguably this is the only one on this list that should win osin noo by igat takuro there was some

19:12 really great great tracks on it the soundtrack as a whole was fine it it's okay I've listened to it a few times and like I really like the tracks that I like the rest of it is just kind of it's just kind of fluff like it it was fine there's nothing wrong with it it's just background fluff even the pop songs were not amazing there were maybe like three which is why I'm so confused why Oso got nominated for this segment when it doesn't even really fall under the pitfalls that the other music related shows have in the past nominations this one didn't really deserve to be here Boi The Rock kuki exact same thing as oi noo except that it had even more songs that were integrated into the show which is why it gets confusing when you're trying

19:58 to differentiate a score and a soundtrack that insert Songs amazing just great great songs so much good stuff came out of that the background music I could not even pretend to remember like a single melody or jingle or anything that came out of OI The Rock not one that should have been on this list and then last Demon Slayer again nothing new about it it sounded the same as every other season it's fine like it sounds good they're going to prop up kaj's name again she's probably written like 30 tracks while Sheena has written 8,000 so it's whatever I that's that's it the worst year for uh best score nominations was 2023 bar none as you can see from the very beginning not counting the very first year when they didn't

20:43 have a music category that 2017 year was amazing every single soundtrack deserved to be there and I don't know who the judges were there were obviously way less at least these people actually seem to go over which things they thought should be nominated for these categories and it felt like it was well curated whereas this past year I don't understand why it ended up being this way where it's just like it's a popularity contest but now it's a popularity contest between the judges because the judges are also just fans that don't know anything about music we've gotten to the point where Attack on Titan is just going to win every time and next year but like I don't want to see it win again just because it's Sao and I think the main problem is actually that people just don't know the difference between a good score a good soundtrack and good sound direction if

21:31 we're talking about the differences in sound production and Direction then yes Attack on Titan and Demon Slayer probably do deserve to be there the use of Music in certain scenes the use of sound effects and things that they need to to make you feel certain ways in certain scenes it works so well but that has nothing to do with the music itself that's all about the sound Direction you need to have soundtracks that evolve with the show evolve with the story and change to fit the atmosphere otherwise you just end up with a lot of things that sound syy yes you want the overall world to sound the same because you're still in the same universe generally but you want it to feel different you want something to change so that there's a different atmosphere to fit the new settings or new characters or new

22:17 motivations or things that change it's not about changing for the sake of changing it's about continuations and improving and getting better improving on yourself as well made an abyss is such a perfect example of that Kevin penin himself said that made in Abyss season 2 is probably the best soundtrack he's ever written it showed and it changed a lot obviously you can still tell it's still in the universe of Maiden abyss and in the abyss fundamentally it's the same but it's such an improvement overall the last sort of section that I want to talk about is that because it's still kind of fresh on my mind I know I'm very late to talking about this since the awards were back in March 2023 they snubbed so so many shows that definitely deserve to be at least nominated because so many of

23:04 the nominated things didn't really deserve to be there Suz probably deserves to be there the most but also because it's the only movie it also feels like it doesn't deserve to have been in that section I just want to go over a bunch of the shows that I thought really deserved at least a spot if not the actual win [Music] T it had one of the most gripping soundtracks that I've heard that stuck with me from the very start of the year it was so good like I remember hearing the Overture theme and just thinking like wow wow like you don't hear music a lot like this Hugo Moy she hasn't done a

23:49 ton of soundtracks but she wrote the soundtrack for if my favorite Idol went to budon I would die or something I can't remember the Japanese title I feel like it wasn't the first time I heard her name but it was the first time I definitely fully invested into a soundtrack that was done only by her and just wow that one was amazing this one was also amazing this was kind of a sleeper hit and I don't think a lot of people paid attention to this show it definitely should have gotten more attention than it did especially the soundtrack should have gotten more attention than it [Music] did number two my happy marriage with Evan Co has he been nominated ever for any of these categories they skipped him on the Violet ever Garden year and I

24:35 mean I guess this is probably like his second major soundtrack it was not as strong as Violet ever Gardens but considering you didn't even include a music category in the year of violet evergarden and then when the movie came out like they didn't put that movie Into The Music category how did people pass out this one's soundtrack like this is a Netflix show from what I understand a lot of people watched it so I don't really see why it didn't get in there I mean yes freen was on the mind at the time of the nominating process it's the same guy and the fact that he's writing one of your favorite soundtracks in the current moment should make you want to think oh what else did he do and then you would see that he scored a show from the previous year that just they passed

25:21 up on it and I don't understand why such a waste to skip over that the next one that I have listed here is probably the show that I think should have just absolutely swept like Bar None try gun Stampede Kato TAA has written some amazing soundtracks from the very first soundtrack I heard by him over the years he's grown and improved and changed so much but he's still fundamentally him you can hear those little cisms that make his music his it's so good the way that it's all culminated into undeniably his best soundtrack of all time I would argue that any day against anyone that his soundtrack for try gun Stampede blew

