# Internet Buzzword Award

The Internet Buzzword Award (ネット流行語大賞, Internet Buzzword Award) is a Japanese award that determines the most popular buzzwords on the Internet during a year.
This article also deals with the Anime Buzzword Award, which has been held in conjunction with the awards since 2013.

## Overview

The Internet Buzzword of the Year Award is selected annually by the online media company Gadget Tsushin Launched in 2007, candidates are solicited from the members of 2channel search, and the popular words are decided by the votes of those members. Since 2013, the "Anime Buzzword Awards" have been held only for words related to anime that aired that year.
Since the Grand Prize is held at the end of the year, words that were popular at the end of the year have a comparative advantage. Also, due to the selection method, words that were popular on 2channel and Nico Nico Douga tend to be selected. Many people may be more familiar with this award than the "New Word and Popular Word Awards" sponsored by You Can.

## Award-winning terms

| Year | Award Type | Award | Buzzword | Award Winner / Recipient |
| 2007 | Grand Prize | Grand Prize | fabricate | The Asahi Shimbun |
| 2007 | Silver Prize | Silver Prize | Sweets | N/A |
| 2007 | Bronze Prize | Bronze Prize | leeway | Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) |
| 2008 | Grand Prize | Grand Prize | I'm not like you. | Yasuo Fukuda |
| 2008 | Silver Prize | Silver Prize | ～Yes, I understand. | The Idolmaster |
| 2008 | Bronze Prize | Bronze Prize | Go ahead and take your time! | Touhou Project |
| 2009 | Grand Prize | Grand Prize | But only if you are good looking | All good looking women |
| 2009 | Silver Prize | Silver Prize | How did this happen? | Mr. Manjero |
| 2009 | Bronze Prize | Bronze Prize | What's wrong with being naked? | Tsuyoshi Kusanagi |
| 2010 | Grand Prize | Grand Prize | Are you sure you're equipped for this? | Takeyasu Sawaki |
| 2010 | Silver Prize | Silver Prize | Outflow (sengoku38) | Yoshito Sengoku |
| 2010 | Bronze Prize | Bronze Prize | ～Squid? ～Squid. | Masahiro Anbe |
| 2011 | Grand Prize | Grand Prize | Pop-pop-pop! | AC Japan |
| 2011 | Silver Prize | Silver Prize | Nadeshiko Japan | Japan Women's National Soccer Team |
| 2011 | Bronze Prize | Bronze Prize | Make a contract with me and become a XX! | Kyubey (Puella Magi Madoka Magica) |
| 2012 | Grand Prize | Grand Prize | stealth marketing | N/A |
| 2012 | Silver Prize | Silver Prize | (」・ω・)」/Woo! (」・ω・)」/nya! | Nyaruko: Crawling with Love |
| 2012 | Bronze Prize | Bronze Prize | ┌（┌ ＾o＾）┐ I'm going backwards... | Nyaruko: Crawling with Love |
| 2013 | Internet Buzzword Award | Grand Prize | When do we do it? Now! | Osamu Hayashi |
| 2013 | Internet Buzzword Award | Silver Prize | Gekiko Pun Pun Maru | N/A |
| 2013 | Internet Buzzword Award | Bronze Prize | Double back! | Naoki Hanzawa |
| 2013 | Anime Buzzword Award | Grand Prize | Nyanpasuu | Non Non Biyori |
| 2013 | Anime Buzzword Award | Silver Prize | I'll destroy | Attack on Titan |
| 2013 | Anime Buzzword Award | Bronze Prize | I can only swim free | Free! |
| 2014 | Internet Buzzword Award | Grand Prize | There are STAP cells | Haruko Obokata |
| 2014 | Internet Buzzword Award | Silver Prize | Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm... | Ryutaro Nonomura |
| 2014 | Internet Buzzword Award | Bronze Prize | No ~ No | Nippon Elekitel Rengo |
| 2014 | Anime Buzzword Award | Grand Prize | Lick Lick Lick Lick | JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Stardust Crusaders |
