Crunchyroll Anime Awards: 'Cyberpunk: Edgerunners' Wins Top Prize, 'Demon Slayer' Also …

Japan’s anime industry gathered in Tokyo over the weekend for the seventh annual Crunchyroll Anime Awards, which select leading achievements in Japanese animation across a broad range of categories and pick the winners via a global popular vote.  Netflix’s standalone series Cyberpunk: Edgerunners took the event’s top anime of the year award, while Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Entertainment District Arc, which made its international debut on Crunchyroll, cleaned up across many of the other main categories, including best action, best animation, best director (Haruo Sotozaki) and best fantasy. Other big winners included blockbuster Jujutsu Kaisen 0, produced by Japan’s MAPPA, which won best film, and Crunchyroll’s Spy X Family with best comedy and best new series. (The full list of winners is below).  Crunchyroll says 18 million votes were cast for this year’s winners by fans from 200 countries, with high levels of participation spanning Asia, Europe and Latin America.  The 2023 Crunchyroll Anime Awards also featured considerably more star power than in years past. The anime specialty streamer, which is a subsidiary of Japan’s Sony Corp., recruited a broad array of celebrity figures who are known to be hardcore anime fans and flew them into Tokyo to participate
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