26:08 everything out of the water like no competition for 2023 and it didn't even get a nomination and yet Demon Slayer and Attack on Titan were there again and again but this one h i I don't know I was very very salty that this didn't get in there not only that but that he didn't get nominated for anything else like Dr Stone which is the next thing that I have there the first season got nominated in the music section so I'm happy about that and I'm wondering if maybe that's why it didn't get nominated again but that would make sense because Attack on Titans been nominated like 8 million times Dr Stone's been upping its music game every season and it's also been changing every season this is what I'm saying this is what you need to

26:55 appreciate with music in soundtracks and shows that continue on and on and have developing stories and more characters and things that change within them you feel it in the atmosphere even if you don't necessarily hear the music or understand what's changing such a shame that something as good as Dr Stone's music hasn't been nominated ever since the first season and then another show I had was Revenger which I did a whole video on because tamata Jun has never written an anime soundtrack before until this she brought in so many fresh things just amazing amount of things that you would never hear in any other anime soundtrack this is exactly what an awards show should be celebrating fresh developments

27:41 of new ideas that make waves in an already established system because when you can change something that everyone has already kind of gotten used to and mellowed out to It's amazing And Revengers soundtrack did so many things with that again I'll link the video to that somewhere up here or wherever in the description down below you much any anywhere but why did it not even get recognized I know the show wasn't great but you don't need to be a great show to have a great soundtrack the next one that I have listed is spy family because we're covering fall of 2022 all the way through summer of 2023 and then they don't count fall 2023 until next year SP family deserves more recognition for its

28:26 music it has also been changing and adapting to fit The Narrative changes of spy family I know there are not a ton of those because it's mostly a comedy show but it feels like it's changing a lot more than Demon Slayer and Attack on Titan R spy family is improving so at the very least it should be keeping a consistent Intrigue level but again people hate Jazz and I don't know why stop hating jazz [Music] people another show Inspector Inspector season 2 kill Co sweetie I don't think season 1 was ever nominated I don't remember reading it earlier and it's a crime it's it has such good music so much amazing atmosphere recurring themes

29:13 recurring motifs things that come back and are used as thematic elements throughout the soundtrack to Great effect the music for that is is so good and then also its main theme is in five4 Mission Impossible is probably the only thing most people know that's in Five jazz people will know five obviously but again people hate Jazz so who's going to know what that is either way it was just very very cool music that is not being [Music] recognized next thing is a little more controversial for me it's the Boku Kimi movies to every you I've Loved Before and to you the one who loved only me again I don't really think it's fair to include movies in this category because

29:59 the music is composed so differently these soundtracks definitely should have been in here I know in my uh sort of weird review video I did of the movies I didn't really talk about the music and I even mentioned that I wasn't paying attention to it but since seeing them I have listened to their soundtracks over and over again and it has some of the most beautiful themes I've ever heard in general I think the way that they utilized a lot of the music the way that they made a lot of themes memorable and made you feel certain ways just by hearing the same theme set to different instruments or different tempos and not even changing like a lot of the harmonies or anything but making you feel a different way because you're into different context it was just amazing it came out in Fall of 22 I think it was October they came out in Japan so they

30:45 still technically fit into this category and even if they didn't for 2022 they didn't get released until spring of 23 for the rest of the world so they really should have been included and as far as my own videos performance went they seem to be pretty popular at least seemed more popular than Suz was and I didn't make a video about that but I'm assuming it wouldn't have done as well who knows but yeah they deserve to be there more than Suz did at least one of them maybe that's why they didn't pick it because it was two movies and they both had one soundtrack for both [Music] [Laughter] movies next one that should have been on there insomniacs after school kimon insomnia why did this not get included

31:31 wasn't included so I'm kind of seeing the pattern here that similar lowii chill Vibe soundtracks don't get put into these things this was not a soundtrack I was expecting to hear from hauki who everyone knows from my hero Academia because everyone thinks uh you say run I didn't even realize this was him until like I researched it because I was like oh wow this music is really beautiful it's amazing and it's fitting so well with the show self-improvement self self growth changing growing as an artist stagnation is the death of an artist hiashi showing off that he can change a lot over short spans of time this is what artists are meant to do they're meant to change to grow as they

32:17 grow it's a shame that this was not nominated and then last one of the most upsetting ones Vinland Saga Vinland Saga season 1 didn't get nominated and honestly that one deserved it more than Vinland Saga season 2 but season 2 also didn't get nominated for music yam utaka he is one of these composers that I will actually go out of my way to watch a show for just because of the music he doesn't write a lot of anime soundtracks the only nomination he's had on this list great Pretender and that got snug because Jazz of course I haven't watched any of the newer Tokyo Ghoul things so I don't know how their soundtracks sound but I'm sure they're still just amazing because again they're still him vinin haa I know people don't think of the music as much as they think of the story

