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May 25, 5:10 AM
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As we can see, our beloved show just lost in the Crunchyroll Anime Awards. And it's not to Dandadan, it's not to Dungeon Meshi, It's not to The Apothecary Diary. But it just lost to Solo Leveling โ˜ ๏ธโ˜ ๏ธ
theonlysanemanMay 25, 5:14 AM
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May 25, 5:15 AM
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No way mid leveling won
May 25, 5:18 AM
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I wasn’t following the awards but… Solo Levelling? Goddamn… out of ALL, won Solo Levelling…
May 25, 5:21 AM
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CR rewards mean literally nothing.
Solo Leveling is an easily digestible, generic shounen with good animation, while Frienren requires minimum attention span and media literacy? Guess which is going to win.
I wasn't even voting in this thing, because it's just popularity contest.
May 25, 5:23 AM
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Operating on the hype of season 2 just ending right before the voting started. Most people did not care that it was season 1 being nominated. It’s to be expected with the CR awards every year, all you can do is laugh
May 25, 5:24 AM
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crappyroll awards strikes again
May 25, 5:25 AM
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frieren lost in both best ost and anime of the year because of solo leveling s1
also another masterpiece apothecary diary only won best voice japanese voice actor award, this show deserved more awards
and why ninja kamui won orginal anime award please someone explain me
I am so disappointed in this award show
May 25, 5:27 AM
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CR award show will always cater to the normies... this is slander atp.. frieren should have won it all yet solo levelings animation legit got the better of frieren somehow when people remember season 1 and know season 2 is a thing and just blindly go "solo leveling is my choice" man... i feel for the poor souls who thought frieren was a sure win for all of the things solo leveling was nominated for ๐Ÿ˜“ (same)

and all the other stuff you said, DDD, dungeon meshi, etc etc, IT SHOULD ALL HAVE BEEN THERE ๐Ÿ˜ญ yet we were robbed because its crunchyroll, and crunchyroll always has that normie way on its side.
May 25, 5:32 AM
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SL winning is better than Frieren winning.
May 25, 5:38 AM
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Justice for frieren๐Ÿ˜ญ
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May 25, 5:44 AM
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If I'm to be completely honest, Apothecary Diaries deserves that award. It absolutely clears all the animes in contention.
May 25, 5:45 AM
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The Crunchyroll awards should never be taken seriously. Nothing more than a popularity contest.
May 25, 5:48 AM
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Popularity Anime Awards literally.
May 25, 5:52 AM

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After this, I'm never voting again in this garbage awards. This is not serious ๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜‚
May 25, 5:56 AM
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Typical shitshow. Was there anything else to be expected?
May 25, 5:58 AM

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To anyone who is upset (rightfully) will say this dk who that lady was giving the award probably haven't watched a single minute of anime said "Anime of the year is given to the one which talked about most".

Yes not the "best" "Popular". So ofc Freiren didn't win.
May 25, 6:03 AM
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Himmel's reaction after the Awards:
May 25, 6:03 AM
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Yeah Crunchyroll awards are hot garbage ๐Ÿšฎ
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May 25, 6:15 AM

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At least it wasn't unexpected, but what I can't comprehend is that Frieren didn't win the "Best Score" category, even though it had by far the best music.
*kappa*
May 25, 6:16 AM

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I mean it's a popularity contest but I believed that Frieren was popular enough. I guess SL brought crunchy a lot of profits and viewership so they were going to give it the title.
If you enjoyed the time you wasted, then its not a waste of time.

May 25, 6:22 AM
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it's a popularity contest, don't let it get to you man, Solo Leveling is the first of its kind so people who haven't seen stories like that hopped on it.
May 25, 6:33 AM
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What a way to kindle the fire...God Bless my eyes when that damn levelling takes over the social media...Guess I must stop visiting those for a while...Sad abt Frieren and Apothecary Diaries which had 2 successful seasons as well other than that...
May 25, 7:24 AM
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What is more atrocious was Frieren didn't win in OST category but Shit Leveling. And I kinda expected that Frieren will not win because SL is Aniplex and Crunchy production and the awards are being organized by them so obviously they will give awards to their titels.

And Dandadan or Frieren did not win in best animation is another L. Like how Filler training arc with 1 good episode with good animation wins the best animation catagory. I must say Crunchy would have given this to Dandadan if they didn't have beef with Dandadan production committee.
May 25, 7:24 AM

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It should have been obvious, by S2's record-breaking performance, that S1 was going to win the AOTY.

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May 25, 7:30 AM
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Unconnected_ said:
As we can see, our beloved show just lost in the Crunchyroll Anime Awards. And it's not to Dandadan, it's not to Dungeon Meshi, It's not to The Apothecary Diary. But it just lost to Solo Leveling โ˜ ๏ธโ˜ ๏ธ

Bro Jinwoo won the best main character lmao

This is again, similar to Ballon d'Or, a popularity check. Solo Leveling has the biggest overseas audience because of an amazing dub along with their overseas PR
May 25, 7:30 AM
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Chronon said:
It should have been obvious, by S2's record-breaking performance, that S1 was going to win the AOTY.

