With almost a 50 percent increase in votes, Crunchyroll is celebrating a record of over 51 million votes cast from fans for the 2025 Crunchyroll Anime Awards.
Adding to the international excitement building around this year’s show, Crunchyroll is announcing an exciting lineup of music performances by Japanese singer-songwriter LiSA, hip-hop duo Creepy Nuts, as well as rock band FLOW, alongside notable presenters, including global superstar and anime collaborator J Balvin, GRAMMY award winning singer Kacey Musgraves, and screenwriter Zak Penn.
This year’s musical acts reflect the international success anime has seen over the past year. Creepy Nuts, the 2025 Anime Award nominated hip-hop duo behind viral hits “Otonoke” and “Bling-Bang-Bang-Born”, the opening themes for Dan Da Dan and Mashle: Magic and Muscles, respectively. FLOW, the legendary rock band featured in the openings for Naruto and Code Geass, will perform “DAYS” in celebration of the 20th anniversary of Eureka Seven. LiSA, Spotify’s most-streamed Japanese artist overseas in 2020 and the singer of Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba’s “Gurenge”, will take the stage for a special performance.
The Crunchyroll Anime Awards will take place on May 25th, with the live ceremony hosted by renowned voice actress Sally Amaki and popular entertainer Jon Kabira. Beginning with the pre-show at 4:00 PM AEST and main show at 5:00 PM AEST, the livestream will be available for global tune-in on Crunchyroll’s Twitch and YouTube channels as well as SONY PICTURES CORE and the Sony Group Corp Global YouTube Channel. The 2025 Crunchyroll Anime Awards will be available in nine languages.
