What categories are you excited about at the Crunchyroll Anime Awards 2025? Hobiverse will explore with you from the main awards to new genres, for true anime fans!
The Crunchyroll Anime Awards 2025 features a total of 32 categories, spanning content, animation, sound, and voice acting. Here are the main groups:
1. Prestigious category
(The grand prize, honoring the best anime or movie overall)
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Anime of the Year : Solo Leveling
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Film of the Year (Best Anime Film) : Look Back
2. Category by series
(Rating by anime series type – new, continuation or original)
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Best New Series : Solo Leveling
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Best Continuing Series : Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba - Hashira Training Arc
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Best Original Anime : Ninja Kamui
3. Technique & Art
(Reviews of visuals, animation, direction, character design, setting)
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Best Animation : Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Hashira Training Arc
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Best Character Design : Dandadan
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Best Director : Keiichiro Saito – Frieren: Beyond Journey's End
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Best Background Art (New) : Frieren: Beyond Journey's End
4. Music
(Best opening, ending, song and soundtrack)
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Best Opening Sequence : “Otonoke” – Creepy Nuts (Dandadan)
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Best Ending Sequence : “request” – krage (Solo Leveling)
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Best Anime Song : “Otonoke” – Creepy Nuts (Dandadan)
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Best Score : Solo Leveling – Hiroyuki Sawano
5. Voice acting
(Honoring the best voice actors in each language)
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Best VA Performance – Japanese : Aoi Yuki – The Apothecary Diaries
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Best VA Performance – English : Aleks Le – Solo Leveling
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Best VA Performance – Hindi : Lohit Sharma – Jujutsu Kaisen Season 2
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Best VA Performance – Arabic : Hiba Snobar – Spy × Family S2
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Best VA Performance – Brazilian Portuguese : Charles Emmanuel – Solo Leveling
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Best VA Performance – Castilian Spanish : Masumi Mutsuda – Solo Leveling
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Best VA Performance – French : Adrien Antoine – Kaiju No. 8
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Best VA Performance – German : Daniel Schlauch – One Piece
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Best VA Performance – Italian : Ilaria Pellicone – Look Back
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Best VA Performance – Latin Spanish : Miguel Ángel Leal – Attack on Titan
6. Genre
(Best Anime by Content Genre)
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Best Action : Solo Leveling
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Best Comedy : Mashle: Magic and Muscles
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Best Drama : Frieren: Beyond Journey's End
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Best Romance : Blue Box
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Best Slice of Life : Makeine: Too Many Losing Heroines!
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Best Isekai (Best Isekai – New) : Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World- Season 3
7. Featured characters
(Honoring the most favorite main and supporting characters)
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Best Main Character : Sung Jinwoo – Solo Leveling
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Best Supporting Character : Fern – Frieren: Beyond Journey's End
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“Must Protect at All Costs” Character : Anya Forger – Spy × Family S2
8. Special categories
(Award for global impact)
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Global Impact Award : Attack on Titan
What categories are there in the Crunchyroll Anime Awards 2025? The list of awards is announced HERE
Names like Solo Leveling , Frieren , Dandadan or Spy × Family are the shining stars this year. In particular, Solo leveling won the Crunchyroll 2025 award with 9 impressive wins despite many mixed reactions about Solo Leveling at Anime Awards 2025 after the award ceremony.
So what categories are there in the Crunchyroll Anime Awards 2025? Worth the wait? With 32 awards, all reflecting the diversity, creativity, and strong influence of anime over the past year, Hobiverse believes that no matter what genre you love, you will definitely find a category that will make anime lovers' hearts flutter!
