Crunchyroll Anime Award for Best Action

The Crunchyroll Anime Award for Best Action is a genre-specific award given at the Crunchyroll Anime Awards since its inaugural edition in 2017. It is given for the best action anime series from the previous year. Winners are determined through a combined voting process by judges and public voting.^[1]

Crunchyroll Anime Award for Best Action
Awarded for	Best action anime series of the previous year
Country	United States Japan
First award	Bones — Mob Psycho 100 (2017)
Currently held by	A-1 Pictures — Solo Leveling (2025)
Most wins	Studio: Bones / MAPPA (2) Anime: Jujutsu Kaisen (2)
Most nominations	Studio: MAPPA (6) Anime: Attack on Titan / Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba (4)
Website	Crunchyroll Anime Awards

Mob Psycho 100 by Bones first won the award in 2017.^[2] In the latest edition in 2025, Solo Leveling by A-1 Pictures won the award.^[3]

Winners and nominees

In the following list, the first titles listed in gold are the winners; those not in gold are nominees, which are listed in alphabetical order. The years given are those in which the ceremonies took place.

2010s

Year	Anime	Studio(s)
2016 (1st) [4][2]
	Mob Psycho 100	Bones
	My Hero Academia	Bones
	Drifters	Hoods Entertainment
	Kabaneri of the Iron Fortress	Wit Studio
	Most Popular "Other": JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Diamond is Unbreakable (season 3)	David Production
2017 (2nd) [5]
	My Hero Academia (season 2)	Bones
	Attack on Titan (season 2)	Wit Studio
	Blood Blockade Battlefront & Beyond (season 2)	Bones
	Fate/Apocrypha	A-1 Pictures
	Land of the Lustrous	Orange
	Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans (season 2)	Sunrise

2020s

Year	Anime	Studio(s)
2021 (6th) [6][7]
	Jujutsu Kaisen (cour 2)	MAPPA
	Attack on Titan: The Final Season Part 1 (season 4)	MAPPA
	Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Mugen Train Arc (season 2)	Ufotable
	SSSS.Dynazenon	Studio Trigger
	Vivy: Fluorite Eye's Song	Wit Studio
	Wonder Egg Priority	CloverWorks
2021/2022 (7th) [8][9]
	Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Entertainment District Arc (season 2 cour 2)	Ufotable
	Attack on Titan: The Final Season Part 2 (season 4 cour 2)	MAPPA
	Cyberpunk: Edgerunners	Studio Trigger and CD Projekt
	JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Stone Ocean (season 5)	David Production
	Lycoris Recoil	A-1 Pictures
	Spy × Family	Wit Studio and CloverWorks
2022/2023 (8th) [10][11]
	Jujutsu Kaisen (season 2)	MAPPA
	Attack on Titan: The Final Season The Final Chapters Special 1 (season 4 cour 3)	MAPPA
	Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War – The Separation	Pierrot
	Chainsaw Man	MAPPA
	Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Swordsmith Village Arc (season 3)	Ufotable
	One Piece	Toei Animation
2023/2024 (9th) [12][3]
	Solo Leveling	A-1 Pictures
	Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War – The Conflict	Pierrot Films
	Dandadan	Science SARU
	Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Hashira Training Arc (season 4)	Ufotable
	Kaiju No. 8	Production I.G
	Wind Breaker	CloverWorks

Records

Anime series

Franchise	Wins	Nominations	Seasons
Jujutsu Kaisen	2	2	Season 1 cour 2, Season 2
Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba	1	4	Mugen Train Arc, Entertainment District Arc, Swordsmith Village Arc, Hashira Training Arc
My Hero Academia		2	Season 1, Season 2
Attack on Titan	0	4	Season 2, The Final Season Part 1, The Final Season Part 2, The Final Season The Final Chapters Special 1
Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War		2	The Separation, The Conflict
JoJo's Bizarre Adventure			Diamond is Unbreakable, Stone Ocean

Studios

Bones holds the record for the most wins in an anime studio.

MAPPA also holds the record for the most wins. They were also nominated six times, the most of any studio to date.

Wit Studio holds the record for the most nominations without a win in an anime studio.

MAPPA received the most wins (2) and nominations (6) for an anime studio, with Jujutsu Kaisen became the only anime to win multiple awards. Bones also won two awards; both Mob Psycho 100 and the second-season of My Hero Academia received wins for a studio. The remaining studios (A-1 Pictures and Ufotable) received a single award.

Wit Studio received the most nominations for an anime studio without a single win with 4. Attack on Titan received four nominations, but also did not win a single award.

Studio	Wins	Nominations	Seasons
MAPPA	2	6	Attack on Titan (The Final Season Part 1, The Final Season Part 2, The Final Season The Final Chapters Special 1), Jujutsu Kaisen (Season 1 cour 2, Season 2)
Bones		4	Blood Blockade Battlefront & Beyond (Season 2), Mob Psycho 100, My Hero Academia (Season 1, Season 2)
Ufotable	1		Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba (Mugen Train Arc, Entertainment District Arc, Swordsmith Village Arc, Hashira Training Arc)
A-1 Pictures		3	Fate/Apocrypha, Lycoris Recoil, Solo Leveling
Wit Studio	0	4	Attack on Titan (Season 2), Kabaneri of the Iron Fortress, Spy × Family, Vivy: Fluorite Eye's Song
CloverWorks		3	Spy × Family, Wind Breaker, Wonder Egg Priority
David Production		0	JoJo's Bizarre Adventure (Diamond is Unbreakable, Stone Ocean)
Pierrot			Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War (The Separation, The Conflict)
Studio Trigger			Cyberpunk: Edgerunners, SSSS.Dynazenon