# 8th Crunchyroll Anime Awards

The 8th Crunchyroll Anime Awards were held at the Main Banquet Hall of the Grand Prince Hotel New Takanawa in Tokyo, Japan. It was hosted by Sally Amaki and Jon Kabira, who hosted the previous ceremony. Anime released in full or partially between October 2022 and September 2023 are eligible for nominations for this edition. This edition featured 32 categories, most of which are presented in the previous ceremony and include industry awards for Best Cinematography and Art Direction for the first time, as well as the return of Best Slice of Life from 2018. Categories and the list of judges were revealed on December 5. Nominees were revealed on the first day of public voting, January 17. Voting closed on January 27. Presenters for the ceremony on March 2 was announced on January 17, and included American rapper Megan Thee Stallion, Canadian actress Iman Vellani, and Japanese singer LiSA, with Sony Group Corporation CEO Kenichiro Yoshida giving opening remarks.
Chainsaw Man received the most nominations with a record 25, followed by Jujutsu Kaisen at 17, and Oshi no Ko and Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba at 12. The Anime of the Year contenders include previous winners Jujutsu Kaisen, Attack on Titan, and Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba. MAPPA is the most represented animation studio, with five series nominated in various categories, including a record three series for the top prize. One Piece was nominated again for Best Continuing Series after it won the award previously, along with Attack on Titan and Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba. Birdie Wing: Golf Girls' Story was nominated again for Best Original Anime, while Best Animation saw previous contenders and winners Attack on Titan, Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba, Jujutsu Kaisen, and Mob Psycho 100. Akira Matsushima received a nomination for Best Character Design for Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba again, after winning it in the last edition. Yuichiro Hayashi was nominated again for Best Director for his work on Attack on Titan. Hiroyuki Sawano and Kohta Yamamoto was nominated again for Best Score, along with Yuki Kajiura and Go Shiina for Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba. Atsumi Tanezaki and Yuki Kaji were nominated again for Best VA Performance (Japanese) for Anya Forger and Eren Jaeger respectively.
Among genre categories, Spy × Family was nominated again for Best Comedy, and Attack on Titan, Jujutsu Kaisen, and Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba for Best Action. Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba was also nominated again for Best Fantasy, along with Mushoku Tensei: Jobless Reincarnation and Ranking of Kings. Attack on Titan was nominated again as well for Best Drama. For character categories, Eren Jaeger and Shigeo Kageyama was nominated for Best Main Character again. Two characters from Jujutsu Kaisen, Satoru Gojo and Suguru Geto, was nominated for Best Supporting Character, while Anya Forger of Spy × Family and Bojji of Ranking of Kings were nominated again for "Must Protect At All Costs" Character. Three anime songs nominated for Best Anime Song were nominated for Best Opening Sequence as well: "Idol" by Yoasobi, "Kick Back" by Kenshi Yonezu, and "Where Our Blue Is" by Tatsuya Kitani. Both the opening and ending themes for Oshi no Ko, Jujutsu Kaisen, Chainsaw Man, and Zom 100: Bucket List of the Dead were nominated in their respective categories.
The show begins with a pre-show, where winners of the voice acting categories, opening and ending sequences, cinematography, and genre categories except for Best Romance and Slice of Life, were announced. The main show opened with the performance of the awards' theme song, composed by Hiroyuki Sawano. An orchestral performance featuring classic anime opening themes were performed. Shing02 performed "Battlecry" from Samurai Champloo, and Yoasobi performed "Idol" after winning Best Anime Song. The Anime of the Year award was presented by American rapper Megan Thee Stallion.
Jujutsu Kaisen won 11 awards, including the Anime of the Year, which it previously won in 2020, becoming the first anime to win the top prize twice. Its director, Shōta Goshozono, won Best Director. Additionally, the series won the inaugural award for Best Cinematography. Suzume won Best Film; the award was received by its director Makoto Shinkai. One Piece and Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba won again the awards for Best Continuing Series and Best Animation respectively. Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba also won the inaugural award for Best Art Direction. Chainsaw Man won Best New Series, while Buddy Daddies won Best Original Anime. Jujutsu Kaisen, Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba, Horimiya: The Missing Pieces, Spy × Family, Bocchi the Rock!, and Attack on Titan won the genre awards for Best Action, Best Fantasy, Best Romance, Best Comedy, Best Slice of Life, and Best Drama respectively. Monkey D. Luffy of One Piece won Best Main Character, while Satoru Gojo of Jujutsu Kaisen won Best Supporting Character. Anya Forger won the "Must Protect at All Costs" Character award again. Meanwhile, both the opening and ending sequences of Jujutsu Kaisen, "Where Our Blue Is" by Tatsuya Kitani and "Akari" by Soushi Sakiyama, won the awards for Best Opening Sequence and Best Ending Sequence respectively. "Idol" by Yoasobi won Best Anime Song while Kohta Yamamoto and Hiroyuki Sawano won Best Score for their work on the first special in the final season of Attack on Titan. Yuichi Nakamura won Best Voice Acting (Japanese) for his work as Satoru Gojo in Jujutsu Kaisen, while Ryan Colt Levy won Best Voice Acting (English) for his work as Denji in Chainsaw Man.

