Fan Art of the 2024 Crunchyroll Anime Award-Winning Series - Who’s the Cream of the Crop?

The Crunchyroll Anime Awards is a global event organized by Crunchyroll, a subscription VOD streaming service that offers the world’s largest library of a whopping 1,000 anime shows and counting. Ever since its inauguration in 2017, the awards show has been celebrating the best anime series, characters, and performances from the previous year, with the results determined by both a panel of judges and the general public.

The awards categories cover a wide range, with notable categories being the champion title, “Anime of the Year,” “Best Main Character,” “Best Continuing Series,” and “Best Score.” This year saw the introduction of two new categories, namely “Best Art Director” and “Best Cinematography,” and the revival of the category “Best Slice of Life.” All winners of the 8th Crunchyroll Anime Awards were announced on-site at the Grand Prince Hotel New Takanawa in Tokyo, Japan, on March 2nd, with fans worldwide tuning in to see the results live.

The Crunchyroll Anime Awards features two rounds of voting, the first round being determined solely by a panel of judges and the second round by the same panel and fans. (That’s you!)

In the first round, a panel of judges comprising industry veterans or well-established and knowledgeable content creators selects six nominees for each category. The votes are then opened up to the public for one week, and fans are allowed one vote per category per day. The winner of the category is the nominee who garners the most support from the judges and the general public, with 70% of the votes coming from the judges and the other 30% from fans around the world.

In order to be eligible, a show needs to first and foremost be considered an animated series and must meet all of the following requirements:

a) Produced primarily in Japan,

b) Had at least one episode aired on television or online in Japan between October 2022 and September 2023, at least in part, and

c) Had at least one episode that had its initial legal distribution outside of Japan in 2022 or 2023.

In today’s feature, we’ve gathered some of the incredible artwork featuring these series’ cherished characters to help them celebrate their much-deserved wins. Before you start scrolling, can you guess which series walked away victorious? Let’s see if you spot any of your faves among the drawings!

And the grand prize goes to none other Jujutsu Kaisen: Hidden Inventory/Premature Death! The anime earned a total of 11 awards, which was the highest number of wins in a single year. In addition, the series also became the first to win the Anime of the Year award twice after the first season won the 5th Crunchyroll Anime Awards in 2021.

Awards won:

Anime of the Year, Best Action, Best Character Design (Sayaka Koiso, Tadashi Hiramatsu), Best Cinematography, Best Director (Shota Goshozono), Best Ending Sequence (Akari by Soshi Sakiyama), Best Opening Sequence (Where Our Blue Is by Tatsuya Kitani), Best Supporting Character (Satoru Gojo) Best Voice Actor Performance, French (Martial Le Minoux as Suguru Geto), Best Voice Actor Performance, Japanese (Yuichi Nakamura as Satoru Gojo), and Best Voice Actor Performance, Brazilian Portuguese (Léo Rabelo as Satoru Gojo).

Chainsaw Man received the most nominations in a single year with 25 and won a total of six categories.

Awards won:

Best New Series, Best Voice Actor Performance, Castilian (Joel Gómez Jimenez as Denji), Best Voice Actor Performance, English (Ryan Colt Levy as Denji), Best Voice Actor Performance, German (Franziska Trunte as Power), Best Voice Actor Performance, Italian (Mosè Singh as Denji), Best Voice Actor Performance, Latin Spanish (Emilio Treviño as Denji)

Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Swordsmith Village Arc received the third most nominations in a single year with 12, alongside Oshi no Ko, and had a total of three wins.

Awards won:

Best Animation, Best Art Direction, Best Fantasy