Voting was abit... well... meek... for nominations. But vote for final winners you must, and here's the nominations, and the few winners we have already right off the bat.
Best Hentai of 2006 Nominees
Best Hentai Manga Best Hentai Manga One Shot or Anthology One Shot Innocence
Patriot
Rhapsody
Best Hentai Manga Series (2 and more volumes) (fused category) Blue Eyes (English release)
Bondage Fairies
La Blue Girl the Original Manga Super Taboo
Best Hentai Manga Company Eros Comixs
Icarus Publishing Redlight
Best Amerotica or Eurotica Hentai Comic Best One Shot or Anthology One Shot (or series that only had one volume released to date) Adventures of a Lesbian College School Girl
Gullivera
Pinocchia
Robinsonia
Sapphire
Best Series (2 and more volumes) (fused category) Click
Diary of Molly Fredericksen : Peanut Butter
Katy : Sexy Magic
Lolita
Best Hentai Anime Best Hentai Anime One Shot OAV (30 to 60 minutes) Darling
Endless Serenade
Sexfriend
The Story of Little Monica
Best Hentai Anime One Shot Maxi OAV (90-120 or more minutes) F3
Meiking
Slave Nurses
Teacher’s Pet (Anime 18 full length edition)
Best Hentai Anime Series (2 and more volumes) (fused category) Angel Blade
La Blue Girl
Lesbian Ward
Wife and Wife
Best Hentai Anime Live Action One Shot OAV, Movie or Series No votes recorded this year.
Best Hentai Anime “Anime Hot Shots” Format Release Love Lessons
Pure Love
Spaceship Agga Ruter
Teacher’s Pet
Best Hentai Anime Company Anime 18
Critical Mass/Vanilla Series
Kitty Media
Lifetime Achievement Awards of 2006
And finally we have Lifetime Achievement. Vote for who you think deserves it the most.
Tohru Nishimaki of “Blue Eyes” representing the best of Mangaerotica
(The staff of) Icarus Publishing
Manare representing the best of Eurotica
(The title) “Small Favors” representing the best of Amerotica
Awards Already Given Out
In the already awarded categories, where awards were given out for stand out products…
Icarus Publishing won an award for Best Hentai Anthology Magazine Publication for it’s monthly anthology book
The creators of Small Favors won an award for Best Lesbian Erotica Series
The creators of BOUNCE PSP UMD for the PSP won an award for Best Hentai for a handheld… mostly because to date it is the ONLY true Hentai content product available right now and released on the PSP that isn’t a hard to find import from Japan that only a few stores carry so, well, it had no competition.
Hopefully 2007 will change all that because I’d hate to think BOUNCE will get the same award year after year for being the only available hentai on the PSP.
Playboy : The Mansion, by the way, won the award for Best Hentai on a console… again, mostly due to incredible slim pickings and no lack of censorship will make Leisure Suit Larry : Magna Cum Laude anymore playable than it was censored like all get out.
No Best Hentai on the PC award since there is actually Hentai on the PC and it would take forever just to mull through it and pick one without the “votes” of you the readers… sorry.
La Blue Girl mainman for Most Recommended Hentai Anime/Manga Series
Sorry if your favorites didn’t make the cut, but then again everyone had a chance to vote and most of you passed it up so, as the Hawaiians would say “No Vote No Bitch”… really, I’ve seen the bumper stickers! Real bumper sticker (post Elections 2006).
Next Month? Well it’s the duldrums between voting and final awards, and I was going to leave it with just the topic of the upcoming Academy Awards and the Best Animated Feature Award of 2006 at the Academy, but then G4 went off and did a show on the Adult Entertainment Expo in January and... well... what the hell! G4 DOES know that an "Adult Entertainment" Expo where all the sex content is blocked out with large black boxes and footage censorship is about as pointless as an apple pie without apple... right? Well I'll talk that up with you next month, and maybe talk about the pointlessness of an Adult Entertainment Expo shown without the Adult Entertainment (or at least the illusion of it).
That’s that. Now you have until the weekend of the Academy Awards to vote so get to it!
And remember! “No Vote No Bitch”… OK? OK. Get to it now.
Email votes to David@barebackmag.com (Please write in the title field: "The Best Hentai of 2006 Awards")