| 2014 | Anime Buzzword Award | Silver Prize | Monge | Yo-kai Watch |
| 2014 | Anime Buzzword Award | Bronze Prize | It's because of youkai. | Yo-kai Watch |
| 2015 | Internet Buzzword Award | Grand Prize | Goromaru | Goromaru Ayumu |
| 2015 | Internet Buzzword Award | Silver Prize | Payopayochin | Former F-Secure employee |
| 2015 | Internet Buzzword Award | Bronze Prize | ISIS / Islamic State | N/A |
| 2015 | Anime Buzzword Award | Grand Prize | Ah ... I'll tell you what happened right now! | JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Stardust Crusade |
| 2015 | Anime Buzzword Award | Silver Prize | Example string / string god | Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon? |
| 2015 | Anime Buzzword Award | Bronze Prize | Tuna bowl | Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans |
| 2016 | Internet Buzzword Award | Grand Prize | PPAP / Pen-Pineapple Appo Pen | Pico Taro |
| 2016 | Internet Buzzword Award | Silver Prize | Pokemon GO | Pokémon Go |
| 2016 | Internet Buzzword Award | Bronze Prize | The nursery school fell in Japan | Hatena Anonymous Diary' |
| 2016 | Anime Buzzword Award | Grand Prize | I just loved it | Sound! Euphonium 2 |
| 2016 | Anime Buzzword Award | Silver Prize | Garupan is good | Girls und Panzer der Film |
| 2016 | Anime Buzzword Award | Bronze Prize | I'll do my best today as well | New Game! |
| 2017 | Internet Buzzword Award | Grand Prize | Nintendo Switch | Nintendo Switch |
| 2017 | Internet Buzzword Award | Silver Prize | 72 hours Honne TV | Goro Inagaki, Tsuyoshi Kusanagi, Shingo Katori |
| 2017 | Internet Buzzword Award | Bronze Prize | This hugger! | Mayuko Toyota |
| 2017 | Anime Buzzword Award | Grand Prize | Dawn! | The Laughing Salesman |
| 2017 | Anime Buzzword Award | Silver Prize | Yay! / Ta-no-shi! / great! | Kemono Friends |
| 2017 | Anime Buzzword Award | Bronze Prize | It won't stop ... | Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans |
| 2018 | Internet Buzzword Award | Grand Prize | Virtual YouTuber / VTuber | VTuber |
| 2018 | Internet Buzzword Award | Silver Prize | The last ○○ in Heisei | N/A |
| 2018 | Internet Buzzword Award | Bronze Prize | It 's not odd | Takigawa Daini High School |
| 2018 | Anime Buzzword Award | Grand Prize | Toru Amuro | Case Closed: Zero the Enforcer |
| 2018 | Anime Buzzword Award | Silver Prize | Amuro woman | Case Closed: Zero the Enforcer |
| 2018 | Anime Buzzword Award | Bronze Prize | Well, it's anti. | Pop Team Epic |
| 2019 | Internet Buzzword Award | Grand Prize | Destroy NHK | Takashi Tachibana |
| 2019 | Internet Buzzword Award | Silver Prize | N country party / Party that protects the people from NHK | N/A |
| 2019 | Internet Buzzword Award | Bronze Prize | Senior citizen / Senior innocence | N/A |
| 2019 | Anime Buzzword Award | Grand Prize | Sesame pickpocket fucking bird | Kemono Friends 2 |
| 2019 | Anime Buzzword Award | Silver Prize | Shamiko is bad | The Demon Girl Next Door |
| 2019 | Anime Buzzword Award | Bronze Prize | Ikiri Sabataro | Fate/Grand Order - Absolute Demonic Front: Babylonia |
| 2020 | Internet Buzzword Award | Grand Prize | Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba | Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba |
| 2020 | Internet Buzzword Award | Silver Prize | It's dense! - Atsumi / Atsumare Animal Crossing | Yuriko Koike - Animal Crossing: New Horizons |
| 2020 | Internet Buzzword Award | Bronze Prize | Corona / New Coronavirus / COVID-19 | Coronavirus |
| 2020 | Anime Buzzword Award | Grand Prize | breathing | Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba |
