Some minutes ago, Crunchyroll has officially opened the voting Anime Awards 2021, the main Western recognition reserved for Japanese animated series. You can express your preferences until midnight on January 22nd, while the winners will be announced live on the evening of February 19th, 2021.

There are instructions for the applications Jujutsu Kaisen is Great pretender with 10 nominations each. Also very good Keep your hands off Eizouken!, Beastars is God’s towerin competition with 9, 8 and 7 nominations. You can read all of the candidates below.

Anime of the year

  • Get your hands off Eizouken!
  • Jujutsu Kaisen
  • Dorohedoro
  • Great pretender
  • Come on-Ranman!
  • Beastars

Best animations

  • Get your hands off Eizouken!
  • The god of high school
  • Great pretender
  • Jujutsu Kaisen
  • Princess Connect! Re: diving
  • Beastars

Best opening

  • Easy Breezy – Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken!
  • Kaikaikitan – Jujutsu Kaisen
  • Wild side – Beastars
  • GP – Great Pretender
  • Papa make papa! – Kaguya: Sama – love is war 2
  • Phoenix – Haikyu !! 4th

Best ending

  • Lost in Paradise – Jujutsu Kaisen
  • The great pretender – great pretender
  • Night run – BNA: Brand new animal
  • (K) NoW_NAME – Dorohedoro
  • Welcome my friend – The millionaire detective – Balance: UNLIMITED
  • LAST DANCE – In / Specter

Best male character

  • Caiman in Dorohedoro
  • Gojo Satoru in Jujutsu Kaisen
  • Khun Aguero Agnes in the Tower of God
  • Legoshi in Beastars
  • Anos Voldigoad at the Misfit of Demon King Academy
  • Shoyo Hinata in Haikyu !! 4th

Best female figure

  • Sayaka Kanamori in Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken!
  • Chizuru Mizuhara in Rent-A-Girlfriend
  • We in Dorohedoro
  • Catarina Claes in my next life as a villain: All roads lead to destruction!
  • Abigail Jones in Great Pretender
  • Kaguya Shinomiya in Kaguya-sama: Love is War 2

Best soundtrack

  • God’s tower
  • Great pretender
  • Beastars
  • Get your hands off Eizouken!
  • The god of high school
  • Japan is sinking: 2020

Best director

  • Masaaki Yuasa – Keep your hands off Eizouken!
  • Yuzuru Tachikawa – Deka-Dence
  • Sunghoo Park – Jujutsu Kaisen
  • Hiro Kaburagi – Great Pretender
  • Mamoru Hatakeyama – Kaguya-sama: Love is War 2
  • Takashi Sano – Tower of God

Best character design

  • Get your hands off Eizouken!
  • Great pretender
  • Toilet-bound Hanako-Kun
  • BNA: Brand new animal
  • God’s tower
  • Yashahime: Princess half-demon

Best protagonist

  • Midori Asakusa in Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken!
  • Natsume in Deca-Dence
  • Catarina Claes in my next life as a villain: All roads lead to destruction!
  • Yuji Itadori in Jujutsu Kaisen
  • Anos Voldigoad at the Misfit of Demon King Academy
  • Shoyo Hinata in Haikyu !! 4th

Best antagonist

  • En in Dorohedoro
  • Ryomen Sukuna in Jujutsu Kaisen
  • Rachel in the Tower of God
  • Akito Soma in a fruit basket 2
  • Echidna in Re: Zero 2
  • Overhaul in My Hero Academia 4

Best fight scene

  • Gojo Satoru versus Ryomen Sukuna – Jujutsu Kaisen
  • Jin Mori versus Jegai Taek – The God of High School
  • Bercouli vs Emperor Vector – Sword Art Online Alicization: Underworld War Part 2
  • Deku vs Overhaul – My Hero Academia 4
  • Jin Mori vs. Han Daewi – The God of High School
  • Thug vs Master – Akudama Drive

Best couple

  • Nasa Yuzaki and Tsukasa Yuzaki – Tonikawa
  • Kaguya Shinomiya & Miyuki Shirogane in Kaguya-sama: Love is War 2
  • Legoshi & Haru – Beasts
  • Kotoko Iwanaga and Kuro Sakuragawa – In / Specter
  • Catarina Claes and Maria Campbell – My next life as a villain: All roads lead to downfall
  • Chizuru Mizuhara and Kazuya Kinoshita – Rent-A-Girlfriend

Best comedy

  • Get your hands off Eizouken!
  • Kaguya-sama: love is war 2
  • My next life as a villain: All roads lead to downfall!
  • Sleepy princess in the demon castle
  • Kakushigoto
  • The Demon King Academy underdog

Best drama

  • Fruit basket 2
  • Great pretender
  • Japan is sinking: 2020
  • Sing “Yestarday” to me
  • Beastars
  • Somali and the forest spirit

Best imagination

  • Subject: Zero 2
  • Dragon Quest The Adventure of Dai
  • decadence
  • Rise of a Bookworm Part 2
  • Dorohedoro
  • God’s tower

Jujutsu Kaisen is hands down one of the biggest favorites, but the hit from Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken! it is not to be underestimated. Excellent results for Kaguya-sama: Love is War 2, big favorite for winning the Comedy category, and Great Pretender, the original WIT Studio anime available on Netflix, among others.

And who will you vote for? Let us know with a comment!

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