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6th Crunchyroll Anime Awards
The 6th Crunchyroll Anime Awards was held on February 9, 2022, honoring excellence in anime from 2021 in anime, 2021. Crunchyroll opened the public nominations for judges on October 14, 2021, running until October 20. On December 16, Crunchyroll revealed the list of judges. Nominees was announced on January 18. Voting ended on January 25. Winners were announced on February 9. This edition featured 26 categories, including new Crunchyroll Anime Award for Best VA Performance, voice acting categories for Crunchyroll Anime Award for Best VA Performance#German, German, Crunchyroll Anime Award for Best VA Performance#French, French, Crunchyroll Anime Award for Best VA Performance#Latin American Spanish, Spanish (Latin America), Crunchyroll Anime Award for Best VA Performance#Castilian Spanish, Spanish (Spain), Crunchyroll Anime Award for Best VA Performance#Portuguese, Portuguese, and Crunchyroll Anime Award for Best VA Performance#Russian, Russian. Best Romance was also added for the f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Crunchyroll
Crunchyroll is an American Video on demand#Subscription models, subscription video on-demand Over-the-top media service, over-the-top Streaming media, streaming service owned by Sony, Sony Group Corporation. The service primarily distributes films and television series produced by East Asian cinema, East Asian media, including Anime, Japanese anime, and is headquartered in San Francisco, San Francisco, California, with a Japanese branch located in Shibuya, Tokyo. Launched in mid-2006 by a group of University of California, Berkeley, graduates, the service has over 120million registered users worldwide. Crunchyroll was previously a subsidiary of Otter Media, itself a subsidiary of AT&T's WarnerMedia, and from 2016 to 2018, the service partnered with Funimation, which Sony acquired in 2017 and would eventually merge into its brand in 2022 after Sony acquired Crunchyroll from AT&T in 2021. Crunchyroll is a member of The Association of Japanese Animations (AJA). "Crunchyroll-Hime", ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Attack On Titan (TV Series)
is a Japanese dark fantasy anime television series adapted from Hajime Isayama's 2009–2021 manga series. The series premiered on April 7, 2013, and concluded on November 5, 2023. Animated by Wit Studio (first three seasons) and MAPPA (final season), the series aired on Mainichi Broadcasting System (first two seasons) and NHK General TV (third season onwards). In North America, the series has been streamed on Crunchyroll, Funimation, and Hulu. ''Attack on Titan'' has also aired on Adult Swim's Toonami programming block in the United States. Set in a post-apocalyptic world where the remains of humanity live behind walls protecting them from giant humanoid Titans, ''Attack on Titan'' follows protagonist Eren Yeager, along with friends Mikasa Ackerman and Armin Arlert. When a Colossal Titan breaches the wall of their hometown, Titans destroy the city and eat Eren's mother. Vowing vengeance, Eren joins the elite Survey Corps, a group of soldiers who fight against Titans. It c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fruits Basket (2019 TV Series)
The 2019 anime series ''Fruits Basket'' is the second anime based on the manga series of the same name by Natsuki Takaya, adapted from all 23 volumes of the story. The new anime adaptation was announced in November 2018, featuring a new cast and staff, with TMS Entertainment handling the 63 episodes-long productions from April 2019 to June 2021, and divided into three seasons. Yoshihide Ibata directed the series, Taku Kishimoto served as a screenwriter, and Masaru Shindou designed the characters. The reboot is a co-production of Funimation, who released the series through the Crunchyroll-Funimation partnership. The first season adapted the manga's first 5 volumes and parts of volumes 6 and 7. It ran for 25 episodes from April 6 to September 21, 2019 on TV Tokyo, TV Osaka, and TV Aichi. The first opening theme for episodes 1–13 is "Again" by Beverly. The second opening theme for episodes 14–25 is " Chime" by . The first ending theme for episodes 1–13 is "Lucky Ending" by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beastars
