Crunchyroll Announces Anime Awards 2023 Nominees, Here’s How to Vote For Your Favourite Anime, Voice Actors and More

Crunchyroll has announced the nominees for its seventh annual Crunchyroll Anime Awards. The awards will celebrate creators, musicians, and performances from the anime industry. The public voting is also open till January 26, 6:30 AM Indian Standard Time.

The nominees at the Crunchyroll Anime Awards 2023 will represent anime excellence from over 30 different studios and more than 50 different series and films. 50 voice actors from the anime industry are also being recognized.

If you want to vote, you can visit the Anime Awards website to view the full list of nominees. Crunchyroll will offer social voting on Twitter for the Anime of the Year category this year. To vote via Twitter, fans have to post the required hashtags or by sharing a friend’s tweet, with instructions and official rules being available on the @Crunchyroll account. The results of the awards will be revealed at the live ceremony on March 4th, which will be held at the Grand Prince Hotel New Takanawa in Tokyo.

Chairman, president and CEO of Sony Group Corporation, Kenichiro Yoshida, will open the ceremony. It will be hosted by voice actress Sally Amaki and entertainer Jon Kabira.

Here are the Crunchyroll Anime Awards 2023 nominees:

Anime of the Year

• Attack on Titan Final Season Part 2
• Cyberpunk: Edgerunners
• Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Entertainment District Arc
• Lycoris Recoil
• Ranking of Kings (Cour 2)
• SPY x FAMILY

Best Action

• Attack on Titan Final Season Part 2
• Cyberpunk: Edgerunners
• Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Entertainment District Arc
• JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure Stone Ocean
• Lycoris Recoil
• SPY x FAMILY

Best Animation

• Akebi’s Sailor Uniform
• Attack on Titan Final Season Part 2
• Cyberpunk: Edgerunners
• Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Entertainment District Arc
• Ranking of Kings (Cour 2)
• SPY x FAMILY

Best Anime Song

• “Chikichiki Banban,” QUEENDOM, Ya Boy Kongming!
• “Comedy,” Gen Hoshino, SPY x FAMILY
• “My Nonfiction,” Miyuki Shirogane (CV: Makoto Furukawa) & Chika Fujiwara (CV: Konomi Kohara), Kaguya-sama: Love Is War -Ultra Romantic-
• “New Genesis,” Ado, One Piece Film Red
• “Shall We Dance?,” ReoNa, SHADOWS HOUSE -2nd Season-
• “The Rumbling,” SiM, Attack on Titan Final Season Part 2

Best Character Design

• Cyberpunk: Edgerunners
• Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Entertainment District Arc
• JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure Stone Ocean
• My Dress-Up Darling
• Ranking of Kings (Cour 2)
• SPY x FAMILY

Best Comedy

• Kaguya-sama: Love Is War -Ultra Romantic-
• Kotaro Lives Alone
• My Dress-Up Darling
• SPY x FAMILY
• Uncle from Another World
• Ya Boy Kongming!

Best Continuing Series

• Attack on Titan (Attack on Titan Final Season Part 2)
• “Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba (Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Entertainment District Arc)
• JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure (JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure Stone Ocean)
• “Kaguya-sama: Love Is War (Kaguya-sama: Love Is War -Ultra Romantic-)”
• “Made in Abyss (Made in Abyss: The Golden City of the Scorching Sun)”
• One Piece

Best Director

• Haruo Sotozaki, Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Entertainment District Arc
• Hiroyuki Imaishi, Cyberpunk: Edgerunners
• Kazuhiro Furuhashi, SPY x FAMILY
• Shingo Adachi, Lycoris Recoil
• Yosuke Hatta, Ranking of Kings (Cour 2)
• Yuichiro Hayashi, Attack on Titan Final Season Part 2

Best Drama

• 86 EIGHTY-SIX Part 2
• Attack on Titan Final Season Part 2
• Cyberpunk: Edgerunners
• Dance Dance Danseur
• Kotaro Lives Alone
• Made in Abyss: The Golden City of the Scorching Sun

