Crunchyroll Anime Award for Best Character

The Crunchyroll Anime Award for Best Character is a fictional character award given at the Crunchyroll Anime Awards since its inaugural edition in 2017. It is given for the best anime characters from the previous year. Winners are determined through a combined voting process by judges and public voting.

The award splits into four categories as individual characters (Best Protagonist, Best Antagonist, Best Boy, and Best Girl) until 2022, all of which will be consolidated into two categories: Best Main Character and Best Supporting Character, while introducing a new category "Must Protect at All Costs" Character, an award recognizes characters that evoke strong protective instincts in viewers due to their vulnerability or endearing qualities, inspire a strong desire to safeguard them at all costs.

Spy × Familys Anya Forger won the award multiple times, 1 for Best Supporting Character and 4 for "Must Protect at All Costs" Character, with the latter won in four consecutive years, the most of any anime characters to date. My Hero Academia holds the records for both the most wins (8) and nominations (18), with Izuku Midoriya received the most with 3 awards out of 7 nominations.

So far, My Hero Academia was the only series to received seven different categories overall, with Izuku Midoriya earned the most categories with four. Also, the second edition of the anime series earned six nominations in four former categories in a single edition, sweeps all its categories for the first time; the awards for Best Boy and Best Girl received two nominations.

In the latest edition in 2026, three awards were won by Maomao from the second season of The Apothecary Diaries in Best Main Character, Katsuki Bakugo from the eighth and final season of My Hero Academia in Best Supporting Character, and Anya Forger from the third season of Spy × Family in "Must Protect at All Costs" Character.

Current 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.

Best Main Character Year Character Anime 2021/2022(7th) Eren Jaeger Attack on Titan: The Final Season Part 2 (season 4 cour 2)|- | Bojji | Ranking of Kings (cour 2) |- | Chisato Nishikigi | Lycoris Recoil |- | David Martinez | Cyberpunk: Edgerunners |- | Loid Forger | Spy × Family |- | Marin Kitagawa | My Dress-Up Darling |- ! rowspan="7" style="text-align:center;"| 2022/2023(8th) |- style="background:#FAEB86" | Monkey D. Luffy| One Piece Denji Chainsaw Man Eren Jaeger Attack on Titan: The Final Season The Final Chapters Special 1 (season 4 cour 3) Hitori "Bocchi" Gotoh Bocchi the Rock! Shigeo "Mob" Kageyama Mob Psycho 100 III (season 3) Thorfinn Vinland Saga (season 2) 2023/2024(9th) Sung Jin-woo Solo Leveling Frieren Frieren: Beyond Journey's End Kafka Hibino Kaiju No. 8 Ken "Okarun" Takakura Dandadan Maomao The Apothecary Diaries Momo Ayase Dandadan 2025(10th) Maomao The Apothecary Diaries (season 2) Izuku "Deku" Midoriya My Hero Academia: Final Season (season 8) Ken "Okarun" Takakura Dandadan (season 2) Momo Ayase Rudo Surebrec Gachiakuta Sung Jin-woo Solo Leveling: Arise from the Shadow (season 2)

Best Supporting Character Year Character Anime 2021/2022(7th) Anya Forger Spy × Family Ai Hayasaka Kaguya-sama: Love Is War – Ultra Romantic Kage Ranking of Kings Rebecca Cyberpunk: Edgerunners Tengen Uzui Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Entertainment District Arc (season 2 cour 2) Yor Forger Spy × Family 2022/2023(8th) Satoru Gojo Jujutsu Kaisen (season 2)|- | Arataka Reigen | Mob Psycho 100 III (season 3) |- | Zoë Hange | Attack on Titan: The Final Season The Final Chapters Special 1 (season 4 cour 3) |- | Kana Arima | Oshi no Ko |- | Power | Chainsaw Man |- | Suguru Geto | Jujutsu Kaisen (season 2) |- ! rowspan="7" style="text-align:center;"| 2023/2024(9th) |- style="background:#FAEB86;" | Fern| Frieren: Beyond Journey's End Himmel Frieren: Beyond Journey's End Jinshi The Apothecary Diaries Seiko Ayase Dandadan Senshi Delicious in Dungeon Turbo Granny Dandadan 2025(10th) Katsuki Bakugo My Hero Academia: Final Season (season 8) Enjin Gachiakuta Jin "Jiji" Enjoji Dandadan (season 2) Jinshi The Apothecary Diaries (season 2) Loulan/Shisui Turbo Granny Dandadan (season 2)

Former 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.

Best Protagonist Year Character Anime 2016(1st) Izuku "Deku" Midoriya My Hero Academia Mumei Kabaneri of the Iron Fortress Satoru Fujinuma Erased Shigeo "Mob" Kageyama Mob Psycho 100 Most Popular "Other": Josuke Higashikata JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Diamond Is Unbreakable (season 3)|- ! rowspan="7" style="text-align:center;"| 2017(2nd) |- style="background:#FAEB86" | Izuku "Deku" Midoriya| My Hero Academia (season 2)|- | Atsuko "Akko" Kagari | Little Witch Academia |- | Chise Hatori | The Ancient Magus' Bride |- | Gin Minowa | Yuki Yuna is a Hero |- | Kukuri | Magical Circle Guru Guru |- | Nanachi | Made in Abyss |- ! rowspan="7" style="text-align:center;"| 2018(3rd) |- style="background:#FAEB86" | Rimuru Tempest | That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime Joe Megalobox Retsuko Aggretsuko Sakuta Azusagawa Rascal Does Not Dream of Bunny Girl Senpai Violet Evergarden Violet Evergarden Yumeko Jabami Kakegurui – Compulsive Gambler 2019(4th) Senku Ishigami Dr. Stone Emma The Promised Neverland Hyakkimaru Dororo Saitama One-Punch Man (season 2) Tanjiro Kamado Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Tohru Honda Fruits Basket 2020(5th) Catarina Claes My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom! Anos Voldigoad The Misfit of Demon King Academy Midori Asakusa Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken! Natsume Deca-Dence Shoyo Hinata Haikyu!! To the Top (season 4) Yuji Itadori Jujutsu Kaisen 2021(6th) Odokawa Odd Taxi Ai Ohto Wonder Egg Priority Bojji Ranking of Kings Eren Jaeger Attack on Titan: The Final Season Part 1 (season 4) Joe Megalobox 2: Nomad Yuji Itadori Jujutsu Kaisen (cour 2)

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