Crunchyroll has announced their nominees for the fifth annual Crunchyroll Anime Awards! Every year it seemingly gets bigger as more anime makes its way into the mainstream, the nominees and categories this time around seem more than ever when you look back at everything released in 2020. Interested fans can now vote for the link every day until January 22. , and winners will be announced at a special live event on Friday, February 19 at 5:00 PM PST. Fan-chosen along with a committee of community-selected judges (including ComicBook.com’s Megan Peters), the winners will be selected from a strong roster of nominees.
The nominees and categories for this year’s Crunchyroll Anime Awards are as follows:
Anime of the year
- APPARE-RANMAN!
- BEASTARS
- Dorohedoro
- Great pretender
- JUJUTSUKAISEN
- Stay away from Eizouken!
Dear girl
- Abigail Jones – Great Pretender
- Catarina Claes – My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom!
- Chizuru Mizuhara – Rent-a-Girlfriend
- Kaguya Shinomiya – Kaguya-sama: Love is War?
- Noi – Dorohedoro
- Sayaka Kanamori – Don’t touch Eizouken!
Dear boy
- Anos Voldigoad – The Misfit of Demon King Academy: History’s Strongest Demon King reincarnates and goes to school with his descendants
- Caiman – Dorohedoro
- Khun Aguero Agnes – Tower of God
- Legoshi – BEASTARS
- SatoruGojo – JUJUTSU KAISEN
- Shoyo Hinata – HAIKYU !! TO THE TOP
Best Leading Actor
- Anos Voldigoad – The Misfit of Demon King Academy: History’s Strongest Demon King reincarnates and goes to school with his descendants
- Catarina Claes – My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom!
- Midori Asakusa – Stay away from Eizouken!
- Natsume – DECA-DENCE
- Shoyo Hinata – HAIKYU !! TO THE TOP
- Yuji Itadori- JUJUTSU KAISEN
Dear antagonist
- Akito Soma – Fruits Basket (Season 2)
- Echidna – Re: ZERO -Starting Life in Another World- (Season 2)
- En – Dorohedoro
- Overhaul – My Hero Academia Season 4
- Rachel – Tower of God
- Ryomen Sukuna –JUJUTSU KAISEN
Best animation
- BEASTARS
- Great pretender
- JUJUTSUKAISEN
- Stay away from Eizouken!
- Princess Connect! Re: dive
- The high school god
Best fight scene
- Bercouli vs. Dark God Vecta – Sword Art Online Alicization: War of the Underworld Part 2
- Brawler vs. Master – Akudama Drive
- Deku vs. Overhaul – My Hero Academia season 4
- Jin Mori vs. Han Daewi – The god of the high school
- Jin Mori vs. Jegal Taek – The god of the high school
- Satoru Gojo v Ryomen Sukuna –JUJUTSU KAISEN
Best score
- Alisa Okehazama – The god of the high school
- Kensuke Ushio – Sinks in Japan: 2020
- Kevin Penkin – Tower of God
- OORUTAICHI – Don’t touch Eizouken!
- SatoruKousaki – BEESTARS
- Yutaka Yamada – Great pretender
Dear Director
- Hiro Kaburagi – Great pretender
- Mamoru Hatakeyama – Kaguya-sama: Love is War?
- Masaaki Yuasa – Don’t touch Eizouken!
- Sunghoo Park – JUJUTSUKAISEN
- Takashi Sano – Tower of God
- Yuzuru Tachikawa – DECA-DENCE
Best character design
- Genice Chan and Yuusuke Yoshigaki – BNA: Brand New Animal
- Masashi Kudoh and Miho Tanino, Original Story by SIU – Tower of God
- MayukaItou, original designs by Iro Aida – toilet-bound Hanako-kun
- Naoyuki Asano, original designs by Sumito Oowara – Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken!
- Rumiko Takahashi and Yoshihito Hishinuma – Yashahime: Princess Half-Demon
- Yoshiyuki Sadamoto and Hirotaka Katou – Great Pretender
Dear Couple
- Catarina Claes & Maria Campbell – My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom!
- Chizuru Mizuhara & Kazuya Kinoshita – Hire a girlfriend
- Kaguya Shinomiya & Miyuki Shirogane – Kaguya-sama: Love is War?
- Kotoko Iwanaga and Kuro Sakuragawa – In / Specter
- Legoshi & Haru – BEESTARS
- Nasa Yuzaki & Tsukasa Yuzaki – TONIKAWA: Over The Moon For You
Best VA Performance (JP)
- MegumiOgata as Hanako Toilet-bound Hanako-kun
- Mutsumi Tamura as Sayaka Kanamori – Don’t touch Eizouken!
- Riho Sugiyama as Minare Koda – Golf, listen to me!
- YuichiNakamura as SatoruGojou –JUJUTSUKAISEN
- Yusuke Kobayashi as Natsuki Subaru – Re: ZERO-Starting Life in Another World- (Season 2)
- Yusuke Onuki as Daisuke Kambe – The Millionaire Detective – Balance: UNLIMITED
Best VA Performance
- Aaron Phillips as Laurent Thierry – Great Pretender
- Anairis Quiñones as Echidna – Re: ZERO-Starting Life in Another World- (Season 2)
- Crispin Freeman as Ziusudra – Fate / Grand Order Absolute Demonic Front: Babylonia
- Johnny Yong Bosch as Bam – Tower of God
- Jonah Scott as Legoshi – BEASTARS
- Zeno Robinson as Hawks – My Hero Academia Season 4
Best Opening Sequence (OP)
- BEASTARS – Wild Side (ALI)
- Great pretender – GP (Yutaka Yamada)
- HAIKYU !! TO THE TOP – PHOENIX (BURNOUT SYNDROMES)
- JUJUTSU KAISEN – KAIKAI KITAN (Eve)
- Kaguya-sama: Love is war? – DADDY! DADDY! TO DO! performance. Airi Suzuki (Masayuki Suzuki)
- Stay away from Eizouken! – Easy Breezy (chelmico)
Best Ending Sequence (ED)
- BNA: Brand New Animal – NIGHT RUNNING (Shin Sakura ft AAAMYYY)
- Dorohedoro – DDDD ((K) NoW_NAME)
- Great Pretender – The Great Pretender (Freddie Mercury)
- In / Specter – LAST DANCE (Mamoru Miyano)
- JUJUTSU KAISEN – LOST IN PARADISE (ALI feat. AKLO)
- The Millionaire Detective – Balance: UNLIMITED – Welcome My Friend (OKAMOTO’S)
Dear fantasy
- Ascendance of a Bookworm Volume 2
- DECADENCE
- Dorohedoro
- Dragon Quest The Adventure of Dai
- Re: ZERO -Starting Life in Another World- (Season 2)
- Tower of God
Best Drama
- BEASTARS
- Fruits Basket (Season 2)
- Great pretender
- Japan Sinks: 2020
- SING “YESTERDAY” TO ME
- Somali and the Forest Spirit
Best Comedy
- Kaguya-sama: Love is war?
- Kakushigoto
- Stay away from Eizouken!
- My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom!
- Sleepy Princess in the Demon Castle
- The Misfit of Demon King Academy: History’s Strongest Demon King Reincarnates and Goes to School with His Descendants
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