5th Crunchyroll Anime Awards

5th Crunchyroll Anime Awards
5th Crunchyroll Anime Awards
Awarded for	Excellence in anime
Date	February 19, 2021
Country	United States
Presented by	Crunchyroll
Hosted by	Tim Lyu; Crunchyroll-Hime;
Highlights
Most awards	Jujutsu Kaisen (3)
Most nominations	Great Pretender, Jujutsu Kaisen, and Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken! (10)
Anime of the Year	Jujutsu Kaisen

The 5th Crunchyroll Anime Awards were held on February 19, 2021, honoring excellence in anime from 2020. Crunchyroll announced the list of categories as well as the judges on December 16, 2020. They noted that the categories used in the previous edition were to be used in this edition as well. They also noted that the number of judges increased.^[1] Nominees were announced on January 15, the first day of voting.^[1]^[2] It ran until January 22. There were 15 million votes cast, with a majority coming from the United States, Mexico, and Brazil.^[3] The awards ceremony was streamed live on February 19 as a digital event.^[3] It was virtually hosted by Tim Lyu with Crunchyroll-Hime, the official mascot of Crunchyroll.^[4] Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Crunchyroll noted that the show "will look different."^[4]

Great Pretender, Jujutsu Kaisen, and Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken! each received ten nominations, followed by Beastars with eight and Tower of God at seven.^[2] Among the nominated were Mamoru Miyano, who received his third nomination in the awards, this time for Best Ending Sequence. Voice actor Yuichi Nakamura received his second nomination in the Best VA Performance (JP) category. Yutaka Yamada was nominated in two categories, Best Score and Best Opening Sequence. Jujutsu Kaisen's opening and ending theme were both nominated in their respective categories. Japanese band ALI received two nominations, one in Best Opening Sequence and one in Best Ending Sequence. Directors Masaaki Yuasa and Yuzuru Tachikawa each received their second nomination as Best Director. Fruits Basket was again nominated for a second time in the Best Drama category. Kaguya-sama: Love is War? received its second nomination in Best Comedy. Two fight scenes from The God of High School were nominated for the Best Fight Scene award. Kaguya Shinomiya and Miyuki Shirogane, winners in the previous edition, was nominated again for Best Couple. Kevin Penkin received his third straight nomination for Best Score.

Jujutsu Kaisen won the Anime of the Year award.^[5]^[6] Kaguya-sama: Love is War? won Best Comedy for the second time.^[5]^[6] Masaaki Yuasa won his second Best Director as well;^[5]^[6] the anime that he directed, Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken!, won Best Animation. Kevin Penkin received his second win for Best Score.^[5] ALI both won Best Opening Sequence and Best Ending Sequence for "Wild Side" and "Lost in Paradise" respectively.^[5] Re:Zero − Starting Life in Another World won Best Fantasy, while Fruits Basket won Best Drama.^[5]

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 Jujutsu Kaisen — MAPPA‡ Appare-Ranman! — P.A.Works Beastars — Orange Dorohedoro — MAPPA Great Pretender — Wit Studio Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken! — Science SARU	Best Protagonist Catarina Claes — My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom!‡ Anos Voldigoad — The Misfit of Demon King Academy Midori Asakusa — Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken! Natsume — Deca-Dence Shoyo Hinata — Haikyu!! To the Top (season 4) Yuji Itadori — Jujutsu Kaisen
Best Antagonist Ryomen Sukuna — Jujutsu Kaisen‡ 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	Best Boy *Shoyo Hinata — Haikyu!! To the Top* (season 4)*‡ Anos Voldigoad — The Misfit of Demon King Academy* Caiman — Dorohedoro Khun Aguero Agnes — Tower of God Legoshi — Beastars Satoru Gojo — Jujutsu Kaisen
Best Girl Kaguya Shinomiya — Kaguya-sama: Love Is War? (season 2)‡ Abigail Jones — Great Pretender Catarina Claes — My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom! Chizuru Mizuhara — Rent-A-Girlfriend Noi — Dorohedoro Sayaka Kanamori — Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken!	Best Opening Sequence "Wild Side" by ALI — Beastars‡ "DADDY! DADDY! DO! feat. Airi Suzuki" by Masayuki Suzuki — Kaguya-sama: Love Is War? (season 2) "Easy Breezy" by chelmico — Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken! "G.P." composed by Yutaka Yamada — Great Pretender "Kaikai Kitan" by Eve — Jujutsu Kaisen "Phoenix" by Burnout Syndromes — Haikyu!! To the Top (season 4)
Best Ending Sequence "Lost in Paradise" by ALI feat. AKLO — Jujutsu Kaisen‡ "D.D.D.D" by ((K)NoW_NAME) — Dorohedoro "Last Dance" by Mamoru Miyano — In/Spectre "NIGHT RUNNING" by Shin Sakura ft. AAAMY — BNA: Brand New Animal "The Great Pretender" by Freddie Mercury — Great Pretender "Welcome My Friend" by OKAMOTO'S — The Millionaire Detective Balance: Unlimited	Best VA Performance (JP) *Yūsuke Kobayashi as Subaru Natsuki — Re:Zero − Starting Life in Another World* (season 2)*‡ 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 Yūsuke Ōnuki as Daisuke Kambe — The Millionaire Detective - Balance: UNLIMITED
Best VA Performance (EN) *Zeno Robinson as Hawks — My Hero Academia* (season 4)*‡ 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	Best Director Masaaki Yuasa — Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken!‡ Hiro Kaburagi — Great Pretender Mamoru Hatakeyama — Kaguya-sama: Love is War? (season 2) Sunghoo Park — Jujutsu Kaisen Takashi Sano — Tower of God Yuzuru Tachikawa — Deca-Dence
Best Animation Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken! — Science SARU‡ Beastars — Orange Great Pretender — Wit Studio Jujutsu Kaisen — MAPPA Princess Connect! Re:Dive — CygamesPictures The God of High School — MAPPA	Best Character Design Mayuka Itou, original designs by Iro Aida — Toilet-Bound Hanako-kun‡ Genice Chan and Yuusuke Yoshigaki — BNA: Brand New Animal Masashi Kudoh and Miho Tanino, original designs by SIU — Tower of God 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 Katō — Great Pretender
Best Fight Scene *Deku vs. Overhaul — My Hero Academia* (season 4)*‡ Bercouli vs. Dark God Vecta — Sword Art Online: Alicization: War of the Underworld Part 2* Brawler vs. Master — Akudama Drive 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 Drama Fruits Basket (season 2) — TMS Entertainment‡ Beastars — Orange Great Pretender — Wit Studio Japan Sinks 2020 — Science SARU Sing "Yesterday" for Me — Doga Kobo Somali and the Forest Spirit — Satelight & HORNETS
Best Comedy Kaguya-sama: Love Is War? (season 2) — A-1 Pictures‡ Kakushigoto: My Dad's Secret Ambition — Ajia-do Animation Works Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken! — Science SARU My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom! — Silver Link Sleepy Princess in the Demon Castle — Doga Kobo The Misfit of Demon King Academy — Silver Link	Best Score Kevin Penkin — Tower of God‡ Alisa Okehazama — The God of High School Kensuke Ushio — Japan Sinks 2020 Oorutaichi — Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken! Satoru Kōsaki — Beastars Yutaka Yamada — Great Pretender
Best Couple Nasa Yuzaki & Tsukasa Yuzaki — TONIKAWA: Over The Moon For You‡ 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? (season 2) Kotoko Iwanaga & Kuro Sakuragawa — In/Spectre Legoshi & Haru — Beastars	Best Fantasy Re:Zero − Starting Life in Another World (season 2) — White Fox‡ Ascendance of a Bookworm (season 2) — Ajia-do Animation Works Deca-Dence — NUT Dorohedoro — MAPPA Dragon Quest: The Adventure of Dai — Toei Animation Tower of God — Telecom Animation Film
Source: ^[5]^[6]^[7]

