Solo Leveling was the massive winner Sunday evening on the 2025 Crunchyroll Anime Awards, taking house anime of the 12 months, finest motion, finest new sequence, and a number of efficiency and music honors in a starry ceremony that introduced collectively anime’s most passionate international followers. Held on the Grand Prince Resort Shin Takanawa in Tokyo, the annual celebration honored the highest expertise in Japanese animation throughout 28 classes — drawing a record-breaking 51 million fan votes worldwide to determine the winners.
Within the function movie class, Look Again, the emotional adaptation of Tatsuki Fujimoto’s one-shot manga, earned Movie of the Yr, whereas fan-favorite Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba added to its legacy with finest persevering with sequence and finest animation. The genre-defying Dan Da Dan picked up a number of artistic awards, together with finest opening sequence, finest anime track, and finest character design.
Hosted for the third 12 months in a row by voice actress Sally Amaki and entertainer Jon Kabira, this 12 months’s present once more welcomed a various slate of movie star presenters, additional underlining anime’s international enchantment. Appearances included GRAMMY winner Kacey Musgraves, Stranger Issues stars Finn Wolfhard and Gaten Matarazzo, Latin music icon J Balvin, Japanese actor Kanata Hongo, and Japanese Academy Award-winner Mayu Matsuoka. Additionally readily available have been singer Rina Sawayama, Brazilian pop star Pabllo Vittar, mannequin Saya Ichikawa, and actors Dean Fujioka and Damiano David of Måneskin fame.
Kacey Musgraves on the Orange Carpet on the 2025 Crunchyroll Anime Awards in Tokyo.
The evening’s most poignant second got here when Assault on Titan was awarded Crunchyroll’s first-ever World Impression Award, a brand new honor recognizing a franchise’s profound affect on anime and international popular culture. Director Yuichiro Hayashi accepted the award on behalf of studio MAPPA and the sequence’ many creators, following the discharge of Assault on Titan: THE LAST ATTACK in late 2024, which concluded the long-running saga.
Followers have been additionally handled to reside performances from a few of anime music’s greatest acts, together with Creepy Nuts with their viral hit “Bling-Bang-Bang-Born” from Mashle: Magic and Muscle mass, Japanese rock legends FLOW with “DAYS” in honor of Eureka Seven, and a three-song medley by J-pop star LiSA, together with her Demon Slayer anthem “Gurenge.”
“Followers kind deep emotional connections to anime. These will not be simply sequence, movies or songs, however relatively artworks that assist outline the identification of anime followers,” stated Rahul Purini, president of Crunchyroll. “With an unbelievable 51 million votes this 12 months, the 2025 Anime Awards are celebrating the creators in Japan who’ve captured the hearts of followers and are powering anime’s prominence in international popular culture.”
Crunchyroll partnered with Sony Music Options Inc. and Dempsey Productions to ship the high-energy present, which shall be out there to stream by way of Crunchyroll’s YouTube and Twitch channels, in addition to Sony Photos Core and different Sony Group platforms.
Sony Group has recognized anime as a key pillar of its development technique, with Crunchyroll sitting on the middle of its holdings within the sector. On Sony’s most up-to-date earnings name in Could, the conglomerate revealed that Crunchyroll now counts 17 million subscribers worldwide. Crunchyroll, Aniplex and Sony Photos will collaborate later this 12 months on the North American and worldwide launch of Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Infinity Fortress, a trilogy of movies that concludes what’s presently the world’s most bankable anime franchise. Crunchyroll and Aniplex are additionally co-producing an anime sequence based mostly on the blockbuster samurai journey PlayStation recreation Ghost of Tsushima.
Full Listing of 2025 Crunchyroll Anime Awards Winners
Anime of the Yr: Solo Leveling
Movie of the Yr: Look Again
Greatest Unique Anime: Ninja Kamui
Greatest Persevering with Collection: Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba – Hashira Coaching Arc
Greatest New Collection: Solo Leveling
Greatest Opening Sequence: “Otonoke” – Creepy Nuts (Dan Da Dan)
Greatest Ending Sequence: “request” – krage (Solo Leveling)
Greatest Motion: Solo Leveling
Greatest Comedy: Mashle: Magic and Muscle mass – The Divine Visionary Candidate Examination Arc
Greatest Drama: Frieren: Past Journey’s Finish
Greatest Isekai Anime: Re:ZERO – Beginning Life in One other World – Season 3
Greatest Romance: Blue Field
Greatest Slice of Life: Makeine: Too Many Shedding Heroines!
Greatest Animation: Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba – Hashira Coaching Arc
Greatest Background Artwork: Frieren: Past Journey’s Finish
Greatest Character Design: Dan Da Dan
Greatest Director: Keiichiro Saito (Frieren: Past Journey’s Finish)
Greatest Foremost Character: Sung Jinwoo (Solo Leveling)
Greatest Supporting Character: Fern (Frieren: Past Journey’s Finish)
“Should Shield At All Prices” Character: Anya Forger (SPY × FAMILY Season 2)
Greatest Anime Track: “Otonoke” – Creepy Nuts (Dan Da Dan)
Greatest Rating: Solo Leveling – Hiroyuki Sawano
Voice Efficiency Awards
Japanese: Aoi Yuki (Maomao – The Apothecary Diaries)
English: Aleks Le (Sung Jinwoo – Solo Leveling)
Arabic: Hiba Snobar (Anya Forger – SPY × FAMILY Season 2)
Brazilian Portuguese: Charles Emmanuel (Sung Jinwoo – Solo Leveling)
Castilian Spanish: Masumi Mutsuda (Sung Jinwoo – Solo Leveling)
French: Adrien Antoine (Kafka Hibino – Kaiju No. 8)
German: Daniel Schlauch (Monkey D. Luffy – One Piece)
Hindi: Lohit Sharma (Satoru Gojo – Jujutsu Kaisen Season 2)
Italian: Ilaria Pellicone (Kyomoto – Look Again)
Latin Spanish: Miguel Ángel Leal (Eren Jaeger – Assault on Titan Remaining Season: The Remaining Chapters – Particular 2)