## Winners and nominees

| Anime of the Year Jujutsu Kaisen (season 2) — MAPPA Bocchi the Rock! — CloverWorks Chainsaw Man — MAPPA Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Swordsmith Village Arc — Ufotable Oshi no Ko — Doga Kobo Vinland Saga (season 2) — MAPPA | Best Continuing Series One Piece — Toei Animation Attack on Titan: The Final Season The Final Chapters Special 1 — MAPPA Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Swordsmith Village Arc — Ufotable Jujutsu Kaisen (season 2) — MAPPA Spy × Family (season 1 cour 2) — Wit Studio and CloverWorks Vinland Saga (season 2) — MAPPA |
| Best New Series Chainsaw Man — MAPPA Bocchi the Rock! — CloverWorks Heavenly Delusion — Production I.G Hell's Paradise — MAPPA Oshi no Ko — Doga Kobo Zom 100: Bucket List of the Dead — Bug Films | Best Film Suzume — CoMix Wave Films Black Clover: Sword of the Wizard King — Pierrot Blue Giant — NUT The First Slam Dunk — Toei Animation and DandeLion Animation Studio Kaguya-sama: Love Is War – The First Kiss That Never Ends — A-1 Pictures Psycho-Pass Providence — Production I.G |
| Best Original Anime Buddy Daddies — P.A. Works Akiba Maid War — P.A. Works Birdie Wing: Golf Girls' Story (season 2) — Bandai Namco Pictures Do It Yourself!! — Pine Jam The Marginal Service — Studio 3Hz Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch from Mercury — Bandai Namco Filmworks | Best Animation Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Swordsmith Village Arc — Ufotable Attack on Titan: The Final Season The Final Chapters Special 1 — MAPPA Chainsaw Man — MAPPA Jujutsu Kaisen (season 2) — MAPPA Mob Psycho 100 (season 3) — Bones Trigun Stampede — Orange |
| Best Character Design Sayaka Koiso and Tadashi Hiramatsu, original designs by Gege Akutami — Jujutsu Kaisen (season 2) Akira Matsushima, original designs by Koyoharu Gotouge — Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Swordsmith Village Arc Kanna Hirayama, original designs by Mengo Yokoyari — Oshi no Ko Kazutaka Sugiyama, original designs by Tatsuki Fujimoto — Chainsaw Man Kouji Hisaki, original designs by Yuji Kaku — Hell's Paradise Kouji Tajima — Trigun Stampede | Best Director Shōta Goshozono — Jujutsu Kaisen (season 2) Daisuke Hiramaki — Oshi no Ko Hirotaka Mori — Heavenly Delusion Keiichiro Saito — Bocchi the Rock! Ryu Nakayama — Chainsaw Man Yuichiro Hayashi — Attack on Titan: The Final Season The Final Chapters Special 1 |
| Best Cinematography Teppei Ito — Jujutsu Kaisen (season 2) Hisashi Matsumuko and Yuki Kawashita — Vinland Saga (season 2) Kentaro Waki — Heavenly Delusion Shigeki Asakawa — Attack on Titan: The Final Season The Final Chapters Special 1 Teppei Ito — Chainsaw Man Yuichi Terao — Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Swordsmith Village Arc | Best Art Direction Koji Eto — Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Swordsmith Village Arc e-caesar — Hell's Paradise Junichi Higashi — Jujutsu Kaisen (season 2) Taketo Gonpei — Zom 100: Bucket List of the Dead Tetsuya Usami — Oshi no Ko Yusuke Takeda — Chainsaw Man |
| Best Romance Horimiya: The Missing Pieces — Cloverworks Insomniacs After School — Liden Films My Happy Marriage — Kinema Citrus My Love Story with Yamada-kun at Lv999 — Madhouse Skip and Loafer — P.A. Works Tomo-chan Is a Girl! — Lay-duce | Best Comedy Spy × Family (season 1 cour 2) — Wit Studio and CloverWorks Bocchi the Rock! — CloverWorks Buddy Daddies — P.A. Works Mashle: Magic and Muscles — A-1 Pictures Urusei Yatsura — David Production Zom 100: Bucket List of the Dead — Bug Films |