''Beastars'' (stylized in all caps) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Paru Itagaki. It was serialized in Akita Shoten's manga magazine ''Weekly Shōnen Champion'' from September 2016 to October 2020, with its chapters collected in 22 volumes. The manga is licensed for English release in North America by Viz Media. The story takes place in a modern world of civilized, anthropomorphic animals with a cultural divide between carnivores and herbivores, and where eating meat (which always comes from other anthropomorphic animals) is strictly illegal. ''Beastars'' is set in the same universe as '' Beast Complex'', another manga of Itagaki that originally served as ''Beastars predecessor. An anime television series adaptation produced by Orange aired from October to December 2019 on Fuji TV's +Ultra programming block. A second season aired from January to March 2021. The first half of the third and final season premiered in December 2024. The anime series ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anairis Quiñones
Anairis Quiñones (born September 16, 1997) is an American voice actress. After watching several anime dubs as a child, Quiñones was inspired to pursue a career in voice acting, which she began in 2009. Some of her noteworthy roles include Mirko in ''My Hero Academia'', Miyuki Shiba in ''The Irregular at Magic High School'', Echidna in '' Re:Zero − Starting Life in Another World'', Rika Kawai in ''Wonder Egg Priority'', Rei Togetsu in '' D4DJ First Mix'', Nessa in '' Pokémon: Twilight Wings'', and Kimberly in ''Street Fighter 6''. Biography Quiñones was born in Florida on September 16, 1997. Growing up, Quiñones was a fan of the ''Pokémon'' and ''Yu-Gi-Oh!'' series. However, what inspired her to pursue a career in voice acting was the English dub of ''Fullmetal Alchemist'', specifically the performance by Laura Bailey as Lust. Quiñones started voice acting in 2009 and booked her first anime role in 2018 in ''Kemono Friends''. In doing so, she moved from Florida to Texas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Wald
David Wald is an American voice actor who voices in English dubs of Japanese anime. Some of his major roles include: Gajeel Redfox in ''Fairy Tail'', Hannes in ''Attack on Titan'', Bulat in ''Akame ga Kill!'', and Master Chief in ''Halo Legends''. He is involved in productions for Funimation and ADV Films (now Seraphim Digital and Sentai Filmworks) in Texas. He is gay and advocates bringing positive queer representation in dubbed anime. He served as ADR director for Sentai Filmworks dubs of yuri and yaoi , also known by its abbreviation , is a genre of fictional media originating in Japan that depicts homoerotic relationships between male characters. It is typically created by women for a female audience, distinguishing it from the equivale ... titles: '' Love Stage'', '' Bloom into You'', '' Hitorijime My Hero'', and '' Kase-san and Morning Glories''. In October 2024, Wald accused Crunchyroll of opening his private mail, throwing away letters and distributing includ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Laura Bailey
Laura Bailey (born May 28, 1981) is an American voice actress. She made her voice acting debut as Trunks (Dragon Ball), Kid Trunks in the Funimation dub of ''Dragon Ball Z'' and has since voiced List of Gunslinger Girl characters#First Generation, Henrietta in ''Gunslinger Girl'', Miyuki Hoshizora, Emily / Glitter Lucky in ''Smile PreCure!, Glitter Force'', Tohru Honda in ''Fruits Basket'', Lust (Fullmetal Alchemist), Lust in ''Fullmetal Alchemist (TV series), Fullmetal Alchemist'' and ''Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood'', the List of Crayon Shin-chan characters#Nohara family, title character in the Funimation dub of ''Shin-Chan'', and List of Soul Eater characters#Maka Albarn, Maka Albarn in ''Soul Eater (manga), Soul Eater''. She is a cast member of the web series ''Critical Role'', playing Vex'ahlia ("Vex"), Jester Lavorre, and Imogen Temult, among others. Bailey's video game voice roles include Rayne (BloodRayne), Rayne in the ''BloodRayne'' franchise, Kira Carsen in ''Star ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hiroyuki Sawano
, stylized as Hiroyuki SAWANO, is a Japanese composer, arranger, lyricist, pianist, and music producer best known for his work on many anime series, video games, Japanese television drama, television dramas, and films. His works include the Soundtrack, musical scores for ''Attack on Titan (TV series), Attack on Titan'', ''The Seven Deadly Sins (2014 TV series), The Seven Deadly Sins'', ''Solo Leveling'', ''Sengoku Basara: Samurai Kings, Sengoku Basara'', ''Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn'', ''Blue Exorcist'', ''Seraph of the End'', ''Guilty Crown'', ''Kill la Kill'', ''Xenoblade Chronicles X'', and ''86 (novel series), 86''. In addition to his role on the soundtrack, Sawano also composes many opening and ending theme songs. Overall, he has already provided the music for over 100 visual media works. Sawano was nominated for the Newtype Anime Awards 11 times, winning four of the nominations. He has also won the Tokyo Anime Award three times, as well as two prizes at the Anime Trending ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Satoru Kōsaki
