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Crunchyroll Reveals 2025 Anime Awards Winners: Full List

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May 26, 2025

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Crunchyroll, the global brand fueling anime fandom, revealed the winners of the 2025 Crunchyroll Anime Awards during a live ceremony held at Grand Prince Hotel Shin Takanawa in Tokyo on Sunday (May 25). Creepy Nuts won best anime song for “Otonoke,” the opening theme from anime of the year nominee DAN DA DAN. Hiroyuki Sawano won best score for Solo Leveling, which won anime of the year.

The ninth annual Anime Awards was co-hosted for the third year in a row by voice actress Sally Amaki and entertainer Jon Kabira. The winners were revealed by celebrity anime fan presenters, including Grammy-winning singer Kacey Musgraves; Canadian director, musician, and actor Finn Wolfhard and American actor Gaten Matarazzo, both from the hit series Stranger Things; global superstar and anime collaborator J Balvin; Italian singer-songwriter Damiano David; musician and actor Rina Sawayama; Brazilian pop icon Pabllo Vittar; American snowboarder Chloe Kim; and screenwriter Zak Penn.

During the awards show, fans enjoyed performances from Creepy Nuts, the 2025 Anime Awards winning hip-hop duo, who performed “Bling-Bang-Bang-Born,” the opening theme from Mashle: Magic and Muscles. Rock band FLOW performed “DAYS” to commemorate the 20th anniversary of Eureka Seven; and LiSA, Spotify’s most streamed Japanese artist globally in 2020, performed three songs — “crossing field,” “Datte Atashino Hero,” and “gurenge,” the hit from Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba.

During the ceremony, Attack on Titan was awarded the Anime Awards’ first global impact award. The final film Attack on Titan: THE LAST ATTACK premiered in late 2024, marking the end of the longstanding anime. Yuichiro Hayashi from MAPPA accepted the award on behalf of all the creatives who brought the series to life over the years.

This year, a record 51 million votes were cast by fans worldwide to celebrate their favorite series, films, and actors. The 2025 Anime Awards will be available to stream as video-on-demand shortly on Crunchyroll’s YouTube and Twitch Channels, along with SONY PICTURES CORE and the Sony Group Corp Japan and Global YouTube Channels.

“Fans form deep emotional connections to anime. These are not just series, films or songs, but rather works of art that help define the identity of anime fans,” Rahul Purini, president of Crunchyroll, said in a statement.

Sony Music Solutions Inc., part of Sony Music Entertainment (Japan) Inc., and Dempsey Productions supported Crunchyroll in the execution of the Anime Awards this year.

Here’s a complete list of 2025 Crunchyroll Anime Awards nominees and winners.

Anime of the Year

DAN DA DAN

Delicious in Dungeon

Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End

Kaiju No. 8

WINNER: Solo Leveling

The Apothecary Diaries

Best Anime Song

Abyss – Yungblud – Kaiju No. 8

Bling-Bang-Bang-Born – Creepy Nuts – MASHLE: MAGIC AND MUSCLES The Divine Visionary Candidate Exam Arc

Fatal – GEMN -【OSHI NO KO】Season 2

LEveL – SawanoHiroyuki[nZk]: TOMORROW X TOGETHER – Solo Leveling

WINNER: Otonoke – Creepy Nuts – DAN DA DAN

The Brave – YOASOBI – Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End

Best Score

BLEACH: Thousand-Year Blood War – The Conflict- Shiro Sagisu

DAN DA DAN – kensuke ushio

Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Hashira Training Arc – Yuki Kajiura, Go Shiina

Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End – Evan Call

Look Back – Haruka Nakamura

WINNER: Solo Leveling – Hiroyuki Sawano

Film of the Year

HAIKYU!! The Dumpster Battle

WINNER: Look Back

Mononoke The Movie: The Phantom in the Rain

My Hero Academia: You’re Next

SPY x FAMILY CODE: White

The Colors Within

Best Original Anime

BUCCHIGIRI?!

