The 8th Crunchyroll Anime Awards were held at the Main Banquet Hall of the Grand Prince Hotel New Takanawa in Tokyo, Japan. This edition featured 32 categories honoring anime released from October 2022 to September 2023. The ceremony was streamed live by Crunchyroll on YouTube and Twitch. Sally Amaki and Jon Kabira hosted the ceremony for the second time, after doing so in the previous ceremony.
Winners and nominees Chainsaw Man received the most nominations with a record 25, followed by Jujutsu Kaisen at 17, and Oshi no Ko and Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba at 12. The Anime of the Year contenders include previous winners Jujutsu Kaisen, Attack on Titan, and Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba. MAPPA is the most represented animation studio, with five series nominated in various categories, including a record three series for the top prize. One Piece was nominated again for Best Continuing Series after it won the award previously, along with Attack on Titan and Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba. Birdie Wing: Golf Girls' Story was nominated again for Best Original Anime, while Best Animation saw previous contenders and winners Attack on Titan, Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba, Jujutsu Kaisen, and Mob Psycho 100. Akira Matsushima received a nomination for Best Character Design for Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba again, after winning it in the last edition. Yuichiro Hayashi was nominated again for Best Director for his work on Attack on Titan. Hiroyuki Sawano and Kohta Yamamoto was nominated again for Best Score, along with Yuki Kajiura and Go Shiina for Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba. Atsumi Tanezaki and Yuki Kaji were nominated again for Best VA Performance (Japanese) for Anya Forger and Eren Jaeger respectively.
Among genre categories, Spy × Family was nominated again for Best Comedy, and Attack on Titan, Jujutsu Kaisen, and Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba for Best Action. Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba was also nominated again for Best Fantasy, along with Mushoku Tensei: Jobless Reincarnation and Ranking of Kings. Attack on Titan was nominated again as well for Best Drama. For character categories, Eren Jaeger and Shigeo "Mob" Kageyama were nominated for Best Main Character again, while Hitori "Bocchi" Gotoh was nominated for both Best Main Character and "Must Protect at All Costs" Character. Two characters from Jujutsu Kaisen, Satoru Gojo and Suguru Geto, was nominated for Best Supporting Character, while Anya Forger of Spy × Family and Bojji of Ranking of Kings were nominated again for "Must Protect at All Costs" Character. Four anime songs nominated for Best Anime Song were nominated for Best Opening Sequence as well: "Idol" by Yoasobi, "Kick Back" by Kenshi Yonezu, "Where Our Blue Is" by Tatsuya Kitani, and "Work" by Ringo Sheena and Millennium Parade. Both the opening and ending themes for Oshi no Ko, Jujutsu Kaisen, Chainsaw Man, and Zom 100: Bucket List of the Dead were nominated in their respective categories.
Awards The second season of Jujutsu Kaisen won 11 awards, including Anime of the Year, which previously won in 2020, becoming the first anime to win multiple top prizes. The season also surpassed the second season of My Hero Academia (eight from the second edition in 2018) as the most awarded anime in awards history. Its director, Shōta Goshozono, won Best Director. Additionally, the series won the inaugural award for Best Cinematography. Suzume won Best Film; the award was received by its director Makoto Shinkai. One Piece and Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba won again the awards for Best Continuing Series and Best Animation respectively. Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba also won the inaugural award for Best Art Direction. Chainsaw Man won Best New Series, while Buddy Daddies won Best Original Anime. Jujutsu Kaisen, Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba, Horimiya: The Missing Pieces, Spy × Family, Bocchi the Rock!, and Attack on Titan won the genre awards for Best Action, Best Fantasy, Best Romance, Best Comedy, Best Slice of Life, and Best Drama respectively.
Monkey D. Luffy of One Piece won Best Main Character, while Satoru Gojo of Jujutsu Kaisen won Best Supporting Character. Anya Forger won the "Must Protect at All Costs" Character award again. Meanwhile, both the opening and ending sequences of Jujutsu Kaisen, "Where Our Blue Is" by Tatsuya Kitani and "Akari" by Soushi Sakiyama, won the awards for Best Opening Sequence and Best Ending Sequence respectively. "Idol" by Yoasobi won Best Anime Song while Kohta Yamamoto and Hiroyuki Sawano won Best Score for their work on the first special in the final season of Attack on Titan. Yuichi Nakamura won Best Voice Acting (Japanese) for his work as Satoru Gojo in Jujutsu Kaisen, while Ryan Colt Levy won Best Voice Acting (English) for his work as Denji in Chainsaw Man.
