This article contains spoilers from Solo Leveling season 2.
Summary
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Crunchyroll Awards 2025: Controversy on solo niveness that wins this year's anime.
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Frieren: Beyond Journey's End was considered deserving of the top prize by many fans.
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Solo -niveness sweeps several categories, but the frieren wins the best background art and more.
The winners of this year's Crunchyroll Awards were revealed a while ago, and the fans were shocked by some results, to say it mildly. Many controversies have been brewed, especially with regard to the most important award of this event – this year's anime. Solo department Winning it was expected, see its popularity, but many are still unhappy. This second anime would have been the perfect choice.

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Crunchyroll Awards for 2025 has been revealed
Solo Living wins this year's anime
Crunchyroll anime awards are expected much of fans every year. These prizes reward anime in different categories, some including the best voice actor's performance, best new series, best animation and many more.
The Crunchyroll Awards are among the biggest anime events. The results for these awards are decided by a combination of general voice and jury after an anime is nominated for a category.
The Crunchyroll Awards for this year, 2025, came up with a certain controversy, which is not exactly unusual for this type of event. The controversy has to do with the anime chosen as this year's anime, perhaps the most prestigious award at this event. The selected anime was solo niveness.
I feel that something within me is lost every time I get stronger. -Sung Jin-Woo

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Solo Living definitely took anime community by storm with how successful the show was. Not only won this anime anime this year, but it was also nominated and won many other categories. Solo department Also assigned best new series, best action, best protagonist, best points, best final sequence, best voice artist performance (Brazilian Portuguese), best voice artist performance (Castilian Spanish) and best voice artist performance (English). This is much for an anime, mostly this year and by far. It is not surprising to see why many anime fans are upset about this sweep. Many fans believe that this year's anime should have gone to none other than the friere.
Frieren: Beyond Journey's End should have won
Many fans agree that this anime deserved to win more
While solo -niveling won this year's anime, many believe that anime who actually deserved the victory is the friere: Beyond Journey's End.
Frieren: Beyond Journey's End has become an iconic anime in society, and the friere has quickly become a fan favorite. The story has moved many people with their melancholy themes. The action and animation cannot be underestimated either, and both are good in their own consideration.
This gives back memories. We traveled to all possible places. Everything seemed so brilliant and new. And you were always there in the beautiful memories. – Heaven
While Fresh Did not win this year's anime, it won in some other categories, especially best background art, best drama and best supportive character. As such, it is also not a total loss for the series, unlike any other major anime.

Solo department
- Release date
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January 7, 2024
- Board members
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Shunsuke Nakashige
- Author
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Noboru Kimura
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Shun mizushino (voice)
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Gäva Nakamura
Kenta Morobishi (Voice)