Crunchyroll Announces 2020 Anime Awards Nominees



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2020 has been a strange year for the anime. Some shows were delayed and released months after they were supposed to, and others were pushed back to 2021. But even with all the complications, last year still had a lot of standout animated series. To celebrate all the best anime 2020 had to offer, Crunchyroll is once again hosting its annual Anime Awards.

The anime streaming service, which was recently acquired by Sony, announced its nominees on Friday and it features many of the year’s most popular shows, including Jujutsu kaisen, Keep your hands on Eizouken!, Dorohedoro and even Beaststars. This year’s winners will be chosen in part by fan votes. Fans can vote daily on the anime awards website. Voting will open on Friday January 15 and close a week later on January 22.

The prizes themselves will take place on February 19, when all winners will be announced. For a full rundown of the 2020 nominees, you can check out the official Crunchyroll Anime Awards website.


Anime of the year

  • RANMAN APPARATUS!
  • THE BEASTARS
  • Dorohedoro
  • Good pretender
  • JUJUTSU KAISEN
  • Keep your hands on Eizouken!

Best girl

  • Abigail Jones – Great Contender
  • Catarina Claes – My Next Villainous Life: All Roads Lead to Doom!
  • Chizuru Mizuhara – Hire a Girlfriend
  • Kaguya Shinomiya – Kaguya-sama: Love is war?
  • Noi – Dorohedoro
  • Sayaka Kanamori – Keep your hands away from Eizouken!

Best boy

  • Anos Voldigoad – The Misfit of Demon King Academy: The most powerful demon king in history reincarnates and goes to school with his descendants
  • Caiman – Dorohedoro
  • Khun Aguero Agnes – Tower of God
  • Legoshi – BEASTARS
  • Satoru Gojou – JUJUTSU KAISEN
  • Shoyo Hinata –HAIKYU !! TO THE TOP

Best protagonist

  • Anos Voldigoad – The Misfit of Demon King Academy: The most powerful demon king in history reincarnates and goes to school with his descendants
  • Catarina Claes – My Next Life as a Villain: All Roads Lead to Doom!
  • Midori Asakusa – Keep your hands away from Eizouken!
  • Natsume – DECA-DENCE
  • Shoyo Hinata –HAIKYU !! TO THE TOP
  • Yuuji Itadori – JUJUTSU KAISEN

Best Antagonist

  • Akito Soma – Fruit Basket (Season 2)
  • Echidna – Re: ZERO – Starting Life in Another World – (Season 2)
  • In –Dorohedoro
  • Review – My Hero Academia Season 4
  • Rachel – Tower of God
  • Ryoumen Sukuna – JUJUTSU KAISEN

Best animation

  • THE BEASTARS
  • Good pretender
  • JUJUTSU KAISEN
  • Keep your hands on Eizouken!
  • Princess Connect! Re: diving
  • The high school god

Best fight scene

  • Bercouli vs Dark God Vecta – Online Alicization of Sword Art: Hells War Part 2
  • Brawler vs. Master – Akudama Drive
  • Deku vs Overhaul – My Hero Academia Season 4
  • Jin Mori vs. Han Daewi – The High School God
  • Jin Mori vs. Jegal Taek – The High School God
  • Satoru Gojou vs. Ryoumen Sukuna – JUJUTSU KAISEN

Best score

  • Alisa Okehazama – The High School God
  • Kensuke Ushio – Sinks from Japan: 2020
  • Kevin Penkin – Tower of God
  • OORUTAICHI – Keep your hands away from Eizouken!
  • Satoru Kousaki – BEASTARS
  • Yutaka Yamada – Grand Pretender

Best director

  • Hiro Kaburagi – Grand suitor
  • Mamoru Hatakeyama –Kaguya-sama: Love is war?
  • Masaaki Yuasa – Keep your hands away from Eizouken!
  • Sunghoo Park –JUJUTSU KAISEN
  • Takashi Sano – Tower of God
  • Yuzuru Tachikawa – DECA-DENCE