Jujutsu Kaisen (season 2) — MAPPA Bocchi the Rock! — CloverWorks Chainsaw Man — MAPPA Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Swordsmith Village Arc — Ufotable Oshi no Ko — Doga Kobo Vinland Saga (season 2) — MAPPA | style="vertical-align:top; width:50%;" |
Suzume — CoMix Wave Films Black Clover: Sword of the Wizard King — Pierrot Blue Giant — NUT The First Slam Dunk — Toei Animation and DandeLion Animation Studio Kaguya-sama: Love Is War – The First Kiss That Never Ends — A-1 Pictures Psycho-Pass Providence — Production I.G |- | style="vertical-align:top; width:50%;" |
One Piece — Toei Animation Attack on Titan: The Final Season The Final Chapters Special 1 — MAPPA Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Swordsmith Village Arc — Ufotable Jujutsu Kaisen (season 2) — MAPPA Spy × Family (season 1 cour 2) — Wit Studio and CloverWorks Vinland Saga (season 2) — MAPPA | style="vertical-align:top; width:50%;" |
Chainsaw Man — MAPPA Bocchi the Rock! — CloverWorks Heavenly Delusion — Production I.G Hell's Paradise — MAPPA Oshi no Ko — Doga Kobo Zom 100: Bucket List of the Dead — Bug Films |- | style="vertical-align:top; width:50%;" |
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 — Bandai Namco Filmworks | style="vertical-align:top; width:50%;" |
Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Swordsmith Village Arc — Ufotable Attack on Titan: The Final Season The Final Chapters Special 1 — MAPPA Chainsaw Man — MAPPA Jujutsu Kaisen (season 2) — MAPPA Mob Psycho 100 III (season 3) — Bones Trigun Stampede — Orange |- | style="vertical-align:top; width:50%;" |
Sayaka Koiso and Tadashi Hiramatsu, original designs by Gege Akutami — Jujutsu Kaisen (season 2) Akira Matsushima, original designs by Koyoharu Gotouge — Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Swordsmith Village Arc Kanna Hirayama, original designs by Mengo Yokoyari — Oshi no Ko Kazutaka Sugiyama, original designs by Tatsuki Fujimoto — Chainsaw Man Kouji Hisaki, original designs by Yuji Kaku — Hell's Paradise Kouji Tajima — Trigun Stampede | style="vertical-align:top; width:50%;" |
Shōta Goshozono — Jujutsu Kaisen (season 2) Daisuke Hiramaki — Oshi no Ko Hirotaka Mori — Heavenly Delusion Keiichirō Saitō — Bocchi the Rock! Ryu Nakayama — Chainsaw Man Yuichiro Hayashi — Attack on Titan: The Final Season The Final Chapters Special 1 |- | style="vertical-align:top; width:50%;" |
Teppei Ito — Jujutsu Kaisen (season 2) Hisashi Matsumuko and Yuki Kawashita — Vinland Saga (season 2) Kentaro Waki — Heavenly Delusion Shigeki Asakawa — Attack on Titan: The Final Season The Final Chapters Special 1 Teppei Ito — Chainsaw Man Yuichi Terao — Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Swordsmith Village Arc | style="vertical-align:top; width:50%;" |
Koji Eto — Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Swordsmith Village Arc e-caesar — Hell's Paradise Junichi Higashi — Jujutsu Kaisen (season 2) Taketo Gonpei — Zom 100: Bucket List of the Dead Tetsuya Usami — Oshi no Ko Yusuke Takeda — Chainsaw Man Jujutsu Kaisen (season 2) — MAPPA Attack on Titan: The Final Season The Final Chapters Special 1 — MAPPA Bleach: Thousand Year Blood War — The Separation — Pierrot Chainsaw Man — MAPPA Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Swordsmith Village Arc — Ufotable One Piece — Toei Animation | style="vertical-align:top; width:50%;" |
