The nominations for Crunchyroll Anime Awards 2026 were announced on April 2, 2026. The award ceremony will take place at the Grand Prince Hotel Shin Takanawa in Tokyo on May 23. DAN DA DAN Season 2 and Gachiakutalead the nominations across different categories, including Anime of the Year, the winners of which will be presented by Asuka Saito, DANNA, RZA, Nyvi Estephan, Rashmika Mandanna, Winston Duke, and more. Fans can put their votes till April 15 on the Anime Awards official website. This year’s ceremony will host a suite of musical tributes to anime with Japanese singer Dean Fujioka opening the ceremony. Iconic rock band Pornograffitti will perform a tribute marking the 10th anniversary of the My Hero Academia anime and the show’s conclusion. Along with that, legendary rock band Asian Kung-Fu Generation will perform their beloved hit “Haruka Kanata”—the second opening theme for the seminal shounen series Naruto. Here’s a complete list of nominations: Anime of the Year DAN DA DAN Season 2 Gachiakuta My Hero Academia FINAL SEASON Takopi’s Original Sin The Apothecary Diaries (Season 2) The Summer Hikaru Died Film of the Year 100 Meters Chainsaw Man – The Movie: Reze Arc Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Infinity Castle Mononoke the Movie: Chapter II — The Ashes of Rage Scarlet The Rose of Versailles Best Original Anime Apocalypse Hotel DIGIMON BEATBREAK Lazarus Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuuX Moonrise ZENSHU Best Continuing Series DAN DA DAN Season 2 Kaiju No. 8 My Hero Academia FINAL SEASON ONE PIECE Solo Leveling Season 2 -Arise from the Shadow- SPY x FAMILY Season 3 Best New Series Clevatess Gachiakuta SAKAMOTO DAYS Takopi’s Original Sin The Fragrant Flower Blooms With Dignity The Summer Hikaru Died Best Opening Sequence “HUGs” — Paledusk — Gachiakuta “Mirage” — Creepy Nuts — Call of the Night Season 2 “On The Way” — AiNA THE END — DAN DA DAN Season 2 “ReawakeR (feat. Felix of Stray Kids)” — LiSA — Solo Leveling Season 2 -Arise from the Shadow- “THE REVO” — PORNOGRAFFITTI — My Hero Academia FINAL SEASON “Watch Me!” — YOASOBI — WITCH WATCH Best Ending Sequence “Actor” — Lilas Ikuta — SPY x FAMILY Season 3 “Beautiful Colors” — OneRepublic — Kaiju No. 8 “Doukashiteru” — WurtS — DAN DA DAN Season 2 “I” — BUMP OF CHICKEN — My Hero Academia FINAL SEASON “Kawaii Kaiwai” — PiKi — My Dress-Up Darling Season 2 “UN-APEX” — TK from Ling Tosite Sigure — Solo Leveling Season 2 -Arise from the Shadow- Best Action DAN DA DAN Season 2 Gachiakuta Kaiju No. 8 My Hero Academia FINAL SEASON ONE PIECE Solo Leveling Season 2 -Arise from the Shadow- Best Comedy CITY THE ANIMATION DAN DA DAN Season 2 My Dress-Up Darling Season 2 Ranma1/2 Season 2 SPY x FAMILY Season 3 WITCH WATCH Best Drama Anne Shirley Blue Box Orb: On the Movements of the Earth Takopi’s Original Sin The Apothecary Diaries (Season 2) The Summer Hikaru Died Best Isekai Anime Campfire Cooking in Another World with My Absurd Skill Season 2 Disney Twisted-Wonderland: The Animation — Season 1 “Episode of Heartslabyul” From Bureaucrat to Villainess: Dad’s Been Reincarnated! KONOSUBA -God’s Blessing on This Wonderful World! 