2021 was an absolute roller coaster of a year for anime kicking things off with a jam-packed
winter season we were on track for one of the greatest years in anime history that was until
summer struck and there was so few anime worth watching that i got this close to going outside
to socialize but i managed to cling to my sanity with such incredible thighs i mean highs and such
devastating lows we are in for one [ ] of an interesting lineup yahello and welcome
to the third annual kinda neet awards where i borderline arbitrarily handout awards to
not only the best anime to bless our eye holes this year but also the ones that made us regret
ever going down the weeb path to begin with this year we've retired
the magic finger and instead will have her majesty frank choose the categories for us
slice of life it is now there is a very fine line between what constitutes as entertainment and what
is just watching grass grow and if you ask me a good slice of life anime should be very grass
forward which is why we can ignore all of this nonsense and mow it down to just the sliciest
and lifeist of anime that are closer to meditation than they are entertainment
super cub had some gorgeous animation a heartwarming soundtrack and a perfect pace
but even her pale skin absolutely pales in comparison to her scooter riding senpai yuru camp
season 2 which took laid-back camping to a whole new level of laid-back i could talk about this
anime for hours but the video would get claimed by the scumbags over at molebeat so here's your award
moving on to our next category frank would you do the honors
filthy weeb did someone say romance in past years i've separated out the romance category
from harem but i've come to realize that harems come in all shapes and sizes but
they're all beautiful okay maybe not all of them but we had the quintessential quintuplets
season 2 which is a really tempting choice because it features my name in the title
twice and bibury animation somehow managed to bring the quints inner beauty to the outside
completely re-imagining the look and feel of the show but then komi can't communicate faithfully
adapted the unadaptable into a fun light-hearted romp that almost made me respect netflix almost
don't toy with me nagitoro-san my senpai is taller than me and of course the harem king himself
but only one anime brought back that feeling i had when i first discovered using romance
anime as a coping mechanism and that's horimiya making a girl as good as hori
that's easy but it takes a true genius to make a boy as good as miyamura he leg he beg but most
importantly he egg what a great way to kick off the year and in true romance anime fashion we'll
probably never get a second season speaking of second seasons we also need to crown the
worst romance of the year award and naturally that honor belongs to the promised neverland season 2.
for this year we're gonna separate out adventure from shonen because it's my show and i can do
whatever i want to me this genre is all about the journey and my god did two anime take us on
a ride this year i thought for sure that nothing this year was going to be able to top to your
eternity it combined the emotionality of a silent voice with one of the best adventures i've seen
since katanagatari and every side character had an important role to play in shaping the man
or rock that fushi would one day become but then we hit a dead end the first core of mushoku tensei
was a really fun little lighthearted isakai that i enjoyed enough to make an entire abridged recap of
but part 2 took rudy and the gang to places i did not think this show was capable of going
getting extremely real and dark at times but perfectly balancing that with
i cannot believe i'm going to say this given my total lack of isekai interest but
i have to give the coveted neet adventure award to mushoku tensei part 2. and as for the worst
adventure of the year award that humbling honor belongs to the promised neverland season 2.
frank next category why is everything you say so dramatic nyan being one of my favorite genres
there are far too many nominations to discuss them all today but among them are the aquatope
on white sand wonder egg priority and heike monogatari which i wanted so badly to love it
was directed by the legendary naoko yamada and had so much going for it with its beautiful animation
and fun ost but i think it was betrayed by its source material because the pacing was
all over the place and i found the story really hard to follow so that just leaves us with one
absolutely bizarre original anime that came out of nowhere to slap us across the face with one
of the best narratives the past few years of anime has offered i'm talking of course about
odd taxi the psychological mystery that follows a taxi driver who gets caught up in the murder
of a young pop star and did i mention he's a walrus not only will the mystery of this show
keep you locked to your couch episode after episode but the absurdity of having such
dramatic situations happening to cartoon animals will have you laughing out loud
odd taxi is a serious contender for the best anime of the year award and for the worst drama of the
year award that goes to the promise neverland season 2. next up is comedy and if i could give
this award to odd taxi i would but doubling up is strictly forbidden by me so instead we're choosing
between don't toy with me nagatoro-san miss kobayashi dragon maid and my senpai is annoying
which i embarrassingly dropped during my fall anime review but thanks to the amazing people
on the kinda neet discord server i decided to give it a second shot and i am so glad that i did that
being said it still fell very short of the comedy of the year award for the obvious reason of it
not being komi can't communicate you would have to be an absolute fool to be missing out on one
of the most wholesome characters in anime history who i think we can all agree we wish was our dad
no not komi komi's dad komi the real star of this absolutely gorgeous eye ear nose
and mouth candy of an anime just an all-around good time it's a bit tricky to pick the worst
comedy of the year award because if it's not funny you just won't watch it but i think
i've managed to narrow it down to an anime that will have you laughing for all the wrong reasons
the promised neverland season 2. and now for a brand new category the ntf award which is given
to the anime with the most nani the [ ] per minute and honestly there's only one real choice because
nani the [ ] was sonny boy it felt like i was watching anime in the original
japanese but with portuguese subtitles because i didn't understand anything that was going on
