Crunchyroll Anime Awards Nominations 2022: Anime is now one of the most popular entertainment media in the world. People from various age groups regularly watch anime through different streaming services all over the world. Especially the young adults are especially drawn to these animated adaptations of the Japanese Manga series as the detailed yet zoomed-in portrayal of humans, an otherworldly vibe with lots of fantasy elements that parallel the real world appeal to them.
In competition, the Manga heroes are not any less than the American superheroes or the Manga villains, not the least inferior to the supervillains. But the main traits of anime that are the most conspicuous and help the viewers of the twenty-first century relate with the shows is the psychologically complicated stories of the heroes and even of the villains and the extreme determination, power to fight against the odds of lives. Usually, the character building in these shows tends to be very powerful. Thus anime lets us escape from the reality and also find the elements that are necessary to cope with reality.
There is big and exciting news for anime fans. Now is the time that you don’t only watch your favorite anime, but also get to support and vote for the anime you love, be it series or movie. Not only that, you can take a notable part in establishing your favorite hero or your favorite villain as the best one. Because Crunchyroll has declared its sixth annual Anime awards nominations which include series, creators, and characters. The nominations come from eight streaming platforms which are Crunchyroll, Netflix, Youtube, Hulu, Funimation, Prime Video, iTunes, and HBO Max.
38 studios are represented by nominations. Among them are OLM, Wit, MAPPA, Madhouse, P.I.C.S, A-1, CloverWorks, LIDENFILMS, TMS Entertainment, Pierrot, Pine Jam, Bones, KyoAni, White Fox, Studio Bind, Ufotable, Production I.G, Millepensee, Gonzo, Toei, A.P.P.P, Trigger, Orange, Kadokawa Pictures, Graphinica, etc.
’86 Eighty-Six’, ‘Oddtaxi’, ‘Jujutsu Kaisen’, ‘Attack on Titan Final Season Part 1’ are some key nominations for the best anime category.
15 million votes were cast last year from more than 200 countries and regions, up 35% from the previous year.
The time of voting is from January 18, Tuesday to January 25, Thursday at 5 p.m. PT. On 9th February, Wednesday, winners of the 2022 Crunchyroll Anime Awards will be declared. It can be viewed on Anime Awards website and Crunchyroll social channels. In case of a tie in any of the categories, international judges will cast their vote to decide the winner.
Vote to help your favorite anime win. But before that take a look at some of the most important categories and their nominations.
Crunchyroll Anime Awards Nominations 2022:
Anime of the Year
• 86 Eighty-Six
• Jujutsu Kaisen (Season 2)
• Attack on Titan (Final Season Part 1)
• Oddtaxi
• Sonny boy
• Ranking of kings
Best Girl
• Vladilena Milize: 86 Eighty-Six
• Nobara Honda: Jujutsu Kaisen (Season 2)
• Tohru Honda: Fruits Basket (the final season)
• Sarasa Watanabe: Kageki Shojo!!
• Ai Ohto: Wonder Egg Priority
• Shoko Komi: Komi Can’t Communicate
Best Boy
• Senku Ishigami: Dr. Stone (season 2)
• Odokawa: Oddtaxi
• Izumi Miyamura: Horimiya
• Bojji: Ranking of Kings
• Manjiro ‘Mikey’ Sano: Tokyo Revengers
• Ken ‘Draken’ Ryuguji: Tokyo Revengers
Best Protagonist
• Eren Jaeger: Attack on Titan Final
• Joe: Megalobox 2: Nomad
• Yuji Itadori: Jujutsu Kaisen (Season 2)
• Odokawa: Odditaxi
• Ai Ohto: Wonder Egg Priority
• Bojji: Ranking of King
Best Antagonist
• Eten Jaeger: Attack on Titan (final season part 1)
• Yano: Oddtaxi
• Tomura Shigaraki: My Hero Academia
• Echidna: Re:Zero- Starting Life in Another World (season 2)
• Tetta Kisaki: Tokyo Revengers
• Ainosuke Shindo: SK8 the Infinity
Best Score
• Yuki Kajiura & Go Shiina- Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Mugen Train arc
• Hiroyuki Sawano & Kohta Yamamoto: 86 Eighty- Six
• OMSB, VaVa, Punpee- Oddtaxi
• Mabanua: Megalobox 2: Nomad
• DÉ DÉ Mouse & Mito: Wonder Egg Priority
• Satoru Kosaki: Vivy- Flourite Eye’s Song
Best Drama
• Fruits Basket (the final season)
• 86 Eighty- Six
• Oddtaxi
• Kageki Shojo!!
• Wonder Egg Priority
• To Your Eternity
Best Comedy
• Heaven’s Design Team
• Don’t Toy With Me, Miss Nagatoro
• Life Lessons with Uramichi Oniisan
• Komi Can’t Communicate
• Oddtaxi
• Miss Kobayashi’s Dragon Maid S
Best Fantasy
• Rankings of Kings
• Mushoku Tensei: Jobless Reincarnation (cour 1)
• The Case Study of Vanitas
• That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime (season 2)
• Wonder Egg Priority
• To Your Eternity
Best Romance
• Fruits Basket (the final season)
• Beastars
• Horimiya
• Don’t Toy With Me, Miss Nagatoro
• The Duke of Death and His Maid
• Komi Can’t Communicate
Best Film
• Evangelion 3.0+1.0 Thrice Upon a Time
• Belle
• Josee, the Tiger and the Fish
• Demon Slayer- Kimetsu no Yaiba- The Movie: Mugen Train
• Words Bubble Up Like Soda Pop
• Shirobako the Movie
Go to the official website of Crunchyroll to vote.
