The 7th Crunchyroll Anime Awards was held on March 4, 2023, at the Main Banquet Hall of the Grand Prince Hotel New Takanawa in Tokyo, Japan. This edition was the first ceremony to be held in person since 2020; both ceremonies in 2021 and 2022 were held virtually. Additionally, it was the first ceremony to be held in Japan, as previous physical ceremonies were held in the United States. This edition featured 31 categories honoring anime released from November 2021 to September 2022. The ceremony was hosted by voice actress Sally Amaki and presenter Jon Kabira. Crunchyroll streamed the ceremony live on YouTube and Twitch, as well as on SonyLIV in India.
Winners and nominees Categories for the 7th edition was announced on December 8, 2022. Nominees were announced on January 19, 2023. Spy × Family garnered the most nominations with 19, followed by Ranking of Kings (17 nominations) and Cyberpunk: Edgerunners (13 nominations). The three anime series were nominated for Anime of the Year, together with Attack on Titan: The Final Season Part 2, Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Entertainment District Arc, and Lycoris Recoil. All Anime of the Year nominees, except Lycoris Recoil, were also nominated on the Best Animation category, together with Akebi's Sailor Uniform. Commercially successful films Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero and Jujutsu Kaisen 0 were nominated in the Best Film category, together with Bubble, The Deer King, and Annie Awards nominee Inu-Oh. One Piece was nominated for Best Continuing Series, together with Attack on Titan: The Final Season Part 2, Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Entertainment District Arc, JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Stone Ocean, Kaguya-sama: Love Is War – Ultra Romantic, and Made in Abyss: The Golden City of the Scorching Sun. Hiroyuki Sawano, Kohta Yamamoto, Yuki Kajiura, and Go Shiina were nominated again for Best Score; Sawano received his fourth nomination for the award. Yuki Kaji was also nominated again for Best VA Performance (Japanese) for Eren Jaeger.
Among genre categories, Attack on Titan and Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba were nominated again for Best Action. 86 was also nominated again for Best Drama, while Kaguya-sama: Love Is War receiving the third nomination for Best Comedy; Kotaro Lives Alone also received nominations for both categories. Mushoku Tensei: Jobless Reincarnation and Ranking of Kings were nominated again for Best Fantasy, while Komi Can't Communicate also nominated again in Best Romance. For character categories, Eren Jaeger from Attack on Titan was nominated for Best Main Character along with Bojji from Ranking of Kings, while Anya Forger from Spy × Family was nominated for Best Supporting Character and "Must Protect at All Costs" Character. Two anime songs nominated for Best Opening Sequence and one for Best Ending Sequence, were nominated for Best Anime Song as well: "The Rumbling" by SiM, "Chikichiki Banban" by Queendom, and "Comedy" by Gen Hoshino. Both opening and ending themes for Attack on Titan and Spy × Family were nominated in their respective categories.
Awards Cyberpunk: Edgerunners won Anime of the Year, becoming the first video game adaptation and prequel series to win, as well as Zach Aguilar who also won the Best VA Performance (English) award for his work as David Martinez. Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Entertainment District Arc, Attack on Titan: The Final Season Part 2, and Spy × Family are tied for the most wins with six. The film Jujutsu Kaisen 0 won three awards, including the Best Film category. Eren Jaeger from Attack on Titan won Best Main Character, while Anya Forger from Spy × Family won Best Supporting Character and "Must Protect at All Costs" Character. Haruo Sotozaki, director of Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Entertainment District Arc, won Best Director. "The Rumbling" won Best Opening Sequence and Best Anime Song, while "Comedy" won Best Ending Sequence. Yuki Kaji won Best VA Performance (Japanese) for two consecutive years. Amal Hawija and Elisa Giorgio won the inaugural Best VA Performance for Arabic and Italian, respectively. Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Entertainment District Arc won Best Action and Best Fantasy, Spy × Family won Best Comedy, Attack on Titan: The Final Season Part 2 won Best Drama, and Kaguya-sama: Love Is War – Ultra Romantic won Best Romance.
