Crunchyroll Anime Awards

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The Crunchyroll Anime Awards, also known simply as The Anime Awards, are awards given annually by the anime streaming service Crunchyroll to recognize the best anime of the previous year. Announced in December 2016, the awards were first presented in January 2017.^[1] Crunchyroll describes it as a "global event [that] recognizes the anime shows, characters, and artists that fans around the world love most."^[2]

Crunchyroll Anime Awards
Current: 7th Crunchyroll Anime Awards
Awarded for	Best in anime of the previous year
Country	United States Japan
Presented by	Crunchyroll
First awarded	January 11, 2017; 6 years ago (2017-01-11)
Website	crunchyroll.com/animeawards

The winners of the 6th Crunchyroll Anime Awards were announced on February 9, 2022 without a ceremony. Attack on Titan: The Final Season Part 1 won the Anime of the Year award.^[3] The 7th ceremony will be held physically on March 4, 2023 in Tokyo, Japan.^[4]

Process

The awards have two rounds of voting. In the first round, each judges will submit up to five candidates per category. The six candidates that got the highest number of cumulative nominations from the panel will the be included in the final list. During the voting period, which lasts for a week, the public can choose a single nominee per category per day. The winners for each category are the ones who received the most votes from the judges and the public. 70% of the votes will come from the judges, with 30% coming from the results of the public voting.^[5]

Any anime that was produced primarily in Japan and was released legally on television or online in Japan from November of two years prior to September of the past year are eligible to be nominated. This means that, for the 7th edition, any anime that was released from November 2021 to September 2022 are eligible.^[5]

The set of categories that will be presented changes for each edition. The 7th edition, for example, will feature 31 categories.

Categories

Current

• Anime of the Year (since 2017)
• Best Main Character (since 2023)
• Best Supporting Character (since 2023)
• "Must Protect At All Costs" Character (since 2023)
• Best Opening Sequence (since 2017)
• Best Ending Sequence (since 2017)
• Best Anime Song (since 2023)
• Best VA Performance (JP) (since 2019)
• Best VA Performance (EN) (since 2019)
• Best VA Performance (DE) (since 2022)
• Best VA Performance (FR) (since 2022)
• Best VA Performance (LA) (since 2022)
• Best VA Performance (SP) (since 2022)
• Best VA Performance (PT) (since 2022)
• Best VA Performance (AR) (since 2023)
• Best VA Performance (IT) (since 2023)
• Best Director (since 2019)
• Best Animation (since 2017)
• Best Film (2018–2019; since 2022)
• Best Continuing Series (2018–2019; since 2023)
• Best New Series (since 2023)
• Best Original Anime (since 2023)
• Best Character Design (since 2019)
• Best Drama (since 2017)
• Best Comedy (since 2017)
• Best Score (since 2018)
• Best Fantasy (since 2020)
• Best Action (2017–2018; since 2022)
• Best Romance (since 2022)

Special

• Industry Icon Award (2018–2020)
• Special Achievement Award (since 2023)
• Presenter's Choice (since 2023)

Former

• Best Protagonist (2017–2022)
• Best Antagonist (2017–2022)
• Best Boy (2017–2022)
• Best Girl (2017–2022)
• Best Fight Scene (2017–2022)
• Most Heartwarming Scene (2017)
• Best CGI (2018)
• Best Slice of Life (2019)
• Best Manga (2018)
• Best Couple (2017–2018; 2020–2021)

Hero of the Year and Villain of the Year awards were renamed as "Best Hero" and "Best Villain" respectively in 2018. However, they were renamed again in 2019 as "Best Protagonist" and "Best Antagonist" respectively.^[6] On the same edition, "Best Opening" and "Best Ending" were renamed as "Best Opening Sequence" and "Best Ending Sequence" as well.

Editions

Ceremony	Date	Anime of the Year
1st Crunchyroll Anime Awards	January 28, 2017	Yuri on Ice
2nd Crunchyroll Anime Awards	February 24, 2018	Made in Abyss
3rd Crunchyroll Anime Awards	February 16, 2019	Devilman Crybaby
4th Crunchyroll Anime Awards	February 15, 2020	Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba
5th Crunchyroll Anime Awards	February 19, 2021	Jujutsu Kaisen
6th Crunchyroll Anime Awards	February 9, 2022	Attack on Titan: The Final Season Part 1
7th Crunchyroll Anime Awards	March 4, 2023^[4]	TBA

Notable awards and nominees

Series

The following nominees received multiple nominations (5 or more): Nominations Title 34 Attack on Titan 28 Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba My Hero Academia 27 Jujutsu Kaisen 23 Ranking of Kings 19 Spy × Family 18 Kaguya-sama: Love is War 15 Mob Psycho 100 14 JoJo's Bizarre Adventure 13 Cyberpunk: Edgerunners 11 Beastars Made in Abyss Megalo Box My Dress-Up Darling Odd Taxi Wonder Egg Priority 10 Great Pretender Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken! Vinland Saga 9 Carole & Tuesday Fruits Basket Kabaneri of the Iron Fortress 8 Aggretsuko Lycoris Recoil Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid The Promised Neverland Sarazanmai 7 86 The Ancient Magus' Bride Devilman Crybaby March Comes in Like a Lion Re:Zero − Starting Life in Another World Tower of God Yuri on Ice 6 Dorohedoro Dr. Stone Erased Komi Can't Communicate Land of the Lustrous Little Witch Academia Tokyo Revengers Violet Evergarden Vivy: Fluorite Eye's Song 5 Descending Stories: Showa Genroku Rakugo Shinju SK8 the Infinity Ya Boy Kongming! Zombie Land Saga

The following winners received multiple awards (2 or more): Awards Title 15 My Hero Academia 9 Jujutsu Kaisen 8 Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba 7 Attack on Titan Yuri on Ice 5 Kaguya-sama: Love is War 4 Mob Psycho 100 3 Re:Zero − Starting Life in Another World 2 Devilman Crybaby Erased JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken! Made in Abyss Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid Odd Taxi That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime The Promised Neverland The Rising of the Shield Hero

Films

The following nominees received multiple nominations (2 or more): Nominations Title 4 Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba – The Movie: Mugen Train Jujutsu Kaisen 0 3 Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero Evangelion 3.0+1.0 Thrice Upon a Time 2 A Silent Voice Belle Digimon Adventure: Last Evolution Kizuna One Piece Film: Red

The following winners received multiple awards (2 or more): Awards Title 3 Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba – The Movie: Mugen Train

Records (as of January 2023)

Nominees

• Attack on Titan earned the highest nominations in each year with 34, including Anime of the Year twice.
• Spy × Family earned the highest nominations in a single year / edition (7th) with 19.
• Megalo Box and Wonder Egg Priority are the two anime series to receive the most nominations with 11, without a win.
  • Wonder Egg Priority is the only original anime series to receive the most nominations without a win and did not nominate the Anime of the Year category.
• Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba – The Movie: Mugen Train and Jujutsu Kaisen 0 earned the most nominations for films with 4.
• Cyberpunk: Edgerunners is the first anime adaptation of video games to be nominated in the Anime of the Year category, which was based on a video game Cyberpunk 2077 by Polish video game development studio CD Projekt Red.

Winners

• My Hero Academia earned the highest wins in each year with 15.
  • At the 2nd edition, My Hero Academia nearly swept all of the categories except the Anime of the Year, as well as earned the highest wins in a single year with 8 including an Industry Icon Award for Christopher Sabat, who voiced All Might as well as Vegeta and Piccolo from the Dragon Ball franchise.^[7]
• At the inaugural ceremony, Yuri on Ice swept all of the seven nominations including the Anime of the Year, amid controversy by fans.^[8]
• Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba – The Movie: Mugen Train earned the most wins for a film with 3.

See also

• List of animation awards

References

1. "Crunchyroll Announces Its First Ever Anime Awards". Anime News Network. Retrieved January 18, 2021.
2. . Crunchyroll. Archived from the original on January 17, 2021. Retrieved January 18, 2021.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
3. Goslin, Austen (February 9, 2022). "Attack on Titan Final Season Part 1 wins top prize at Crunchyroll's Anime Awards". Polygon. Retrieved February 9, 2022.
4. "Crunchyroll to Expand Anime Awards and Bring the Live Event to Japan in 2023". Crunchyroll. August 16, 2022. Retrieved August 16, 2022.
5. "How It Works". Crunchyroll Anime Awards. December 24, 2022.
6. Loveridge, Lynzee (January 12, 2019). "Megalobox, Devilman crybaby Dominate Crunchyroll Anime Award's Nominations". Anime News Network. Retrieved February 10, 2021.
7. "Crunchyroll's 2017 Anime Awards Recap and Winners - Geeks Of Color". geeksofcolor.co. February 25, 2018. Retrieved July 31, 2022.
8. . web.archive.org. April 9, 2017. Archived from the original on April 9, 2017. Retrieved July 31, 2022.

External links

• Official website
• Crunchyroll Anime Awards at IMDb