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Full list of the Crunchyroll Anime Awards 2025 Winners

May 28, 2025

The 9th annual Crunchyroll Anime Awards, held on May 25, 2025, in Tokyo, Japan, celebrated the best in Japanese animation. “Solo Leveling” was the night’s biggest winner, taking home several top honors.

  • Anime of the Year: Solo Leveling
  • Anime Film of the Year: Look Back
  • Best Original Anime: Ninja Kamuil
  • Best Continuing Series: Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Hashira Training Arc
  • Best New Series: Solo Leveling
  • Best Action: Solo Leveling
  • Best Comedy: MASHLE: MAGIC AND MUSCLES The Divine Visionary Candidate Exam Arc
  • Best Drama: Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End
  • Best Isekai Anime: Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World- Season 3
  • Best Romance: Blue Box
  • Best Slice of Life: Makeine: Too Many Losing Heroines!
  • Best Animation: Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Hashira Training Arc
  • Best Character Design: DAN DA DAN
  • Best Background Art: Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End
  • Best Director: Keiichiro Saito (Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End)
  • Best Main Character: Sung Jinwoo (Solo Leveling)
  • Best Supporting Character: Fern (Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End)
  • Must Protect At All Cost Character: Anya Forger (SPY x FAMILY Season 2)
  • Best Anime Song: “Otonoke” by Creepy Nuts (DAN DA DAN)

  • Best Opening Sequence: “Otonoke” by Creepy Nuts (DAN DA DAN)
  • Best Ending Sequence: “request” by krage (Solo Leveling)
  • Best Score: Hiroyuki Sawano (Solo Leveling)
  • Best Japanese Voice Artist Performance: Aoi Yuki (Maomao in The Apothecary Diaries)
  • Best English Voice Artist Performance: Aleks Le (Sung Jinwoo in Solo Leveling)
  • Best Arabic Voice Artist Performance: Hiba Snobar (Anya Forger in SPY x FAMILY Season 2)
  • Best Brazilian Portuguese Voice Artist Performance: Charles Emmanuel (Sung Jinwoo in Solo Leveling)
  • Best Castilian Spanish Voice Artist Performance: Masumi Mutsuda (Sung Jinwoo in Solo Leveling)
  • Best French Voice Artist Performance: Adrien Antoine (Kafka Hibino in Kaiju No. 8)
  • Best German Voice Artist Performance: Daniel Schlauch (Monkey D. Luffy in ONE PIECE)
  • Best Hindi Voice Artist Performance: Lohit Sharma (Satoru Gojo in JUJUTSU KAISEN Season 2)
  • Best Italian Voice Artist Performance: Ilaria Pellicone (Kyomoto in Look Back)
  • Best Latin Spanish Voice Artist Performance: Miguel Ángel Leal (Eren Jaeger in Attack on Titan Final Season THE FINAL CHAPTERS Special 2)
  • Global Impact Award: Attack on Titan

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Here’s the Official Trailer of Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Season 4 – Hashira Training Arc

March 13, 2024

Aniplex USA just release the official trailer of Demon Slayer Season 4 – Hashira Training Arc. Unlike the previous trailer, this one includes actual footage from the series and as expected, it’ll be an extensive training for Tanjiro, Zenitsu and Inosuke, in order to become a Hashira, the Demon Slayer Corps’ highest ranking swordsmen and members.

To the Hashira Training…
The Hashira, the Demon Slayer Corps’ highest ranking swordsmen and members. The Hashira Training has begun in order to face the forthcoming battle against Muzan Kibutsuji. Each with their own thoughts and hopes held in their hearts, a new story for Tanjiro and the Hashira begins.

The trailer also confirmed the release date of the series, which will premiere on Crunchyroll on the 12th of May. Demon Slayer Season 4: Hashira Training Arc will adapt Chapters 128 to 136 of Koyoharu Gotoge’s manga of the same name.

SPY x FAMILY cour 2 will air on October 1 with key visuals

September 1, 2022

The cour 2 of our favorite spy/assassin family anime – SPY x FAMILY, will air on October 1st, the announcement was made the official website and social accounts of the series. Key visuals was also release and new episodes will premiere starting October 1st.

Key Visuals

Spy X family follows the story of Loid Forger codename Twilight, a master spy who has to “build a family” to complete a mission, not realizing that the girl he adopts as his daughter is a telepath, and the woman he agrees to be in a marriage with is a skilled assassin.

The 12 episode cour 1 of Spy X Family was release last April 9, 2022 and available on Crunchyroll.

Trailer

Source: Crunchyroll

Sony finalizing deal to acquire Crunchyroll for $957 million

November 2, 2020

Sony is in the final stage of negotiation to acquire anime-streaming service Crunchyroll for more than 100 billion yen ($957 million). The deal once approve will combine Funimation and Crunchyroll properties to offer animes around the world.

Here’s the full report from Nikkei Asia;

TOKYO — Sony has entered into final negotiations to acquire U.S. anime-streaming service Crunchyroll, Nikkei learned on Friday, a deal that could catapult the Japanese icon into a global battle with the likes of Netflix.

Sony could end up spending more than 100 billion yen ($957 million) on the U.S. streamer, gaining its 70 million members around the world.

Sony has its own popular anime like “Kimetsu no Yaiba” (“Demon Slayer”), but has been licensing it to streaming services. Sony’s Aniplex, the studio behind “Kimetsu no Yaiba,” has a variety of content, including movies and music, that is mainly distributed by overseas companies.

If the acquisition is realized, global competition for content among companies like Netflix and Hulu will intensify.

Crunchyroll was founded in 2006 and has its headquarters in San Francisco. In 2018, AT&T, the U.S. telecommunications giant, became its parent company.

Sony recently obtained the exclusive right to negotiate for Crunchyroll.

After acquiring Funimation, an anime distributor, in 2017, Sony gained 1 million paying subscribers, mainly in the U.S., but came up against obstacles expanding this customer base.

Crunchyroll has 70 million free members and 3 million paying subscribers in more than 200 countries and regions, including the U.S. and Europe.

Crunchyroll would also give Sony more than 1,000 titles that it can use to vary its offerings.

Sony’s total operating income from games, music and movies is forecast to reach $4.79 billion for the fiscal year ending March, accounting for 60% of the group total.

The company once known for Trinitron TVs and Walkman personal stereos has grown into an entertainment colossus that plans to strengthen this side of its business by building on Crunchyroll’s membership base.

With the coronavirus convincing people around the world to entertain themselves at home, demand for video distribution services is swelling and competition for popular content is intensifying. Netflix, the largest streamer, is forming alliances with animation studios, while Disney last year took its popular library and began its own streaming service.

According to The Association of Japanese Animations, the global anime market in 2018 was worth about $21 billion, 1.5 times that of five years earlier. The overseas market accounts for nearly half of total demand.