so yeah 10 out of 10 would recommend it's time for adventures ugly stepbrother shonen which is a
genre i don't really spend a ton of time watching these days but it's hard to deny that it was a
great year for shonen we had re zero season two tokyo revengers eighty six 86 86 86 and of course
who could forget the work of art that was x-arm but naturally i didn't watch any of those but
the one show that i did watch honestly made my jaw drop and completely reinvigorated my interest in
the franchise attack on titan the final season has completely stuck the landing and somehow
managed to bring together all of the lore and world building from the first three seasons into
a completely fitting ending arc for the series alright alright quit your begging i'll let you
pick the next category among this sea of shonen lives three anime films that are actually worthy
of being nominated for a real award show with like an actual voting process and beautiful people
announcing the winners which is why they were all nominated for the kinda neet awards the most
legitimate anime awards show on my youtube channel first up we had words bubble up like a sody pop
which actually managed to create a new anime aesthetic have you ever seen background art that
looks like this overall this movie didn't blow my mind or anything it's a pretty straightforward
romance anime with a music tilt but anyways it sure as hell didn't compare to the violet
evergarden movie which was a masterpiece but even that sure as hell didn't compare to the movie that
had a math equation in its title a really tricky one too evangelion 3.0 plus 1.0 thrice upon a time
was the closure i have been craving since 2012 such simpler times when the entire world could be
brought together over their love of gangnam style speaking of psy this movie psychologically scarred
me there really isn't a ton i can say here if you liked the best anime series ever made then this
is the end of that but if you didn't nani the [ ] and now for the moment you've all been waiting for
the biggest disappointment of the year award will i be walking home with the prize for the 24th year
in a row well if you asked my dad i probably would but this isn't the mr neet awards it's the kinda
neet awards and it is actually disappointing to announce this winner because it was on track to
being a nine maybe ten out of ten but thanks to the politics and economics of the anime industry
it ended in more of a rush than my dad was when he left to buy milk nine years ago
my biggest disappointment of the year and possibly ever was wonder egg priority an original anime
story that proved you don't need a huge manga following for an anime to make headlines it
starred an incredibly well-written cast of girls all struggling with their own issues but brought
together by a gacha machine that dispensed eggs and i have to imagine that with enough time and
money it would have stuck the landing and the worst egg of the year award goes to the promised
neverland season 2. all right frank just went to go buy some milk but i'm sure she'll be back soon
but in the meantime let's do a classic lightning round for a few of the more obscure categories
starting with the best chinese cartoon of the year award which holy [ ] this year it actually belongs
to a chinese cartoon link click which i did not expect to enjoy as much as i did but it was really
interesting seeing the difference in tone and style from a typical anime and it never wasted
time explaining why and how everything works you're just shown the premise and either buy in
or don't but you really should because it manages to tell such an intense yet heartwarming story
okay moving on geez and for the best ed of the year award it also goes to link click because i
actually looked forward to episodes ending just so i could hear that sweet sweet rap
and for the best op there was a ton of good options from the chilling attack
on titan theme to the head bopping komi can't communicate this category is tricky because you
have to nail both the song and the visuals all while perfectly capturing the vibe of the show
so yeah it goes to wonder egg priorities sudachi no uta which
uniquely blends in real photography and perfectly captures the melancholy nature of the show
and most importantly it's available on spotify for 20% off use coupon code next up is the kinda
neat reheat which goes to the best title i watched this year regardless of what year it
came out and ironically this year's winner is non non biyori an absolutely s tier anime s for
slice of life i cannot express to you how much joy i get out of watching a bunch of
characters do nothing but out of all the nothing shows this one nothing's the best
oh i thought next up the discord democracy award where the beautiful people of the server vote on
their favorite anime of the year and naturally the votes were all over the place but one anime
did manage to seal the deal by two votes and that's horimiya now that the weather's cleared
up we can move on to the penultimate category the worst anime of the year now i know what you might
be thinking maybe i should subscribe to kinda neet and yes you should but also obviously it's
gonna be the promise neverland season two but not so fast my little neets and neetettes there was
another anime that was so disturbingly bad that it undid all the respect that the first season gained
netflix which wasn't very much beastars season 2 was a perfect example of writers not understanding
what their audience enjoyed about the first season and doubling down on all the worst aspects what i
found interesting about the first season was the love triangle between bambi clifford and bugs
but in season 2 the love interest had like 12 seconds of screen time but on second thought
the puppy did get a cute haircut so the worst anime of the year award goes to the promise
neverland season 2. much like everything else in my life i have put off deciding on anime
of the year until the last possible second so let's just start by listing the nominees
this year we've got odd taxi yuru camp attack on titan mushoku tensei horimiya
and to your eternity and i think the fact that i'm having such a hard time choosing
actually eggxemplifies that this was a leggendary year for anime
okay i think i know what i have to do and this is going to sound like i'm yolking giving eggrything
i've said so far but the winner of the kinda neet award for best anime 2021 goes to wonder egg
priority make sure to let me know in the comments how badly you disagree with me and if you enjoyed
this video you can check out last year's of need awards here thanks so much for watching and we'll
see you neets next time with such incredible thighs i mean thighs i mean lies i mean highs