Cyberpunk: Edgerunners — Studio Trigger and CD Projekt Attack on Titan: The Final Season Part 2 — MAPPA Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Entertainment District Arc — Ufotable Lycoris Recoil — A-1 Pictures Ranking of Kings (cour 2) — Wit Studio Spy × Family — Wit Studio and CloverWorks | style="vertical-align:top; width:50%;" |
Jujutsu Kaisen 0 — MAPPA Bubble — Wit Studio Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero — Toei Animation Inu-Oh — Science SARU One Piece Film: Red — Toei Animation The Deer King — Production I.G |- | style="vertical-align:top; width:50%;" |
One Piece — Toei Animation Attack on Titan: The Final Season Part 2 — MAPPA Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Entertainment District Arc — Ufotable JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Stone Ocean — David Production Kaguya-sama: Love Is War – Ultra Romantic — A-1 Pictures Made in Abyss: The Golden City of the Scorching Sun — Kinema Citrus | style="vertical-align:top; width:50%;" |
Spy × Family — Wit Studio and CloverWorks Call of the Night — Liden Films Cyberpunk: Edgerunners — Studio Trigger and CD Projekt Lycoris Recoil — A-1 Pictures My Dress-Up Darling — CloverWorks Ya Boy Kongming! — P.A. Works |- | style="vertical-align:top; width:50%;" |
Lycoris Recoil — A-1 Pictures Birdie Wing: Golf Girls' Story — Bandai Namco Pictures Healer Girl — 3Hz The Orbital Children — Production +h Vampire in the Garden — Wit Studio Yurei Deco — Science SARU | style="vertical-align:top; width:50%;" |
Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Entertainment District Arc — Ufotable Akebi's Sailor Uniform — CloverWorks Attack on Titan: The Final Season Part 2 — MAPPA Cyberpunk: Edgerunners — Studio Trigger and CD Projekt Ranking of Kings (cour 2) — Wit Studio Spy × Family — Wit Studio and CloverWorks |- | style="vertical-align:top; width:50%;" |
Akira Matsushima, original design by Koyoharu Gotouge — Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Entertainment District Arc Yoh Yoshinari — Cyberpunk: Edgerunners Masanori Shino, original design by Hirohiko Araki — JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Stone Ocean Kazumasa Ishida, original design by Shinichi Fukuda — My Dress-Up Darling Atsuko Nozaki, original design by Sōsuke Tōka — Ranking of Kings (cour 2) Kazuaki Shimada, original design by Tatsuya Endo — Spy × Family Haruo Sotozaki — Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Entertainment District Arc Hiroyuki Imaishi — Cyberpunk: Edgerunners Kazuhiro Furuhashi — Spy × Family Shingo Adachi — Lycoris Recoil Yōsuke Hatta — Ranking of Kings (cour 2) Yuichiro Hayashi — Attack on Titan: The Final Season Part 2 Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Entertainment District Arc — Ufotable Attack on Titan: The Final Season Part 2 — MAPPA Cyberpunk: Edgerunners — Studio Trigger and CD Projekt JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Stone Ocean — David Production Lycoris Recoil — A-1 Pictures Spy × Family — Wit Studio and CloverWorks | style="vertical-align:top; width:50%;" |
Spy × Family — Wit Studio and CloverWorks Kaguya-sama: Love Is War – Ultra Romantic — A-1 Pictures Kotaro Lives Alone — Liden Films My Dress-Up Darling — CloverWorks Uncle from Another World — Atelier Pontdarc Ya Boy Kongming! — P.A. Works |- | style="vertical-align:top; width:50%;" |
Attack on Titan: The Final Season Part 2 — MAPPA 86 — A-1 Pictures Cyberpunk: Edgerunners — Studio Trigger and CD Projekt Dance Dance Danseur — MAPPA Kotaro Lives Alone — Liden Films Made in Abyss: The Golden City of the Scorching Sun — Kinema Citrus | style="vertical-align:top; width:50%;" |
Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Entertainment District Arc — Ufotable Made in Abyss: The Golden City of the Scorching Sun — Kinema Citrus Mushoku Tensei: Jobless Reincarnation (cour 2) — Studio Bind Overlord (season 4) — Madhouse Ranking of Kings (cour 2) — Wit Studio The Case Study of Vanitas (cour 2) — Bones |- | style="vertical-align:top; width:50%;" |