GIRLS BAND CRY

Jellyfish Can’t Swim in the Night

Metallic Rouge

WINNER: Ninja Kamui

Train to the End of the World

Best Continuing Series

BLEACH: Thousand-Year Blood War – The Conflict

WINNER: Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba, Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Hashira Training Arc

My Hero Academia, My Hero Academia Season 7

ONE PIECE

【OSHI NO KO】【OSHI NO KO】Season 2

SPY × FAMILY, SPY × FAMILY Season 2

Best New Series

DAN DA DAN

Delicious in Dungeon

Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End

Kaiju No. 8

WINNER: Solo Leveling

The Apothecary Diaries

Best Opening Sequence

Abyss – Yungblud – Kaiju No. 8

Bling-Bang-Bang-Born – Creepy Nuts – MASHLE: MAGIC AND MUSCLES The Divine Visionary Candidate Exam Arc

Fatal – GEMN – 【OSHI NO KO】Season 2

LEveL – SawanoHiroyuki[nZk]: TOMORROW X TOGETHER – Solo Leveling

WINNER: Otonoke – Creepy Nuts – DAN DA DAN

UUUUUS! – Hiroshi Kitadani – ONE PIECE

Best Ending Sequence

Antanante – riria. – Ranma1/2

Burning – Hitsujibungaku – 【OSHI NO KO】Season 2

KAMAKURA STYLE – BotchiBoromaru – The Elusive Samurai

Nobody – OneRepublic – Kaiju No. 8

WINNER: request – krage – Solo Leveling

TAIDADA – ZUTOMAYO – DAN DA DAN

Best Action

BLEACH: Thousand-Year Blood War – The Conflict

DAN DA DAN

Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Hashira Training Arc

Kaiju No. 8

WINNER: Solo Leveling

WIND BREAKER

Best Comedy

Delicious in Dungeon

KONOSUBA -God’s Blessing on This Wonderful World! 3

WINNER: MASHLE: MAGIC AND MUSCLES The Divine Visionary Candidate Exam Arc

My Deer Friend Nokotan

Ranma1/2

SPY × FAMILY Season 2

Best Drama

A Sign of Affection

DEAD DEAD DEMONS DEDEDEDE DESTRUCTION

WINNER: Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End

【OSHI NO KO】Season 2

Pluto

The Apothecary Diaries

Best Isekai Anime

KONOSUBA -God’s Blessing on This Wonderful World! 3

Mushoku Tensei: Jobless Reincarnation (season 2, Cour 2)

WINNER: Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World- Season 3

Shangri-La Frontier Season 2

Suicide Squad ISEKAI

That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime Season 3

Best Romance

A Sign of Affection

WINNER: Blue Box

Makeine: Too Many Losing Heroines!

Ranma1/2

Scott Pilgrim Takes Off

The Dangers in My Heart Season 2

Best Slice of Life

Laid-Back Camp Season 3

WINNER: Makeine: Too Many Losing Heroines!

Mr. Villain’s Day Off

My Deer Friend Nokotan

Sound! Euphonium 3

The Dangers in My Heart Season 2

Best Animation

DAN DA DAN

Delicious in Dungeon

WINNER: Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Hashira Training Arc

Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End

Kaiju No. 8

Solo Leveling

Best Background Art

DAN DA DAN

Delicious in Dungeon

Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Hashira Training Arc

WINNER: Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End

Pluto

The Apothecary Diaries

Best Character Design

WINNER: DAN DA DAN

Delicious in Dungeon

Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Hashira Training Arc

Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End

Kaiju No. 8

The Apothecary Diaries

Best Director

Fuga Yamashiro – DAN DA DAN

Haruo Sotozaki – Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Hashira Training Arc

WINNER: Keiichiro Saito – Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End

Megumi Ishitani – ONE PIECE FAN LETTER

Norihiro Naganuma – The Apothecary Diaries

Yoshihiro Miyajima – Delicious in Dungeon

Best Main Character

Frieren – Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End

Kafka Hibino – Kaiju No. 8

Okarun – DAN DA DAN

Maomao – The Apothecary Diaries

Momo – DAN DA DAN

WINNER: Sung Jinwoo – Solo Leveling

Best Supporting Character

WINNER: Fern – Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End

Himmel – Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End

Jinshi – The Apothecary Diaries

Seiko – DAN DA DAN

Senshi – Delicious in Dungeon

Turbo Granny – DAN DA DAN

“Must Protect at All Cost” Character

WINNER: Anya Forger – SPY × FAMILY Season 2

Frieren – Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End

Okarun- DAN DA DAN

Senshi – Delicious in Dungeon

Tokiyuki Hojo – The Elusive Samurai

Yuki Itose – A Sign of Affection

WINNERS IN OTHER CATEGORIES

Best Japanese Voice Artist Performance: Aoi Yuki (Maomao) – The Apothecary Diaries

