Medal

Like, it's perfect casting.

And my pick for Best Leading Performance in a Drama goes to Madelidoro for Medalist.

A lot of what makes Medalist great is watching Inori go from being a little bundle of anxiety and self-doubt into a true athlete, and Medalist's performance got every step of that transformation across perfectly and made Inori's transformation really fantastic in its estimator since it's a really easy character to root for.

Even being matched up against a seiyuu who literally inspired the character in the first place, Battle and Soul managed to deliver a performance that more than matched up to it, and it was easily my favorite of the year.

And my pick for Best Ensemble goes to Dandadan.

And he also deserves this award for his most minor, but sometimes most visible role.

Hyping up the anime that Disney has licensed and dubbed, which the Disney marketing machine has let fall through the cracks.

There's been many a time where the main reason I knew a series like Heavenly Delusion, or Tengoku Daimakyo, or Wandance, or Medalist was getting a dub, or just when the dub was actually coming out because Ruben was posting about it.