What Happened at the 2020 Anime Awards?

2020 Anime Awards

The 2020 Anime Awards on Crunchyroll have just wrapped up and we’ve now got our winners for the following categories: Anime of the Year, Best Protagonist, Best Antagonist, Best Boy, Best Girl, Best Opening Sequence, Best Ending Sequence, Best VA Performance (JP), Best VA Performance (EN), Best Director, Best Animation, Best Character Design, Best Fight Scene, Best Drama, Best Comedy, Best Score, Best Couple, and Best Fantasy. These categories are the same every year at the Anime Awards. So who won for each of these categories at the Crunchyroll Anime Awards? Find out next time on Dragon Ball Z! Just kidding, keep reading and I’ll list all of the winners for the 2020 Anime Awards. (I’m so sorry for the Dragon Ball joke, please keep reading my articles.)

Best Protagonist Nominees

Natsume (Deca-Dence)
Yuji Iradori (Jujutsu Kaisen)
Midori Asakua (Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken!)
Catarina Claes (My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom!) WINNER
Anos Voldigoad (The Misfit of Demon King Academy: History’s Strongest Demon King Reincarnates and Goes to School with His Descendants)
Shoyo Hinata (Haikyu!! To The Top)

Best Antagonist Nominees

En (Dorohedoro)
Rachel (Tower of God)
Echidna (Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World- Season 2)
Ryomen Sukuna (Jujutsu Kaisen) WINNER
Akito Soma (Fruits Basket Season 2)
Overhaul (My Hero Academia Season 4)

Best Boy Nominees

Caimen (Dorohedoro)
Khun Aguero Agnes (Tower of God)
Anos Voldigoad (The Misfit of Demon King Academy: History’s Strongest Demon King Reincarnates and Goes to School with His Descendants)
Satoru Gojo (Jujutsu Kaisen)
Legoshi (Beastars)
Shoyo Hinata (Haikyu!! To The Top) WINNER

Best Girl Nominees

Sayaka Kanamori (Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken!)
Noi (Dorohedoro)
Abigail Jones (Great Pretender)
Chizuru Mizuhara (Rent-a-Girlfriend)
Catarina Claes (My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom!)
Kaguya Shinomiya (Kaguya-sama: Love is War?) WINNER

Best Opening Sequence Nominees

Easy Breezy (Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken!)
Wild Side (Beastars) WINNER
DADDY DADDY! DO! feat. Airi Suzuki (Kaguya-sama: Love is War!)
Kaikai Kitan (Jujutsu Kaisen)
G.P. (Great Pretender)
Phoenix (Haikyu!! To The Top)

Best Ending Sequence Nominees

Lost in Paradise (Jujustu Kaisen) WINNER
Night Running (BNA: Brand New Animal)
Welcome My Friend (The Millionaire Detective – Balance: UNLIMITED)
The Great Pretender (Great Pretender)
D.D.D.D (Dorohedoro)
Last Dance (In/Spectre)

Best VA Performance (JP) Nominees

Riho Sugiyama (Wave. Listen to Me!)
Yusuke Kobayashi (Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World- Season 2) WINNER
Mutsumi Tamura (Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken!)
Magumi Ogata (Toilet-bound Hanako-kun)
Yuichi Nakamura (Jujutsu Kaisen)
Yusuke Onuki (The Millionaire Detective – Balance: UNLIMITED)

Best VA Performance (EN) Nominees

Zeno Robinson (My Hero Academia Season 4) WINNER
Aaron Phillips (Great Pretender)
Jonah Scott (Beastars)
Crispin Freeman (Fate/Grand Order Absolute Demonic Front: Babylonia)
Johnny Yong Bosch (Tower of God)
Anairis Quiñones (Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World- Season 2)

Best Director Nominees

Masaaki Yuasa (Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken!) WINNER
Sunghoo Park (Jujutsu Kaisen)
Mamoru Hatakeyama (Kaguya-sama: Love is War?)
Yuzuru Tachikawa (Deca-Dence)
Hiro Kaburagi (Great Pretender)
Takashi Sano (Tower of God)

Best Animation Nominees

Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken! WINNER
Great Pretender
Princess Connect! Re:Dive
The God of High School
Jujutsu Kaisen
Beastars

Best Character Design Nominees

Naoyuki Asano (Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken!)
Mayuka Ito (Toilet-bound Hanako-kun) WINNER
Masashi Kudoh and Miho Tanino (Tower of God)
Yoshiyuki Sadamoto and Hitotake Katou (Great Pretender)
Genice Chan and Yuusuke Yoshigaki (BNA: Brand New Animal)
Rumiko Takahashi and Yoshihito Hishinuma (Yashahime: Princess Half-Demon)

Best Fight Scene Nominees

Satoru Gojo vs. Ryomen Sukuna (Jujutsu Kaisen)
Bercouli vs. Dark God Vecta (Sword Art Online Alicization: War of the Underworld Part 2)
Jin Mori vs. Han Daswi (The God of High School)
Jin Mori vs. Jegal Taek (The God of High School)
Deku vs. Overhaul (My Hero Academia Season 4) WINNER
Brawler vs. Master (Akudama Drive)

Best Drama Nominees

Fruits Basket (Season 2) WINNER
Japan Sinks: 2020
Beastars
Great Pretender
Sing “Yesterday” For Me
Somali and the Forest Spirit

Best Comedy Nominees

Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken!
My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom!
Kakushigoto
Kaguya-sama: Love is War? WINNER
Sleepy Princess in the Demon Castle
The Misfit Demon of Demon King Academy: History’s Strongest Demon King Reincarnates and Goes to School with His Descendants

Best Score Nominees

Kevin Penkin (Tower of God) WINNER
Satoru Kousaki (Beastars)
Alisa Okehazama (The God of High School)
Yutaka Yamada (Great Pretender)
Oorutaichi (Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken!)
Kensuke Ushio (Japan Sinks: 2020)

Best Couple Nominees

NasaYuzaki & Tsukasa Yuzaki (TONIKAWA: Over The Moon For You)
Legoshi & Haru (Beastars)
Catarina Claes & Maria Campbell (My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom!)
Kaguya Shinomiya & Miyuki Shirogane (Kaguya-sama: Love is War?)
Kotoko Iwanaga & Kuro Sakuragawa (In/Spectre)
Chizuru Mizuhara & Kazuya Kinoshita (Rent-a-Girlfriend)

Best Fantasy Nominees