Crunchyroll Anime Award for Best Action
| Crunchyroll Anime Award for Best Action | |
|---|---|
| Awarded for | Best action anime series of the previous year |
| Country |
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| First award | Bones — Mob Psycho 100 (2017) |
| Currently held by | A-1 Pictures — Solo Leveling (2025) |
| Most wins |
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| Most nominations |
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| Website | Crunchyroll Anime Awards |
The Crunchyroll Anime Award for Best Action is a genre-specific award given at the Crunchyroll Anime Awards since its inaugural edition in 2017. It is given for the best action anime series from the previous year. Winners are determined through a combined voting process by judges and public voting.[1]
Mob Psycho 100 by Bones first won the award in 2017.[2] In the latest edition in 2025, Solo Leveling by A-1 Pictures won the award.[3]
Winners and nominees
[edit]In the following list, the first titles listed in gold are the winners; those not in gold are nominees, which are listed in alphabetical order. The years given are those in which the ceremonies took place.
2010s
[edit]| Year | Anime | Studio(s) |
|---|---|---|
| 2016 (1st) [4][2] | ||
| Mob Psycho 100 | Bones | |
| My Hero Academia | Bones | |
| Drifters | Hoods Entertainment | |
| Kabaneri of the Iron Fortress | Wit Studio | |
| Most Popular "Other": JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Diamond is Unbreakable (season 3) | David Production | |
| 2017 (2nd) [5] | ||
| My Hero Academia (season 2) | Bones | |
| Attack on Titan (season 2) | Wit Studio | |
| Blood Blockade Battlefront & Beyond (season 2) | Bones | |
| Fate/Apocrypha | A-1 Pictures | |
| Land of the Lustrous | Orange | |
| Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans (season 2) | Sunrise |
2020s
[edit]Records
[edit]Anime series
[edit]| Franchise | Wins | Nominations | Seasons |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jujutsu Kaisen | 2 | 2 | Season 1 cour 2, Season 2 |
| Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba | 1 | 4 | Mugen Train Arc, Entertainment District Arc, Swordsmith Village Arc, Hashira Training Arc |
| My Hero Academia | 2 | Season 1, Season 2 | |
| Attack on Titan | 0 | 4 | Season 2, The Final Season Part 1, The Final Season Part 2, The Final Season The Final Chapters Special 1 |
| Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War | 2 | The Separation, The Conflict | |
| JoJo's Bizarre Adventure | Diamond is Unbreakable, Stone Ocean |
Studios
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Bones holds the record for the most wins in an anime studio.
MAPPA also holds the record for the most wins. They were also nominated six times, the most of any studio to date.
Wit Studio holds the record for the most nominations without a win in an anime studio.
MAPPA received the most wins (2) and nominations (6) for an anime studio, with Jujutsu Kaisen became the only anime to win multiple awards. Bones also won two awards; both Mob Psycho 100 and the second-season of My Hero Academia received wins for a studio. The remaining studios (A-1 Pictures and Ufotable) received a single award.
Wit Studio received the most nominations for an anime studio without a single win with 4. Attack on Titan received four nominations, but also did not win a single award.
| Studio | Wins | Nominations | Seasons |
|---|---|---|---|
| MAPPA | 2 | 6 | Attack on Titan (The Final Season Part 1, The Final Season Part 2, The Final Season The Final Chapters Special 1), Jujutsu Kaisen (Season 1 cour 2, Season 2) |
| Bones | 4 | Blood Blockade Battlefront & Beyond (Season 2), Mob Psycho 100, My Hero Academia (Season 1, Season 2) | |
| Ufotable | 1 | Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba (Mugen Train Arc, Entertainment District Arc, Swordsmith Village Arc, Hashira Training Arc) | |
| A-1 Pictures | 3 | Fate/Apocrypha, Lycoris Recoil, Solo Leveling | |
| Wit Studio | 0 | 4 | Attack on Titan (Season 2), Kabaneri of the Iron Fortress, Spy × Family, Vivy: Fluorite Eye's Song |
| CloverWorks | 3 | Spy × Family, Wind Breaker, Wonder Egg Priority | |
| David Production | 0 | JoJo's Bizarre Adventure (Diamond is Unbreakable, Stone Ocean) | |
| Pierrot | Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War (The Separation, The Conflict) | ||
| Studio Trigger | Cyberpunk: Edgerunners, SSSS.Dynazenon |
References
[edit]- ^ "Crunchyroll Anime Awards 2024: Your Ultimate Guide". December 5, 2023. Retrieved December 8, 2023.
- ^ a b "Yuri!!! on ICE Wins Anime of the Year in Crunchyroll's First-Ever Anime Awards". GlobeNewswire. January 30, 2017. Retrieved March 13, 2023.
- ^ a b Grein, Paul (May 25, 2025). "Crunchyroll Reveals 2025 Anime Awards Winners: Full List". Billboard. Tokyo. Archived from the original on May 27, 2025. Retrieved May 28, 2025.
- ^ "Anime of the Year". The Anime Awards (theanimeawards.com). Crunchyroll. Archived from the original on December 22, 2016. Retrieved March 13, 2023.
- ^ Jones, Jordan (February 25, 2018). "Crunchyroll's 2017 Anime Awards Recap and Winners". Geeks of Color. Retrieved September 9, 2023.
- ^ Schneider, Michael (January 18, 2022). "Crunchyroll Anime Awards 2022 Nominations Include '86 Eighty-Six,' 'Jujutsu Kaisen,' 'Oddtaxi' (EXCLUSIVE)". Variety. Archived from the original on March 25, 2022. Retrieved January 19, 2022.
- ^ Goslin, Austen (February 9, 2022). "Attack on Titan Final Season Part 1 wins top prize at Crunchyroll's Anime Awards". Polygon. Archived from the original on March 8, 2022. Retrieved February 9, 2022.
- ^ Eisenbeis, Richard (March 4, 2023). "All the Winners of the 7th Annual Crunchyroll Anime Awards". Anime News Network. Retrieved March 13, 2023.
- ^ Patches, Matt (March 4, 2023). "Anime Awards 2023 name Cyberpunk: Edgerunners as Anime of the Year". Polygon. Retrieved March 4, 2023.
- ^ Mateo, Alex (January 17, 2024). "Crunchyroll Anime Awards Reveals 2024 Nominees". Anime News Network. Archived from the original on January 17, 2024. Retrieved January 17, 2024.
- ^ Hazra, Adriana (March 2, 2024). "All the Winners of the Crunchyroll Anime Awards 2024". Anime News Network. Archived from the original on March 2, 2024. Retrieved March 2, 2024.
- ^ Pedersen, Erik (April 3, 2025). "Crunchyroll Anime Awards Nominations Revealed". Deadline. Archived from the original on April 3, 2025. Retrieved April 4, 2025.
