The winners of the 2022 Crunchyroll Anime Awards have been announced.
Attack on Titan: The Final Season - Part 1 took home the coveted Anime of the Year award. The beginning of the end to the popular dark-fantasy series was considered by many to be the frontrunner of the competition, and also took home the awards for Best Opening Sequence and Best Antagonist. Fellow shonen juggernauts Demon Slayer: Kimetsu No Yaiba and Jujutsu Kaisen took home their fair share of awards as well, with Demon Slayer earning awards for Best Animation, Best Score, Best Ending Sequence, Best Movie and multiple awards for its voice performances, while the second-half of Jujutsu Kaisen's first season won Best Fight Scene, Best Character Designs and Best Action. The series' self-sacrificing exorcist, Nobara Kugisaki, also received the award for Best Girl. Crunchyroll released a video showcasing all of the winners.
The full list of winners is as follows:
Anime Awards 2022 Winners
Anime of the Year - Attack on Titan Final Season Part 1
Best Boy - Bojji - Ranking of Kings
Best Girl - Nobara Kugisaki - JUJUTSU KAISEN (cour 2)
Best Protagonist - Odokawa - ODDTAXI
Best Antagonist - Eren Jaeger - Attack on Titan Final Season Part 1
Best Fight Scene - Yuji Itadori & Aoi Todo VS Hanami - JUJUTSU KAISEN (cour 2)
Best Director - Baku Kinoshita - ODDTAXI
Best Animation - Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Mugen Train Arc
Best Character Design - Tadashi Hiramatsu - JUJUTSU KAISEN (cour 2)
Best Score - Yuki Kajiura and Go Shiina - Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Mugen Train Arc
Best Opening Sequence (OP) - Boku no sensou by Shinsei Kamattechan - Attack on Titan Final Season Part 1. Storyboard and Direction: Yuichiro Hayashi
Best Ending Sequence (ED) - Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Mugen Train Arc
Best Action - JUJUTSU KAISEN (cour 2)
Best Comedy - Komi Can't Communicate
Best Drama - To Your Eternity
Best Fantasy - That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime Season 2
Best Romance - Horimiya
Best Film - Demon Slayer -Kimetsu no Yaiba- The Movie: Mugen Train
Best VA Performance (Japanese) - Yuki Kaji - Eren Jaeger - Attack on Titan Final Season Part 1
Best VA Performance (English) - David Wald - Ainosuke Shindo/"ADAM" - SK8 The Infinity
Best VA Performance - (German) - René Dawn-Claude - Satoru Gojo - JUJUTSU KAISEN (cour 2)
Best VA Performance - (French) - Enzo Ratsito - Tanjiro Kamado - Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Mugen Train Arc
Best VA Performance - (Portuguese) - Léo Rabelo - Satoru Gojo - JUJUTSU KAISEN (cour 2)
Best VA Performance - (Castilian) - Marcel Navarro - Tanjiro Kamado - Demon Slayer -Kimetsu no Yaiba- The Movie: Mugen Train
Best VA Performance - (Spanish) - Irwin Daayán - Rengoku - Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba
Best VA Performance - (Russian) - Islam Gandzhaev (Ислам Ганджаев) - Tanjiro Kamado - Demon Slayer -Kimetsu no Yaiba- The Movie: Mugen Train
Notable surprises include ODDTAXI's wins for Best Protagonist and Best Director. The series about a walrus taxi driver received near unanimous critical acclaim when it was released in April, but many expected the sleeper-hit to lose in the user-voted competition against its more commercially successful competitors. Cloverwork's Horimiya took home the award for best romance, but the animation studio's other major 2021 release, Wonder Egg Priority, failed to win any awards despite being nominated in multiple categories. Wonder Egg Priority was widely lauded upon its initial premiere, but was later criticized for what many felt was a lackluster ending and a sharp drop in quality in the series' second half.
The winners of the awards were decided using a system that combined both user votes with picks from an international panel of judges. According to Crunchyroll, over 17 million fans from 200 different countries voted for their favorite shows this year, with the highest amount of votes coming in from Brazil, France, Mexico, United Kingdom and the United States, in alphabetical order.
Source: Crunchyroll
