Winners of the 2019 Newtype Anime Awards were announced at the Machi★Asobi event. The winners were selected by fans in magazine and online polls. The participants were anime and anime movies that aired or opened between July 2018 and April 2019. Best TV AnimeKimetsu no Yaiba Bungou Stray Dogs 3rd Season Banana Fish Sarazanmai Persona 5 the Animation Watashi ni Tenshi ga Maiorita! Toaru Majutsu no Index III Shingeki no Kyojin Season 3 Sword Art Online: Alicization Kemurikusa Best Picture (Film) Promare Fate/stay night Movie: Heaven's Feel - II. Lost Butterfly Uta no☆Prince-sama♪ Maji Love Kingdom Movie Code Geass: Fukkatsu no Lelouch Tenki no Ko Re:Zero kara Hajimeru Isekai Seikatsu - Memory Snow Psycho-Pass: Sinners of the System trilogy Hibike! Euphonium Movie 3: Chikai no Finale Boku no Hero Academia the Movie 1: Futari no Hero Seishun Buta Yarou wa Yumemiru Shoujo no Yume wo Minai  Best Female CharacterNezuko Kamado (Kimetsu no Yaiba) Sakura Matou (Fate/stay night Movie: Heaven's Feel - II. Lost Butterfly) Kyouka Izumi (Bungou Stray Dogs) Yuuki Asuna (Sword Art Online: Alicization) Saber (Fate/stay night Movie: Heaven's Feel - II. Lost Butterfly) C.C. (Code Geass: Fukkatsu no Lelouch) Lucia Fex (Promare) Rin (Kemurikusa) Sakura Kinomoto (Cardcaptor Sakura: Clear Card-hen) Alice Zuberg (Sword Art Online: Alicization) Best Male Character Tanjirou Kamado (Kimetsu no Yaiba) Aslan Jade Callenreese (Banana Fish) Kazuto Kirigaya (Sword Art Online: Alicization) Chuuya Nakahara (Bungou Stray Dogs) Lelouch Lamperouge (Code Geass: Fukkatsu no Lelouch) Lio Fotia (Promare) Osamu Dazai (Bungou Stray Dogs) Galo Thymos (Promare) Wakaba (Kemurikusa) Shirou Emiya (Fate/stay night Movie: Heaven's Feel - II. Lost Butterfly) Best Mascot Character Vinny (Promare) Chuntaro (Kimetsu no Yaiba) Keppi (Sarazanmai) Shiro (Kemurikusa) Higero (Watashi ni Tenshi ga Maiorita!) Morgana (Persona 5 the Animation) Ekubo (Mob Psycho 100 II) Romero (Zombieland Saga) Madara (Natsume Yuujinchou Movie: Utsusemi ni Musubu) Nori Nori (Banana Fish)  Best Female SeiyuuAkari Kitou Mikako Komatsu Sumire Morohoshi Saori Hayami Kana Hanazawa Best Male Seiyuu Natsuki Hanae Yuuma Uchida Mamoru Miyano Kenji Nojima Hiro Shimono Best Theme Song "Gurenge" by LiSA (Kimetsu no Yaiba OP1) "Encore" by Mamoru Miyano (Uta no☆Prince-sama♪ Maji Love Kingdom Movie ED) "Setsuna no Ai" by GRANRODEO (Bungou Stray Dogs S3 OP) "Kakusei" by Superfly (Promare ED1) "I beg you" by Aimer (Fate/stay night Movie: Heaven's Feel - II. Lost Butterfly ED) "Prayer X" by King Gnu (Banana Fish ED1) "Koori ni Tojikomete" by Superfly (Promare ED2) "found & lost" by Survive Said The Prophet (Banana Fish OP1) "Kimama na Tenshitachi" by Wataten☆Five (Watashi ni Tenshi ga Maiorita! OP) "Lily" by Luck Life (Bungou Stray Dogs S3 ED)  Best Soundtrack Elements Garden (Uta no☆Prince-sama♪ Maji Love Kingdom Movie) Yuki Kajiura, Go Shiina (Kimetsu no Yaiba) Hiroyuki Sawano (Promare) Taku Iwasaki (Bungou Stray Dogs S3) Yuki Kajiura (Fate/stay night Movie: Heaven's Feel - II. Lost Butterfly) Shinichi Osawa (Banana Fish) Hiroyuki Sawano (Shingeki no Kyojin Season 3) Kotaro Nakagawa (Code Geass: Fukkatsu no Lelouch) Takurou Iga (Watashi ni Tenshi ga Maiorita!) Tetsuya Takahashi (Kemurikusa) Best Director Haruo Sotozaki (Kimetsu no Yaiba) Hiroyuki Imaishi (Promare) Jouji Furuta, Tomoka Nagaoka (Uta no☆Prince-sama♪ Maji Love Kingdom Movie) Takuya Igarashi (Bungou Stray Dogs)  Hiroko Utsumi (Banana Fish)Tomonori Sudou (Fate/stay night Movie: Heaven's Feel - II. Lost Butterfly) Gorou Taniguchi (Code Geass: Fukkatsu no Lelouch) Tatsuki (Kemurikusa) Kunihiko Ikuhara (Sarazanmai) Daisuke Hiramaki (Watashi ni Tenshi ga Maiorita!) Best Screenplay Kazuki Nakashima (Promare) ufotable (Kimetsu no Yaiba) Youji Enokido (Bungou Stray Dogs) Hiroshi Seko (Banana Fish) ufotable (Fate/stay night Movie: Heaven's Feel - II. Lost Butterfly) Makoto