Final Best Arc of All Time

[Lady pompom]

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Final Round rules

• You can vote for one (1) nominee
• You are allowed to change your vote
• This round will last for 5 days (ends on April 19th, 2018)

Spoiler: Semi Final Results

Chimera ants arc (HunterX Hunter)19
Golden Age (Berserk) 19
Ruhenheim (Monster) 15
Sasuka Retrieval arc (Naruto) 12
Pain assault arc (Naruto) 10
Tartaros arc (Fairy tail) 5

Spoiler: Nominees

Golden Age (Berserk)[6]
Chimera Ants arc (Hunter X Hunter)[5]
Sasuke Retrieval arc (Naruto) [4]
Tartaros arc (Fairy Tail)[4]
Ruhenheim (Monster) [3]
Pain's Assault arc (Naruto) [3]

Ennies Lobby (One Piece)[3]
Coalition War arc (Kingdom) [3]
Marineford (One piece)[2]
Sabaody Archipelago arc (One Piece) [2]
Prologue (Vinland Saga)[2]
Cell Saga (Dragon Ball) [2]
The truth of Elie arc (Rave Master)[2]
Chairmain Election arc [2]
Return to Shiganshina arc (Shingeki no Kyojin)[2]
Phantom troupe (Hunter X Hunter)[2]
Bayou arc (Kingdom)[1]
Water Seven [1]
Arlong Park (One Piece) [1]
Shouhoku vs Sannou (Sam Dunk) [1]
Yoshioka arc (Vagabond) [1]
Cape Canaveral (Jojo’s bizarre adventure – part 6 Stone Ocean) [1]
Soul Society (Bleach) [1]
Alvarez arc (Fairy Tail) [1]
Conviction arc (Berserk)[1]
Tanigaki and Ogata battle arc (Golde Kamuy) [1]

Spoiler: Semi Final Rules

Semifinal Round rules

• You can vote for two (2) nominees
• You are allowed to change your vote
• This round will last for 5 days (ends on April 12th, 2018)

Spoiler: Nomination Rules

Only Manga and elements of Manga that were published in 2017 are eligible.
The nomination round will end Wednesday, April 4th, 2018. Please choose up to 3 options.

Nomination Rules

• You are allowed up to three nominations.
• Please clearly state the Manga you are nominating as well as any further specifics (e.g. characters) if required.
• Please bold all your nominations.
• The six entries with the most nominations per entry will proceed to the next round.
• If there will be more than 6 in this pool, the staff will break the ties that might occur.
• Please refer to Myanimelist to see if a potential nominee is eligible

If you want to change your nominations, please quote your original nomination post and clearly state which nominations you want to change along with your new nominations.

Post questions and comments to the 2018 Manga Awards Info Thread.

 

[Demonspeed]

Chimera Ant arc from Hunter x Hunter.

Golden Age arc from Berserk.

Water Seven arc from One Piece.

 

[Cat Sidhe26]

I nominate the Truth of Elie Arc (Rave Master), Sasuke Retrieval Arc (Naruto), and Tartaros arc (Fairy Tail).

 

[uberfayt]

Shabondy archipellago (one piece)

Cell saga (DBZ)

Chairman election arc (hunter x hunter)

 

[Sky]

Arlong Park (One Piece)
Pain Arc (Naruto)
Chairman Election (HxH)

 

[Lomahongva]

Supporting Monster.

Nominating Tanigaki and Ogata battle arc (Golde Kamuy)

Ennies Lobby (One Piece)

 

[Erinyes]

Chimera ants !!!!

best vilain

Best fight

best symbolism

gungi symbolism :

"Did anybody notice kokoriko(a gungi technique) means King itself? This technique try to win the game by making King piece isolate. But komugi tells him this technique is Shiro(road to death) a while ago ( ep 104). Isolated king must die. But she shows him a new tactics to save king in ep 135. It means "king doesn't have to die". In reality, king didin't be killed by Netero's nuke attack. But king counterattacked her and shows that isolated king must die after all ( by poison). Komugi finds a new counterattack and said "I'll go with you". King is not alone anymore. Meruem tells her he can't win even once(He couldn't beat kokoriko). It means Kokoriko is not shiro anymore. She saved the isolated king.

The black screen at the end has a couple meanings The dying king has lost even his sight. His mother named him Meruemu as "Light shining on everything". It's stated that "His en shined into the palace as if it's sunshine" and "He manipulated light particles to search Palm in a house" a while ago. He got a god-like light power at that moment. But black pages suggests that he doesn't have any light now. This is a view that Komugi was seeing from the beginning. She couldn't see any light. To her, he was just Meruem.

After all, those pages show us that he lost everything but gained what he trully wanted. He didn't need any soldiers, palaces, countries, power, strength, even his sight(as Komugi). He just wanted to play Gungi with Komugi.

This is the same to her too. She had nothing besides Gungi. Nobody loved her and couldn't play Gungi as well as she did. She was lonely Gungi King(Queen?). But she gained Meruem. That's why she cryed when he counterattacked her new kokoriko. She once needed to create and kill tactics on Gungi by herself. But she gained the perfect opponent and can create tactics with him(I guess to create tactics suggests to create a baby as she said kokoriko is her baby.)

The one "Light shines on everything" loved (and was loved by) was a blind girl. What a story!

They started a new(the last) game in darkness. "1-5-1 king". "9-5-1 king". Then it was stopped. These two king pieces don't go anywhere anymore. Two kings (King of living things and Gungi King) are together forever."

Best quotes :

best characterization :

greatest end :

 

[Spirit]

Rip Coalition Arc. That's one that rivals all of these that made it. Voted for Ruhenheim and Sasuke Retrieval.

 

[Faust]

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Ennies Lobby (One Piece)[3]

 

[Elusia]

Rip Coalition Arc.

I'm sad

Gonna vote for Chimera Ants and Ruhenhiem

 

[Arjuna]

I voted Ruhenheim and Chimera Ant arc.

 

[Shobu_Yoruichi]

There is only one here that must win, and i just voted for it.

Chimera Ants.

An outstanding piece of literature on art, got so many shit on it's sides... but the central pillar of it, flawless.

 

[Gut's is the man]

I honestly feel bad for the other arc's except the golden age. The chimera ants is just too good.

 

[Juliana]

OMG
Can't decide

 

[Demonspeed]

HxH is my favorite manga but the Golden Age arc is truly something special.

 

[Elusia]

OMG
Can't decide

Same

 

[Aizen]

I have not read the CA arc in the manga, only seen the anime. So I am only going off that knowledge. I personally think the CA arc has some amazing moments, and a great overarching narrative. That said, in my eyes, a few other arcs out there are a bit more well-rounded pacing-wise. Both are well deserving of being here, but I gotta go with GA. It still stands as my favorite arc in manga.

 

[Arjuna]

CA for me

Sad i can't vote for Golden Age Arc

 

[Holt]

It really was a tough choice. Both were simply amazing but I suppose if I'm judging the entirety of the arc, GA slowly edges out. It's too bad this two matched up here. CA was rather awesome too