Kaguya-sama: Love Is War – Ultra Romantic — A-1 Pictures Call of the Night — Liden Films Komi Can't Communicate (season 2) — OLM Love After World Domination — Project No.9 My Dress-Up Darling — CloverWorks Shikimori's Not Just a Cutie — Doga Kobo | style="vertical-align:top; width:50%;" |
Eren Jaeger — Attack on Titan: The Final Season Part 2 Bojji — Ranking of Kings (cour 2) Chisato Nishikigi — Lycoris Recoil David Martinez — Cyberpunk: Edgerunners Loid Forger — Spy × Family Marin Kitagawa — My Dress-Up Darling Anya Forger — Spy × Family Ai Hayasaka — Kaguya-sama: Love Is War – Ultra Romantic Kage — Ranking of Kings Rebecca — Cyberpunk: Edgerunners Tengen Uzui — Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Entertainment District Arc Yor Forger — Spy × Family Anya Forger — Spy × Family Bojji — Ranking of Kings (cour 2) Kage — Ranking of Kings Komi Shōko — Komi Can't Communicate (season 2) Kotaro Satō — Kotaro Lives Alone Marin Kitagawa — My Dress-Up Darling "The Rumbling" by SiM — Attack on Titan: The Final Season Part 2 "Chikichiki Banban" by Queendom — Ya Boy Kongming! "Comedy" by Gen Hoshino — Spy × Family "My Nonfiction" by Makoto Furukawa and Konomi Kohara — Kaguya-sama: Love Is War – Ultra Romantic "New Genesis" by Ado — One Piece Film: Red "Shall We Dance?" by Reona — Shadows House (season 2) Hiroyuki Sawano and Kohta Yamamoto — Attack on Titan: The Final Season Part 2 Akira Yamaoka — Cyberpunk: Edgerunners Yuki Kajiura and Go Shiina — Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Entertainment District Arc Kevin Penkin — Made in Abyss: The Golden City of the Scorching Sun (K)now Name — Spy × Family Genki Hikota — Ya Boy Kongming! "The Rumbling" by SiM, direction and storyboard by Takashi Kojima — Attack on Titan: The Final Season Part 2 "Chikichiki Banban" by Queendom, direction and storyboard by 10GAUGE — Ya Boy Kongming! "Mixed Nuts" by Official Hige Dandism, direction and storyboard by Masashi Ishihama — Spy × Family "Hadaka no Yūsha" by Vaundy, direction and storyboard by Shingo Yamashita — Ranking of Kings (cour 2) "This Fffire" by Franz Ferdinand, direction by Hiroyuki Imaishi, storyboard by Kai Ikarashi — Cyberpunk: Edgerunners "Zankyōsanka" by Aimer, direction by Akira Matsushima, storyboard by Haruo Sotozaki — Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Entertainment District Arc "Comedy" by Gen Hoshino, direction and storyboard by Atsushi Nishigori — Spy × Family "Akuma no Ko" by Ai Higuchi, direction and storyboard by Paraco Shinohara — Attack on Titan: The Final Season Part 2 "Heart wa Oteage" by Airi Suzuki, direction and storyboard by Nichika Ono — Kaguya-sama: Love Is War – Ultra Romantic "Koi no Yukue" by Akari Akase, direction and storyboard by Futata — My Dress-Up Darling "Koshaberi Biyori" by FantasticYouth, direction and storyboard by Kōki Fujimoto — Komi Can't Communicate (season 2) "Yofukashi no Uta" by Creepy Nuts, direction by Haruka Segawa, storyboard by Tomoyuki Itamura — Call of the Night Yuki Kaji as Eren Jaeger — Attack on Titan: The Final Season Part 2 Atsumi Tanezaki as Anya Forger — Spy × Family Chika Anzai as Chisato Nishikigi — Lycoris Recoil Fairouz Ai as Jolyne Cujoh — JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Stone Ocean Misaki Kuno as Faputa — Made in Abyss: The Golden City of the Scorching Sun Natsuki Hanae as Tanjiro Kamado — Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Entertainment District Arc Zach Aguilar as David Martinez — Cyberpunk: Edgerunners Amanda Lee as Marin Kitagawa — My Dress-Up Darling Cherami Leigh as Kotaro Satō — Kotaro Lives Alone Natalie Van Sistine as Yor Forger — Spy × Family SungWon Cho as Kage — Ranking of Kings Zeno Robinson as Gamma 2 — Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero Amal Hawija as Gon Freecss — Hunter × Hunter Adel Abo Hassoon as Kage — Ranking of Kings