Fukami, Ryou Yoshigami (Psycho-Pass: Sinners of the System trilogy) Ichiro Okouchi (Code Geass: Fukkatsu no Lelouch) Yasuko Kobayashi (Shingeki no Kyojin Season 3) Kunihiko Ikuhara, Teruko Utsumi (Sarazanmai) Yasuhiro Nakanishi (Kaguya-sama wa Kokurasetai: Tensai-tachi no Renai Zunousen) Best Character Design Akira Matsushima, Miyuki Satou, Youko Kajiyama (Kimetsu no Yaiba) Shigeto Koyama (Promare) Maki Fujioka (Uta no☆Prince-sama♪ Maji Love Kingdom Movie) Tomonori Sudou, Atsushi Ikariya, Hisayuki Tabata (Fate/stay night Movie: Heaven's Feel - II. Lost Butterfly) Nobuhiro Arai (Bungou Stray Dogs) Akemi Hayashi (Banana Fish) Hiromi Nakagawa (Watashi ni Tenshi ga Maiorita!) Takahiro Kimura (Code Geass: Fukkatsu no Lelouch)  Kayoko Ishikawa (Sarazanmai) Yuuko Yahiro (Kaguya-sama wa Kokurasetai: Tensai-tachi no Renai Zunousen) Best Mechanical/Prop Design Shigeto Koyama (Promare) Akira Yasuda, Eiji Nakada, Kenji Teraoka (Code Geass: Fukkatsu no Lelouch) Naohiro Washio (Soukyuu no Fafner: Dead Aggressor - The Beyond) Kunio Okawara, Hajime Katoki, Kimitoshi Yamane, Mika Akitaka (Mobile Suit Gundam: The Origin - Advent of the Red Comet) Takeshi Itou, Takao Takegami, Noriko Ogura, Momoko Makiuchi, Kanta Suzuki (Girls & Panzer: Saishuushou) Nogizaka46 Award (Monthly Newtype Joint Special Award) Yakusoku no Neverland Note: The Best Studio category was withdrawn this year in light of the Kyoto Animation arson attack that happened in July. ← Previous Year Source: Web Newtype |
VindstotApr 9, 2020 1:07 AM
| this is only a popularity award though, Promare is very popular there in Japan just like Kimetsu no Yaiba anyway but as a studio Trigger fanboy i welcome Promare's success on this but lol Nezuko is sexy attractive character for sure but really best female character when she barely talks? like she does not even have inner dialogues i guess really action speaks louder than words eh or in this case appearance speaks louder than words lol |
| the theme song category is kind of boring, there were much better OPs and EDs, |
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| ayyy Watashi ni Tenshi ga Maiorita! is killing it! Lets gooo 🔥🔥 also congratulations to SnK, Fate, Re:zero and Seishun bunny girl and the rest that I haven't seen! |
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deg said: Looking at the most common female character types in anime nowadays, one that keeps her mouth shut is actually pretty great. It works for real life as well...but lol Nezuko is sexy attractive character for sure but really best female character when she barely talks? like she does not even have inner dialogues i guess really action speaks louder than words eh or in this case appearance speaks louder than words lol |
Ii tenki desu ne... |
Antanaru said: deg said: Looking at the most common female character types in anime nowadays, one that keeps her mouth shut is actually pretty great. It works for real life as well...but lol Nezuko is sexy attractive character for sure but really best female character when she barely talks? like she does not even have inner dialogues i guess really action speaks louder than words eh or in this case appearance speaks louder than words lol lol the submissive types of women is sure popular |
| Nezuko and KnY makes no sense, but it's good to see Sakura getting some love. |
| I don't want be "cult" or something, but this list is a complete meme Nothing in there make sense, i mean... Tanjiro and Kirito are Better than Lelouch and HF Shirou? Or Nezuko being better than everyone else (she doens't even have a personality, is like a pet) And Nezuko is the best voice? she doens't even talk, if she said more than 20 words in the whole anime, it would be much (Sorry for bad english tho, it's not my common language) |
| Visual Novels should have a place in this site, really |