Best character design

  • Genice Chan and Yuusuke Yoshigaki – BNA: all new animal
  • Masashi Kudoh and Miho Tanino, Original SIU Story – Tower of God
  • Mayuka Itou, Original drawings by Iro Aida – Hanako-kun in the toilet
  • Naoyuki Asano, original drawings by Sumito Oowara – Keep your hands away from Eizouken!
  • Rumiko Takahashi and Yoshihito Hishinuma – Yashahime: Half-Demon Princess
  • Yoshiyuki Sadamoto and Hirotaka Katou – Grand suitor

Best couple

  • Catarina Claes & Maria Campbell – My Next Villainous Life: All Roads Lead to Doom!
  • Chizuru Mizuhara & Kazuya Kinoshita – Hire a Girlfriend
  • Kaguya Shinomiya & Miyuki Shirogane –Kaguya-sama: Love is war?
  • Kotoko Iwanaga and Kuro Sakuragawa – In / Specter
  • Legoshi and Haru – BEASTARS
  • Nasa Yuzaki & Tsukasa Yuzaki – TONIKAWA: Over The Moon For You

Better VA performance (JP)

  • Megumi Ogata as Hanako – Hanako-kun bound to the toilet
  • Mutsumi Tamura as Sayaka Kanamori – Keep your hands away from Eizouken!
  • Riho Sugiyama as Minare Koda – Onde, listen to me!
  • Yuichi Nakamura as Satoru Gojou –JUJUTSU KAISEN
  • Yusuke Kobayashi as Natsuki Subaru – Re: ZERO -Starting Life in Another World- (Season 2)
  • Yusuke Onuki as Daisuke Kambe – The Millionaire Detective – Balance: UNLIMITED

Best VA Performance (EN)

  • Aaron Phillips as Laurent Thierry – Great Pretender
  • Anairis QuiƱones as Echidna – Re: ZERO -Starting Life in Another World- (Season 2)
  • Crispin Freeman as Ziusudra – Fate / Grand Order Absolute Demonic Front: Babylonia
  • Johnny Yong Bosch as Bam – Tower of God
  • Jonah Scott as Legoshi – BEASTARS
  • Zeno Robinson as Hawks – My Hero Academia Season 4

Best opening sequence (OP)

  • BEASTARS – Wild Side (ALI)
  • Grand Pretender – GP (Yutaka Yamada)
  • HAIKYU !! TOP – PHOENIX (BURN SYNDROMES)
  • JUJUTSU KAISEN –KAIKAI KITAN (Eve)
  • Kaguya-sama: Love is war? – DAD! DAD! MAKE! feat. Airi Suzuki (Masayuki Suzuki)
  • Keep your hands on Eizouken! – Easy Breezy (chelmico)

Best End Sequence (ED)

  • BNA: Brand New Animal – NIGHT RUNNING (Shin Sakura ft AAAMYYY)
  • Dorohedoro – DDDD ((K) NoW_NAME)
  • Great Suitor – The Great Suitor (Freddie Mercury)
  • In / Specter – LAST DANCE (Mamoru Miyano)
  • JUJUTSU KAISEN – LOST IN PARADISE (ALI feat. AKLO)
  • The Millionaire Detective – Balance: UNLIMITED – Welcome My Friend (OKAMOTO’S)

Best fantasy

  • Ancestry of a bookworm, part 2
  • DECADENCE
  • Dorohedoro
  • Dragon Quest Dai’s Adventure
  • Re: ZERO – Starting Life in Another World – (Season 2)
  • Tower of God

Best drama

  • THE BEASTARS
  • Fruit basket (Season 2)
  • Good pretender
  • Japan sinks: 2020
  • SING “YESTERDAY” FOR ME
  • Somali and the spirit of the forest

Best comedy

  • Kaguya-sama: Love is war?
  • Kakushigoto
  • Keep your hands on Eizouken!
  • My Next Villainous Life: All Roads Lead to Doom!
  • Princess asleep in the castle of demons
  • The Misfit of Demon King Academy: The most powerful demon king in history reincarnates and goes to school with his descendants

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