3 -BONUS STAGE- Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World- Season 3 ZENSHU Best Romance Blue Box DAN DA DAN Season 2 Honey Lemon Soda My Dress-Up Darling Season 2 Ranma1/2 Season 2 The Fragrant Flower Blooms With Dignity Best Slice of Life Anne Shirley Blue Box CITY THE ANIMATION My Dress-Up Darling Season 2 SPY x FAMILY Season 3 The Fragrant Flower Blooms With Dignity Best Animation DAN DA DAN Season 2 Gachiakuta My Hero Academia FINAL SEASON ONE PIECE Solo Leveling Season 2 -Arise from the Shadow- Takopi’s Original Sin Best Background Art CITY THE ANIMATION DAN DA DAN Season 2 Gachiakuta Kowloon Generic Romance The Apothecary Diaries (Season 2) The Summer Hikaru Died Best Character Design DAN DA DAN Season 2 Gachiakuta My Dress-Up Darling Season 2 ONE PIECE Takopi’s Original Sin The Apothecary Diaries (Season 2) Best Director Akinori Fudesaka, Norihiro Naganuma — The Apothecary Diaries (Season 2) Fuga Yamashiro, Abel Góngora — DAN DA DAN Season 2 Fumihiko Suganuma — Gachiakuta Kenji Nagasaki, Naomi Nakayama — My Hero Academia FINAL SEASON Ryohei Takeshita — The Summer Hikaru Died Shinya Iino — Takopi’s Original Sin Best Main Character Izuku Midoriya — My Hero Academia FINAL SEASON Maomao — The Apothecary Diaries (Season 2) Momo — DAN DA DAN Season 2 Okarun — DAN DA DAN Season 2 Rudo — Gachiakuta Sung Jinwoo — Solo Leveling Season 2 -Arise from the Shadow- Best Supporting Character Enjin — Gachiakuta Jin Enjoji (Jiji) — DAN DA DAN Season 2 Jinshi — The Apothecary Diaries (Season 2) Katsuki Bakugo — My Hero Academia FINAL SEASON Loulan/Shisui — The Apothecary Diaries (Season 2) Turbo Granny — DAN DA DAN Season 2 “Must Protect At All Cost” Character Anya Forger — SPY x FAMILY Season 3 Izuku Midoriya — My Hero Academia FINAL SEASON Kaoruko Waguri — The Fragrant Flower Blooms With Dignity Maomao — The Apothecary Diaries (Season 2) Suika — Dr. STONE SCIENCE FUTURE Takopi — Takopi’s Original Sin Best Anime Song “In Bloom” — Lilas Ikuta — The Apothecary Diaries (Season 2) “IRIS OUT” — Kenshi Yonezu — Chainsaw Man – The Movie: Reze Arc “JANE DOE” — Kenshi Yonezu, Hikaru Utada — Chainsaw Man – The Movie: Reze Arc “On The Way” — AiNA THE END — DAN DA DAN Season 2 “ReawakeR (feat. Felix of Stray Kids)” — LiSA — Solo Leveling Season 2 -Arise from the Shadow- “Watch Me!” — YOASOBI — WITCH WATCH Best Score kensuke ushio — Chainsaw Man – The Movie: Reze Arc kensuke ushio — DAN DA DAN Season 2 Yuki Kajiura, Go Shiina — Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Infinity Castle Taku Iwasaki — Gachiakuta Hiroyuki Sawano — Solo Leveling Season 2 -Arise from the Shadow- Satoru Kosaki, Kevin Penkin, Alisa Okehazama — The Apothecary Diaries (Season 2) Best Voice Artist Performance (Japanese) Aoi Yuki — Maomao — The Apothecary Diaries (Season 2) Chiaki Kobayashi — Yoshiki Tsujinaka — The Summer Hikaru Died Daiki Yamashita — Izuku Midoriya — My Hero Academia FINAL SEASON Kikunosuke Toya — Denji — Chainsaw Man – The Movie: Reze Arc Mayumi Tanaka — Monkey D. Luffy — ONE PIECE Reina Ueda — Reze — Chainsaw Man – The Movie: Reze Arc Best Voice Artist Performance (English) Alexis Tipton — Reze — Chainsaw Man – The Movie: Reze Arc Emi Lo — Maomao — The Apothecary Diaries (Season 2) Justin Briner — Izuku Midoriya — My Hero Academia FINAL SEASON Lucien Dodge — Akaza — Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Infinity Castle Morgan Berry — Shiori Fuyumura — SANDA Paul Castro Jr. — Hikaru Indou — The Summer Hikaru Died Best Voice Artist Performance (Arabic) Hamoud Abu Hassoun — Loid Forger (Childhood) — SPY x FAMILY Season 3 Tariq Obaid — Taro Sakamoto — SAKAMOTO DAYS Moataz El-Shazly — Heisuke Mashimo — SAKAMOTO DAYS Raafat Bazo — Yuri Briar — SPY x FAMILY Season 3 Fatima Zakaria — Osaragi — SAKAMOTO DAYS Ghada Omar — Yor Forger — SPY x FAMILY Season 3 Best Voice Artist Performance (Brazilian Portuguese) Bruno Sangregório — Levi Ackerman — Attack on Titan: THE LAST ATTACK Charles Emmanuel — Akaza — Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Infinity Castle Erick Bougleux — Zanka Nijiku — Gachiakuta Fabio Lucindo — Katsuki Bakugo — My Hero Academia FINAL SEASON Gigi Patta — Maomao — The Apothecary Diaries (Season 2) Ursula Bezerra — Son Goku — Dragon Ball DAIMA Best Voice Artist Performance (Castilian Spanish) Adrián Pineda — Rudo — Gachiakuta Carles Teruel — Akaza — Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Infinity Castle Cristina Peña — Reze — Chainsaw Man – The Movie: Reze Arc Joel Gómez Jiménez — Okarun — DAN DA DAN Season 2 Marisa Marciel — Nami — ONE PIECE Marta Barbará — Kaoruko Waguri — The Fragrant Flower Blooms With Dignity Best Voice Artist Performance (French) Bastien Bourlé — Izuku Midoriya — My Hero Academia FINAL SEASON Bruno Mullenaerts — Enjin — Gachiakuta Catherine Hanotiau — Nico Wakatsuki — WITCH WATCH Clara Soares — Reze — Chainsaw Man – The Movie: Reze Arc Jonathan Gimbord — Hikaru — The Summer Hikaru Died Véronique Augereau — Seiko — DAN DA DAN Season 2 Best Voice Artist Performance (German) Dirk Bublies — Kogoro Mori — Detective Conan: One-eyed Flashback Gerrit Schmidt-Foß — Akaza — Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Infinity Castle Laurine Betz — Reze — Chainsaw Man – The Movie: Reze Arc Magdalena Höfner — Kiui Watase — Jellyfish Can’t Swim in the Night Markus Feustel — Rudo — Gachiakuta Patricia Strasburger — Nico Wakatsuki — WITCH WATCH Best Voice Artist Performance (Hindi) Abhishek Sharma — Jinshi — The Apothecary Diaries (Season 2) Akshita Mishra — Koyuki — Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Infinity Castle Heena Malik — Reze — Chainsaw Man – The Movie: Reze Arc Merlyn James — Anya Forger — SPY x FAMILY Season 3 Rajesh Shukla — Sung Jinwoo — Solo Leveling Season 2 -Arise from the Shadow- Shilpie Pandey — Lufas Maphaahl — A Wild Last Boss Appeared! Best Voice Artist Performance (Italian) Katia Sorrentino — Momo — DAN DA DAN Season 2 Leonardo Graziano — Naruto Uzumaki — BORUTO: NARUTO THE MOVIE Luna Fogu — Maomao — The Apothecary Diaries (Season 2) Martina Tamburello — Kikoru Shinomiya — Kaiju No. 8 Mosè Singh — Denji — Chainsaw Man – The Movie: Reze Arc Simone Lupinacci — Izuku Midoriya — My Hero Academia FINAL SEASON Best Voice Artist Performance (Latin Spanish) Desireé González — Maomao — The Apothecary Diaries (Season 2) Dion González — Rudo — Gachiakuta Erika Langarica — Marin Kitagawa — My Dress-Up Darling Season 2 Fernando Moctezuma — Sung Jinwoo — Solo Leveling Season 2 -Arise from the Shadow- Jessica Ángeles — Reze — Chainsaw Man – The Movie: Reze Arc Jose Antonio Toledano — Akaza — Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Infinity Castle Share this: Click to share on WhatsApp (Opens in new window) WhatsApp Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on Threads (Opens in new window) Threads Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Telegram (Opens in new window) Telegram Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window) LinkedIn Click to share on Pinterest (Opens in new window) Pinterest Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Email More Click to print (Opens in new window) Print Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window) Reddit Click to share on Tumblr (Opens in new window) Tumblr Click to share on Pocket (Opens in new window) Pocket Click to share on Mastodon (Opens in new window) Mastodon Click to share on Nextdoor (Opens in new window) Nextdoor Click to share on Bluesky (Opens in new window) Bluesky Like this:Like Loading... 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