Gordoxr2 said: I don't want be "cult" or something, but this list is a complete meme Nothing in there make sense, i mean... Tanjiro and Kirito are Better than Lelouch and HF Shirou? Or Nezuko being better than everyone else (she doens't even have a personality, is like a pet) And Nezuko is the best voice? she doens't even talk, if she said more than 20 words in the whole anime, it would be much (Sorry for bad english tho, it's not my common language) It's a poll, people voted for what they thought it was the best for them and this is the result of ton of people voting. It's not like it's a individual ranking of a person mbut many and many doing it. And of course, those rankings are just how much those anime, characters etc were voted, not something exactly ranked. It's something so basic that we have to explain every time a popularity poll is out in any thing. lol |
| Well deserved Kemurikusa and Tatsuki! |
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| Huh, Wataten made it! |
| This is not your planet to rule. The Fallen shall rise again. |
| That's a fine list :) |
| It's ok to have no personality as long as you are cute it seems even when you didn't appear more than 50% of the series screen time. Screw having active role and personality. |
 Kickstarter for Rokujouma is fully funded. Good work everyone. Lets wait for the result of our hard work together. |
| I still hope that one day we will have at least an decent Award for anime. Well, at least those popularity awards make me laugh a bit |
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| Persona 5 the Animation...lol I'm glad to see Bungou Stray Dogs 3rd Season up there though. One of the best seasons of the franchise. This list also reminds me to watch the Fate Heaven's Feels movies especially after the news recently. |
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| Sarazanmai makes me happy one of my favorites this year |
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| Yay, Kimetsu no Yaiba get the recognition it deserve. Persona 5 The Animation, seriously? As a fans of the game itself, the anime is so rush that I decided to drop it. |
| This is like The CR award. Nezuko as best female character? don't get me wrong, I love her but she is shallow, cute is the only thing going for her. |
LunaEstlinOct 27, 2019 8:30 PM
 It’s okay to look back at the past, just don’t stare too long |
| Toaru Majutsu no Index rank hgiher (on best TV anime category) than Attack on Titan and Sword Art Online is lol worthy too that is easily the worst Taoru Majutsu no Index anime so far |
| I am kind of happy to see that Index 3 made the top 10. |
deg said: Antanaru said: Looking at the most common female character types in anime nowadays, one that keeps her mouth shut is actually pretty great. It works for real life as well... lol the submissive types of women is sure popular That's why people love rei instead of asuka. Looks like CR awards, promare better than code geass is weird. |
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Catalano said: deg said: lol the submissive types of women is sure popular That's why people love rei instead of asuka. Looks like CR awards, promare better than code geass is weird. ah yep Rei do seem to be more popular than Asuka (but on MAL alone Asuka got like 4000 more favorites than Rei though) about Pomare vs Code Geass movie the Code Geass movie i heard is just average and unncessary i heard while Promare is at least something completely new (not part of any old franchise) and very energetic fun i saw the russian cam-rip and ye i can agree to that and it became one of my top favorites instantly |
degOct 27, 2019 11:22 PM