| Best Action Jujutsu Kaisen (season 2) — MAPPA Attack on Titan: The Final Season The Final Chapters Special 1 — MAPPA Bleach: Thousand Year Blood War — The Separation — Studio Pierrot Chainsaw Man — MAPPA Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Swordsmith Village Arc — Ufotable One Piece — Toei Animation | Best Fantasy Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Swordsmith Village Arc — Ufotable Hell's Paradise — MAPPA Mashle: Magic and Muscles — A-1 Pictures Mushoku Tensei: Jobless Reincarnation (season 2) — Studio Bind Ranking of Kings: The Treasure Chest of Courage — Wit Studio The Ancient Magus' Bride (season 2) — Studio Kafka |
| Best Drama Attack on Titan: The Final Season The Final Chapters Special 1 — MAPPA Heavenly Delusion — Production I.G My Happy Marriage — Kinema Citrus Oshi no Ko — Doga Kobo To Your Eternity (season 2) — Drive Vinland Saga (season 2) — MAPPA | Best Slice of Life Bocchi the Rock! — Cloverworks Do It Yourself!! — Pine Jam Horimiya: The Missing Pieces — Cloverworks Insomniacs After School — Liden Films My Love Story with Yamada-kun at Lv999 — Madhouse Skip and Loafer — P.A. Works |
| Best Main Character Monkey D. Luffy — One Piece Denji — Chainsaw Man Eren Jaeger — Attack on Titan: The Final Season The Final Chapters Special 1 Hitori Gotoh (Bocchi) — Bocchi the Rock! Shigeo Kageyama (Mob) — Mob Psycho 100 (season 3) Thorfinn — Vinland Saga (season 2) | Best Supporting Character Satoru Gojo — Jujutsu Kaisen (season 2) Arataka Reigen — Mob Psycho 100 (season 3) Zoë Hange — Attack on Titan: The Final Season The Final Chapters Special 1 Kana Arima — Oshi no Ko Power — Chainsaw Man Suguru Geto — Jujutsu Kaisen (season 2) |
| "Must Protect At All Costs" Character Anya Forger — Spy × Family (season 1 cour 2) Bojji — Ranking of Kings: The Treasure Chest of Courage Hitori Gotoh (Bocchi) — Bocchi the Rock! Miri Unasaka — Buddy Daddies Pochita — Chainsaw Man Suletta Mercury — Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch from Mercury | Best Anime Song "Idol" by Yoasobi — Oshi no Ko "Kick Back" by Kenshi Yonezu — Chainsaw Man "Seishun Complex" by Kessoku Band — Bocchi the Rock! "Suzume" by Radwimps — Suzume "Where Our Blue Is" by Tatsuya Kitani — Jujutsu Kaisen (season 2) "Work" by Ringo Sheena and Millenium Parade — Hell's Paradise |
| Best Score Hiroyuki Sawano and Kohta Yamamoto — Attack on Titan: The Final Season The Final Chapters Special 1 Kensuke Ushio — Chainsaw Man Radwimps and Kazuma Jinnouchi — Suzume Takuro Iga — Oshi no Ko Tomoki Kikuya — Bocchi the Rock! Yuki Kajiura and Go Shiina — Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Swordsmith Village Arc | Best Opening Sequence "Where Our Blue Is" by Tatsuya Kitani, storyboard and direction by Yuki Kamiya — Jujutsu Kaisen (season 2) "Idol" by Yoasobi, storyboard and direction by Yusuke Yamamoto — Oshi no Ko "Innocent Arrogance" by Bish, storyboard and direction by Weilin Zhang — Heavenly Delusion "Kick Back" by Kenshi Yonezu, storyboard and direction by Shingo Yamashita — Chainsaw Man "Song of the Dead" by Kana-Boon, storyboard and direction by Kazuki Kawagoe — Zom 100: Bucket List of the Dead "Work" by Ringo Sheena and Millennium Parade, storyboard and direction by Kamata — Hell's Paradise |