But this was only S1 SL in the awards? Why would S2 even matter in this case? Also, why Dungeon Meshi isn't in any of the awards again?
May 25, 7:30 AM

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Man, Crunchy Is the land of shounentards, of course this would happen.
May 25, 7:31 AM
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Unconnected_ said:
As we can see, our beloved show just lost in the Crunchyroll Anime Awards. And it's not to Dandadan, it's not to Dungeon Meshi, It's not to The Apothecary Diary. But it just lost to Solo Leveling โ˜ ๏ธโ˜ ๏ธ

Just a reminder that this is the same awards ceremony that choose made in abyss has best anime of the year one time. Man How did things change for the worse because now looking at it Made in abyss winning was a miracle.
May 25, 7:51 AM
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Frieren, Apothecary Diary and Dangers in My Heart all being robbed this year in Churchyroll, terrible list this year
May 25, 8:01 AM
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Come on lets be serious, its nothing but a popularity contest.
May 25, 8:02 AM
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worse yet we now all know from the start that crunchyroll awards 2026 is also going to be ruined as solo leveling s2 is even more popular than the first season
May 25, 8:07 AM

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Do japanese people criticize the anime awards as well? Were they allowed to vote?
May 25, 8:14 AM
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Anime awardsโŒ
Popularity awards โœ”๏ธ
May 25, 8:17 AM
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It was never gonna win the popularity contest anyway (rip frieren 2025)
May 25, 8:26 AM
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I like Frieren but people’s mass glazing of it really hampers my enjoyment
May 25, 8:31 AM

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Kind of funny seeing people glaze crunchroll popularity contest ignoring the fact that it was Frieren and Solo Leveling award show. Lol
Solo leveling probably won because the judges and voters thought the mc was more attractive. That is what democracy comes to.
May 25, 8:39 AM
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There was never any chance SL wouldn't win considering the number of likes its episodes get on CR. Would've loved Frieren to get best series but SL is acceptable. It will be same story next year with SL2 vs Frieren 2,same outcome guaranteed ๐Ÿ™
May 25, 8:41 AM
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ShadowReel said:
I like Frieren but people’s mass glazing of it really hampers my enjoyment

syau It fucking deserves the glazing
May 25, 9:16 AM
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Crunchyroll viewers barely have an attention span
May 25, 9:18 AM
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Given that the voters in this farce are the viewers, those who don’t vote only have themselves to blame. I’m one, because I don’t care. I know what I like and watch that, so does it matter who wins? Strange how the shows’ positioning in the results in no way reflect their ratings on mal. It’s not CR to blame here, just the masses who bothered voting when most people’s favourites weren’t even eligible.
May 25, 9:27 AM

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Frieren taking her L like

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May 25, 10:09 AM
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Trash leveling fans did it๐Ÿ™„
May 25, 10:10 AM

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Solo Leveling WHAAAAT?
We all hate it when you forget about your deadline until last minute
May 25, 10:15 AM
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Reply to Neterosan
Do japanese people criticize the anime awards as well? Were they allowed to vote?
@Neterosan Ironically Japanese people can't even vote in the Crunchyroll anime awards because Crunchyroll is blocked in Japan. the birthplace of anime cant access to an anime streaming platform, just wild

At least Frieren is getting the recognition it deserves in Japan. it actually won Anime of the Year there and many more awards
May 25, 10:17 AM
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Crunchyroll's awards shouldn't be taken seriously. If Nestle hosted a food award show, and used it to promote what new line of overly processed food snacks they wanted to see more sales in, everyone would know what to call that. It's a laughable conflict of interest. It's a farce.
May 25, 10:26 AM

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GTRaijin said:
Chronon said:
It should have been obvious, by S2's record-breaking performance, that S1 was going to win the AOTY.

But this was only S1 SL in the awards? Why would S2 even matter in this case? Also, why Dungeon Meshi isn't in any of the awards again?

It's just my hypothesis that three things have boosted SL's vote bank:

- Recency bias of S2:
It had the most anticipated Jeju arc and Beru fight. So when voting started (on mid of April) the popularity of SL in general was already skyrocketing.

- S2 being exclusively available on Crunchyroll:
Most of SL fandom was already on CR when the voting began. The highly active accounts during that time could outnumber any other fandom. Currently Frieren has about 240k ratings on CR where SL has almost 800k. On January 5th SL had about 370k ratings.

- People vote for the IP not the season
Just from my personal experience, outside MAL I don't often see people considering different seasons separately. Unless something is catastrophically bad about a season or the said person is a (self-proclaimed) critic, all seasons are taken together while judging an anime.

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May 25, 10:58 AM
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The CR Anime Awards are all about popularity, but that doesn’t change how awesome and better Frieren is.
May 25, 11:14 AM
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Ts pmo icl soh cah toa๐Ÿฅ€๐Ÿฅ€๐Ÿ’”๐Ÿ’” aint no way frieren lost to mid leveling๐Ÿ˜ข๐Ÿ˜ข
May 25, 11:29 AM
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solo leveling was good but Frieren was definitely better
May 25, 11:36 AM
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I don't know what Solo Leveling is, but I seeing it bested both Dungeon Meshi and Frieren, I have decided that I hate it
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