Titles announced for the fifth Anime Awards!

Anime platform Crunchyroll announced the nominees and opened voting for its fifth annual Anime Awards on Friday. In addition, several series are trying to dominate the show, including BEASTARS, Great Pretender, Jujutsu Kaisen, and Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken! All received at least nine nominations each. The Great Pretender is represented in 12 categories, followed by Eizouken with 11, Jujutsu Kaisen with 10, and BEASTARS with nine. Overall, 35 different series are nominated in 18 categories.

But, still the chance to change the score, because the vote remains open until January 22nd and participants can vote every day for their favorite picks.

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Titles announced for the Anime Awards.

anime of the year

• APPARE-RANMAN!
• BEASTERS
• dorohedoro
• Great Pretender
• JUJUTSU KAISEN
• Keep your hands off Eizouken!

best girl

• Abigail Jones - Great Pretender
• Catarina Claes – My Next Life as a Villain: All Roads Lead to Destruction!
• Chizuru Mizuhara – Rent-A-Girlfriend
• Kaguya Shinomiya – Kaguya-sama: Is love war?
• Bride – Dorohedoro
• Sayaka Kanamori - Keep your hands off Eizouken!

best boy

• Voldigoad Years – The Misfit of Demon King Academy
• Caiman – Dorohedoro
• Khun Aguero Agnes – Tower of God
• Legoshi – BEASTARS
• Satoru Gojou - JUJUTSU KAISEN
• Shoyo Hinata –HAIKYU!! TO THE TOP

best protagonist

• Voldigoad Years – The Misfit of Demon King Academy
• Catarina Claes – My Next Life as a Villain: All Roads Lead to Destruction!
• Midori Asakusa - Keep your hands off 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

• BEASTERS
• Great Pretender
• JUJUTSU KAISEN
• Keep your hands off Eizouken!
• Princess Connect! Re: diving
• The God of High School

best fight scene

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

best score

• Alisa Okehazama – The God of High School
• kensuke ushio –Japan Sinks: 2020
• Kevin Penkin – Tower of God
• OORUTAICHI – Keep Your Hands Eizouken!
• Satoru Kousaki – BEASTARS
• Yutaka Yamada - Great Pretender

best director

• Hiro Kaburagi - Great Pretender
• Mamoru Hatakeyama –Kaguya-sama: Is love war?
• Masaaki Yuasa -Keep Your Hands Eizouken!
• Sunghoo Park – JUJUTSU KAISEN
• Takashi Sano – Tower of God
• Yuzuru Tachikawa –DECA-DENCE

Best Character Design

• Genice Chan and Yuusuke Yoshigaki – BNA: New Animal
• Masashi Kudoh and Miho Tanino, original story from SIU – Tower of God
• Mayuka Itou,
• Original designs by Iro Aida –Toilet-Bound Hanako-kun
• Naoyuki Asano, original designs by Sumito Oowara –Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken!
• Rumiko Takahashi and Yoshihito Hishinuma –Yashahime: Half-Demon Princess
• Yoshiyuki Sadamoto and Hirotaka Katō – Great Pretender

Best couple

• Catarina Claes and Maria Campbell-
• My next life as a villain: all roads lead to destruction!
• Chizuru Mizuhara and Kazuya Kinoshita – Rent a Girlfriend
• Kaguya Shinomiya and Miyuki Shirogane –Kaguya-sama: Is love war?
• Kotoko Iwanaga and Kuro Sakuragawa – In / Specter
• Legoshi and Haru – BEASTARS
• Nasa Yuzaki and Tsukasa Yuzaki –TONIKAWA: Over The Moon For You

Best VA (JP) performance

• Megumi Ogata as Hanako – Toilet-Bound Hanako-kun
• Mutsumi Tamura as Sayaka Kanamori -Keep Your Hands Eizouken!
• Riho Sugiyama as Minare Koda –Wave, Listen to Me!
• Yūichi Nakamura as Satoru Gojou –JUJUTSU KAISEN
• Yūsuke Kobayashi as Natsuki Subaru –Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World- (Season 2)
• Yūsuke Ōnuki as Daisuke Kambe-
• The Millionaire Detective – Balance: UNLIMITED

Best VA performance (EN)

• Aaron Phillips as Laurent Thierry – Great Pretender
• Anairis Quiñones as Echidna – Re: ZERO -Starting Life in Another World- (Season 2)
• Crispin Freeman as Ziusudra - Absolute Demon Front of Fate / Grand Order: Babylon
• 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)
• Great Pretender – GP (Yutaka Yamada)
• HAIKYU!! TO THE TOP – PHOENIX (BURNOUT SYNDROMES)
• JUJUTSU KAISEN –KAIKAI KITAN (Eve)
• Kaguya-sama: Is love war? - FATHER! FATHER! DO! Feat. Airi Suzuki (Masayuki Suzuki)
• Keep your hands off Eizouken! – Easy Breezy (chelmic)

Best Ending Sequence (ED)

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

best costume

• Ascendance 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

• BEASTERS
• Fruit Basket (Season 2)
• Great Pretender
• Japan Sinks: 2020
• SING “YESTERDAY” FOR ME
• Somali and the Spirit of the Forest

best comedy

• Kaguya-sama: Is love war?
• Kakushigoto
• Keep your hands off Eizouken!
• My next life as a villain: all roads lead to destruction!
• Sleepy Princess in Demon's Castle
• The Misfit of Demon King Academy

The Anime Awards nominees were chosen by the panel of judges at crunchyroll before voting opens on January 15th. The 2020 Anime Awards will be announced on February 19th.

About Anime Awards

But calm down, this one is for you who are a little lost on what this is about. Anime Awards are annual awards presented by the anime streaming service Crunchyroll that are given to recognize anime from the previous year. In addition, the first edition of the award was held for the first time in January 2017.