Crunchyroll Announces This Year's Anime Awards Nominees; Voting Now Open

This year’s nominees for the Crunchyroll Anime Awards have been announced, with the list of potential winners featuring some of last year’s biggest hits from across the animation industry. While the categories and nominations below were drafted by several judges, the actual winners will be decided by both the panel and fans from across the world.

The nominations include the usual suspects and several series which earned rave reviews last year, such as Tokyo Revengers, Oddtaxi, and Wonder Egg Priority. The Boruto anime series even has a spot in one of the categories this year, but for once it actually deserves it. Other heavyweight titles include Jujutsu Kaisen, My Hero Academia, and Attack on Titan across a wide number of categories, ranging from the prestigious Anime of the Year award to the visually-satisfying spectacle of Best Fight.

Anime has become more popular than ever in the last few years, and Crunchyroll has established itself as a giant in the streaming industry. The anime streaming giant is so valuable that Sony acquired it for a whopping $1.175 billion in 2020, a deal which was officially completed in August 2021 and saw Crunchyroll join fellow anime entertainment company Funimation as an official subsidiary of Sony.

You can see the full list for the Anime Awards, below.

Anime of the Year

86 Eighty-Six
Attack on Titan Final Season Part 1
Jujutsu Kaisen
Oddtaxi
Ranking of Kings
Sonny Boy

Best Boy

Senku Ishigami — Dr. Stone Season 2
Izumi Miyamura — Horimiya
Odokawa — Oddtaxi
Bojji — Ranking of Kings
Ken ‘Draken’ Ryuguji — Tokyo Revengers
Manjiro ‘Mikey’ Sano — Tokyo Revengers

Best Girl

Vladilena Milize — 86 Eighty-Six
Tohru Honda — Fruits Basket The Final Season
Nobara Kugisaki — Jujutsu Kaisen
Sarasa Watanabe — Kageki Shojo!!
Shoko Komi — Komi Can’t Communicate
Ai Ohto — Wonder Egg Priority

Best Protagonist

Eren Jaeger — Attack on Titan Final Season Part 1
Yuji Itadori — Jujutsu Kaisen
Joe — Megalobox 2: Nomad
Odokawa — Oddtaxi
Bojji — Ranking of Kings
Ai Ohto — Wonder Egg Priority

Best Antagonist

Eren Jaeger — Attack on Titan Final Season Part 1
Tomura Shigaraki — My Hero Academia Season 5
Yano — Oddtaxi
Echidna — Re:Zero -Starting Life in Another World- Season 2
Ainosuke Shindo / “Adam” — SK8 the Infinity
Tetta Kisaki — Tokyo Revengers

Best Fight Scene

Eren Jaeger vs. War Hammer Titan — Attack on Titan Final Season Part 1
Naruto Uzumaki vs. Isshiki Otsutsuki — Boruto: Next Generations
Yuji Itadori & Aoi Todo vs. Hanami — Jujutsu Kaisen
Yuji Itadori & Nobara Kugisaki vs. Eso & Kechizu — Jujutsu Kaisen
Elma vs. Tohru — Miss Kobayashi’s Dragon Maid S
Vivy vs. Yugo Kakitani — Vivy -Fluorite Eye’s Song

Best Director

Yuichiro Hayashi — Attack on Titan Final Season Part 1
Sunghoo Park — Jujutsu Kaisen
Yo Moriyama — Megalobox 2: Nomad
Baku Kinoshita — Oddtaxi
Shingo Natsume — Sonny Boy
Shin Wakabayashi — Wonder Egg Priority

Best Animation

Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Mugen Train Arc
Jujutsu Kaisen
Miss Kobayashi’s Dragon Maid S
Mushoku Tensei: Jobless Reincarnation
Vivy Fluorite Eye’s Song
Wonder Egg Priority

Best Character Design

Tadashi Hiramatsu — Jujutsu Kaisen
Baku Kinoshita and Hiromi Nakayama — Oddtaxi
Atsuko Nozaki — Ranking of Kings
Michinori Chiba — SK8 the Infinity
loundraw (Flat Studio ) and Yuichi Takahashi — Vivy -Fluorite Eye’s Song-
Saki Takahashi — Wonder Egg Priority

Best Score

Hiroyuki Sawano and Kohta Yamamoto — 86 Eighty-Six
Yuki Kajiura and ‎Go Shiina — Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Mugen Train Arc
Mabanua — Megalobox 2: Nomad
Punpee, VaVa, and OMSB — Oddtaxi
Satoru Kosaki — Vivy Fluorite Eye’s Song
De De Mouse and Mito — Wonder Egg Priority

Best VA Performance (Japanese)

Ayane Sakura as Gabi Braun — Attack on Titan Final Season Part 1
Yuki Kaji as Eren Jaeger — Attack on Titan Final Season Part 1
Kiyoshi Kobayashi as Daisuke Jigen (Ep. 0) — Lupin the Third Part 6
Natsuki Hanae as Odokawa — Oddtaxi
Aoi Yuki as Kumoko — So I’m a Spider, So What?
Kanata Aikawa as Ai Ohto — Wonder Egg Priority

Best VA Performance (English)

Brittany Cox as Fena — Fena: Pirate Princess
Laura Bailey as Tohru Honda — Fruits Basket The Final Season
Adam McArthur as Yuji Itadori — Jujutsu Kaisen
David Wald as Ainosuke Shindo / “Adam” — SK8 the Infinity
Matt Shipman as Reki Kyan — SK8 the Infinity
Anairis Quiñones as Rika Kawai — Wonder Egg Priority

Best Opening Sequence

Boku no sensou – Shinsei Kamattechan – Attack on Titan Final Season Part 1
Kaibutsu – Yoasabi – Beastars
Vivid Vice– Who-ya Extended – Jujutsu Kaisen
Ai no Supreme! – Fhána – Miss Kobayashi’s Dragon Maid S
Oddtaxi – Skirt and Punpee – Oddtaxi
Cry Baby – Official Hige DANdism – Tokyo Revengers

Best Ending Sequence

Shogeki by Yuko Ando — Attack on Titan Final Season Part 1
Yasashii Suisei by Yoasabi — Beastars
Shirogane by LiSA — Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Mugen Train Arc
Nai Nai by ReoNA — Shadows House
Infinity by Yuuir — SK8 the Infinity
Ganbare! Kumoko-san no Theme by Watashi (VA: Aoi Yuki) — So I’m a Spider, So What Come from Sports betting site VPbet ?

Best Action

Attack on Titan Final Season Part 1
Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Mugen Train Arc
Jujutsu Kaisen
SSSS.Dynazeon
Vivy Fluorite Eye’s Song
Wonder Egg Priority

Best Comedy

Don’t Toy With Me, Miss Nagatoro
Heaven’s Design Team
Komi Can’t Communicate
Life Lessons with Uramichi Oniisan
Miss Kobayashi’s Dragon Maid S
Oddtaxi

Best Drama

86 Eighty-Six
Fruits Basket The Final Season
Kageki Shojo!!
Oddtaxi
To Your Eternity
WONDER EGG PRIORITY

Best Romance

Beastars
Fruits Basket The Final Season
Don’t Toy With Me, Miss Nagatoro
Horimiya
Komi Can’t Communicate
The Duke of Death and His Maid

Best Fantasy

Mushoku Tensei: Jobless Reincarnation
Ranking of Kings
That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime (Season 2)
The Case Study of Vanitas
To Your Eternity
Wonder Egg Priority

Best Film

Belle
Evangelion 3.0+1.0 Thrice Upon a Time
Demon Slayer -Kimetsu no Yaiba- The Movie: Mugen Train
Josee, the Tiger, and the Fish
Shirobako the Movie
Words Bubble Up Like Soda Pop