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Anyway, my list:

Best New Show of 2016: Ultraman Orb. For the second year running Tsubaraya has been knocking it out of the park with their new Ultra shows and I honestly feel that Orb is even better than X.

Best New-to-You Show of 2016: Kaiketsu Zubat. Haven't actually finished it (I've been having more trouble lately finding time to squeeze in tokusatsu - or a lot of things, really, I'm still only halfway through Luke Cage), but it is goddamn magnificent and a big part of why I love Orb's protagonist so much (see below).

Best Rewatch of 2016: Captain Power and the Soldiers of the Future. It counts. Kinda.

Best Movie of 2016: Actually haven't seen many of this year's films, but I did like the Kamen Rider Chase movie.

Best Male Lead Character: Gai from Ultraman Orb. Obviously inspired by Ultraseven and Zubat, but still a really interesting and engaging character. Very charismatic and likable with a rich backstory. I'm really excited that we'll be getting more of him with the Orb Origin series next year.

Best Female Lead Character: Naomi from Orb. She's basically Garo's Kaoru for the most part and I loved Kaoru. Naomi is fun, she's amusing, and she's also capable of good emotional depth.

Best Male Supporting Character: This was another year where I kind of fell out of watching the current Super Sentai. I liked the show, but I fell behind and just never found the will to catch up. That said, the most disappointing part of that for me is that I've missed out on the continuing mopey misadventures of Misao/Zyuoh The World. That guy never failed to crack me up.

Best Female Supporting Character: Asuna/Poppy Pippypeterpiperpickedapeckofpickledpeppers. I cannot remember her full name to save my life, but this is how you do comic relief, Kamen Rider. Occasionally annoying, often very confusing, but also capable of being a serious contributor to the story. Very fun character.

Best Actor: Hideo Ishiguro. Do you see this face I'm making? Does this expression say that I take back most of what I said about his acting abilities coming out of Den-O? I think that's what this expression says.

Best Actress: Yasue Sato was in a thing this year, so yeah.

Biggest Toku Crush of 2016: I watched the Ginga S movie, so Yukari Taki is still eligible.

Best Villain: Jugglus Juggler from Ultraman Orb. A very interesting and complex villain, occasional creepy troll, and presumably a guy that drinks a lot of Faygo.

Best Returning Character: This is a really tough call for me. On the one hand, the Gokaigers returned to Super Sentai and Captain Marvelous, in particular, was especially fun to see again. On the other hand, we got to see Kouga return to Garo, after the actor had previously implied he was done with the role. I'm probably going to go with Marvelous, though, because he had more screen time while Kouga was more of a cameo appearance.

Best Suit Actor: Hideyoshi Iwata (Ultraman Orb)

Best Writer: Yuya Takahashi (Ex-Aid)

Best Visual Designer: Whoever did the monsters for Orb.

Best Hero Suit Design: Honestly not a banner year for hero costumes between Ghost not knowing how color theory works, Zyuohger's animal onesies, and whatever the hell Ex-Aid is. Amazons had some great suits, though, as did Orb. It came down to Orb Thunder Breaster vs. Amazon Alpha for me, and I think I'm going to go with Alpha because I'm a sucker for metallic red.

Best Monster Suit Design: Galactron from Ultraman Orb.

Best Weapon: Amazon Omega's cool scythes.

Best Vehicle/Mecha: Kamen Rider Lazer.

Best Fight Scene: Orb Thunder Breaster vs. Galactron. Both for how brutal of a fight it was and for how intensely dramatic it was. I was sure that Orb would come to his senses to avoid hurting Naomi. I was wrong.

Best Dramatic Scene: Oh god , Mamoru, don't eat that. No no no no no no no.

Best Comedic Scene The multiple spit take scene from the Chaser movie. Belt-san spitting in Gou's face put it right over the top.

Biggest "WTF did I just watch?" Moment: The Poppy/Ex-Aid/Brave Jingle Bells scene from the most recent episode of Ex-Aid. That is totally a thing that happened.

Best Song Orb has some good music and I really like Ex-Aid's opening theme, but this year is all about Armour fuckin' Zone.

Best Piece of Merchandise: Shodo Vs. wave 3. I have a small Kamen Rider Black and Shadow Moon standing in front of my TV and it is awesome. Still bummed that Stronger was shortpacked, though.

Biggest Surprise of 2016: Garo getting licensed for a US release. The real show, not the shitty cartoon.

And, because not everything in 2016 was as delightfully welcome as a Gai Kurenai harmonica entrance:

Biggest Disappointment of 2016: Garo Makai Retsuden. It still had its moments, but I went into the show expecting some great, visually stunning standalone episodes like we got in Makai no Hana. Instead we got a whole bunch of throwaway low budget stuff like the episode where Rian bums around an apartment with some dude for 20 minutes and Mayuri talking to a chef. There were some cool episodes, but most of the series felt like wasted potential.

Single Worst Thing in 2016 Tokusatsu: Onari: Damn straight.

SECOND Worst Thing in 2016 Tokusatsu: Tempted to say "Also Onari" or "Kamen Rider Ghost as a whole," but I'll be generous and specifically narrow it down to the episodes where Akari becomes an idol. Congratulations, Ghost, you managed to be the first Kamen Rider series where I fastforwarded through scenes on the first viewing. Well fucking done.