Fifth Annual Crunchyroll Awards Nominees for 2021
It’s award season, where we celebrate the best and brightest from the movie and film industry. Similarly, it’s awards season for the anime medium as well. One of the biggest anime awards shows of the year comes from one of the biggest anime providers in the industry. Crunchyroll is arguably the biggest anime streamer and original content provider in the world. Their awards show recognizes and celebrates the best of the best when it comes to anime. And their categories are definitely more interesting than the traditional award show, celebrating very specific elements of the medium. It’s fun, exciting, and features a blend of anime from all over the spectrum, to appeal to all demographics and genres. So without further ado, here are the fifth annual Crunchyroll awards nominees!
Fifth Annual Crunchyroll Anime Awards Nominees 2021
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The Crunchyroll Awards began back in 2017, and have undertaken many changes since. Newer and more interesting categories added to accommodate the wide range of genres in anime. Most notable was the first major shift after the first year, expanding the nominees from anime series to movies as well. Even manga was introduced to the categories of nominees for the new awards. With Crunchyroll now sold to Funimation, I can’t help but wonder what these awards shows will look like in 2022. But for now, let’s celebrate the fifth annual Crunchyroll awards nominees.
And I do mean that literally, because again, unlike other award shows, this one is in your hands. The Crunchyroll Anime Awards are very much audience-driven. As a result, you can go onto Crunchyroll’s website right now, and vote for all the categories below and choose your winner. Now, voting is open daily until January 22 at 5 PM PST. The results of the votes will be available on February 19 at 5 PM PST. So vote for your favorite shows like Beastars, Tower of God, The God Of High School, or my personal favorite, Japan Sinks: 2020.
Anime of the Year
APPARE-RANMAN!
Dorohedoro
Great Pretender
JUJUTSU KAISEN
Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken!
Best Girl
Abigail Jones – Great Pretender
Catarina Claes – My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom!
Chizuru Mizuhara – Rent-a-Girlfriend
Kaguya Shinomiya – Kaguya-sama: Love is War?
Noi – Dorohedoro
Sayaka Kanamori – Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken!
Best Boy
Anos Voldigoad – The Misfit of Demon King Academy: History’s Strongest Demon King Reincarnates and Goes to School with His Descendants
Caiman – Dorohedoro
Khun Aguero Agnes – Tower of God
Legoshi – BEASTARS
Satoru Gojo – JUJUTSU KAISEN
Shoyo Hinata – HAIKYU!! TO THE TOP
Best Protagonist
Anos Voldigoad – The Misfit of Demon King Academy: History’s Strongest Demon King Reincarnates and Goes to School with His Descendants
Catarina Claes – My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom!
Midori Asakusa – Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken!
Natsume – DECA-DENCE
Shoyo Hinata – HAIKYU!! TO THE TOP
Yuji Itadori – JUJUTSU KAISEN
Best Antagonist
Akito Soma – Fruits Basket (Season 2)
Echidna – Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World- (Season 2)
En – Dorohedoro
Overhaul – My Hero Academia Season 4
Rachel – Tower of God
Ryomen Sukuna – JUJUTSU KAISEN
Best Animation
BEASTARS
Great Pretender
JUJUTSU KAISEN
Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken!
Princess Connect! Re: Dive
Best Fight Scene
Bercouli vs. Dark God Vecta – Sword Art Online Alicization: War of the Underworld Part 2
Brawler vs. Master – Akudama Drive
Deku vs. Overhaul – My Hero Academia Season 4
Jin Mori vs. Han Daewi – The God of High School
Jin Mori vs. Jegal Taek – The God of High School
Satoru Gojo vs. Ryomen Sukuna – JUJUTSU KAISEN
Best Score
Alisa Okehazama – The God of High School
Kensuke Ushio – Japan Sinks: 2020
Kevin Penkin – Tower of God
OORUTAICHI – Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken!
Satoru Kousaki – BEASTARS
Yutaka Yamada – Great Pretender
Best Director
Hiro Kaburagi – Great Pretender
Mamoru Hatakeyama – Kaguya-sama: Love is War?
Masaaki Yuasa – Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken!
