Winner - Gaku Yashiro (33.01% of total votes)

Hey Everyone!

Voting for Crunchyroll’s inaugural Anime Awards is now open!


Over the last few weeks, you’ve had the opportunity to check out the nominees, voice your support for your favorites, and catch up on all of this years best anime that you may have missed. Now it’s time to channel your inner Simon Cowell and officially declare your picks for the best in anime in 2016. (But be nice...please.)

Head over to theanimeawards.com to vote across each of the 14 categories, and check back on January 10 to see if your favorites won.

Of course, the Anime of the Year is an extra special honor, so we will be saving that announcement for our Crunchyroll Anime Awards Party in San Francisco on January 28 - which you can attend! We’ll be sharing more information regarding the party soon, so stay tuned to see how you can celebrate an amazing year in anime with your fellow fans and the Crunchyroll team.

Go Vote!



Hey Everyone! Crunchyroll is excited to announce its first ever Anime Awards! We’re taking a look back at the best shows, characters and moments from the anime we watched and loved in 2016, and we want YOU, the passionate anime community, to join us!


Over the past few months, we’ve worked with a panel of independent judges to help select nominees for each of our 14 awards categories. On January 3rd, anime fans across the globe can vote at theanimeawards.com for their top picks. There’s plenty of time over the holidays to catch up on any of the shows you’ve missed, so you can decide who deserves to take home the awards.

We’ll announce the winners on theanimeawards.com and on Crunchyroll’s social media on January 10th - saving our biggest award, Anime of The Year, to be announced live from the Crunchyroll Anime Awards Party in San Francisco on January 28. We’ll be sharing more information regarding the party soon, so stay tuned to see how you can celebrate an amazing year in anime with your fellow fans and the Crunchyroll team.

Get over to theanimeawards.com, check out the nominees, and prepare to make anime history!

Judges:
Miranda Sanchez - Editor at IGN Entertainment
LeSean Thomas - Animation producer, director (The Boondocks & Black Dynamite), creator of Crunchyroll’s upcoming project Children of Ether
Xavier Woods - WWE superstar and known anime-lover, aka Austin Creed
Matt Schley - Otaku USA Magazine
Yomimaid - Event Chair at San Francisco Anime Festival & Cosplay
Tristan Gallant - Glass Reflection
Lauren Orsini - Otaku Journalist