The people have spoken. Solo Leveling has taken the crown at the 2025 Crunchyroll Anime Awards.
Solo Leveling‘s first season went home with an inventory full of awards, taking home Best New Series, Best Ending Sequence, Best Action, Best Main Character, Best Score for Hiroyuki Sawano, and Best Voice Artist Performance for Aleks Le (English), Charles Emmanuel (Brazilian), and Masumi Mutsuda (Castilian Spanish).
Depending on who you ask, Solo Leveling pulled off an upset win over Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End, who took home Best Drama, Best Background Art, and Best Supporting Character for Frieren’s beloved apprentice, Fern.
Unsurprisingly, Demon Slayer‘s fourth arc, the Hashira Training Arc, was among the winners, along with the wizarding world parody, MASHLE: MAGIC AND MUSCLES. The lack of JUJUTSU KAISEN Season 2 among the winners is a notable absence, particularly considering the timing of voting and the manga’s controversial final arc.
“Fans form deep emotional connections to anime. These are not just series, films, or songs, but rather works of art that help define the identity of anime fans,” said Rahul Purini, President, Crunchyroll. “With an incredible 51 million votes this year, the 2025 Anime Awards are celebrating the creators in Japan who have captured the hearts of fans and are powering anime’s prominence in global pop culture.”
The complete list of winners:
- Anime of the Year – Solo Leveling
- Film of the Year – Look Back
- Best Original Anime – Ninja Kamui
- Best Continuing Series – Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba, Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Hashira Training Arc
- Best New Series – Solo Leveling
- Best Opening Sequence – “Otonoke” – Creepy Nuts – DAN DA DAN
- Best Ending Sequence – “request” – krage – Solo Leveling
- Best Action – Solo Leveling
- Best Comedy – MASHLE: MAGIC AND MUSCLES The Divine Visionary Candidate Exam Arc
- Best Drama – Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End
- Best Isekai Anime – Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World– Season 3
- Best Romance – Blue Box
- Best Slice of Life – Makeine: Too Many Losing Heroines!
- Best Animation – Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Hashira Training Arc
- Best Background Art – Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End
- Best Character Design – DAN DA DAN
- Best Director – Keiichiro Saito – Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End
- Best Main Character – Sung Jinwoo – Solo Leveling
- Best Supporting Character – Fern – Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End
- “Must Protect At All Cost” Character – Anya Forger – SPY × FAMILY Season 2
- Best Anime Song – “Otonoke” – Creepy Nuts – DAN DA DAN
- Best Score – Solo Leveling – Hiroyuki Sawano
- Best Japanese Voice Artist Performance – Aoi Yuki (Maomao) – The Apothecary Diaries
- Best English Voice Artist Performance – Aleks Le (Sung Jinwoo) – Solo Leveling
- Best Arabic Voice Artist Performance – Hiba Snobar (Anya Forger) – SPY × FAMILY Season 2
- Best Brazilian Portuguese Voice Artist Performance – Charles Emmanuel (Sung Jinwoo) – Solo Leveling
- Best Castilian Spanish Voice Artist Performance – Masumi Mutsuda (Sung Jinwoo) – Solo Leveling
- Best French Voice Artist Performance – Adrien Antoine (Kafka Hibino) – Kaiju No. 8
- Best German Voice Artist Performance – Daniel Schlauch (Monkey D. Luffy) – ONE PIECE
- Best Hindi Voice Artist Performance – Lohit Sharma (Satoru Gojo) – JUJUTSU KAISEN Season 2
- Best Italian Voice Artist Performance – Ilaria Pellicone (Kyomoto) – Look Back
- Best Latin Spanish Voice Artist Performance – Miguel Ángel Leal (Eren Jaeger) – Attack on Titan Final Season THE FINAL CHAPTERS Special 2
