Solo Leveling Wins Best New Series at Crunchyroll Anime Awards 2025
- India Today Gaming
- May 25, 2025 (UPDATED: May 25, 2025 18:09 IST)
Solo Leveling won Best New Series at the 2025 Crunchyroll Anime Awards, sparking fan excitement and debate over its victory against top anime titles
TOKYO, JAPAN – May 25, 2025 — Solo Leveling has been announced as the Best New Series in the 2025 Crunchyroll Anime Awards, and this makes the anime even more popular now. The result was shared during a pre-show event where Gigguk, an anime YouTuber, joined host Tim Lyu to give the award.
This anime is from A-1 Pictures and already was big hit for many fans. Now with this award, it has become more known as top anime of the year.
Solo Leveling: More People Voted This Year Than Before
Crunchyroll Anime Awards happen every year to celebrates the best stuff in anime like cast, story, design and more. In 2025, fans all around the world had vote more than 51 million times, way more then last year’s 17 million.
Solo Leveling won the award by beating other big anime titles. The other nominees was Dandadan, Delicious in Dungeon, Kaiju No. 8, Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End, and The Apothecary Diaries. This anime was also loved by many fans.
Fans Reactions
Fans of Solo Leveling were very happy and shared many post about the win. They said this is only just starting and the anime gonna win more later. They were happy their favorite anime won.
But not everyone feels the same way. Some fans think Solo Leveling didn’t should win. They say other anime had a deep story and emotional meaning. Many pointed out that Frieren and Apothecary Diaries were better in writing and animation.
A lot of fans also say Solo Leveling only win cause it’s too popular. They feel like hype is the reason it got award, not because it is the best. It has cool action and look nice, but some say it doesn’t have a good story. Even so, the win show that Solo Leveling got huge support from all over the world. The anime not from Japan but Korea, and still got love from anime fans everywhere.
In the end, this award show how different fans like different kinds of anime. Whether or not everyone agrees, it’s clear anime is getting more popular around the world.
Written By “Sujoy Bhowmik - India Today Gaming”