Crunchyroll has introduced its finalists for the upcoming 2022 Anime Awards. Public voting for the award winners started this Tuesday, January 18, 2022 and can run by to subsequent Tuesday, January 25, 2022 at 5 PM PST.

The winners shall be introduced on Wednesday, February 9, 2022 on Crunchyroll’s social media channels and the Anime Awards web site. The sixth annual occasion boasts quite a few contenders in 20 classes for anime in 2021. International anime followers and a choose committee of worldwide judges will resolve the winners for every class.

Amongst this 12 months’s heavy hitters vying for Anime of the 12 months embrace 86 Eighty-Six, Assault on Titan Remaining Season Half 1, Kaisen Jujutsu, ODDTAXI, Rating of Kings, and Sonny Boy.

Round 38 anime studios are represented on this 12 months’s prime nominations, together with MAPPA, CloverWorks, Ufotable, and Khara amongst many others.

Final 12 months’s Anime Awards attracted over 15 million votes from throughout 200 nations and territories — a 35% improve from earlier showings.

Listed here are the nominees for every class of the 2022 Anime Awards:

Anime of the 12 months

• 86 EIGHTY-SIX
• Assault on Titan Remaining Season Half 1
• JUJUTSU KAISEN (2nd cour)
• ODDTAXI
• Rating of Kings
• Sonny Boy

Greatest Boy

• Senku Ishigami — Dr. STONE Season 2
• Izumi Miyamura — Horimiya
• Odokawa — ODDTAXI
• Bojji – Rating of Kings
• Ken ‘Draken’ Ryuguji — Tokyo Reveners
• Manjiro ‘Mikey’ Sano — Tokyo Reveners

Greatest Woman

• Vladilena Milize — 86 EIGHTY-SIX
• Tohru Honda — Fruits Basket The Remaining Season
• Nobara Kugisaki — JUJUTSU KAISEN (2nd cour)
• Sarasa Watanabe — Kageki Shojo!!
• Shoko Komi — Komi Cannot Talk
• Ai Ohto — WONDER EGG PRIORITY

Greatest Protagonist

• Eren Jaeger — Assault on Titan Remaining Season Half 1
• Yuji Itadori — JUJUTSU KAISEN (2nd cour)
• Joe — MEGALOBOX 2: NOMAD
• Odokawa — ODDTAXI
• Bojji — Rating of Kings
• Ai Ohto — WONDER EGG PRIORITY

Greatest Antagonist

• Eren Jaeger — Assault on Titan Remaining Season Half 1
• Tomura Shigaraki — My Hero Academia Season 5
• Yano — ODDTAXI
• Echidna — Re:ZERO -Beginning Life in One other World- Season 2
• Ainosuke Shindo / “ADAM” — SK8 the Infinity
• Tetta Kisaki — Tokyo Reveners

Greatest Struggle Scene

• Eren Jaeger vs. Conflict Hammer Titan — Assault on Titan Remaining Season Half 1
• Naruto Uzumaki vs. Isshiki Otsutsuki — BORUTO: NARUTO NEXT GENERATIONS
• Yuji Itadori & Aoi Todo vs. Hanami — JUJUTSU KAISEN (2nd cour)
• Yuji Itadori & Nobara Kugisaki vs. Eso & Kechizu — JUJUTSU KAISEN (2nd cour)
• Elma vs. Tohru — Miss Kobayashi’s Dragon Maid S
• Vivi vs. Yugo Kakitani — Viviy -Fluorite Eye’s Music-

Greatest Director

• Yuichiro Hayashi — Assault on Titan Remaining Season Half 1
• Sunghoo Park — JUJUTSU KAISEN (2nd cour)
• Yo Moriyama — MEGALOBOX 2: NOMAD
• Baku Kinoshita — ODDTAXI
• Shingo Natsume — Sonny Boy
• Shin Wakabayashi — WONDER EGG PRIORITY

Greatest Animation

• Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Mugen Practice Arc
• JUJUTSU KAISEN (2nd cour)
• Miss Kobayashi’s Dragon Maid S
• Mushoku Tensei: Jobless Reincarnation 1st cour
• Viviy -Fluorite Eye’s Music-
• WONDER EGG PRIORITY