Best English Voice Artist Performance: Aleks Le (Sung Jinwoo) – Solo Leveling

Best Arabic Voice Artist Performance: Hiba Snobar (Anya Forger) – SPY × FAMILY Season 2

Best Brazilian Portuguese Voice Artist Performance: Charles Emmanuel (Sung Jinwoo) – Solo Leveling

Best Castilian Spanish Voice Artist Performance: Masumi Mutsuda (Sung Jinwoo) – Solo Leveling

Best French Voice Artist Performance: Adrien Antoine (Kafka Hibino) – Kaiju No. 8

Best German Voice Artist Performance: Daniel Schlauch (Monkey D. Luffy) – ONE PIECE

Best Hindi Voice Artist Performance: Lohit Sharma (Satoru Gojo) – JUJUTSU KAISEN Season 2

Best Italian Voice Artist Performance: Ilaria Pellicone (Kyomoto) – Look Back

Best Latin Spanish Voice Artist Performance: Miguel Ángel Leal (Eren Jaeger) – Attack on Titan Final Season THE FINAL CHAPTERS Special 2

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No ‘Good’ Deed Goes Unpunished for Ariana Grande’s Glinda in Final ‘Wicked: For Good’ Trailer

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September 25, 2025

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In the final trailer for Wicked: For Good, Ariana Grande‘s character learns that a big price comes with being Glinda the Good.

Released on Wednesday (Sept. 24) — about two months before the Wicked sequel finally premieres in theaters on Nov. 21 — the preview shows how the blonde leading lady wrestles with her new role as Oz’s spokeswoman, as Cynthia Erivo‘s Elphaba attempts to expose the Wizard’s evil agenda while living in hiding. At first, Glinda is “obsess-ulated” with the gorgeous gown, tiara and mechanical flying bubble her public-facing life affords her — but everything quickly comes crashing down when she realizes that she’s on the wrong side of history, and that she just might be too late to save her former schoolmate from the wrath of Oz’s brainwashed citizens.

“I’m a public figure now, people expect me to …,” Glinda tells Elphaba at one point, with Dorothy’s fallen house and the Yellow Brick Road visible in the background.

“Lie?” the green-skinned witch cuts in, to which Glinda says defensively, “Be encouraging.”

Grande’s character is less sure of herself when she is confronted by Jonathan Bailey’s Fiyero, who accuses, “You can’t resist this.”

“Who could?” Glinda asks, to which the Winkie prince replies, “You know who could.”

Arriving one year after the first Wicked hit theaters and shattered movie-musical box-office records, For Good will serve as the film adaptation of the second act of the Broadway musical on which the live-actions are based. The soundtrack will also drop on Nov. 21, complete with two brand new songs sung by Grande and Erivo.

As revealed when the tracklist dropped a week prior to the new trailer, the title of Glinda’s bonus song is “The Girl in the Bubble,” while Elphaba’s added balled is called “No Place Like Home.”

Watch the final trailer for Wicked: For Good above.

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Priscilla Presley Says That Leaving Elvis Presley Was ‘The Only Way to Survive’ in New Memoir ‘Softly, As I Leave You: Life After Elvis’

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September 25, 2025

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Priscilla Presley was with Elvis Presley for around 14 years before they split; however, the pair had known each other for years before they wed in 1967.

The time in between and following Priscilla and Elvis’ divorce was a tough spot for Priscilla, and one she wasn’t super open about — that is, until now. In her new memoir Softly, As I Leave You: Life After Elvis, the actress shares the difficult but inspiring journey beyond the walls of Graceland post-split with the King, choosing to put herself and her daughter, Lisa Marie Presley, first.

