The Crunchyroll Anime Award for Best Isekai Anime, formerly known as Crunchyroll Anime Award for Best Fantasy, is a genre-specific award given at the Crunchyroll Anime Awards since its fourth edition in 2020. Originally given for best fantasy anime series, it was eventually removed or renamed starting in its ninth edition in 2025 (partially due to confusion over anime genres between fantasy and isekai). It is given for the best fantasy and isekai anime series from the previous year. Winners are determined through a combined voting process by judges and public voting.
The Promised Neverland by CloverWorks first won the award in 2020. Mushoku Tensei: Jobless Reincarnation, Re:Zero − Starting Life in Another World and That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime were the only three anime series to received nominations altogether in both categories, the latter two also were the previous respective winners of the Best Fantasy genre.
In the latest edition in 2026, the third season of Re:Zero − Starting Life in Another World by White Fox won the award.
Winners and nominees In the following list, the first titles listed in gold are the winners; those not in gold are nominees, which are listed in alphabetical order. The years given are those in which the ceremonies took place.
2010s Best Fantasy Year Anime Studio(s) 2019(4th) The Promised Neverland CloverWorks Ascendance of a Bookworm Ajiado Astra Lost in Space Lerche Attack on Titan (season 3) Wit Studio Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Ufotable Sarazanmai MAPPA / Lapin Track
2020s Year Anime Studio(s) 2020(5th) 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 Film 2021(6th) That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime (season 2) Eight Bit Mushoku Tensei: Jobless Reincarnation (season 1 cour 1) Studio Bind Ranking of Kings Wit Studio The Case Study of Vanitas Bones To Your Eternity Brain's Base Wonder Egg Priority CloverWorks 2021/2022(7th) Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Entertainment District Arc (season 2 cour 2) Ufotable Made in Abyss: The Golden City of the Scorching Sun (season 2) 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 2022/2023(8th) Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Swordsmith Village Arc (season 3) Ufotable Hell's Paradise MAPPA Mashle: Magic and Muscles A-1 Pictures Mushoku Tensei: Jobless Reincarnation (season 2) Studio Bind Ranking of Kings: The Treasure Chest of Courage Wit Studio The Ancient Magus' Bride (season 2) Studio Kafka
Best Isekai Anime Year Anime Studio(s) 2023/2024(9th) Re:Zero − Starting Life in Another World (season 3) White Fox KonoSuba: God's Blessing on This Wonderful World! (season 3) Drive Mushoku Tensei: Jobless Reincarnation (season 2 cour 2) Studio Bind Shangri-La Frontier (season 2) C2C Suicide Squad Isekai Wit Studio That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime (season 3) Eight Bit 2025(10th) Re:Zero − Starting Life in Another World (season 3 cour 2) White Fox Campfire Cooking in Another World with My Absurd Skill (season 2) MAPPA Disney Twisted-Wonderland: The Animation — Season 1 "Episode of Heartslabyul" Yumeta Company and Graphinica From Bureaucrat to Villainess: Dad's Been Reincarnated! Ajiado KonoSuba: God's Blessing on This Wonderful World! Bonus Stage (season 3) Drive Zenshu MAPPA
Records Anime series
FranchiseWinsNominationsSeasonsRe:Zero − Starting Life in Another World3Season 2, Season 3 cour 1, Season 3 cour 2Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba23Unwavering Resolve Arc, Entertainment District Arc, Swordsmith Village ArcThat Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime12Season 2, Season 3Mushoku Tensei: Jobless Reincarnation04Season 1 cour 1, Season 1 cour 2, Season 2 cour 1, Season 2 cour 2Ranking of Kings3Cour 1, Cour 2, The Treasure Chest of CourageThe Case Study of Vanitas2Cour 1, Cour 2KonoSuba: God's Blessing on This Wonderful World!Season 3, Bonus Stage
Studios
White Fox has the most wins in an anime studio with 3, with Re:Zero − Starting Life in Another World and Ufotable's Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba were the only anime series to win multiple awards. The remaining studios (CloverWorks and Eight Bit) received a single award.
MAPPA and Wit Studio received the most nominations for an anime studio without a single win with 5. Mushoku Tensei: Jobless Reincarnation received four nominations, but did not win a single award. StudioWinsNominationsSeasonsWhite Fox3Re:Zero − Starting Life in Another World (Season 2, Season 3 cour 1, Season 3 cour 2)Ufotable23Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba (Unwavering Resolve Arc, Entertainment District Arc, Swordsmith Village Arc)CloverWorks12The Promised Neverland, Wonder Egg PriorityEight BitThat Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime (Season 2, Season 3)MAPPA05Campfire Cooking in Another World with My Absurd Skill (Season 2), Dorohedoro, Hell's Paradise, Sarazanmai, ZenshuWit StudioAttack on Titan (Season 3), Ranking of Kings (Cour 1, Cour 2, The Treasure Chest of Courage), Suicide Squad IsekaiStudio Bind4Mushoku Tensei: Jobless Reincarnation (Season 1 cour 1, Season 1 cour 2, Season 2 cour 1, Season 2 cour 2)Ajiado3Ascendance of a Bookworm (Season 1, Season 2), From Bureaucrat to Villainess: Dad's Been Reincarnated!Bones2The Case Study of Vanitas (Cour 1, Cour 2)DriveKonoSuba: God's Blessing on This Wonderful World! (Season 3, Bonus Stage)
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