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. Nominees were announced on January 15, the first day of voting. It ran until January 22. There were 15 million votes cast, with a majority coming from the United States, Mexico, and Brazil. The awards ceremony was streamed live on February 19 as a digital event. It was virtually hosted by Tim Lyu with Crunchyroll-Hime, the official mascot of Crunchyroll. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Crunchyroll noted that the show "will look different."
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. 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 Kaisens 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 in 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. Kaguya-sama: Love is War? won Best Comedy for the second time. Masaaki Yuasa won his second Best Director as well; the anime that he directed, Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken!, won Best Animation. Kevin Penkin received his second win for Best Score. ALI both won Best Opening Sequence and Best Ending Sequence for "Wild Side" and "Lost in Paradise" respectively. Re:Zero − Starting Life in Another World won Best Fantasy, while Fruits Basket won Best Drama.
Winners and nominees
Jujutsu Kaisen — MAPPA Appare-Ranman! — P.A. Works Beastars — Orange Dorohedoro — MAPPA Great Pretender — Wit Studio Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken! — Science SARU 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 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 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 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! "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) "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 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 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 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 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 | style="vertical-align:top; width:50%;" |
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 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 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 |- | style="vertical-align:top; width:50%;" |
Kaguya-sama: Love Is War? (season 2) — A-1 Pictures Kakushigoto: My Dad's Secret Ambition — Ajiado 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 | style="vertical-align:top; width:50%;" |
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 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 Re:Zero − Starting Life in Another World (season 2) — White Fox Ascendance of a Bookworm (season 2) — Ajiado Deca-Dence — NUT Dorohedoro — MAPPA Dragon Quest: The Adventure of Dai — Toei Animation Tower of God — Telecom Animation FilmSource:
Statistics +Anime with multiple nominations Nominations Anime10Great PretenderJujutsu KaisenKeep Your Hands Off Eizouken!8Beastars7Tower of God6Dorohedoro5Kaguya-sama: Love Is War? (season 2)4The God of High SchoolMy Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom!Re:Zero − Starting Life in Another World (season 2)3Deca-DenceHaikyu!! To the Top (season 4)The Misfit of Demon King AcademyMy Hero Academia (season 4)2BNA: Brand New AnimalFruits Basket (season 2)In/SpectreJapan Sinks: 2020Rent-A-GirlfriendThe Millionaire Detective - Balance: UNLIMITED +Anime with multiple wins Wins Anime3Jujutsu Kaisen2Kaguya-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)
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