Solo Leveling has been named as Anime of the Year at the 2025 Crunchyroll Anime Awards, which took place on May 25 in Tokyo. Meanwhile, the Film of the Year award went to Look Back.
Solo Leveling also won Best New Series, Best Main Character (Sung Jinwoo), Best Score, Best Action, Best Ending Sequence (with krage‘s “request”), and the Best Voice Performance categories for Brazilian Portuguese (Charles Emmanuel), Castilian Spanish (Masumi Mutsuda), English (Aleks Le), and French (Adrien Antoine).
The other victors are:
• Best Continuing Series — Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Hashira Training Arc
• Best Original Anime — NINJA KAMUI
• Best Animation — Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Hashira Training Arc
• Best Character Design — DAN DA DAN
• Best Director — Keiichiro Saito (Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End)
• Best Background Art — Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End
• Best Romance — Blue Box
• Best Comedy — MASHLE: MAGIC AND MUSCLES The Divine Visionary Candidate Exam Arc
• Best Isekai Anime — Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World- Season 3
• Best Drama — Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End
• Best Slice of Life — Makeine: Too Many Losing Heroines
• Best Supporting Character — Fern (Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End)
• “Must Protect At All Costs” Character — Anya Forger (SPY x FAMILY Season 2)
• Best Anime Song — Creepy Nuts’ “Otonoke” (DAN DA DAN)
• Best Voice Artist Performance (Japanese) — Aoi Yuki (The Apothecary Diaries)
• Best Voice Artist Performance (Arabic) — Hiba Snobar (SPY x FAMILY Season 2)
• Best Voice Artist Performance (French) — Adrien Antoine (Kaiju No.8)
• Best Voice Artist Performance (German) — Daniel Schlauch (ONE PIECE)
• Best Voice Artist Performance (Italian) — Ilaria Pellicone (Look Back)
• Best Voice Artist Performance (Latin Spanish) — Miguel Angel Leaf (Attack on Titan Final Season THE FINAL CHAPTERS Special 2)
• Best Voice Artist Performance (Hindi) — Lohit Sharma (JUJUTSU KAISEN Season 2)
Each category featured six nominees, which were selected by judges. The winners were then determined by votes from the judges as well as fans.
Update: Corrected Best Series to Best New Series.
Source: Crunchyroll