Statistics

Anime with multiple nominations
Nominations	Anime
10	Great Pretender
	Jujutsu Kaisen
	Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken!
8	Beastars
7	Tower of God
6	Dorohedoro
5	Kaguya-sama: Love Is War? (season 2)
4	My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom!
4	Re:Zero − Starting Life in Another World (season 2)
3	Deca-Dence
	The God of High School
	Haikyu!! To the Top (season 4)
	The Misfit of Demon King Academy
	My Hero Academia (season 4)
2	BNA: Brand New Animal
	Fruits Basket (season 2)
	In/Spectre
	Japan Sinks 2020
	Rent-A-Girlfriend
	The Millionaire Detective - Balance: UNLIMITED

Anime with multiple wins
Wins	Anime
3	Jujutsu Kaisen
2	Kaguya-sama: Love is War? (season 2)
	Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken!
	My Hero Academia (season 4)
	Re:Zero − Starting Life in Another World (season 2)

References

^ ^a ^b Thomas, Miles (December 15, 2020). "Anime Awards 2021: Meet the Judges & Categories Revealed!". Crunchyroll. Archived from the original on December 17, 2020. Retrieved December 16, 2020.
^ ^a ^b Loveridge, Lynzee (January 16, 2021). "Crunchyroll Announces Nominees for 5th Annual Anime Awards". Anime News Network. Archived from the original on January 16, 2021. Retrieved January 16, 2021.
^ ^a ^b Leblanc, Wesley (February 20, 2021). "Crunchyroll's Anime Awards Winners Announced". IGN Southeast Asia. Archived from the original on February 20, 2021. Retrieved February 20, 2021.
^ ^a ^b Burke, Carolyn. "Where To Watch The 2021 Anime Awards". Crunchyroll. Archived from the original on February 18, 2021. Retrieved February 18, 2021.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g Goslin, Austen (February 19, 2021). "Jujutsu Kaisen takes home top prize at Crunchyroll's Anime Awards". Polygon. Archived from the original on February 20, 2021. Retrieved February 20, 2021.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Loveridge, Lynzee (February 20, 2021). "Crunchyroll Awards Crown Jujutsu Kaisen as Anime of the Year". Anime News Network. Archived from the original on February 20, 2021. Retrieved February 20, 2021.
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[:21-1] Thomas, Miles (December 15, 2020). "Anime Awards 2021: Meet the Judges & Categories Revealed!". Crunchyroll. Archived from the original on December 17, 2020. Retrieved December 16, 2020.

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[:22-4] Burke, Carolyn. "Where To Watch The 2021 Anime Awards". Crunchyroll. Archived from the original on February 18, 2021. Retrieved February 18, 2021.

[:23-5] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g Goslin, Austen (February 19, 2021). "Jujutsu Kaisen takes home top prize at Crunchyroll's Anime Awards". Polygon. Archived from the original on February 20, 2021. Retrieved February 20, 2021.

[:25-6] Loveridge, Lynzee (February 20, 2021). "Crunchyroll Awards Crown Jujutsu Kaisen as Anime of the Year". Anime News Network. Archived from the original on February 20, 2021. Retrieved February 20, 2021.

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