Crunchyroll Anime Award for Best Comedy

The Crunchyroll Anime Award for Best Comedy is a genre-specific award given at the Crunchyroll Anime Awards since its inaugural edition in 2017. It is given for the best comedy 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 Comedy
Awarded for	Best comedy anime series of the previous year
Country	United States Japan
First award	Studio Deen — Haven't You Heard? I'm Sakamoto (2017)
Currently held by	A-1 Pictures — Mashle: Magic and Muscles The Divine Visionary Candidate Exam Arc (2025)
Most wins	Studio: A-1 Pictures (3) Anime: Kaguya-sama: Love Is War / Spy × Family (2)
Most nominations	Studio: A-1 Pictures / CloverWorks (5) Anime: Kaguya-sama: Love Is War / KonoSuba: God's Blessing on This Wonderful World! / Spy × Family (3)
Website	Crunchyroll Anime Awards

Haven't You Heard? I'm Sakamoto by Studio Deen first won the award in 2017.^[2] In the latest edition in 2025, Mashle: Magic and Muscles The Divine Visionary Candidate Exam Arc 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]
	Haven't You Heard? I'm Sakamoto	Studio Deen
	Keijo	Xebec
	KonoSuba: God's Blessing on This Wonderful World!	Studio Deen
	Space Patrol Luluco	Studio Trigger
	Most Popular "Other": Nanbaka	Satelight
2017 (2nd) [5]
	Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid	Kyoto Animation
	Gamers!	Pine Jam
	KonoSuba: God's Blessing on This Wonderful World! (season 2)	Studio Deen
	Little Witch Academia	Studio Trigger
	Mr. Osomatsu (season 2)	Pierrot
	Tsuredure Children	Studio Gokumi
2019 (4th) [6][7]
	Kaguya-sama: Love Is War	A-1 Pictures
	Aggretsuko (season 2)	Fanworks
	How Heavy Are the Dumbbells You Lift?	Doga Kobo
	Isekai Quartet	Studio Puyukai
	My Roommate Is a Cat	Zero-G
	Sarazanmai	MAPPA / Lapin Track

2020s

Year	Anime	Studio(s)
2020 (5th) [8]
	Kaguya-sama: Love Is War? (season 2)	A-1 Pictures
	Kakushigoto: My Dad's Secret Ambition	Ajiado
	Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken!	Science SARU
	The Misfit of Demon King Academy	Silver Link
	My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom!
	Sleepy Princess in the Demon Castle	Doga Kobo
2021 (6th) [9][10]
	Komi Can't Communicate	OLM
	Don't Toy with Me, Miss Nagatoro	Telecom Animation Film
	Heaven's Design Team	Asahi Production
	Life Lessons with Uramichi Oniisan	Studio Blanc
	Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid S (season 2)	Kyoto Animation
	Odd Taxi	OLM and P.I.C.S.
2021/2022 (7th) [11][12]
	Spy × Family	Wit Studio and CloverWorks
	Kaguya-sama: Love Is War – Ultra Romantic (season 3)	A-1 Pictures
	Kotaro Lives Alone	Liden Films
	My Dress-Up Darling	CloverWorks
	Uncle from Another World	Atelier Pontdarc
	Ya Boy Kongming!	P.A. Works
2022/2023 (8th) [13][14]
	Spy × Family (season 1 cour 2)	Wit Studio and CloverWorks
	Bocchi the Rock!	CloverWorks
	Buddy Daddies	P.A. Works
	Mashle: Magic and Muscles	A-1 Pictures
	Urusei Yatsura	David Production
	Zom 100: Bucket List of the Dead	Bug Films
2023/2024 (9th) [15][3]
	Mashle: Magic and Muscles The Divine Visionary Candidate Exam Arc (season 2)	A-1 Pictures
	Delicious in Dungeon	Studio Trigger
	KonoSuba: God's Blessing on This Wonderful World! (season 3)	Drive
	My Deer Friend Nokotan	Wit Studio
	Ranma ½	MAPPA
	Spy × Family (season 2)	Wit Studio and CloverWorks

Records

Anime series

Kaguya-sama: Love Is War and Spy × Family holds the record for the most wins and nominations in an anime series.

KonoSuba: God's Blessing on This Wonderful World! also holds the record for the most nominations–and the most nominations without a win in an anime series.

Franchise	Wins	Nominations	Seasons
Kaguya-sama: Love Is War	2	3	Season 1, Love Is War?, Ultra Romantic
Spy × Family			Season 1 cour 1, Season 1 cour 2, Season 2
Mashle: Magic and Muscles	1	2	Season 1, The Divine Visionary Candidate Exam Arc
Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid			Season 1, S
KonoSuba: God's Blessing on This Wonderful World!	0	3	Season 1, Season 2, Season 3

Studios

A-1 Pictures holds the record for the most wins, as well as being the most-nominated studio along with CloverWorks.

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

A-1 Pictures received the most wins with 3, followed by CloverWorks and Wit Studio with 2. It also has the most nominations along with CloverWorks with 5. Both Kaguya-sama: Love Is War and Spy × Family were tied for the most nominations (3) and wins (2). The remaining studios (Kyoto Animation, OLM and Studio Deen) received 1 was single-cour anime series.

Studio Trigger received the most nominations for an anime studio without a single win with 3. KonoSuba: God's Blessing on This Wonderful World! received three nominations, but also did not win a single award.

Studio	Wins	Nominations	Seasons
A-1 Pictures	3	5	Kaguya-sama: Love Is War (Season 1, Love Is War?, Ultra Romantic), Mashle: Magic and Muscles (Season 1, The Divine Visionary Candidate Exam Arc)
CloverWorks	2		Bocchi the Rock!, My Dress-Up Darling, Spy × Family (Season 1 cour 1, Season 1 cour 2, Season 2)
Wit Studio		4	My Deer Friend Nokotan, Spy × Family (Season 1 cour 1, Season 1 cour 2, Season 2)
Studio Deen	1	3	Haven't You Heard? I'm Sakamoto, KonoSuba: God's Blessing on This Wonderful World! (Season 1, Season 2)
Kyoto Animation		2	Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid (Season 1, S)
OLM			Komi Can't Communicate, Odd Taxi
Studio Trigger	0	3	Delicious in Dungeon, Little Witch Academia, Space Patrol Luluco
Doga Kobo		2	How Heavy Are the Dumbbells You Lift?, Sleepy Princess in the Demon Castle
MAPPA			Ranma ½, Sarazanmai
P.A. Works			Buddy Daddies, Ya Boy Kongming!
Silver Link			The Misfit of Demon King Academy, My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom!