
While the world of cinema has the Golden Globes and television has the Emmy Awards, the world of the Japanese anime has the crunchyroll anime Awards and the anime fans await it every year. Fans hope to see their favorite anime victory, validating these great anime on their own merits. However, fans are a little disappointed by the crunchyroll anime Awards, because they believe that these prices are biased towards the anime titles that have the most viewers, not those who have the best quality narration.
The crunchyroll anime Awards 2025 continued this trend, certain anime titles sweeping the prices while other worthy titles were left out in the cold. In particular, anime fans believe that the Mega-Hit series Solo won more prices than it should haveThis will not increase even more controversy about this already divisor anime. In some categories, it was clear that the bad winner was chosen, whether or not this winner was Solo More specifically, and five special titles certainly deserved better.
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Bleach: The thousand -year blood war had the best action
Real winner: solo leveling
Given the massive popularity of anime focused on action, the competition is always rigid for a reward category as the best action. With so much exciting action, Shonen animates floating, fans are spoiled for choices, and the best category of action was very competitive in Crunchyroll anime Awards 2025. The possible winner, SoloProbably won partly because of the massive media threw of this anime and because the animation for these fights was so stellar. Also, Solo This is exactly what many anime fans want to see, Jinwoo sung being an outsider who has become a total power trip with his OP combat style via these shadows.
Solo certainly knows what it does when the fur flies, but overall, the Javel: Blood War of a thousand years Anime deserved this victory more than Solo did. On the one hand, BleachThe current arch of the current does not mainly focus on an OP hero making a path through gratifying fights against generic fantastic monsters in dungeons. No matter how much SoloThe fights are, they are quite simple and simple at the bottom. These are only apologies for Jinwoo to train fans as a fancy self-careful power, and the fights are not creative enough or personal enough to feel worthy of a price.
On the other hand, the Javel: Blood War of a thousand years Anime reminded fans why this franchise was never part of the “Big Three” shonen to start. Rub the shoulders with legends like One piece And Naruto is not easy, but Bleach Managed with an excellent conception of weapons and characters, not to mention thematic matches. Fans will not soon forget Captain Kenpachi to overcome the powers based on Gremmy’s imagination with a force of will and Shikai, for example, and the personal fight between Bazz-B and Jugram haschwalth was a real treat as a tragic battle of the friend vs.
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Frienen: Beyond Journey’s End should have been the anime of the year
Real winner: solo leveling
Many anime fans may agree that snobs for Freeze: Beyond Journey’s End were the most blatant examples of anime prices being unfair or based too much on popularity. THE Freeze The anime has won categories like the best support character and the best background art, but this breathtaking fantastic anime deserved even more. Even if Freeze had to exchange his real victories, it would be worth it to do Freeze The winner of the anime of the year. Instead, this high distinction went to Soloone of the many examples of Solo sweep the prices 2025.

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It takes a lot to animate to demand the very coveted coat of the anime of the year. Thus, any winner of the anime of the year will certainly be launching a lot of protests and arguments, because everyone wants their own favorite to win. It is not easy to decide what the global anime of the year should be, but even so, it is quite easy for fans to say Solo was the bad winner here. Solo is good in what he does, but he always seems too narrow to be the global anime of the year. Solo is not more or less than a monster hunter anime with a main character of Power Trip with a cool attitude, and that does not seem substantial to be the best anime of the year as a whole.
This distinction belongs to Freeze: Beyond Journey’s Endwho presented a main mother -in -law character and much more. THE Freeze The quality of the anime is self-active, its charming visual and its vocal work to its OST, the novelty of the Lord’s post-sequest narrative, and above all, the emotional impact. Jinwoo’s insecuritys are now feeling a distant memory, while the Elf Fresh always feels relatable and memorable as an immortal jewel in search of significant ties with short -term people around her while she finally seeks the true sense of life.
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Apothecary newspapers presented the best main character
Real winner: solo leveling
No doubt, it is the most undeserved victory Solo Had anime prices Crunchyroll 2025. This anime deserved certain victories, such as the best score, but it was the right choice for the best main character. A good protagonist must be much more than a power trip than everyone thinks he is cool when he beats all the bad guys. Once fans of anime have beyond the funny novelty of the Jinwoo OP status and his shadow army, they will see that there are not many things to his character at the moment. There is still time for Jinwoo to continue to grow in his role as MC and to become more convincing as his inner life develops, but it would be in the future, not the present.
Instead, the best main character is someone much more humble but more engaging, it’s Maomao de Apothecary newspapers fame. You could say that the world of anime focuses too much on power levels and freshness when it decides what makes a good MC, and recent examples include not only Jinwoo sung, but also Ichigo Kurosaki and Izuku Midoriya / Deku. These are all funny action ailments, but the striking power does not make a good MC as a whole. Maomao, on the other hand, has become a memorable and delicious protagonist even if she cannot punch to save her life.
Maomao shines in each other The way, which makes it even more refreshing. She has underestimated skills but delicious as a worker of the apothecary shop and experts of poisons on plants, and the clever personality of Maoma is always fun to see. It is a magnetic anime track with its sarcastic but well -intentioned attitude and its concentration on puzzles and ingredients on emotional connections, making Maoma almost feels like a character of “crazy scientist” while not resembling “crazy scientists” like Doc Brown.

