Voting for the 2021 Crunchyroll Anime Awards is open now
Nominations for the fifth annual Crunchyroll Anime Awards are now live.
Revealed today, a slew of anime series are on the hunt for some wins. Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken!, Great Pretender, JUJUTSU KAISEN, and BEASTARS have earned the most nominations this year. Other anime shows gaining multiple nominations include Tower of God, The God of High School, and season four of My Hero Academia.
You can look at the full list of nominees and check out last year’s ceremony below. To cast your votes, head here. Voting will close on January 22. You can cast your votes daily for your favorite shows. The winners will be released on February 19 at 8p.m. EST/5 p.m. PST.
Anime of the Year
Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken!
JUJUTSU KAISEN
Dorohedoro
Great Pretender
Appare-Ranman!
BEASTARS
Best Animation
Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken!
The God of High School
Great Pretender
JUJUTSU KAISEN
Princess Connect! Re: Dive
BEASTARS
Best Opening Sequence (OP)
"Easy Breezy" by chelmico - Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken!
“KAIKAIKITAN” by EVE - JUJUTSU KAISEN
“Wild Side” by ALI - BEASTARS
“G.P.” by Yutaka Yamada - Great Pretender
“Daddy Daddy Do!” by Masayuki Suzuki - Kaguya-sama: Love is War? (Season 2)
“Phoenix” by Burnout Syndromes - HAIKYU!! TO THE TOP
Best Ending Sequence (ED)
“LOST IN PARADISE” by ALI feat. AKLO - JUJUTSU KAISEN
“The Great Pretender” by Freddie Mercury - Great Pretender
“Night Running” by Shin Sakura ft AAAMYYY - BNA: Brand New Animal
“(K)NoW_NAME” by 「D.D.D.D」- Dorohedoro
“Welcome My Friend” by OKAMOTO’S - The Millionaire Detective - Balance: UNLIMITED
Best Boy
Caiman - Dorohedoro
Gojo Satoru - JUJUTSU KAISEN
Khun Aguero Agnes - Tower of God
Legoshi - BEASTARS
Anos Voldigoad - The Misfit of Demon King Academy
Shoyo Hinata - HAIKYU!! TO THE TOP
Best Girl
Sayaka Kanamori - Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken!
Chizuru Mizuhara - Rent-A-Girlfriend
Noi - Dorohedoro
Catarina Claes - My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom!
Abigail Jones - Great Pretender
Kaguya Shinomiya - Kaguya-sama: Love is War? (Season 2)
Best Score
Tower of God
Great Pretender
BEASTARS
Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken!
The God of High School
Japan Sinks: 2020
Best Performance by a Voice Actor (Japanese)
Riho Sugiyama as Minare Koda - Wave, Listen to Me!
Megumi Ogata as Hanako - Toilet-bound Hanako-kun
Yusuke Kobayashi as Natsuki Subaru - Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World- Season 2
Yuichi Nakamura as Gojo Satoru - JUJUTSU KAISEN
Mutsumi Tamura as Sayaka Kanamori - Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken!
Yuusuke Oonuki as Daisuke Kanbe - The Millionaire Detective - Balance: UNLIMITED
Best Performance by a Voice Actor (English)
Zeno Robinson as Hawks - My Hero Academia Season 4
Crispin Freeman as Ziusudra - Fate/Grand Order - Absolute Demonic Front: Babylonia
Aaron Phillips as Laurent Thierry - Great Pretender
Johnny Yong Bosch as Bam - Tower of God
Jonah Scott as Legoshi - BEASTARS
Anairis Quiñones as Echidna - Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World- Season 2
Best Director
Masaaki Yuasa - Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken!
Yuzuru Tachikawa - DECA-DENCE
Sunghoo Park - JUJUTSU KAISEN
Hiro Kaburagi - Great Pretender
Mamoru Hatakeyama - Kaguya-sama: Love is War? (Season 2)
Takashi Sano - Tower of God
Best Character Design
Naoyuki Asano, Original Designs by: Sumito Owara - Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken!
Yoshiyuki Sadamoto, Hirotaka Katou - Great Pretender
Mayuka Itou, Original Designs by: Iro Aida - Toilet-bound Hanako-kun
Genice Chan, Yuusuke Yoshigaki - BNA: Brand New Animal
Masashi Kudoh, Miho Tanino, Original Designs by: S.I.U. - Tower of God
Rumiko Takahashi, Yoshihito HIshinuma - Yashahime: Princess Half-Demon
Best Protagonist
Natsume - DECA-DENCE
Catarina Claes - My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom!
Yuji Itadori - JUJUTSU KAISEN
Anos Voldigoad - The Misfit of Demon King Academy
Shoyo HInata - HAIKYU!! TO THE TOP
Best Antagonist
En - Dorohedoro
Ryomen Sukuna - JUJUTSU KAISEN
Rachel - Tower of God
Akito Soma - Fruits Basket (Season 2)
Echidna - Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World- Season 2
Overhaul - My Hero Academia Season 4
Best Fight Scene
Gojo Satoru vs. Ryomen Sukuna - JUJUTSU KAISEN
Jin Mori vs Jegai Taek - The God of High School
Bercouli vs Emperor Vector - Sword Art Online Alicization: War of the Underworld Part 2
Deku vs Overhaul - My Hero Academia Season 4
Jin Mori vs Han Daewi - The God of High School
Brawler vs Master - Akudama Drive
Best Couple
Nasa Yuzaki and Tsukasa Yuzaki - TONIKAWA; Over the Moon For You
Kaguya Shinomiya and MIyuki Shirogane - Kaguya-sama: Love is War? (Season 2)
Legoshi and Haru - BEASTARS
Kotoko Iwanaga and Kuro Sakuragawa - In/Spectre
Catarina Claes and Maria Campbell - My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom
Chizuru Mizuhara and Kazuya Kinoshita - Rent-A-Girlfriend
Best Drama
Fruits Basket (Season 2)
Great Pretender
Japan Sinks: 2020
SING “YESTERDAY” FOR ME
BEASTARS
Somali and the Forest Spirit
Best Fantasy
Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World- Season 2
Dragon Quest The Adventure of Dai
DECA-DENCE
Ascendance of a Bookworm Part 2
Dorohedoro
Tower of God
Best Comedy
Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken!
Kaguya-sama: Love is War? (Season 2)
My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom!
Sleepy Princess in the Demon Castle
Kakushigoto
The Misfit of Demon King Academy