[Librarian]

Best New Show of 2018
Gridman. While Zi-O is a close tie, Gridman was that perfect tokusatsu love letter show to celebrate the genre and fandom as a whole of the likes not seen since Concrete Revolutio. But if we're talking non-Toku, then I have to go with "Are you human too?" from South Korea. Or Apocrypha on the anime side. Though SAO: Alternative ranks really high too, and Killing Bites was really fun too.

Best New-to-You Show of 2018
Cheer Fruits or Black Bullet. Though No Game, No life ranks pretty high too.
Concrete Revolutio ranks really damn high too and that show was more perfection than even I realized and I'm still in awe of how well it turned out. Prisma Kaleid was a freaking joy to watch too. And Oath Under Snow was near perfection.

Best Rewatch of 2018
Definitely Kiva. Finally made time to sit down and watch it from start to finish, and god that show is so much everything that makes me love the genre and what it can do. I am still in awe of and proud of that show and all Toei made of it. The outright love coming from every aspect of the show in depth and charisma is heartwarming and uplifting. But so much work from Japan is like that in wow factor and artistic intrinsic value. Makes me want to sit down and relive all the best Toku moments from series of yesteryear all over again, from Faiz to blade, Kabuto, and OOOs and more.

Best Movie of 2018
Along with the Gods: The Two Worlds
Oath Under Snow
No Game, No Life Zero was really wow too.

Best Male Lead Character
Too many to list or choose.

Best Female Lead Character
Too many to list or choose.

Best Male Supporting Character
Too many to list or choose.

Best Female Supporting Character
Too many to list or choose.

Best Villain
Akane Shinjo of SSSS.Gridman. Hands down, she could stab me any day and I'd be fine with that.

Best Returning Past Character
Takumi. But Tsukasa and Takeru are close to almost tied too.

Best Actor
Too many to list or choose.

Best Actress
Too many to list or choose.

Toku Crush of 2018
Akane Shinjo, Anosillus the 2nd, or Tsukuyomi, but this isn't a fair category for me to comment on because of my own source bias.

Best Writer
Too many to list or choose.

Best Director
Too many to list or choose.

Best Suit Design
Too many great ones this year.

Best Weapon/Vehicle/Mecha
Time Mazine for now. But many of the Zi-O armors were fantastic too, and so much other mecha work that was pretty wow too. Darling in the Franxx ranks pretty high too for originality. Though as a whole, this year felt a bit more pulled in than normal and not nearly as much content as previous years for this category.

Best Fight Scene
Mordred or Atlanta of apocrypha still stands out the most currently, but for Toku it's a much harder pick. Zi-O had some great material in this regard too. Symphogear wasn't this year or I'd pick the finale from it.

Anything Scrapper from Pacific Rim Uprising ranks pretty high too.

Might have to go with Pacific Rim: Uprising, all the fight scenes there. Action choreography-wise in live action, this year felt kind of lacking. Though Lupat Gold/silver's debut was pretty fun. And Zi-O has had some solid fight scenes too. It might be my personal bias speaking, but this year overall felt very much like holding back, and not as much new innovative as we've gotten before.

Best Dramatic Scene
Too many to list or choose. While not exactly Toku, I have to lean with Voltron season 8, all of it.

Best Comedic Scene
Zi-O Complimentary episodes. Though Anosillus the 2nd with her maniacal laugh ranks pretty high up there too.

Biggest "WTF did I just watch?" Moment
LuPat's Fart Episode.

Best Song
Over Quartzer or the Forever theme remix. Though it'd be a tougher call if there had been a new symphogear season this year. The songs from that show are addictive.

Best Piece of Merchandise
Shodo anything. But minipla offerings this year were especially great. Unlimits project is fantastic from Bandai Japan. Daretoku/Oretoku from Epoch is still a personal fave. And Good Smile has been doing some fantastic work too. Though I'm also still enamored by Desktop Army too. Tons of amazing toy design work this year.

Biggest Surprise of 2018
I have to abstain from this category for reasons.
Probably the only thing I actively hate about my line of work. -_-

Biggest Disappointment of 2018:
That SSSS.Gridman ended and we don't get to see Gridknight with the new Dyna Dragon armor even though it ends on alluding to it. They could have at least fit it into the credits or something as a tease through still art.

The Onari Memorial Award for Single Worst Thing in 2018 Tokusatsu:
The LuPat fart episode. But it was so bad it was glorious and perfect.

And for a bonus!
The "I ship it, and want a series of that now":
Gridknight and Anosillus the 2nd were way too cute of an ending to leave as only that one scene. Her laugh was way too cute and endearing. I want a series of that now.

*Between live action and anime, there were a lot of things this year I wish I could praise and I could go on and on about how amazing they were. But for this mostly Scifi/toku/toku inspired/influenced, and similar genre type list for 2018 this is what I guess I have to go with, but that does not mean I love anything else made that much less, and I look forward to all that 2019 brings in even more amazing content.