The Rising of the Shield Hero’s Raphtalia won Crunchyroll’s Best Girl Award in the 2020 Anime Awards.
Raphtalia bested out Carole from Carole & Tuesday, Chika Fujiwara from KAGUYA-SAMA: LOVE IS WAR, Emma from The Promised Neverland, Kohaku from Dr. Stone, and Nezuko Kamado from Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba.
The Rising of the Shield Hero would also win Best Performance by a Voice Actor (EN) for Billy Kametz’s voice work as Naofumi.
While Demon Slayer: Kimetsu would fall to The Rising of the Shield Hero for Best Girl, the show would win top spots in a number of categories including Best Fight Scene for Tanjiro and Nezuko vs Rui.
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Demon Slayer also won Best Boy for Tanjiro Kamado and would take home the big prize, Best Anime of the Year.
Another big winner was KAGUYA-SAMA: LOVE IS WAR. It took home three awards including Best Ending Sequence, Best Couple, and Best Comedy.
Here’s the full list of winners:
Best Character Design: Satoshi Iwataki, Original Character Design by Hiroyuki Asada for Dororo
Best Animation: Mob Psycho 100 II
Best Fight Scene: Tanjiro & Nezuko vs Rui in Demon Slayer: Kimetsu No Yaiba
Best Couple: Kaguya Shinomiya & Miyuki Shirogane in KAGUYA-SAMA: LOVE IS WAR
Best Girl: Raphtalia in The Rising of the Shield Hero
Best Boy: Tanjiro Kamado in Demon Slayer: Kimestu No Yaiba
Best Opening Sequence (OP): “99.9” in Mob Psycho 100 II
Best Ending Sequence (ED): “Chikatto Chika Chikaa” in KAGUYA-SAMA: LOVE IS WAR
Best Performance by a Voice Actor (EN): Billy Kametz as Naofumi in The Rising of the Shield Hero
Best Performance by a Voice Actor (JP): Yuichi Nakamura as Bruno Bucciarati in JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: Golden Wind
Best Fantasy: The Promised Neverland
Best Comedy: KAGUYA-SAMA: LOVE IS WAR
Best Drama: Vinland Saga
Best Director: Tetsuro Araki and Masashi Koizuka for Attack on Titan Season 3
Best Score: Mocky for Carole & Tuesday
Best Protagonist: Senku in Dr. Stone.
Best Antagonist: Isabella in The Promised Neverland.
Anime of the Year: Demon Slayer: Kimetsu No Yaiba.
Crunchyroll reports there were over 11 million votes cast in this year’s Crunchyroll Anime Awards, an increase of 5 million from last year.
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Were you surprised by any of the winners? What would your choices have been?