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Voting for the 2021 Crunchyroll Anime Awards is open now

Nominations for the fifth annual Crunchyroll Anime Awards are now live.

Revealed today, a slew of anime series are on the hunt for some wins. Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken!, Great Pretender, JUJUTSU KAISEN, and BEASTARS have earned the most nominations this year. Other anime shows gaining multiple nominations include Tower of God, The God of High School, and season four of My Hero Academia.

You can look at the full list of nominees and check out last year’s ceremony below. To cast your votes, head here. Voting will close on January 22. You can cast your votes daily for your favorite shows. The winners will be released on February 19 at 8p.m. EST/5 p.m. PST.

Anime of the Year

Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken!

JUJUTSU KAISEN

Dorohedoro

Great Pretender

Appare-Ranman!

BEASTARS


Best Animation

Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken!

The God of High School

Great Pretender

JUJUTSU KAISEN

Princess Connect! Re: Dive

BEASTARS


Best Opening Sequence (OP)

"Easy Breezy" by chelmico - Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken!

“KAIKAIKITAN” by EVE - JUJUTSU KAISEN

“Wild Side” by ALI - BEASTARS

“G.P.” by Yutaka Yamada - Great Pretender

“Daddy Daddy Do!” by Masayuki Suzuki - Kaguya-sama: Love is War? (Season 2)

“Phoenix” by Burnout Syndromes - HAIKYU!! TO THE TOP


Best Ending Sequence (ED)

“LOST IN PARADISE” by ALI feat. AKLO - JUJUTSU KAISEN

“The Great Pretender” by Freddie Mercury - Great Pretender

“Night Running” by Shin Sakura ft AAAMYYY - BNA: Brand New Animal

“(K)NoW_NAME” by 「D.D.D.D」- Dorohedoro

“Welcome My Friend” by OKAMOTO’S - The Millionaire Detective - Balance: UNLIMITED


Best Boy

Caiman - Dorohedoro

Gojo Satoru - JUJUTSU KAISEN

Khun Aguero Agnes - Tower of God

Legoshi - BEASTARS

Anos Voldigoad - The Misfit of Demon King Academy

Shoyo Hinata - HAIKYU!! TO THE TOP


Best Girl

Sayaka Kanamori - Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken!

Chizuru Mizuhara - Rent-A-Girlfriend

Noi - Dorohedoro

Catarina Claes - My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom!

Abigail Jones - Great Pretender

Kaguya Shinomiya - Kaguya-sama: Love is War? (Season 2)

Best Score

Tower of God

Great Pretender

BEASTARS

Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken!

The God of High School

Japan Sinks: 2020


Best Performance by a Voice Actor (Japanese)

Riho Sugiyama as Minare Koda - Wave, Listen to Me!

Megumi Ogata as Hanako - Toilet-bound Hanako-kun

Yusuke Kobayashi as Natsuki Subaru - Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World- Season 2

Yuichi Nakamura as Gojo Satoru - JUJUTSU KAISEN

Mutsumi Tamura as Sayaka Kanamori - Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken!

Yuusuke Oonuki as Daisuke Kanbe - The Millionaire Detective - Balance: UNLIMITED

Best Performance by a Voice Actor (English)

Zeno Robinson as Hawks - My Hero Academia Season 4

Crispin Freeman as Ziusudra - Fate/Grand Order - Absolute Demonic Front: Babylonia

Aaron Phillips as Laurent Thierry - Great Pretender

Johnny Yong Bosch as Bam - Tower of God

Jonah Scott as Legoshi - BEASTARS

Anairis Quiñones as Echidna - Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World- Season 2

Best Director

Masaaki Yuasa - Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken!

Yuzuru Tachikawa - DECA-DENCE

Sunghoo Park - JUJUTSU KAISEN

Hiro Kaburagi - Great Pretender

Mamoru Hatakeyama - Kaguya-sama: Love is War? (Season 2)

Takashi Sano - Tower of God

Best Character Design

Naoyuki Asano, Original Designs by: Sumito Owara - Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken!

Yoshiyuki Sadamoto, Hirotaka Katou - Great Pretender

Mayuka Itou, Original Designs by: Iro Aida - Toilet-bound Hanako-kun

Genice Chan, Yuusuke Yoshigaki - BNA: Brand New Animal

Masashi Kudoh, Miho Tanino, Original Designs by: S.I.U. - Tower of God

Rumiko Takahashi, Yoshihito HIshinuma - Yashahime: Princess Half-Demon

Best Protagonist

Natsume - DECA-DENCE

Catarina Claes - My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom!

Yuji Itadori - JUJUTSU KAISEN

Anos Voldigoad - The Misfit of Demon King Academy

Shoyo HInata - HAIKYU!! TO THE TOP

Best Antagonist

En - Dorohedoro

Ryomen Sukuna - JUJUTSU KAISEN

Rachel - Tower of God

Akito Soma - Fruits Basket (Season 2)

Echidna - Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World- Season 2

Overhaul - My Hero Academia Season 4

Best Fight Scene

Gojo Satoru vs. Ryomen Sukuna - JUJUTSU KAISEN

Jin Mori vs Jegai Taek - The God of High School

Bercouli vs Emperor Vector - Sword Art Online Alicization: War of the Underworld Part 2

Deku vs Overhaul - My Hero Academia Season 4

Jin Mori vs Han Daewi - The God of High School

Brawler vs Master - Akudama Drive

Best Couple

Nasa Yuzaki and Tsukasa Yuzaki - TONIKAWA; Over the Moon For You

Kaguya Shinomiya and MIyuki Shirogane - Kaguya-sama: Love is War? (Season 2)

Legoshi and Haru - BEASTARS

Kotoko Iwanaga and Kuro Sakuragawa - In/Spectre

Catarina Claes and Maria Campbell - My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom

Chizuru Mizuhara and Kazuya Kinoshita - Rent-A-Girlfriend

Best Drama

Fruits Basket (Season 2)

Great Pretender

Japan Sinks: 2020

SING “YESTERDAY” FOR ME

BEASTARS

Somali and the Forest Spirit

Best Fantasy

Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World- Season 2

Dragon Quest The Adventure of Dai

DECA-DENCE

Ascendance of a Bookworm Part 2

Dorohedoro

Tower of God

Best Comedy

Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken!

Kaguya-sama: Love is War? (Season 2)

My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom!

Sleepy Princess in the Demon Castle

Kakushigoto

The Misfit of Demon King Academy