Here Are The 2025 Crunchyroll Anime Awards Winners
We can imagine a certain Korean manhwa writer named Clugong is sitting in his chair with a smug look on his face right now, as his creation Solo Leveling undeniably dominated this year’s Anime Awards, taking home eight of them.
The ceremony was held from the Grand Prince Hotel Shin Takanawa in Tokyo, and in attendance were stars from both sides of the sea — singer Kacey Musgraves, Stranger Things’ Finn Wolfhard and Gaten Matarazzo, anime collaborator J Balvin; Italian singer-songwriter Damiano David; musician and actor Rina Sawayama, Brazilian pop icon Pabllo Vittar, American snowboarder Chloe Kim, screenwriter Zak Penn, the comedy duo Chocolate Planet, Japanese actor and musician Dean Fujioka; Japanese actors Kanata Hongo, and Mayu Matsuoka, Japanese model Saya Ichikawa, global drag star Plastique Tiara, English professional boxer Ben Whittaker, American recording artist d4vd, American-Chilean singer Paloma Mami, Demon Queen VTuber Ironmouse, YouTube content creator Gigguk….and a partridge in a pear tree.
Solo Leveling took home the awards for Best New Series, Best Ending Sequence, Best Action, Best Main Character, Best Score, and three Best Voice Artist Performance awards (English, Brazilian Portuguese, and Castilian), as well as the biggest award, Anime of the Year. It was a good night for newcomers overall as Dan Da Dan took away three awards and Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End captured four. All the categories and their winners follow…
Anime of the Year – Solo Leveling
Film of the Year – Look Back
Best Original Anime – Ninja Kamui
Best Continuing Series – Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba, Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Hashira Training Arc
Best New Series – Solo Leveling
Best Opening Sequence – Otonoke – Creepy Nuts – DAN DA DAN
Best Ending Sequence – request – krage – Solo Leveling
Best Action – Solo Leveling
Best Comedy – MASHLE: MAGIC AND MUSCLES The Divine Visionary Candidate Exam Arc
Best Drama – Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End
Best Isekai Anime – Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World- Season 3
Best Romance – Blue Box
Best Slice of Life – Makeine: Too Many Losing Heroines!
Best Animation – Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Hashira Training Arc
Best Background Art – Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End
Best Character Design – DAN DA DAN
Best Director – Keiichiro Saito – Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End
Best Main Character – Sung Jinwoo – Solo Leveling
Best Supporting Character – Fern – Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End
“Must Protect At All Cost” Character – Anya Forger – SPY × FAMILY Season 2
Best Anime Song – Otonoke – Creepy Nuts – DAN DA DAN
Best Score – Solo Leveling – Hiroyuki Sawano
Best Japanese Voice Artist Performance – Aoi Yuki (Maomao) – The Apothecary Diaries
Best English Voice Artist Performance – Aleks Le (Sung Jinwoo) – Solo Leveling
Best Arabic Voice Artist Performance – Hiba Snobar (Anya Forger) – SPY × FAMILY Season 2
Best Brazilian Portuguese Voice Artist Performance – Charles Emmanuel (Sung Jinwoo) – Solo Leveling
Best Castilian Spanish Voice Artist Performance – Masumi Mutsuda (Sung Jinwoo) – Solo Leveling
Best French Voice Artist Performance – Adrien Antoine (Kafka Hibino) – Kaiju No. 8
Best German Voice Artist Performance – Daniel Schlauch (Monkey D. Luffy) – ONE PIECE
Best Hindi Voice Artist Performance – Lohit Sharma (Satoru Gojo) – JUJUTSU KAISEN Season 2
Best Italian Voice Artist Performance – Ilaria Pellicone (Kyomoto) – Look Back
Best Latin Spanish Voice Artist Performance – Miguel Ángel Leal (Eren Jaeger) – Attack on Titan Final Season THE FINAL CHAPTERS Special 2
