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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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Solo Leveling’s “Timely” Reference to Akira Toriyama

March 12, 2024

The world has lost one one of the legendary creators in anime, Akira Toriyama. Kids and adults all around the world enjoy the world of Dragon Ball, and fans may find themselves revisiting the anime franchise after Toriyama’s passing.

It’s no doubt that the world he created had so much influence on other anime. The latest episode of the anime adaptation of the Solo Leveling manhwa referenced Goku’s training jumps. 

In Episode 9 of Solo Leveling, Sung Jin Woo reunites with former hunters to explore a dungeon. The old friends find themselves in a tense temporary alliance with three hunter-prisoners looking to reduce their sentences. Accompanying the ex-convicts is the mysterious Kang Tae Shik from the Hunter’s Association.

A quick flashback reveals Kang Tae Shik is not only accompanying the three prisoners but is out to execute them. Two of Sung Jin Woo’s former hunter companions witness the brutal scene, but they die in the hands of Kang.

Sung Jin Woo and his two close friends discover what happened and confront Kang Tae Shik. The main character engages in a bloody knife fight with Kang, until the former has no choice but to sink into a murderous intent (wink).

The scene shows Sung Jin Woo jumping from side to side in preparation for his attack, which strongly parallels that of Goku’s battle prep against Broly in Dragon Ball Super: Broly.

While the animation had been prepared months before Toriyama’s unfortunate passing, fans can’t help reference Goku in this scene. After all, Akira Toriyama’s indelible legacy lives in Dragon Ball and in the minds of all anime fans.

But even wish-granting dragons cannot bring back a legend.

RIP Akira Toriyama.