Greatest Character Design

• Tadashi Hiramatsu — JUJUTSU KAISEN (2nd cour)
• Baku Kinoshita and Hiromi Nakayama — ODDTAXI
• Atsuko Nozaki — Rating of Kings
• Michinori Chiba — SK8 the Infinity
• launch (FLAT STUDIO) and Yuichi Takahashi — Viviy -Fluorite Eye’s Song-
• Saki Takahashi — WONDER EGG PRIORITY

Greatest Rating

• Hiroyuki Sawano and Kohta Yamamoto – 86 EIGHTY-SIX
• Yuki Kajiura and Go Shiina – Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Mugen Practice Arc
• Mabanua – MEGALOBOX 2: NOMAD
• PUNPEE, VaVa, and OMSB – ODDTAXI
• Satoru Kosaki – Viviy -Fluorite Eye’s Music-
• D DÉ MOUSE and Delusion – WONDER EGG PRIORITY

Greatest VA Efficiency (Japanese)

• Ayane Sakura — Gabi Braun — Assault on Titan Remaining Season Half 1
• Yuki Kaji — Eren Jaeger — Assault on Titan Remaining Season Half 1
• Kiyoshi Kobayashi — Daisuke Jigen (Ep. 0) — LUPIN THE third PART 6
• Natsuki Hanae — Odokawa — ODDTAXI
• Aoi Yuki — Kumoko — So I am a Spider, So What?
• Kanata Aikawa — Ai Ohto — WONDER EGG PRIORITY

Greatest VA Efficiency (English)

• Brittany Cox — Fena — Fena: Pirate Princess
• Laura Bailey — Tohru Honda — Fruits Basket The Remaining Season
• Adam McArthur — Yuji Itadori — JUJUTSU KAISEN (2nd cour)
• David Wald — Ainosuke Shindo / “ADAM” — SK8 the Infinity
• Matt Shipman — Reki Kyan — SK8 the Infinity
• Anairis Quiñones — Rika Kawai — WONDER EGG PRIORITY

Greatest Opening Sequence

• Boku no senseou — Shinsei Kamattechan — Assault on Titan Remaining Season Half 1
• Kaibutsu — YOASOBI — BEASTARS
• VIVID VICE — Who-ya Prolonged — JUJUTSU KAISEN (2nd cour)
• Ai no Supreme! — Fhana — Miss Kobayashi’s Dragon Maid S
• ODDTAXI — Skirt and PUNPEE — ODDTAXI
• Cry Child — Official HIGE DANdism — Tokyo Reveners

Greatest Ending Sequence

• Shogeki — Yuko Ando — Assault on Titan Remaining Season Half 1
• Yasashii Suisei — YOASOBI — BEASTARS
• Shirogane — LiSA — Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Mugen Practice Arc
• Nai Nai — ReoNA — SHADOWS HOUSE
• Infinity — YUURI — SK8 the Infinity
• Ganbare! Kumoko-san no Theme — “Watashi” (VA: Aoi Yuki) — So I am a Spider, So What?

Greatest Motion

• Assault on Titan Remaining Season Half 1
• Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Mugen Practice Arc
• JUJUTSU KAISEN (2nd cour)
• SSSS.DYNAZENON
• Viviy -Fluorite Eye’s Music-
• WONDER EGG PRIORITY

Greatest Comedy

• DON’T TOY WITH ME, MISS NAGATARO
• Heaven’s Design Group
• Komi Cannot Talk
• Life Classes with Uramichi Oniisan
• Miss Kobayashi’s Dragon Maid S
• ODDTAXI

Greatest Drama

• 86 EIGHTY-SIX
• Fruits Basket The Remaining Season
• Kageki Shojo!!
• ODDTAXI
• To Your Eternity
• WONDER EGG PRIORITY

Greatest Romance

• BEASTARS
• Fruits Basket The Remaining Season
• DON’T TOY WITH ME, MISS NAGATARO
• Horimiya
• Komi Cannot Talk
• The Duke of Dying and His Maid

Greatest Fantasy

• Mushoku Tensei: Jobless Reincarnation (Cour 1)
• Rating of Kings
• That Time I Received Reincarnated as a Slime (Season 2)
• The Case Examine of Vanitas
• To Your Eternity
• WONDER EGG PRIORITY

Greatest Films

• BELLE
• Evangelion 3.0+1.0 Thrice Upon a Time
• Demon Slayer -Kimetsu no Yaiba- The Film: Mugen Practice
• Josee, the Tiger and the Fish
• Shirobako the Film
• Phrases Bubble Up Like Soda Pop

Sources: Crunchyroll