The Crunchyroll Anime Award for Best Original Anime is a series award given at the Crunchyroll Anime Awards since its seventh edition in 2023. It is given for the best original anime series which only considered the anime that were not adapted from the source material in the previous year. Winners are determined through a combined voting process by judges and public voting.
Action anime Lycoris Recoil by A-1 Pictures first won the award in 2023. MAPPA received the most nominations (3) for an anime studio, with Birdie Wing: Golf Girls' Story became the only anime to be nominated multiple times.
In the latest edition in 2026, Lazarus by MAPPA 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.
2020s Year Anime Studio(s) 2021/2022(7th) 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 2022/2023(8th) Buddy Daddies P.A. Works Akiba Maid War P.A. Works Birdie Wing: Golf Girls' Story (season 2) Bandai Namco Pictures Do It Yourself!! Pine Jam The Marginal Service Studio 3Hz Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch from Mercury Sunrise 2023/2024(9th) Ninja Kamui E&H Production Bucchigiri?! MAPPA Girls Band Cry Toei Animation Jellyfish Can't Swim in the Night Doga Kobo Metallic Rouge Bones Train to the End of the World EMT Squared 2025(10th) Lazarus MAPPA Apocalypse Hotel CygamesPictures Digimon Beatbreak Toei Animation Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuuX Sunrise and Studio Khara Moonrise Wit Studio Zenshu MAPPA
Records Anime series Currently, no anime has both won and nominated in different years for an award more than once.
FranchiseWinsNominationsSeasonsBirdie Wing: Golf Girls' Story02Season 1, Season 2
Studios
StudioWinsNominationsSeasonsMAPPA13Bucchigiri?!, Lazarus, ZenshuP.A. Works2Buddy Daddies, Akiba Maid WarBandai Namco Pictures0Birdie Wing: Golf Girls' Story (Season 1, Season 2)Studio 3HzHealer Girl, The Marginal ServiceSunriseMobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuuX, Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch from MercuryToei AnimationDigimon Beatbreak, Girls Band Cry
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