In what is a surprising result for many anime fans, Solo Leveling took home the top prize at the Crunchyroll Anime Awards 2025.
The awards ceremony happened in Tokyo yesterday, May 25, and it features an array of notable presenters and exciting musical performances. Fitting, especially given that this awards event was huge. After all, the awards got a record 51 million votes cast by fans worldwide via the Anime Awards website.
The big winner of the event is no doubt Solo Leveling, as the anime took home nine awards, including Anime of the Year. Other big winners include Frieren and Dandadan, with four and three awards, respectively.
Here’s a rundown of all the 2025 Anime Awards 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
If you ask many anime fans active in online communities, chances are that Frieren or Dandadan are their predicted winners. As such, it’s a bit of a surprise to see Solo Leveling take the win. This makes sense though when you consider how hugely popular the series is. Thus, it’s likely that the fan vote helped the anime to take home nine awards at the ceremony.