Jujutsu Kaisen Season 2 was the big winner at Crunchyroll’s Anime Awards in Tokyo over the weekend, taking the top-prize anime of the year honor and triumphing in 10 additional categories, including best director, best character design, best action and best cinematography. The best film prize went to Mokoto Shinkai’s anime blockbuster Suzume, while Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Swordsmith Village Arc won several key categories, such as best animation and best fantasy.
The annual awards show, now in its eighth year, selects leading achievements in Japanese animation across a broad range of categories and picks the winners via a global popular vote. The show aired live on Crunchyroll, the anime specialty streamer owned by Sony Group, with a replay later released over the brand’s YouTube and Twitch channels. Japanese entertainer Jon Kabira and voice actress Sally Amaki hosted the show.
In recent editions, the event’s popularity has...
The annual awards show, now in its eighth year, selects leading achievements in Japanese animation across a broad range of categories and picks the winners via a global popular vote. The show aired live on Crunchyroll, the anime specialty streamer owned by Sony Group, with a replay later released over the brand’s YouTube and Twitch channels. Japanese entertainer Jon Kabira and voice actress Sally Amaki hosted the show.
In recent editions, the event’s popularity has...
- 3/4/2024
- by Patrick Brzeski
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Jujutsu Kaisen won Anime of the Year at the eighth annual Crunchyroll Anime Awards, which were handed out Saturday in Tokyo.
From left: Sony’s Sanford Panitch and Keith Le Goy, Crunchyroll’s Rahul Purini and Sony’s Kenichiro Yoshida
The Japanese manga series, which debuted in 2018, also won Best Action of the Year, dominated this year’s event, also winning Best Cinematography, Best Character Design, Best Director, Best Supporting Actor, Best Opening and Best Ending Sequences, plus three additional awards for Best Voice Actors in different languages.
Other winners included Demon Slayer (Kimetsu no Yaiba Swordsmith Village Arc), which collected three awards including Best Animation and Best Art Direction.
See the complete winners list below.
Celebrating the best and brightest in anime, the 2024 Anime Awards drew a record-breaking 34million votes from fans in 200 countries and territories, Crunchyroll said.
Here are the winners of the 2024 Anime Awards:
Anime of the...
From left: Sony’s Sanford Panitch and Keith Le Goy, Crunchyroll’s Rahul Purini and Sony’s Kenichiro Yoshida
The Japanese manga series, which debuted in 2018, also won Best Action of the Year, dominated this year’s event, also winning Best Cinematography, Best Character Design, Best Director, Best Supporting Actor, Best Opening and Best Ending Sequences, plus three additional awards for Best Voice Actors in different languages.
Other winners included Demon Slayer (Kimetsu no Yaiba Swordsmith Village Arc), which collected three awards including Best Animation and Best Art Direction.
See the complete winners list below.
Celebrating the best and brightest in anime, the 2024 Anime Awards drew a record-breaking 34million votes from fans in 200 countries and territories, Crunchyroll said.
Here are the winners of the 2024 Anime Awards:
Anime of the...
- 3/2/2024
- by Erik Pedersen and Caroline Frost
- Deadline Film + TV
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