This is the song that will represent the year 2020! Let's decide the best ani-song of the year! Akiba Research Institute Anime Song Awards 2020" is now open for voting!

Today, January 20, 2020, Akiba Research Institute's official voting project"Decide the Best Anime Song of the Year! Akiba Research Institute Anison Award 2020" started today, January 20, 2020 . Voting is open until February 3.

This voting project is based on the results of the OP theme and ED theme popularity polls conducted for each season of 2020, and picks up 4 songs from 1st to 4th place in each poll, for a total of 32 songs (one of them is ranked in the spring and summer cools, so there are 31 songs to vote for). ) This is in addition to the 7 songs recommended by the Akiba Research Institute editorial staff, for a total of 38 nominees, and the project is to determine the best anime song released in 2020 by your votes.

The following 38 songs were nominated. In the voting project for each season, TV anime and distributed anime are eligible for voting, so movie anime are not counted. Therefore, the theme song "Flame" of "Demon Slayer: Infinity Train Arc", the most talked-about work in 2020, is entered from the Akiba Research Institute editorial staff recommendation songs.

The other songs are all worth listening to, both as songs and as theme songs that enliven the work! We would like you to vote for the song that you think is particularly good! Please vote for the one you think is the best! Each person can vote up to 7 times, and anyone who is registered with an Akiba Research Institute ID (free of charge) can vote. We are waiting for your enthusiastic votes!

＜2020 Winter Anime OP Theme
No.1 BURNOUT SYNDROMES "PHOENIX" ( HIQUE!!!! TO THE TOP)
No.2 ARP "Burn it up" ( ARP Backstage Pass)
No.3 AMEMIYA Ten "PARADOX" ( Proved it because science fell in love... )
No.4 Chishibu Shonen Band (Takashi Ikuta x Sayoshi Oishi x ZiNG) "No.7" ( Chishibu Shonen Hanako-kun )

<2020 Winter Anime ED Theme

No.1 Aina Suzuki "Hikariiro no uta" ( Hatena☆Illusion )
No.2 ARP "Celebrate Good Time" ( ARP Backstage Pass)
No.3 Mamoru Miyano "LAST DANCE" ( Fiction Reasoning )
No.4 SUZUKI Minori "Yozora" ( Koisuru Asteroid )

＜Spring 2020 Anime OP Theme
No.1 Makoto Furukawa Makoto ni Harutenya ( Takkuboku Tori Tantei Location )
No.2 flumpool "Chiisana Hibi" ( Kakushigoto)
No.3 Masayuki Suzuki "DADDY! DADDY ! DO ! feat. Airi Suzuki ( Kaguya-sama ga kakurasanai?) ～ (Kaguya-sama ga Sesshirasai? ~The Geniuses' Love Brain Battle~)
No. 4 angela "Otome no Root wa Hitotsuwanai! ( I've been reincarnated as a villainous daughter with nothing but doom flags in Otome games... )

<2020 Spring Anime ED Theme
No.1 Mai Fuchigami "Crossing Road" ( Shokugeki no soma Go no sara )
No.2 ZAMB "Love Satisfaction" ( 邪神ちゃんドロップキック' )
No.3 Grandpa Grandpa (CV : Satoshi Hino) "Grandpa's Love Love♡Scat" ( Troubled Grandpa )
No.4 ELISA "Hikari no Hoshi" ( The Legend of the Galactic Heroes: Die Neue These(NHK version) )

<2020 Summer Anime OP Theme
No.1 SixTONES "NAVIGATOR" （Fujinsha Kantei Balance:UNLIMITED)
No.2 Yutaro Miura "Nibiiro no Yoake" ( Love and Producer - EVOL x LOVE)
No.3 ReoNa "ANIMA" ( SWORD ART ONLINE ARISATION War of Underworld THE LAST SEASON)
No.4 the peggies "Centimeter" ( Kanojo, Oroku shimasu )

<2020 Summer Anime ED Theme
No.1 Mai Fuchigami "Crossing Road" (Shokugeki no Soma: Go No Dare) is also entered in the spring anime, so it was excluded from the summer anime entries.
No. 2 Aoi Eir "I will..." ( SWORD ART ONLINE ARISATION War of Underworld THE LAST SEASON)
No. 3 Tomori Kusunoki "Hamidashimono" ( The Unconformist of the Demon King Academy - The founder of the strongest Demon King in history, reincarnated and attending a school for his descendants)
No.4 Aina Suzuki "Yasashisa no namae" ( Monster Girl's Doctor )

<2020 Autumn Anime OP Theme
No.1 Rena Ueda "Literature" ( Witch's Journey )
No.2 Kanako Takatsuki "Anti world" ( I'm standing on a million lives )
No.3 Princess Suyarisu (CV. Minase Inori) "Kaiyasumi! Sleep soundly! Suyaristo Seikatsu" ( Good night at the Demon King's castle )
No.4 Eve "Mawari Kitan" ( Jujutsu Kaisen )

＜2020 Autumn Anime ED Theme
No.1 INNOSENT in FORMAL "after song" ( Ikebukuro West Gate Park )
No.2 ChouCho "Gray saga" ( Witch's Journey )
No.3 Liyuu "Carpe Diem" ( I'm standing on a million lives )
No.4 Akari Kito "Kimi no Tonaride de" ( Adachi and Shimamura )

＜Editor's recommendation
Stray Kids "TOP -Japanese ver.
Stank (CV: Junji Mashima), Zel (CV: Yusuke Kobayashi), Crimvale (CV: Mimyu Tomita) "Ikouze☆Paradise" (OP of " Heterogeneous Reviewers ")
LiSA "Flame" (theme song of " Demon Slayer the Movie: MUGEN RAIN Arc ")
Eripyo (CV. Ai Fileze) "♡♡ Momoiro Katasoi♡" (ED. " If my guess goes to Budokan, I'll die ")
(K)NoW_NAME "Welcome to Chaos" (OP of " Dorohedoro ")
Snow Man "Stories" (OP of " Black Clover ")
Asaka "I believe what you said" （" Higurashi When They Cry Industry " OP)