# 7th Crunchyroll Anime Awards

The 7th Crunchyroll Anime Awards was held on March 4, 2023, at the Main Banquet Hall of the Grand Prince Hotel New Takanawa in Tokyo, Japan. It was the first ceremony to be held in person since 2020; both ceremonies in 2021 and 2022 were held virtually. Additionally, it was the first ceremony to be held in Japan, as previous physical ceremonies were held in the United States. Anime released on television or online in Japan from November 2021 to September 2022 were eligible for nominations for this edition. The ceremony was hosted by voice actress Sally Amaki and presenter Jon Kabira, with Sony CEO Kenichiro Yoshida opening the show. Previous winners ALI and AKLO, Yuki Kajiura, and Kohta Yamamoto performed at the ceremony, while singer Haruka Kaki of Nogizaka46, comedian Kendo Kobayashi, entertainer Roland, and actress Sawa Suzuki presented the awards to the winners together with various voice actors and entertainers. Sony Music Solutions collaborated with Crunchyroll in planning and operations, with Telescope Inc. administering the voting process. Crunchyroll streamed the ceremony live on YouTube and Twitch, as well as on SonyLIV in India. Voting for the Anime of the Year category included "social voting" for the first time, which allowed Twitter users to vote for the category by posting the necessary hashtags or by retweeting. The list of nominees were announced on the first day of voting, January 19. Voting closed on January 25.
Crunchyroll announced the judges and categories on December 8, 2022. This edition featured 31 categories, and was divided into "main categories" and "fan categories". The winners for the main categories were announced physically, while winners for the fan categories were announced via a global livestream event that was held prior. New categories were introduced: "Must Protect at All Cost" Character, Best Original Anime, Presenter's Choice, Best Anime Song, Best Supporting Character, and Best New Series. Best Continuing Series was reinstated after being absent since 2019. Best Main Character and Best Supporting Character replaced Best Main Character, Best Boy, and Best Girl categories. A Special Achievement Award was introduced after it was not awarded in the previous editions. Presenter's Choice was also introduced. However, both of these awards were not presented during the ceremony. Two new languages, Arabic and Italian, were included in the Best Voice Actor Performance, but Russian was dropped. The awards for Best Girl, Best Boy, Best Antagonist, and Best Fight Scene were dropped.
Spy × Family garnered the most nominations with 19, followed by Ranking of Kings (17 nominations) and Cyberpunk: Edgerunners (13 nominations). The three anime series were nominated for Anime of the Year, together with Attack on Titan: The Final Season Part 2, Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Entertainment District Arc, and Lycoris Recoil. All Anime of the Year nominees, except Lycoris Recoil, were also nominated on the Best Animation category, together with Akebi's Sailor Uniform. Commercially successful films Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero and Jujutsu Kaisen 0 were nominated in the Best Film category, together with Bubble, The Deer King, and Annie Awards nominee Inu-Oh.
Cyberpunk: Edgerunners won Anime of the Year, becoming the first video game adaptation and prequel series to win, as well as Zach Aguilar who also won the Best VA Performance (English) award for his work as David Martinez. Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Entertainment District Arc, Attack on Titan: The Final Season Part 2, and Spy × Family are tied for the most wins with six. The film Jujutsu Kaisen 0 won three awards, including the Best Film category. Eren Jaeger from Attack on Titan won Best Main Character, while Anya Forger from Spy × Family won Best Supporting Character and "Must Protect At All Costs" Character. Haruo Sotozaki, director of Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Entertainment District Arc, won Best Director. "The Rumbling" won Best Opening Sequence and Best Anime Song, while "Comedy" won Best Ending Sequence. Yuki Kaji won Best VA Performance (Japanese) for two consecutive years. Amal Hawija and Elisa Giorgio won the inaugural Best VA Performance for Arabic and Italian, respectively. Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Entertainment District Arc won Best Action and Best Fantasy, Spy × Family won Best Comedy, Attack on Titan: The Final Season Part 2 won Best Drama, and Kaguya-sama: Love Is War – Ultra Romantic won Best Romance.