A hardcover version of the book is now on sale and can be purchased now on Amazon for $22.38, while paperback will run you $32. A Kindle version retails for $15.99. If you’re a superfan of Priscilla and the Presley family, you can also snag a signed version of the memoir via Barnes & Noble for $32. The piece makes a great gift for the avid Elvis collector in your life. If you’d rather listen to the memoir, we won’t judge, you can do so with Audible via a subscription which costs $7.95 a month, a price tag less than a physical copy.

Softly, As I Leave You: Life After Elvis

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A new memoir by Priscilla Presley.

If you didn’t know, Priscilla met Elvis when she was just 14 and he was 24. The singer was serving in the U.S. Army in 1959 in Germany. The pair remained romantically connected for years, even with distance between them and in 1967, they were wed in a simple and very secret ceremony in Las Vegas. While their separation in 1973 was painful for Priscilla, this novel highlights why it was so important for the Naked Gun star to leave.

It seems that Priscilla lost touch with herself throughout her relationship with Elvis. Leaving allowed her to find herself again. Through the book, we are treated to snippets of Priscilla’s life pre- and post-Elvis and how she had to reinvent herself a second time as the single mother after the performer’s death in 1977.

Today, we are taken through how Priscilla was able to transform Graceland into an international destination and helped guide the development of Elvis Presley Enterprises, turning the King’s legacy into a full-on business. If you are an Elvis fan, this gives readers a unique perspective on his life, as told by his ex-wife. It also gives Priscilla’s story more context for those who aren’t too familiar with her life and career.

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Calvin Harris’ Ex-Business Manager Denies $22M Fraud Claims: ‘Categorically False’

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September 25, 2025

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Calvin Harris‘ former longtime business manager is firing back against bombshell fraud claims, saying he never stole from anybody and that the Scottish DJ willingly agreed to invest in his Los Angeles real estate development project.

Thomas St. John, an entertainment industry-focused accountant who runs the eponymous firm Thomas St. John Group, is currently wrapped up in thorny arbitration proceedings with his former client Harris (Adam Wiles). He’s accused of abusing his access to Harris’ accounts in order to fund his side venture: the construction of a recording studio and office space complex in Hollywood.

Harris claims that St. John tricked him into investing $22.5 million in the project, known as CMNTY Culture Campus, which he says turned out to be a “complete boondoggle” that he “has not received a single penny in return for” — while suggesting that St. John pocketed much of the money for himself.

However, a representative for St. John says in a new statement that the allegations are “categorically false.” The rep denies that St. John engaged in any self-dealing, adding that Harris is one of nine above-board investors who “knowingly signed investment agreements” to get involved in CMNTY Culture.

“Not a single dollar has been misappropriated, all investor entitlements remain intact, and the project continues to advance within the normal entitlement timeline,” says St. John’s rep in the Tuesday (Sept. 23) statement. “We will continue to take every necessary step to set the record straight and to ensure that these malicious, bad-faith attacks are recognized for what they are: entirely without merit.”

While CMNTY Culture was initially designed to house a recording studio and office space, St. John has since shifted the plans and is now developing a residential apartment complex on the same tract of land in Hollywood. According to his rep, the project is proceeding apace and “is expected to approach a $1 billion valuation” upon completion.

“While the entitlement process has naturally taken longer than initially projected due to unprecedented interest, macroeconomic conditions and significant city red tape, it remains firmly within its promised schedule and is now on the verge of securing final entitlements, an important milestone that will unlock substantial value,” adds St. John’s rep.

Thomas St. John Group has offices in Los Angeles, London, Amsterdam and Stockholm. The management firm’s U.S. arm recently filed for bankruptcy, citing hundreds of thousands of dollars in unpaid rent in L.A. and multiple pending legal actions.

One creditor listed in the firm’s bankruptcy papers is Philip Lawrence, a songwriter and producer who made his name collaborating with Bruno Mars. Lawrence used to be a client of St. John’s and at one point invested $10 million from the sale of his catalog into CMNTY Culture Campus, according to court filings in Lawrence’s own personal bankruptcy case.

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