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rewarding the best voice acting performance in anime. Given annually by the

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, winners are determined through a combined voting process by judges and public voting. Since its inception at the 3rd Crunchyroll Anime Awards in 2019, it has awarded voice acting for anime in the

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and English language. Since then, it has included voice acting for localized dubbing of anime in other languages, including

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, Portuguese,

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, and

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. The Russian category was dropped in 2023, most likely due to the suspension of Crunchyroll's services in Russia in March 2022 in the wake of the

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Winners and nominees

In the following list, the first names listed in gold are the winners; those not in gold are nominees, which are listed in alphabetical order. The years given are those in which the ceremonies took place.

Japanese

;2010s ;2020s

English

;2010s ;2020s

Castilian Spanish

;2020s

French

;2020s

German

;2020s

Latin American Spanish

;2020s

Portuguese

;2020s

Russian

;2020s

Arabic

;2020s

Italian

;2020s

Hindi

;2020s

References

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