| Best boy Tanjirou. Nezuko though, it is a bit funny to see her up there. I like her, but there are probably more worthy characters to win in that list. As usual though, it's a popularity contest, and who can deny the popularity of Kimetsu no Yaiba? I'm really laughing at Nezuko's VA for the seiyuu character. HOW? Not saying that she isn't a good voice actress, not that I know her well or at all, but Nezuko didn't really speak. I'm always salty when I don't see Kayanon win anything :( At least her character Alice did though! The Male Seiyuu category I'm content with. Uchida Yuuma gets a lot of main roles these days, and Banana Fish did really well. I was wondering why Shimono was up there (even though I love him), and then I remembered he was Zenitsu. Where's IshiKai or Souma-kun |
deg said: Catalano said: That's why people love rei instead of asuka. Looks like CR awards, promare better than code geass is weird. ah yep Rei do seem to be more popular than Asuka Actually, asuka is more popular on mal but rei is kinda the symbol of eva. |
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Catalano said: deg said: ah yep Rei do seem to be more popular than Asuka Actually, asuka is more popular on mal but rei is kinda the symbol of eva. yep i edited my post when i checked the favorites total here on MAL |
| Sad to see no Kaguya-sama really, I thought it’d be given that it’d be included in the top 3 or so but apparently not even in the list, and Fruits Basket 1st Season. ToAru Majutsu no Index S3 though, are you serious (-_-)*? Good surprise to see Bungou Stray Dogs S3 on the other hand, I’m sure this’ll give me the impetus to finally giving the franchise a shot. But I’m glad for KnY nonetheless! Maybe not the best show of the year for me but certainly in my top five of the year no doubt. Nezuko being best girl, I kind of expected this but I didn’t think her VA would win it too xD. I suppose this, plus the other winners of course, just goes to show how dominant this series has been in Japan since the beginning of the Spring Season. I’m really glad KanaHana and Mamoru Miyano among the VAs, SnK S3 and Re:Zero Movie, Sawano Hiroyuki (Promare) and more got a bit of the spotlight too! |
#Anime4Life be my Life Motto! #PrayForKyoAni  |
| Glad for Kimetsu no yaiba but as everyone said Nezuko didn't really have a personality. She was like a pet. And her VA didn't even do anything (not saying she is bad). Also, where the hell is Kaguya-sama?! It's popular in Japan and each of the VA deserved award. |
| Demon Slayer got it only because of one episode. Way too overrated! |
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| I hear "overrated" in my speakers, must be an accident of course, it's not like one show literally stole all first place because of its hype nonono it wouldn't happen. |
| Uh... Nezuko didn't talk much... |
Gordoxr2 said: I don't want be "cult" or something, but this list is a complete meme Nothing in there make sense, i mean... Tanjiro and Kirito are Better than Lelouch and HF Shirou? Or Nezuko being better than everyone else (she doens't even have a personality, is like a pet) And Nezuko is the best voice? she doens't even talk, if she said more than 20 words in the whole anime, it would be much (Sorry for bad english tho, it's not my common language) I mean, most likely the award was due to Nezuko's popularity, but that seiyuu has voiced main characters in Hitoribocchi no Marumaru Seikatsu, Machikado Mazoku and Wataten this year. She has had a relative lot of presence for somebody with so little experience in the industry. |
| Persona 5 The Animation, wtf man? |
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| Wataten in the same list as KnY, SnK and SAO. I'm proud of you, Japan. Only you can see such hidden truths like a yuri lolicon show can be as good as a popular shounen, and judge them fairly. The west can't do that. Slarkero said: Persona 5 The Animation, wtf man? Looks like they become blind because of the brilliance of the game. Even I, the hardcore fan of the game, don't think the anime is anything special. So yeah, that one is weird. |