Spy × Family (season 1 cour 2) — Wit Studio and CloverWorks Bocchi the Rock! — CloverWorks Buddy Daddies — P.A. Works Mashle: Magic and Muscles — A-1 Pictures Urusei Yatsura — David Production Zom 100: Bucket List of the Dead — Bug Films |- | style="vertical-align:top; width:50%;" |
Attack on Titan: The Final Season The Final Chapters Special 1 — MAPPA Heavenly Delusion — Production I.G My Happy Marriage — Kinema Citrus Oshi no Ko — Doga Kobo To Your Eternity (season 2) — Drive Vinland Saga (season 2) — MAPPA | style="vertical-align:top; width:50%;" |
Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Swordsmith Village Arc — Ufotable Hell's Paradise — MAPPA Mashle: Magic and Muscles — A-1 Pictures Mushoku Tensei: Jobless Reincarnation (season 2) — Studio Bind Ranking of Kings: The Treasure Chest of Courage — Wit Studio The Ancient Magus' Bride (season 2) — Studio Kafka |- | style="vertical-align:top; width:50%;" |
Horimiya: The Missing Pieces — Cloverworks Insomniacs After School — Liden Films My Happy Marriage — Kinema Citrus My Love Story with Yamada-kun at Lv999 — Madhouse Skip and Loafer — P.A. Works Tomo-chan Is a Girl! — Lay-duce | style="vertical-align:top; width:50%;" |
Bocchi the Rock! — CloverWorks Do It Yourself!! — Pine Jam Horimiya: The Missing Pieces — CloverWorks Insomniacs After School — Liden Films My Love Story with Yamada-kun at Lv999 — Madhouse Skip and Loafer — P.A. Works |- | style="vertical-align:top; width:50%;" |
Monkey D. Luffy — One Piece Denji — Chainsaw Man Eren Jaeger — Attack on Titan: The Final Season The Final Chapters Special 1 Hitori "Bocchi" Gotoh — Bocchi the Rock! Shigeo "Mob" Kageyama — Mob Psycho 100 III (season 3) Thorfinn — Vinland Saga (season 2) Satoru Gojo — Jujutsu Kaisen (season 2) Arataka Reigen — Mob Psycho 100 III (season 3) Zoë Hange — Attack on Titan: The Final Season The Final Chapters Special 1 Kana Arima — Oshi no Ko Power — Chainsaw Man Suguru Geto — Jujutsu Kaisen (season 2) Anya Forger — Spy × Family (season 1 cour 2) Bojji — Ranking of Kings: The Treasure Chest of Courage Hitori "Bocchi" Gotoh — Bocchi the Rock! Miri Unasaka — Buddy Daddies Pochita — Chainsaw Man Suletta Mercury — Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch from Mercury "Idol" by Yoasobi — Oshi no Ko "Kick Back" by Kenshi Yonezu — Chainsaw Man "Seishun Complex" by Kessoku Band — Bocchi the Rock! "Suzume" by Radwimps feat. Toaka — Suzume "Where Our Blue Is" by Tatsuya Kitani — Jujutsu Kaisen (season 2) "Work" by Ringo Sheena and Millenium Parade — Hell's Paradise Hiroyuki Sawano and Kohta Yamamoto — Attack on Titan: The Final Season The Final Chapters Special 1 Kensuke Ushio — Chainsaw Man Radwimps and Kazuma Jinnouchi — Suzume Takuro Iga — Oshi no Ko Tomoki Kikuya — Bocchi the Rock! Yuki Kajiura and Go Shiina — Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Swordsmith Village Arc "Where Our Blue Is" by Tatsuya Kitani, storyboard and direction by Yuki Kamiya — Jujutsu Kaisen (season 2) "Idol" by Yoasobi, storyboard and direction by Yusuke Yamamoto — Oshi no Ko "Innocent Arrogance" by Bish, storyboard and direction by Weilin Zhang — Heavenly Delusion "Kick Back" by Kenshi Yonezu, storyboard and direction by Shingo Yamashita — Chainsaw Man "Song of the Dead" by Kana-Boon, storyboard and direction by Kazuki Kawagoe — Zom 100: Bucket List of the Dead "Work" by Ringo Sheena and Millennium Parade, storyboard and direction by Kamata — Hell's Paradise "Akari" by Soushi Sakiyama, storyboard and direction by Yojiro Arai — Jujutsu Kaisen (season 2) "Color" by Yama, storyboard and direction by Takayuki Hirao — Spy × Family (season 1 cour 2)