Best Ending Sequence

• “Akuma no Ko,” Ai Higuchi, Attack on Titan Final Season Part 2
• “Comedy,” Gen Hoshino, Spy x Family
• “My Heart Has Surrendered,” Airi Suzuki, Kaguya-sama: Love Is War -Ultra Romantic-
• “Koi no yukue,” Akari Akase, My Dress-Up Darling
• “Koshaberibiyori,” FantasticYouth, Komi Can’t Communicate (2nd series)
• “Yofukashino Uta,” Creepy Nuts, Call of the Night

Best Fantasy

• Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Entertainment District Arc
• Made in Abyss: The Golden City of the Scorching Sun
• Mushoku Tensei: Jobless Reincarnation Season 1 Part 2
• Overlord IV
• Ranking of Kings (Cour 2)
• The Case Study of Vanitas (Cour 2)

Best Film

• Bubble
• Dragon Ball Super: SUPER HERO
• INU-OH
• JUJUTSU KAISEN 0
• One Piece Film Red
• The Deer King

Best Main Character

• Bojji, Ranking of Kings (Cour 2)
• Chisato Nishikigi, Lycoris Recoil
• David Martinez, Cyberpunk: Edgerunners
• Eren Jaeger, Attack on Titan Final Season Part 2
• Loid Forger, SPY x FAMILY
• Marin Kitagawa, My Dress-Up Darling

Best New Series

• Call of the Night
• Cyberpunk: Edgerunners
• Lycoris Recoil
• My Dress-Up Darling
• SPY x FAMILY
• Ya Boy Kongming!

Best Opening Sequence

• “Chikichiki Banban,” QUEENDOM, Ya Boy Kongming!
• “Mixed Nuts,” Official HIGE DANdism, SPY x FAMILY
• “Naked Hero,” Vaundy, Ranking of Kings (Cour 2)
• “The Rumbling,” SiM, Attack on Titan Final Season Part 2
• “This Fffire,” Franz Ferdinand, Cyberpunk: Edgerunners
• “Zankyousanka,” Aimer, Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Entertainment District Arc

Best Original Anime

• BIRDIE WING -Golf Girls’ Story-
• Healer Girl
• Lycoris Recoil
• The Orbital Children
• Vampire in the Garden
• YUREI DECO

Best Romance

• Call of the Night
• Kaguya-sama: Love Is War -Ultra Romantic-
• Komi Can’t Communicate (2nd series)
• Love After World Domination
• My Dress-Up Darling
• Shikimori’s Not Just a Cutie

Best Score

• Attack on Titan Final Season Part 2
• Cyberpunk: Edgerunners
• Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Entertainment District Arc
• Made in Abyss: The Golden City of the Scorching Sun
• SPY x FAMILY
• Ya Boy Kongming!

Best Supporting Character

• Ai Hayasaka, Kaguya-sama: Love Is War -Ultra Romantic-
• Anya Forger, SPY x FAMILY
• Kage, Ranking of Kings (Cour 2)
• Rebecca, Cyberpunk: Edgerunners
• Tengen Uzui, Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Entertainment District Arc
• Yor Forger, SPY x FAMILY

Best Voice Artist Performance (English)

• Amanda Lee (Ama Lee), Marin Kitagawa, My Dress-Up Darling
• Cherami Leigh, Kotaro Sato, Kotaro Lives Alone
• Natalie Van Sistine, Yor Forger, SPY x FAMILY
• SungWon Cho (AKA ProZD), Kage, Ranking of King (Cour 2)
• Zach Aguilar, David, Cyberpunk: Edgerunners
• Zeno Robinson, Gamma 2, Dragon Ball Super: SUPER HERO

Best Voice Artist Performance (Japanese)

• Atsumi Tanezaki, Anya Forger, SPY x FAMILY
• Chika Anzai, Chisato Nishikigi, Lycoris Recoil
• Fairouz Ai, Jolyne Cujoh, JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure Stone Ocean
• Misaki Kuno, Faputa and Irumyuui, Made in Abyss: The Golden City of the Scorching Sun
• Natsuki Hanae, Tanjiro Kamado, Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Entertainment District Arc
• Yuki Kaji, Eren Jaeger, Attack on Titan Final Season Part 2