| Best Ending Sequence "Akari" by Soushi Sakiyama, storyboard and direction by Yojiro Arai — Jujutsu Kaisen (season 2) "Color" by Yama, storyboard and direction by Takayuki Hirao — Spy × Family (season 1 cour 2) "Happiness of the Dead" by Shiyui, storyboard and direction by Hanako Ueda — Zom 100: Bucket List of the Dead "Hawatari Nioku Centi" by Maximum the Hormone, storyboard and direction by Yuki Kamiya — Chainsaw Man "Koi Kogare" by Milet and Man with a Mission, storyboard and direction by Yuki Shimizu — Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Swordsmith Village Arc "Mephisto" by Queen Bee, storyboard and direction by Naoya Nakayama — Oshi no Ko | Best VA Performance (Japanese) Yuichi Nakamura as Satoru Gojo — Jujutsu Kaisen (season 2) Atsumi Tanezaki as Anya Forger — Spy × Family (season 1 cour 2) Kikunosuke Toya as Denji — Chainsaw Man Mayumi Tanaka as Monkey D. Luffy — One Piece Yoshino Aoyama as Hitori Gotoh — Bocchi the Rock! Yuki Kaji as Eren Jaeger — Attack on Titan: The Final Season The Final Chapters Special 1 |
| Best VA Performance (English) Ryan Colt Levy as Denji — Chainsaw Man Abby Trott as Nezuko Kamado — Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Swordsmith Village Arc Austin Tindle as Millions Knives — Trigun Stampede Johnny Yong Bosch as Ichigo Kurosaki — Bleach: Thousand Year Blood War Lexi Nieto as Tomo Aizawa — Tomo-chan Is a Girl! Marisa Duran as Sagiri Yamada Asaemon — Hell's Paradise | Best VA Performance (Spanish) Emilio Treviño as Denji — Chainsaw Man Armando Corona Ibarrola as Muichiro Tokito — Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Swordsmith Village Arc Gerardo Ortega as Mash Burnedead — Mashle: Magic and Muscles José Gilberto Vilchis as Satoru Gojo — Jujutsu Kaisen (season 2) Manuel Campuzano as Arataka Reigen — Mob Psycho 100 (season 3) Nycolle González as Suzume Iwato — Suzume |
| Best VA Performance (Castilian) Joel Gómez Jimenez as Denji — Chainsaw Man David Brau as Senku Ishigami — Dr. Stone: New World David Flores as Dot Barrett — Mashle: Magic and Muscles Majo Montesinos Guzmán as Anya Forger — Spy × Family (season 1 cour 2) María Luisa Marciel as Power — Chainsaw Man Marta Moreno as Uta — One Piece Film: Red | Best VA Performance (French) Martial Le Minoux as Suguru Geto — Jujutsu Kaisen (season 2) Levanah Solomon as Suzume Iwato — Suzume Lilly Caruso as Aqua — KonoSuba: God's Blessing on This Wonderful World! Martin Faliu as Aqua — Oshi no Ko Yoan Sover as Gabimaru — Hell's Paradise Zina Khakhoulia as Power — Chainsaw Man |
| Best VA Performance (Arabic) Taleb Alrefai as Senku Ishigami — Dr. Stone (season 1) Basil Alrefai as Vegeta — Dragon Ball Super Hiba Snobar as Anya Forger — Spy × Family (season 1 cour 1) Mohammad Dal'o as Arataka Reigen — Mob Psycho 100 Ra'fat Bazo as Son Goku — Dragon Ball Super Rosie Yaziji as Rimuru Tempest — That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime (season 1) | Best VA Performance (German) Franziska Trunte as Power — Chainsaw Man Emilia Raschewski as Suzume Iwato — Suzume Franciska Friede as Chise Hatori — The Ancient Magus' Bride Pascal Breuer as Arataka Reigen — Mob Psycho 100 (season 3) Patrick Baehr as Gen Asagiri — Dr. Stone: New World Patrick Keller as Akira Tendo — Zom 100: Bucket List of the Dead |
| Best VA Performance (Italian) Mosè Singh as Denji — Chainsaw Man Alessio De Filippis as Kirito — Sword Art Online Progressive: Scherzo of Deep Night Benedetta Ponticelli as Makima — Chainsaw Man Diego Baldoin as Takenori Akagi — The First Slam Dunk Federica Simonelli as Uta — One Piece Film: Red Max Di Benedetto as Boxxo — Reborn as a Vending Machine, I Now Wander the Dungeon | Best VA Performance (Portuguese) Léo Rabelo as Satoru Gojo — Jujutsu Kaisen (season 2) Amanda Brigido as Tomo Aizawa — Tomo-chan Is a Girl! Erick Bougleux as Kazuma — KonoSuba: God's Blessing on This Wonderful World! Legend of Crimson Guilherme Briggs as Brook — One Piece Luisa Viotti as Makima — Chainsaw Man Vágner Fagundes as Arataka Reigen — Mob Psycho 100 (season 3) |
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