## Winners and nominees

Winners are listed first, highlighted in boldface, and indicated with a double dagger (‡). The lists are arranged alphabetically, except for the winner.
| Anime of the Year Cyberpunk: Edgerunners — Studio Trigger and CD Projekt‡ Attack on Titan: The Final Season Part 2 — MAPPA Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Entertainment District Arc — Ufotable Lycoris Recoil — A-1 Pictures Ranking of Kings (cour 2) — Wit Studio Spy × Family — Wit Studio and CloverWorks | Best Original Anime Lycoris Recoil — A-1 Pictures‡ Birdie Wing: Golf Girls' Story — Bandai Namco Pictures Healer Girl — 3Hz The Orbital Children — Production +h Vampire in the Garden — Wit Studio Yurei Deco — Science Saru |
| Best Character Design Akira Matsushima, original design by Koyoharu Gotouge — Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Entertainment District Arc‡ Yoh Yoshinari — Cyberpunk: Edgerunners Masanori Shino, original design by Hirohiko Araki — JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Stone Ocean Kazumasa Ishida, original design by Shinichi Fukuda — My Dress-Up Darling Atsuko Nozaki, original design by Sōsuke Tōka — Ranking of Kings (cour 2) Kazuaki Shimada, original design by Tatsuya Endo — Spy × Family | Best Animation Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Entertainment District Arc — Ufotable‡ Akebi's Sailor Uniform — CloverWorks Attack on Titan: The Final Season Part 2 — MAPPA Cyberpunk: Edgerunners — Studio Trigger and CD Projekt Ranking of Kings (cour 2) — Wit Studio Spy × Family — Wit Studio and CloverWorks |
| Best New Series Spy × Family — Wit Studio and CloverWorks‡ Call of the Night — Liden Films Cyberpunk: Edgerunners — Studio Trigger and CD Projekt Lycoris Recoil — A-1 Pictures My Dress-Up Darling — CloverWorks Ya Boy Kongming! — P.A. Works | Best Continuing Series One Piece — Toei Animation‡ Attack on Titan: The Final Season Part 2 — MAPPA Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Entertainment District Arc — Ufotable JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Stone Ocean — David Production Kaguya-sama: Love Is War – Ultra Romantic — A-1 Pictures Made in Abyss: The Golden City of the Scorching Sun — Kinema Citrus |
| Best Opening Sequence "The Rumbling" by SiM, direction and storyboard by Takashi Kojima — Attack on Titan: The Final Season Part 2‡ "Chikichiki Banban" by QUEENDOM, direction and storyboard by 10GAUGE — Ya Boy Kongming! "Mixed Nuts" by Official Hige Dandism, direction and storyboard by Masashi Ishihama — Spy × Family "Hadaka no Yūsha" by Vaundy, direction and storyboard by Shingo Yamashita — Ranking of Kings (cour 2) "This Fffire" by Franz Ferdinand, direction by Hiroyuki Imaishi, storyboard by Kai Ikarashi — Cyberpunk: Edgerunners "Zankyō Sanka" by Aimer, direction by Akira Matsushima, storyboard by Haruo Sotozaki — Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Entertainment District Arc | Best Ending Sequence "Comedy" by Gen Hoshino, direction and storyboard by Atsushi Nishigori — Spy × Family‡ "Akuma no Ko" by Ai Higuchi, direction and storyboard by Paraco Shinohara — Attack on Titan: The Final Season Part 2 "Heart wa Oteage" by Airi Suzuki, direction and storyboard by Nichika Ono — Kaguya-sama: Love Is War – Ultra Romantic "Koi no Yukue" by Akari Akase, direction and storyboard by Futata — My Dress-Up Darling "Koshaberi Biyori" by FantasticYouth, direction and storyboard by Kōki Fujimoto — Komi Can't Communicate (season 2) "Yofukashi no Uta" by Creepy Nuts, direction by Haruka Segawa, storyboard by Tomoyuki Itamura — Call of the Night |