33:04 and the character growth but the music is really again what setting the atmosphere and it's so so annoying when something as good as this gets snubbed because yam deserves to be in this category every year that he writes a soundtrack instead of getting actually Innovative composers oh we're getting Kaja and Sao every year I don't know it bothers me a lot more than it should especially since I don't care about these Awards those are the 10 that I thought of on the spot when I first wrote up that long post on my YouTube channel and I'm sure there were more that deserve to be placed here that I forgot about or just didn't watch Trion definitely should have won 100% it should have taken that and it didn't even get a nomination which is weird that it got nominated for other things

33:50 like I guess best animation but its music didn't with the growing popularity of anime and crunchy roll being the main distributor and streaming service of anime for or the rest of the world outside of Japan it's kind of impossible to ignore the prestige of these awards at this point as much as I don't really like the Crunchyroll Awards or award shows in general you don't really pass up or ignore the prestige behind them like if someone tells me there's a movie that's been nominated for an Oscar I don't really care about the Oscars but that does make me more interested in going to see it there's a certain quality that you recognize even if you don't really like the way that these Awards W are given out in the end what I think these Awards need is more curated judging by people who actually kind of

34:35 know what they're talking about we're just getting more and more boring milk toast just less interesting picks for each year specifically in music compare 2017s to 2023 is and you can see the Stark difference how we went from some like fantastic nominations to whatever this is it's not to say that there wasn't good music think in 2023 I just listed off 10 that all were just as good as 2017's actual nominations what we need are Judges that pick things based on what they know about or a system where judges can choose what things they're nominating what sections or categories so that they can choose things that they actually know about or they feel strongly about and they have reasons to

35:20 back up what they do they don't necessarily have to list their reasons but I don't think it's fair to say Demon Slayer fan football player is going to pick Demon Slayer for the best soundtrack because he doesn't know anything about music and that's the one that he remembers the most that's not a good reason it's the same way that if I were ever a judge I would never pick things like best animation or best character design like I would vote on them after other people have nominated them based on my own preferences but I don't know anything about art I'm not a visual art person I like looking at visual art I don't really understand anything about it I'm a sound based person so I could talk about sound I could talk about like voice actor performances though I would only nominate Japanese ones because that's the only way that I really watch anime

36:06 anymore and even then I probably wouldn't I would just specifically stick to things like anime of the year maybe best movie and best soundtrack I feel like if they did it this way you would have nominations that are actually curated by people who know what they're talking about rather than just having semic curated popularity contest that then goes to a bigger popularity contest and just doesn't really mean anything in the end I know people don't really care about music especially not as much as me and especially not in the soundtrack category or score category as Crunchyroll is putting it I would volunteer to be a judge and specifically only do the best score category if I knew that other people who were picking for that also knew what they were talking about for music and that way

36:51 even if my picks didn't necessarily get in or not all of them got in I would feel justified in knowing that at least other people pick things because there was a reason for them to and not just because well they liked the show and therefore the music for the show must have been good I don't think that my voice or argument on this matter is going to be heard especially not by anyone at crunchy roll who cares I don't think they care about that because I am not the average viewer which makes me sound kind of arrogant and annoying but I mean in a way that kind of fits with how this is all going but anyway I think that's the end of my rant I put my suggestions there if you get more curated judging get judges to only pick categories that they actually feel that

37:37 they have knowledge on or feel like they actually are passionate about the picks that they're picking those are only my suggestions how would you guys change the Crunchyroll Awards and their judging systems and let me know if you think I missed any shows that should have been nominated for best score because I listed off 10 over the course of 2023 let me know down in the comments below and don't forget to like the video and subscribe to my channel maybe if this gets boosted enough I'd be super surprised if it did because this is just a big long rant about nothing maybe crunchy R will see it and might consider me for a judge or at the very least might take my ideas into consideration at the very least I want something to change something needs to change to make these more curated more specific and

38:23 just go back to the way it was in the beginning at least in terms of how the picks were done because at least they were more interesting back then even if single shows swept the whole thing getting people to try and change things that's all I ask for I just want them to change something for the better cuz otherwise this is just going to keep going downhill I will do my own anime awards show specifically for the music if they screw up next year which I'm sure they will because Attack on Titan is definitely going to win over Apothecary Diaries which is a travesty but it's going to happen so I'll do my own thing and we'll see how that goes thanks again for watching make sure to support me on patreon if you want want to see the longer cut of this video because I'm sure I'm going to cut out a lot of the fluff if you want to see more of me talking about nothing or if you want to get access to any behind

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