Sunghoo Park – JUJUTSU KAISEN
Takashi Sano – Tower of God
Yuzuru Tachikawa – DECA-DENCE
Best Character Design
Genice Chan and Yuusuke Yoshigaki – BNA: Brand New Animal
Masashi Kudoh and Miho Tanino, Original story by SIU – Tower of God
Mayuka Itou, Original designs by Iro Aida – Toilet-bound Hanako-kun
Naoyuki Asano, Original designs by Sumito Oowara – Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken!
Rumiko Takahashi and Yoshihito Hishinuma – Yashahime: Princess Half-Demon
Yoshiyuki Sadamoto and Hirotaka Katou – Great Pretender
Best Couple
Catarina Claes & Maria Campbell – My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom!
Chizuru Mizuhara & Kazuya Kinoshita – Rent-a-Girlfriend
Kaguya Shinomiya & Miyuki Shirogane – Kaguya-sama: Love is War?
Kotoko Iwanaga & Kuro Sakuragawa – In/Spectre
Legoshi & Haru – BEASTARS
Nasa Yuzaki & Tsukasa Yuzaki – TONIKAWA: Over The Moon For You
Best Voice Actor Performance (Japanese)
Megumi Ogata as Hanako – Toilet-bound Hanako-kun
Mutsumi Tamura as Sayaka Kanamori – Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken!
Riho Sugiyama as Minare Koda – Wave, Listen to Me!
Yuichi Nakamura as Satoru Gojo – JUJUTSU KAISEN
Yusuke Kobayashi as Natsuki Subaru – Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World- (Season 2)
Yusuke Onuki as Daisuke Kambe – The Millionaire Detective – Balance: UNLIMITED
Best Voiceover Artist Performance (English)
Aaron Phillips as Laurent Thierry – Great Pretender
Anairis Quiñones as Echidna – Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World- (Season 2)
Crispin Freeman as Ziusudra – Fate/Grand Order Absolute Demonic Front: Babylonia
Johnny Yong Bosch as Bam – Tower of God
Jonah Scott as Legoshi – BEASTARS
Zeno Robinson as Hawks – My Hero Academia Season 4
Best Opening Sequence (OP)
BEASTARS – Wild Side (ALI)
Great Pretender – G.P. (Yutaka Yamada)
HAIKYU!! TO THE TOP – PHOENIX (BURNOUT SYNDROMES)
JUJUTSU KAISEN – KAIKAI KITAN (Eve)
Kaguya-sama: Love is War? – DADDY! DADDY! DO! feat. Airi Suzuki (Masayuki Suzuki)
Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken! – Easy Breezy (chelmico)
Best Ending Sequence (ED)
BNA: Brand New Animal – NIGHT RUNNING (Shin Sakura ft AAAMYYY)
Dorohedoro – D.D.D.D ((K)NoW_NAME)
Great Pretender – The Great Pretender (Freddie Mercury)
In/Spectre – LAST DANCE (Mamoru Miyano)
JUJUTSU KAISEN – LOST IN PARADISE (ALI feat. AKLO)
The Millionaire Detective – Balance: UNLIMITED – Welcome My Friend (OKAMOTO’S)
Best Fantasy
Ascendance of a Bookworm Part 2
DECA-DENCE
Dorohedoro
Dragon Quest The Adventure of Dai
Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World- (Season 2)
Tower of God
Best Drama
BEASTARS
Fruits Basket (Season 2)
Great Pretender
Japan Sinks: 2020
SING “YESTERDAY” FOR ME
Somali and the Forest Spirit
Best Comedy
Kaguya-sama: Love is War?
Kakushigoto
Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken!
My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom!
Sleepy Princess in the Demon Castle
The Misfit of Demon King Academy: History’s Strongest Demon King Reincarnates and Goes to School with His Descendants
The above nominees are all available on the Crunchyroll site, where you can go and vote for your favourite anime right now.
So How do you feel about the list for the fifth annual Crunchyroll Awards nominees? Tell us who you think they left off that deserves to be on the list in the comments below.
Shah Shahid is an entertainment writer, movie critic (so he thinks), host of the Split Screen Podcast (on Apple Podcasts & everywhere else) and filmy father on a mission to educate his girls on decades of film history. Armed with uncontrollable sarcasm and cautious optimism, Shah loves discussing film, television and comic book content until his wife’s eyes glaze over. So save her by engaging him on his own blog at BlankPageBeatdown.com or on Twitter @theshahshahid.
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