| Best Score Hiroyuki Sawano and Kohta Yamamoto — Attack on Titan: The Final Season Part 2‡ Akira Yamaoka — Cyberpunk: Edgerunners Go Shiina and Yuki Kajiura — Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Entertainment District Arc Kevin Penkin — Made in Abyss: The Golden City of the Scorching Sun (K)now Name — Spy × Family Genki Hikota — Ya Boy Kongming! | Best Film Jujutsu Kaisen 0 — MAPPA‡ Bubble — Wit Studio Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero — Toei Animation Inu-Oh — Science Saru One Piece Film: Red — Toei Animation The Deer King — Production I.G |
| Best Director Haruo Sotozaki — Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Entertainment District Arc‡ Hiroyuki Imaishi — Cyberpunk: Edgerunners Kazuhiro Furuhashi — Spy × Family Shingo Adachi — Lycoris Recoil Yōsuke Hatta — Ranking of Kings (cour 2) Yuichiro Hayashi — Attack on Titan: The Final Season Part 2 | Best Main Character Eren Jaeger — Attack on Titan: The Final Season Part 2‡ Bojji — Ranking of Kings (cour 2) Chisato Nishikigi — Lycoris Recoil David Martinez — Cyberpunk: Edgerunners Loid Forger — Spy × Family Marin Kitagawa — My Dress-Up Darling |
| Best Supporting Character Anya Forger — Spy × Family‡ Ai Hayasaka — Kaguya-sama: Love Is War – Ultra Romantic Kage — Ranking of Kings Rebecca — Cyberpunk: Edgerunners Tengen Uzui — Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Entertainment District Arc Yor Forger — Spy × Family | "Must Protect At All Costs" Character Anya Forger — Spy × Family‡ Bojji — Ranking of Kings (cour 2) Kage — Ranking of Kings Komi Shōko — Komi Can't Communicate (season 2) Kotaro Satō — Kotaro Lives Alone Marin Kitagawa — My Dress-Up Darling |
| Best Action Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Entertainment District Arc — Ufotable‡ Attack on Titan: The Final Season Part 2 — MAPPA Cyberpunk: Edgerunners — Studio Trigger and CD Projekt JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Stone Ocean — David Production Lycoris Recoil — A-1 Pictures Spy × Family — Wit Studio and CloverWorks | Best Comedy Spy × Family — Wit Studio and CloverWorks‡ Kaguya-sama: Love Is War – Ultra Romantic — A-1 Pictures Kotaro Lives Alone — Liden Films My Dress-Up Darling — CloverWorks Uncle from Another World — Atelier Pontdarc Ya Boy Kongming! — P.A. Works |
| Best Drama Attack on Titan: The Final Season Part 2 — MAPPA‡ 86 — A-1 Pictures Cyberpunk: Edgerunners — Studio Trigger and CD Projekt Dance Dance Danseur — MAPPA Kotaro Lives Alone — Liden Films Made in Abyss: The Golden City of the Scorching Sun — Kinema Citrus | Best Fantasy Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Entertainment District Arc — Ufotable‡ Made in Abyss: The Golden City of the Scorching Sun — Kinema Citrus Mushoku Tensei: Jobless Reincarnation (cour 2) — Studio Bind Overlord (season 4) — Madhouse Ranking of Kings (cour 2) — Wit Studio The Case Study of Vanitas (cour 2) — Bones |
| Best Romance Kaguya-sama: Love Is War – Ultra Romantic — A-1 Pictures‡ Call of the Night — Liden Films Komi Can't Communicate (season 2) — OLM Love After World Domination — Project No.9 My Dress-Up Darling — CloverWorks Shikimori's Not Just a Cutie — Doga Kobo | Best VA Performance (Japanese) Yuki Kaji as Eren Jaeger — Attack on Titan: The Final Season Part 2‡ Atsumi Tanezaki as Anya Forger — Spy × Family Chika Anzai as Chisato Nishikigi — Lycoris Recoil Fairouz Ai as Jolyne Cujoh — JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Stone Ocean Misaki Kuno as Faputa — Made in Abyss: The Golden City of the Scorching Sun Natsuki Hanae as Tanjiro Kamado — Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Entertainment District Arc |
