The Crunchyroll Anime Awards returned to Tokyo, Japan, for its 8th iteration. The 2024 awards show took place on March 2, and it was by far the most popular iteration of the show in terms of livestreaming viewership. The event organisers' approach to the event on live-streaming platforms was revamped for this year, and they were rewarded with over 90K concurrent viewers at peak.
The 2024 Crunchyroll Anime Awards viewership statistics
The 2024 edition of the Anime Awards was held at the Grand Prince Hotel New Takanawa in Tokyo. More than 30 categories were covered, as the awards show aims to celebrate everyone in the industry, from voice actors and musicians to art directors and animators.
The event received more than 231K Hours Watched across multiple live-streaming platforms and only 3 and a half hours of broadcasting time, making it by far the most-watched Crunchyroll Anime Awards iteration yet. It also received 90.7K Peak Viewers as the night's final award was handed out: Anime of the Year 2024. Jujutsu Kaisen’s Season 2 was the ultimate recipient of the award, and all other winners are listed out below.
Anime of the Year – Jujutsu Kaisen
Best Action – Jujutsu Kaisen
Best Animation – Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Swordsmith Village Arc
Best Anime Song – Idol by YOASOBI for【OSHI NO KO】
Best Art Direction – Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Swordsmith Village Arc
Best Character Design – Sayaka Koiso, Tadashi Hiramatsu for Jujutsu Kaisen
Best Cinematography – Jujutsu Kaisen
Best Comedy – SPY x FAMILY Season 1 Cour 2
Best Continuing Series – ONE PIECE
Best Director – Shota Goshozono, Jujutsu Kaisen
Best Drama – Attack on Titan Final Season THE FINAL CHAPTERS Special 1
Best Ending Sequence – Akari by Soshi Sakiyama from Jujutsu Kaisen
Best Fantasy – Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Swordsmith Village Arc
Best Film – Suzume
Best Main Character – Monkey D. Luffy from ONE PIECE
Best New Series – Chainsaw Man
Best Opening Sequence – Where Our Blue Is by Tatsuya Kitani from Jujutsu Kaisen
Best Original Anime – Buddy Daddies
Best Romance – Horimiya: The Missing Pieces
Best Score – Attack on Titan Final Season The Final Chapters Special 1
Best Slice of Life – BOCCHI THE ROCK!
Best Supporting Character – Satoru Gojo from Jujutsu Kaisen
Best Voice Actor Performance (Arabic) – Taleb Alrefai, Senku Ishigami, Dr. STONE
Best Voice Actor Performance (Castilian) – Joel Gómez Jimenez, Denji, Chainsaw Man
Best Voice Actor Performance (English) – Ryan Colt Levy, Denji, Chainsaw Man
Best Voice Actor Performance (French) – Martial Le Minoux, Suguru Geto, Jujutsu Kaisen
Best Voice Actor Performance (German) – Franziska Trunte, Power, Chainsaw Man
Best Voice Actor Performance (Italian) – Mosè Singh, Denji, Chainsaw Man
Best Voice Actor Performance (Japanese) – Yuichi Nakamura, Satoru Gojo, Jujutsu Kaisen
Best Voice Actor Performance (Portuguese) – Léo Rabelo, Satoru Gojo, Jujutsu Kaisen
Best Voice Actor Performance (Spanish) – Emilio Treviño, Denji, Chainsaw Man
“Must Protect At All Cost” Character – Anya Forger, SPY x FAMILY Season 1 Cour 2
Read also: Twitch Chat Analysis: ‘Attack on Titan’ Last Episode & Anime Discussions on Twitch
Not only was the awards show setting viewership-related records, but the 2024 edition also experienced a record number of votes from fans voting for their favourites to take home an award; more than 34M votes for recorded by Crunchyroll, with Latin America, Europe, and North America contributing the largest proportion of votes.
One key difference in this year’s award show was the lack of a Japanese-language broadcasting option. For the 2023 iteration, Japanese was the only broadcast language apart from English, and it contributed roughly a third of the event’s total watch time. This year, no Japanese-language broadcasts were available, however, the event was opened up to community casters and co-streams in 2024, which heavily affected the viewership for the show.
Crunchyroll’s official YouTube channel was the largest source of concurrent viewers, having reached 31.5K Peak Viewers. The English-language broadcast the was the most popular option for fans, although community casters remained critical for the event’s record-setting viewership.
Gigguk is a British streamer and content creator who has been active for almost two decades. The creator is well known for his content focusing on anime, and he even presented an award at the 2nd Crunchyroll Anime Awards. In recent years, he has become most well-known for his podcast Trash Taste, which he hosts alongside other content creators CDawgVA and TheAn1meMan. The Brit reached 13.5K Peak Viewers while co-streaming the event, making this broadcast his second-most-popular stream ever.
Another friend of CDawg’s, VTuber ironmouse was the third-most popular broadcast option for the awards show, having reached 9K Peak Viewers. The female content creator is one of the most popular VTubers on Twitch and consistently reaches extremely high viewership. Although her broadcast of the event was popular in comparison to other streams of the awards show, it was low by her own standards, as she received 32.6K PV for a special 3D concert stream hosted only the day before the awards show.
Nicewigg was the remaining community member of this top 5 ranking, as he earned 6.4K Peak Viewers for the awards show. The American streamer is most well-known for his Apex Legends esports broadcasts, and his audience was not entirely receptive to the anime-related stream. He started his broadcast streaming an Apex Legends esports watch party, for which he received 10.5K PV. He reached 6.4K PV while switching from Apex Legends to anime, but his viewership only decreased as the event continued.
Finally, the official Twitch channel of Crunchyroll was the final broadcaster of this ranking, with 6.2K Peak Viewers. The Twitch channel held decently strong viewership throughout the entire awards show, but it was unable to compete with the YouTube Live broadcast, which appealed to a much wider audience.
The 2024 Crunchyroll Anime Awards were by far the most popular iteration of the awards show ever. The 2024 iteration recorded an 182% increase in peak viewership compared to the the 2021 event, which was the second-most popular edition on record.
The huge growth in popularity of the awards show was thanks to a combination of attention from community members and co-streams, as well as audience growth for the main official broadcasts. Although the event experienced strong growth, the lack of a Japanese-language broadcast is odd for an event which previously featured such strong viewership from this demographic.
Excluding Japan, Crunchyroll covered all bases. Official Crunchyroll-branded YouTube channels broadcasted the event for Brazilian-Portuguese, French, Spanish, German, and Italian audiences. The 2025 iteration of the awards show might still have more room to grow, especially if the event organisers have a Japanese-language broadcast ready to go.
