Crunchyroll Anime Awards 2025: Complete list of winners, performances and highlights

The Crunchyroll Anime Awards 2025 are officially here, and yes, they serve drama, fanfare and more emotional monologues than a Shonen season.

On May 25th Live from Japan at 6:00 p.m. JST (2.30 p.m.) the ceremony brings the big weapons a list of lists, shows with shows that perform music representations, and many allusions to the shows that have emotionally destroyed us all year round (in a good way).

This year's list? Absolutely stacked. From the stunning animation of Demon Slayer To the genre-rusty storytelling of Frier: Beyond Journey's endThe 2025 Awards feel like a round of victory for the global takeover of anime. And with categories that celebrate everything from soundtracks to gemstones in life data, the fans eat well tonight.

Let's get into the winners:

Anime of the year: Solo -leveling

Film of the year: Look back

Best animation: Demon Slayer

Best director: Keiichiro Saito ((Frier: Beyond Journey's end)))

Best original anime: Ninja Kamui

Best anime song: “Otokone” of creepy nuts (Dan da dan)))

Best romantic anime: Blue box

Best score: Solo -leveling

Best slice of life: Makeine: Too many lost heroines!

Best main character: sung jinwoo (Solo -leveling)))

Best language actor (Hindi): Lohit Sharma as Satoru Gojo ((Jujutsu Kaisen Season 2)

Best comedy: Mashle: magic and muscles

Best final sequence: “Inquiry” by Krage

Best continuous series: Demon Slayer: Hashira training sheet

Global Impact Award: Attack on Titan (No surprise there.)

And in the true crunchyroll fashion, the event is not just about who wins what – it is a playground of pop culture. J Balvin brings the reggaeton heat while Foreign things Duo Finn Wolfhard and Gaten Matarazzo add a dose of netflix energy. We also have appearances by Grammy winner Kacey Musgraves, the Olympic Queen Chloe Kim and the Japanese Dean Fujioka. Oh, and Pabllo Vittar is here to kill Damiano David and Mayu Matsuoka, because why don't you do this in an international superstar summit?

From viral hymns to swords with high stakes, the crunchyroll anime awards prove that anime not only has a moment-the moment is. Regardless of whether you are a subtitled Ride-Or-Sied or just here for fan theories and aesthetics that today's show is for you.

The 2025 crunchyroll anime awards are streamed live on crunchyrolls official YouTube and Twitch channels.