| Best VA Performance (English) Zach Aguilar as David Martinez — Cyberpunk: Edgerunners‡ Amanda Lee as Marin Kitagawa — My Dress-Up Darling Cherami Leigh as Kotaro Satō — Kotaro Lives Alone Natalie Van Sistine as Yor Forger — Spy × Family SungWon Cho as Kage — Ranking of Kings Zeno Robinson as Gamma 2 — Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero | Best VA Performance (Arabic) Amal Hawija as Gon Freecss — Hunter × Hunter‡ Adel Abo Hassoon as Kage — Ranking of Kings Amal Saadalden as Conan Edogawa — Detective Conan: The Bride of Halloween Mohja AlSheak as Izuku Midoriya — My Hero Academia (season 1) Naji Makhoul as Ichigo Kurosaki — Bleach (season 1) Ula Zidan as Marin Kitagawa — My Dress-Up Darling |
| Best VA Performance (Castilian) Jaime Pérez de Sevilla as Yuta Okkotsu — Jujutsu Kaisen 0‡ Lourdes Fabrés as Jolyne Cujoh — JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Stone Ocean Alejandro Albaiceta as Gohan — Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero Marc Gómez as Daida — Ranking of Kings (cour 1) Masumi Mutsuda as Yatora Yaguchi — Blue Period Mónica Padrós as Hiling — Ranking of Kings (cour 1) | Best VA Performance (French) Brigitte Lecordier as Bojji — Ranking of Kings‡ Alexis Tomassian as Kage — Ranking of Kings Dorothée Pousséo as Lucy — Cyberpunk: Edgerunners Geneviève Doang as Vladilena Milizé — 86 Laure Filiu as Jolyne Cujoh — JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Stone Ocean Martin Faliu as Miyuki Shirogane — Kaguya-sama: Love Is War – Ultra Romantic |
| Best VA Performance (German) Nicolás Artajo as Yuta Okkotsu — Jujutsu Kaisen 0‡ Gabrielle Pietermann as Marin Kitagawa — My Dress-Up Darling Jannik Endemann as Ritsuka Uenoyama — Given Lara Trautmann as Belle — Belle Torsten Michaelis as Askeladd — Vinland Saga (season 1) Uwe Thomsen as Jotaro Kujo — JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Diamond Is Unbreakable | Best VA Performance (Italian) Elisa Giorgio as Maki Zen'in — Jujutsu Kaisen (cour 1)‡ Andrea La Greca as Kyojuro Rengoku — Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Mugen Train Arc Andrea Oldani as Daida — Ranking of Kings (cour 1) Deborah Morese as Marin Kitagawa — My Dress-Up Darling Giulia Maniglio as Riku — Made in Abyss: The Golden City of the Scorching Sun Simone Lupinacci as Shoyo Hinata — Haikyū!! To the Top (season 4) |
| Best VA Performance (Portuguese) Nina Carvalho as Anya Forger — Spy × Family‡ Antônio Moreno as Heihachi Mishima — Tekken: Bloodline Charles Emmanuel as Kazuya Kinoshita — Rent-A-Girlfriend (season 2) Mariana Dondi as Hayase Nagatoro — Don't Toy with Me, Miss Nagatoro Pedro Alcântara as Yuta Okkotsu — Jujutsu Kaisen 0 Yan Gesteira as Ashito Aoi — Aoashi | Best VA Performance (Spanish) Alejandro Orozco as Gyutaro — Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Entertainment District Arc‡ Diana Castañeda as Chisato Nishikigi — Lycoris Recoil Elizabeth Infante as Chika Fujiwara — Kaguya-sama: Love Is War – Ultra Romantic Erika Langarica as Marin Kitagawa — My Dress-Up Darling Miguel de León as Loid Forger — Spy × Family Víctor Hugo Aguilar as Ains Ooal Gown — Overlord (season 4) |
| Best Anime Song "The Rumbling" by SiM — Attack on Titan: The Final Season Part 2‡ "Chikichiki Banban" by QUEENDOM — Ya Boy Kongming! "Comedy" by Gen Hoshino — Spy × Family "My Nonfiction" by Makoto Furukawa and Konomi Kohara — Kaguya-sama: Love Is War – Ultra Romantic "New Genesis" by Ado — One Piece Film: Red "Shall We Dance?" by Reona — Shadows House (season 2) | Special Achievement Award No award given |
| Presenter's Choice No award given | |
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## Statistics

Anime with multiple wins :
| Wins | Anime |
| 8 | Attack on Titan: The Final Season Part 2 |
| 5 | Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Entertainment District Arc |
| 5 | Spy × Family |
| 3 | Jujutsu Kaisen 0 |
| 2 | Cyberpunk: Edgerunners |