is a Japanese music composer and arranger. He is best known for his work on anime, including '' Lucky Star'', '' The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya'', ''Monogatari'', ''Beastars'' and '' The Apothecary Diaries''. He worked at Namco, where he primarily composed soundtracks for video games. Since 2005, he has been affiliated with Keiichi Okabe's music production company Monaca, where he has often collaborated with his colleagues to produce soundtracks for anime and other media. Biography Early life Kōsaki was born on September 16, 1974, in Toyonaka, Osaka, Japan. He began playing the piano and Electone, at the age of three. His parents also played classical guitar and frequently played songs by classical guitarists within the household. Although he eventually ceased playing the piano, he played the trumpet in his junior high school's brass band. He listened to fusion artists such as Casiopea and T-Square, as well as pop artists such as Hikaru Genji, and developed an interest ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Go Shiina
, known professionally as Go Shiina, is a Japanese music composer primarily known for his work in video games and anime. He joined Namco in 1997 and was best known during his time with the company for writing music for a number of games in the '' Tales'', '' Mr. Driller'', and ''God Eater'' franchises, He gained widespread recognition with his score for ''Tales of Legendia'' in 2005. Since then, he has also contributed music for several titles in the ''Tekken'', ''Ace Combat'', and ''The Idolmaster'' franchises. In addition to video games, Shiina has also composed soundtracks for various anime series and films, starting with the 2011 film ''Sakura no Ondo'' and '' Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba'', as well as composing and arranging songs for bands and other artists. Shiina's works is known for having strong and heavy, orchestral sounds. He left Bandai Namco Entertainment in 2017, and is currently a freelance composer. Despite being freelance, he has continued to work with the comp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yuki Kajiura
is a Japanese composer, arranger and music producer. She has provided the music for several popular anime series, such as ''Sword Art Online'', '' Puella Magi Madoka Magica'', '' Fate/Zero'', ''The Garden of Sinners'', '' Pandora Hearts'', and '' Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba''. As a composer, Kajiura is known for her unique and distinctive musical motifs and leitmotifs, as well as for her distinctive fusion of contemporary classical music and electronic music. Biography Kajiura was born on August 6, 1965, in Tokyo, Japan. She has been into music since 1972, accompanying her father on the piano. Her family later moved to West Germany because of her father's work. Kajiura wrote her first composition when she was seven years old titled "Thank you, Good-bye" as a farewell for her grandmother before leaving Japan. Kajiura moved back to Japan when she was in middle school and later graduated from college. She worked as a systems engineering programmer until 1992, when she decide ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Crunchyroll Anime Award For Best Animation
The Crunchyroll Anime Award for Best Animation is a below-the-line award given at the Crunchyroll Anime Awards since its inaugural edition in 2017. It is given for the best animation in anime films and series from the previous year. Winners are determined through a combined voting process by judges and public voting. ''Yaoi'' sports anime '' Yuri on Ice'' by MAPPA first won the award in 2017. Ufotable and its anime series '' Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba'' hold the record for the most wins with 4 in consecutive years (2022–2025), the most of any animation studios and anime series to date. MAPPA holds the record for the most nominations with 9, while Wit Studio also holds the record for the most nominations without a single win with 7. In the latest edition in 2025, ''Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba'' won the award again in four consecutive years. Winners In the following list, the first titles listed in gold are the winners; those not in gold are nominees, which are listed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
