Last year’s winner was “Love Live! μ’s Best Album Best Live! collection II,” the second best album of μ’s, the nine-member voice actress unit from the Love Live! franchise.
“Walküre Attack!,” the 12-song first album of the five-member girls idol unit Walküre from the Macross Delta TV anime franchise was chosen as “Animation Album of the Year.”
The album was released on July 6, 2016, and ranked 2nd in the Oricon weekly album sales ranking in its first week.