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| That’s crazy how Love is War didn’t make any of these categories |
| "Toaru Majutsu no Index III" Wut? How did this show even got into top 10 rank despite it's backlash and the staffs don't even care about this anime? I would happy about it, if only Index III got much better treatment. |
MahiaErebeaNegiOct 28, 2019 8:33 AM
| Umm.. EXCUSE ME?? The list is fine, BUT WHERE IS KAGUYA-SAMA??? I thought it was also really popular??? P.S. so Happy Shimonu got mentioned.. he's pretty underrated in terms of awards like these.. TwT |
 I'm starting to get embarrassed by my own forum signature line.. XD |
| Newtype has always been a popularity contest, so Kimetsu no Yaiba dominating the list doesn't surprise me one bit. Nezuko barely saying anything or having a personality doesn't matter when her cuteness factor is enough to sway most anime fans. Glad to know they showed KyoAni respect by withdrawing the 'Best Studio' category. |
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deg said: Being quiet is not the same as being submissive. Weird to have to explain it in the context of Nezuko who kicked off demon's head clean off...Antanaru said: Looking at the most common female character types in anime nowadays, one that keeps her mouth shut is actually pretty great. It works for real life as well... lol the submissive types of women is sure popular |
Ii tenki desu ne... |
| Weird that anime movie Makoto Shinkai's Tenki no Ko didn't have more recognized after gaining successful in theater, local & outside Japan. Supposedly in Best Soundtrack (RADWIMPS), Best Director (Makoto Shinkai) & Best Screenplay have included. |
| what about JOJO!??!?? |
Antanaru said: Being quiet is not the same as being submissive. Weird to have to explain it in the context of Nezuko who kicked off demon's head clean off... Nezuko being able to kick and jump doesn't make her less submissive, though. I don't hate her character or anything but I'm also agree about the lack of personality and poor character development she had during this season. I mean, what we got about her? 1. She loves her family (what? didn't see that coming) 2. She was brainwashed by Urokodaki Sakonji Besides, the fact she spent like 80% of the season locked in that box or sleeping made her look more like a cute pet or a pokemon rather than a person (except even some pokemon in the anime had more character development) |
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| P5's anime doesn't belong in best of anything lmao |
What a beautiful Duwang |
James-LastOmnic said: I hear "overrated" in my speakers, must be an accident of course, it's not like one show literally stole all first place because of its hype nonono it wouldn't happen. You guys expect way too much from that community |
| reformed |
DearMap said: That's true. Her turning into a demon seems to have wipe out most of her personality. I agree that she wasn't much of a character, but considering what cookie cutter characters you get in most shows nowadays, I'm not surprised people liked her. Nothing is better than crap.Antanaru said: Being quiet is not the same as being submissive. Weird to have to explain it in the context of Nezuko who kicked off demon's head clean off... Nezuko being able to kick and jump doesn't make her less submissive, though. I don't hate her character or anything but I'm also agree about the lack of personality and poor character development she had during this season. I mean, what we got about her? 1. She loves her family (what? didn't see that coming) 2. She was brainwashed by Urokodaki Sakonji Besides, the fact she spent like 80% of the season locked in that box or sleeping made her look more like a cute pet or a pokemon rather than a person (except even some pokemon in the anime had more character development) |
Ii tenki desu ne... |
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