Early controversy of the 2025 Crunchyroll anime awards

Crunchyroll anime awards are a very big deal. It is one of the largest prizes entirely dedicated to anime and rare anime that rewards different aspects of production, rather than just the best and best movie. It is also an event that gives me hope for the future of animation as a means,, Which seems to be constantly fighting existential threats on multiple fronts (whether it is a crisis, Amnesty International or a lack of animation).

However, at the same time, watching the 2025 Crunchyroll Awards from Tokyo was a reminder of the largest defects of the awards and reasons that cause controversy every year. You can feel this via the Internet as fans began to complain that the “individual settlement” won every award, although it was widely considered a more enjoyable offer than anime. ((“Single settlement” made our list of the best anime in the 2024 winter seasonIf you think we are tending to hate on it.) You can also feel this on the ground in Tokyo when the entire press hall sighed collectively in complete harmony when that same series won the year.

This is not the first time that this also happens. In fact, it seems that the populist choice ends with a victory in almost every category on an annual basis. This, in turn, indicates a problem inherent in the anime awards-that is, it is in an embarrassing situation in being an event that fans move as much as it is an industry.

First, it is important to know how Crunchyroll Anime Awards work. It begins with a voting tour to choose the candidates for each category. This judges, who are distinguished by critics, correspondents, influencers, YouTube and other professionals among their ranks. After that, after choosing the categories and putting them in the end, the fans are left to vote. Fans, as it was, can vote several times as they want with few restrictions and no limits. As you may expect, this is vulnerable to causing problems.

Jetta Rebapaprada, General Manager of Operations at Crunchyroll, also told an exclusive interview on the day that Crunchyroll Anime 2025 Awards have already left, the company and award organizers leave fans to assemble themselves and pay for their favorites. “We have a huge voting campaign that is clearly making people know when they can vote, but many of them are just a popular base,” he said. “Fans only encourage fans to share some kind of voting for their favor and this type of things.”

“We have seen over the years that small discussions and a kind of competition occur,” she added. “People like,” I want this offer, I want this offer. “It is just a kind of popular base that is spread.”

Keep in mind that this type of fans sharing can definitely be fun. However, when it comes to prizes, this means that the anime awards tend to be completely expected, as most groups are divided year after year The most popular anime offers such as “Demon Slayer” Or “Jujutsu Kaisen” in the past years.

All this is due to a problem with identity. Crunchyroll Anime Awards are an attempt to show the anime awards and Prestige Awards with Etisalat in the Deep Industry, but it also has prizes driven by fans where ordinary people have the greatest that each individual category wins. This leads to the ongoing winners.

So, what is the solution? Simple: Start by dividing fans and those who participate in this industry. Get one audience prize category instead of leaving the fate of each category to the most organized Vandum. You cannot be children’s selection awards as well as EMMYS. This is how it ends with anime titles such as “Ninja Kamui” winning the best original anime, although most of the online reactions agree that they decrease in quality in the second half.

It is not just a fans vote, but also nominations. In order for the Crunchyroll Anime Awards to be free from this, they need suitable people familiar with specific parts of the animated craft to participate in nominations. Even experienced journalists (including this writer) are not necessarily a superior knowledge, for example, what specifically makes a great design for the character. For all many and many issues, many issues with the Academy Awards ceremony, at least they are completely committed to the reasonable idea of ​​their peers voting for their specified groups.