Apothecary newspapers
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October 22, 2023
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Japanese TV, Rab, TVI, YBC, JRT
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Takeo Otsuka
Jinshi (voice)
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My hero academic was the best continuous anime series
Real winner: Demon Slayer
The anime Awards recognize both a new anime and back, and for the latter, the winner was an anime who has not shot his weight in the past two years. Demon tube Harves the prize for the best series continues with its arch in the history of Hashira training, but fans could say that it is a disappointing way for an anime to win. Faithful to his name, Demon tubeThe Hashira training arch was devoted almost entirely to the new training regime that Tanjiro has gone through before preparing to face Muzan and the other upper moons. Shonen perhaps depends on the training sequences, but having a simple training arc wins a category like the best series continuously costs like a strange choice.

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This category also had other strong contenders, such as Javel: Blood War of a thousand years And One piece in the action department, to say nothing to Oshi no ko in the world of drama. Overall, My university hero More deserving the price of the most continuous series with the events of its 7th season. This season has treated fans of most of the final war, the huge highest point of all this anime of superheroes. It’s true Bleach does something similar with its own final arc, but My university heroThe 7th season had more episodes and more content than the last season of Bleach.
This season of My university hero It was an incredible gain for many conflicts and arcs of character in progress, some of its moments being the best absolute in the series. A fine example was the last emotional confrontation of Ochaco with his counterpart Himiko Toga, the latter giving his life free of charge to rekindle Ochaco as a gratitude for the praise of Ochaco of her. In addition, everything could once again have one for one in his Hercules costume, which was an amazing touch, and the anime fans are on the edge of their siege when they wait to find out if Katsuki Bakugo will survive this deadly to his chest.
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Dandadan was the best new series
Real winner: solo leveling
The best new series is another category that Solo claimed in the crunchyroll anime Awards 2025, and although Solo Absolutely deserved to be in the running, he did not have the right things to be the best new series. For all his might, Solo is always just An anime of action, not standing seriously or reinventing the formula in a memorable way. The anime relies too much on a strong animation and the self-gradual view of Jinwoo which is unleashed as a self-participation, but it is not the same for Slug.
Slug is a real breath of fresh air as a newcomer to the world of anime, mixing fantasy and Cartoon science fiction with high school hijinks, comedy and a suspicion of romance. Slug It looks like several anime at the same time, and it skillfully juggles these genres as you go. It looks more like the sum of its parts and has a wide appeal with all its varied elements. And everything that happened during his first season of 12 episodes.
Even if season 2 of Slug Must wait for the anime season for the summer of 2025 and has not been taken into account in the anime Awards, it is already clear that Slug is a force with which it is necessary to count as the best new real series. More than others animates novelty as Sakamoto Days,, Slug is a daring experience that is due to a lot of praise and recognition like the kind of thing that the animated industry needed, mainly in the kind of action in particular.