Anime Senior Awards

So since it's graduation season and I was thinking about the Senior Awards in the yearbook, I thought it might be fun to do some of those but with anime characters. I took the categories from my school all except for a few that either are school-specific or I couldn't think of characters for. As my criteria I limited myself to characters from 2010 anime I watched because it's the last completed year. This includes anime like Fairy Tail, Bleach and Naruto Shippuuden that aired through 2010 but didn't end. And obviously just like in high school there's a male and female chosen for each one. The separate criteria for each category I'll explain on a case-by-case basis.

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Cutest Couple:

Ok now for this one the only real criteria I gave it was that it had to be a canon couple, cuz otherwise I had too many choices, especially with shows like Shukufuku no Campanella and even some of those could be argued to be canon. So for this I chose OtohimexTaro from Ookami-san to Shichinin no Nakama-tachi. Why? Simply because they're adorable together and care so much about each other and...well honestly it's quite funny how they always go do dirty things in a closet or something. And it's pointed out that Otohime 'extracts his essence' or something to that effect causing him to go into 'gentleman mode'. 

Best Looking:

This one the criteria are pretty straight forward, best looking characters in this time span. Admittedly I had to ask a male friend for a bit of help coming up with the best looking female character considering that's not exactly my area of expertise. I had it narrowed down to Lucy Heartfilia and Carina Verritti. Anyway my choices for this are Souji Okita of Hakuouki Shinsengumi Kitan and Carina Verritti of Shukufuku no Campanella. My apologies to anyone who is OCD like me and the messed up justification of this picture will bother them...actually unless I can fix the format of the blog I think they'll all look like that...damn.

Best Eyes:

Again, straight foreword, this one goes to Yakumo of Shinrei Tantei Yakumo and Yuki-Onna of Nurarihyon no Mago. I'd say the reasons are pretty clear, for Yakumo, well, one of his eyes is red and lets him see ghosts 'nuff said. As for Yuki-Onna, well depending on if she's in her human form or demon form her eyes can be either blue or yellow which is really neat. The yellow is cool but the blue is really pretty, so either way they both look good.

Best Smile:

This one goes to Ed Elric of FullMetal Alchemist: Brotherhood and Miho Azuki of Bakuman. Ed's toothy grin is pure awesomeness ans Azuki has a really pretty, innocent smile.

Class Clown:

Now this one was a hard one given that there are a lot of characters that are funny. Hell, pretty much the entire cast of Gintama, Fairy Tail or a lot of others could have worked for this spot. So I tried to pick characters whose purpose more or less is to be funny. With that I picked Katsura Koutaro of Gintama (he wears goofy costumes, 'nuff said) and Shino Amakusa of Seitokai Yakuindomo. She buys Tsuda a vibrator for god sakes! And she can never take anything seriously, especially her student council duties and some how makes them perverted.

Most Talkative:

This one goes to Italy of Hetalia: Axis Powers and Kagura of Gintama. Naruto was a close 2nd tho given that he never fucking shuts up, but I figured Italy was worse, and he just rambles at least what Naruto says usually has some form of a point. Whenever I think of Italy being talkative I think of when they're all on the beach and Italy's waving a white flag begging not to be hit in the balls for whatever number of reasons. Huh...and now the HTML coding is deciding to be a bitch and not format the headings right -.- 

Best Hair:

Rikuo Nura in his Night Form from Nurarihyon no Mago and Karin from Naruto Shippuuden. Honestly I don't have much to say about this one, they both have really kick-ass hair. Karin's mostly its neat on one side, shaggy on the other...looks kinda scene actually.

Best Dressed:

This one was both a fun one and a hard one for me because I like character designs so much, though I had pretty limited choices with the guys. Shiki from Togainu no Chi wouldn'ta been bad but he ultimately lost out. My choices for this one were Date Masamune of Sengoku Basara Ni and Ryoko Ookami of Ookami-san to Shichinin no Nakama-tachi. Now it's not so much that either of these characters are the nicest dressed, but in my opinion the coolest, either way a form of best so it works.

Most Likely To Succeed:

Now this one is REALLY biased, and its not particularly because I like either of these characters...in fact I hate them both, but they're the Valedictorian and Salutatorian sooooo...yeah. Not to mention the word "succeed" is a bit vague especially when dealing with anime, so I just went with the typical use of the word for these awards. This would be Shouko Kirishima ans Toshimitsu Kubo both of Baka to Test to Shoukanjuu.

Most Musical:

Annoyingly few choices for this one, but I wound up deciding on Austria of Hetalia: Axis Powers and Kanon of The World God Only Knows. Austria because I remember him playing a piano at several points, at one point stating that he was going to express his anger using the piano. He also started the piano at a young age as shown in the picture. Kanon...well, do I need to explain this one? She's an idol.

Most Changed:

This one I also had a lot of different options since many good characters change over the course of the series. I eventually decided on Ichigo Kurosaki from Bleach without much difficulty, however picking a girl was a bit harder, I wound up chosing one who changed quite a lot but not in a positive way. I chose Chizuru Yukimura of Hakuouki Shinsengumi Kitan at the beginning of the series she was alright, then she got cooler, wanting to join the Shinsengumi and learn to fight...but then she took a 180 turn and became an annoying crybaby with what I like to call 'Orihime Syndrome' wherein the character rarely does anything apart from cry and scream a male leads name and then cry about how useless they are. This is essentially what Chizuru did and it annoyed me a lot. As for Ichigo...well I shouldn't even need to explain this one for anybody who at least knows the premise of Bleach but he starts as a normal high school kid, then becomes a Soul Reaper (huge change #1) then later becomes a Vizard (huge change #2). Not only that but he is constantly getting stronger throughout the series, including attaining bankai.

Class Flirt:

I'm pretty sure the male choice for this one is obvious, Keima Katsuragi of The World God Only Knows considering that he flirts with literally pretty much every girl in the series. As for the girl choice here I had to be careful to find a character who's a flirt without also being a slut, for that I chose Rangiku Matsumoto from Bleach.

Most Artistic:

Now I really only have one anime to choose characters from with this so my choices were Moritaka Mashiro and Yuriko Aoki of Bakuman. Why? Cuz they're mangaka of course! Personally I think a certain aspiring mangaka in my school should have won this for our school awards in real life but whatever.

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Oh God I'm finally done hallelujah! The formatting and HTML coding was being a bitch to me on this post and I kept procrastinating due to more drama in my life -.- Ugh, just not good all around. But, I got it done, thats the important thing, and coming...either tomorrow or Thursday hopefully I'll put up a Top 10 Anime Sluts list, which should be pretty entertaining given that I hate sluts and get to go on rants about them in that post. Then I have my first driving class on Friday, very scared for that lol. Anyway though, now that its summer I should hopefully be posting more often in the next two months depending on what goes on in other areas of my life. So yeah, hopefully I can get you guys another post by Thursday at midnight if not earlier. Oh! And last but certainly not least I noticed a couple new followers to whom I owe a huge thank you! =D