| 2020 | Anime Buzzword Award | Silver Prize | Total concentration | Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba |
| 2020 | Anime Buzzword Award | Bronze Prize | Mr.Kyojuro Rengoku, the 20 billion man. | Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba |
| 2021 | Internet Buzzword Award | Grand Prize | Uma musume | |
| 2021 | Internet Buzzword Award | Silver Prize | 男の人っていつもそうですね…! 私たちのことなんだと思ってるんですか!? | In a World Full of Zombies I'm the Only One Who Doesn't Get Attacked |
| 2021 | Internet Buzzword Award | Bronze Prize | The Constitutional Democratic Communist Party | Tarō Asō |
| 2021 | Anime Buzzword Award | Grand Prize | Molcar / Pui Pui | Pui Pui Molcar |
| 2021 | Anime Buzzword Award | Grand Prize | Mafty syntax, "Let's do it, Mafty!" "There will no problem!" "Is it Gumdam!?" | Mobile Suit Gundam: Hathaway's Flash |
| 2021 | Anime Buzzword Award | Silver Prize | Are there any fence-sitters here? | Tokyo Revengers |
| 2021 | Anime Buzzword Award | Silver Prize | Uma pyoi | Uma Musume Pretty Derby |
| 2021 | Anime Buzzword Award | Bronze Prize | Dances for making X reflect themselves | KXVO |
| 2022 | Internet Buzzword Award | Grand Prize | おとわっか | Final Fantasy X, Puella Magi Madoka Magica |
| 2022 | Internet Buzzword Award | Silver Prize | X finalized | Shūkan Bunshun |
| 2022 | Internet Buzzword Award | Bronze Prize | GaaSyy MB / GaaSyy cannon | GaaSyy |
| 2022 | Anime Buzzword Award | Grand Prize | Uta | One Piece Film: Red |
| 2022 | Anime Buzzword Award | Silver Prize | Fish-- | Lycoris Recoil |
| 2022 | Anime Buzzword Award | Silver Prize | Anya knows | Spy × Family |
| 2022 | Anime Buzzword Award | Bronze Prize | My shitty double standard dad | Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch from Mercury |
| 2023 | Internet Buzzword Award | Grand Prize | Tax-adding glasses | Fumio Kishida |
| 2023 | Internet Buzzword Award | Silver Prize | The Colabo problem | |
| 2023 | Internet Buzzword Award | Silver Prize | ちょんまげ小僧 / ひき肉です | |
| 2023 | Internet Buzzword Award | Bronze Prize | Education Education Education Education Education Education Education Education Education Education Education Education Education Education Education Education Education Education Death Penalty Death Penalty Death Penalty Death Penalty Death Penalty Death Penalty Death Penalty Death Penalty Death Penalty Education Education Education Education Education Education Education Education Education Education Education Education Education Education Education Education Education Education | Koichi Kaneshige, former Executive Vice President of WECARS |
| 2023 | Anime Buzzword Award | Grand Prize | "Kimi wa Kanpeki de Kyuukyoku no Getter" | Oshi no Ko / Shin Getter Robo vs Neo Getter Robo |
| 2023 | Anime Buzzword Award | Silver Prize | Ash Ketchum resigns | Pokémon Journeys: The Series |
| 2023 | Anime Buzzword Award | Bronze Prize | Don't do it! | Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch from Mercury |
| 2024 | Internet Buzzword Award | Grand Prize | まいたけダンス | Juufuutei Raden |
| 2024 | Internet Buzzword Award | Silver Prize | Yami Baito / White cases | |
| 2024 | Internet Buzzword Award | Bronze Prize | No-buying uncle (at the game) | Yusuf Dikeç |
| 2024 | Anime Buzzword Award | Grand Prize | Tsumugi, I am so happy | Himitsu no AiPri |
| 2024 | Anime Buzzword Award | Silver Prize | "Shikanoko Nokonoko Koshitantan" | My Deer Friend Nokotan |
| 2024 | Anime Buzzword Award | Bronze Prize | Himmel theory / Himmel syntax, "It’s what Himmel the hero would have done" | Frieren |