December 11th, 2024 
Haylie Baker 
At the São Paulo Expo in Brazil, December 5, 2024, Crunchyroll hosted CCXP 2024, its annual Industry Panel. During the event, several anime acquisitions and trailers for the upcoming series and films of 2025 were announced, as well as the Crunchyroll Anime Awards opening date for May 25, 2025 in Tokyo, Japan, and its selected hosts for the event.
The ninth annual Crunchyroll Anime Awards cohosts have been confirmed. They will feature the fan-favorite voice actress Sally Amaki, the acclaimed entertainer Jon Kabira, and the newest and first-time Brazilian celebrity presenter, the iconic drag star Pabllo Vittar. Sony Group Corporation Chairman Kenichiro Yoshida will once again provide the opening remarks.
For this year, a new nominee eligibility period is being transitioned in with the Crunchyroll Anime Awards being hosted in May instead of March. This period extends from October 1, 2023 to December 31, 2024, only for the 2025 Anime Awards. Future eligibility will be from January 1 to December 31.
Stated by Gita Rebbapragada, Crunchyroll’s Chief Operating Officer, “Every year we see an outpouring of love and admiration from fans around the world, voting for and cheering on their favorite shows and creators. This year will be no different as anime continues to captivate larger and more diverse audiences than ever before.”
32 categories were confirmed with 3 new categories, Best Isekai Anime, Best Voice Artist Performance (Hindi), and Best Background Art. The nominees for each category will be revealed on April 3, 2025, selected by independent Anime Awards judges for fans to vote for the victors.
The program will take place May 25, 2025, at the Grand Prince Hotel Shin Takanawa in Tokyo, with Sony Music Solutions Inc. and Dempsey Productions providing funding and coordination with Crunchyroll. For those who cannot make it in person, the event will also be livestreamed for global audiences, making their celebration of anime accessible worldwide.
Crunchyroll has also announced their 2025 line-up along with some exciting new films. The included titles are:
Takashi Miike, known for Ichi the Killer, Audition, and 13 Assassins, brings a new and fun take on the classic zombie virus trope with Nyaight of the Living Cat. Acting as Executive Director, Takashi Miike will work in tandem with Kamiya Tomohiro as the series Director, contributing to the project after their key animation work on Sing a Bit of Harmony. With animation by OLM, best known for their work on The Apothecary Diaries and the classic Pokémon, and the screenplay adapted by Irie Shongo with experience in Orb: On the Movements of the Earth and Golden Kamuy Season 1, the anime is set to stream on Crunchyroll in 2025.
Cats have finally taken over the world with a virus that transforms anyone who makes physical contact with one into a cat themself. The world must somehow resist the extreme temptation of kitty cuteness. Will humanity survive, or will the hordes of felines?
Magic Maker: How to Make Magic in Another World
Based on the light novel Magic Maker ~Isekai Maho no Tsukurikata~ by Kazuki Kaburagi, this series will simulcast on Crunchyroll in January 2025. With series composition writer Keiichiro Ochi from Go! Go! Loser Ranger!, directed by Kazuomi Koga known for Rent-A-Girlfriend, and produced by Studio DEEN which animated KONOSUBA -God’s blessing on this wonderful world!, comes a brand new isekai series for anime lovers.
After passing away and reincarnating into a world without magic, the newly named Sion loses hope for the magical lands of his dreams. Now a child to a low-ranking noble family, he tries to adapt to his new life, but finds that magic may be possible in this world after all. With his childhood dream in sight, together with his new elder sister Marie, they set out to uncover and wield magic for themselves.
Even Given the Worthless “Appraiser” Class, I’m Actually the Strongest
Adapted from the original novel by Ibarakino, the series will debut on Crunchyroll on January 2025. Directed by Kenta Ōnishi with prior work on Studio Apartment, Good Lighting, and Angel Included, and series composition by Touko Machida, the screenwriter for Life Lessons with Uramichi Onissan. The animation studio bringing the story to life is Okuruto Noboru, known for Tomodachi Game and Viral Hit.
Ein, rescued by Yuri, the World Tree herself, is gifted the power to lift himself out of his cowardly, trash-picking life, and train to use his Spirit Eye. His worthless “Appraiser” job becomes something more under the training of Ursula, the protector of the World Tree. As thanks, once Ein is powerful enough, he plans to take Yuri to see her other World Tree sisters.
Unnamed Memory Season 2
Director Kazuya Miura, known for also directing Uzaki-chan Wants to Hang Out!, returns alongside composition writer Deko Akao, writer of You are Ms. Servant. The original novel was written by Kuji Furumiya with art by Chibi, continuing its adaptation as an anime with studio ENGI, the studio behind Trapped in a Dating Sim: The World of Otome Games is Tough for Mobs.
Prince Oscar proposed to the powerful witch Tinasha, in exchange for lifting the curse threatening his lineage. Though Tinasha may not like the idea of marrying him, she agrees to stay in his castle for a year in order to research how to save him from his curse. As she works to free him, dark secrets from her past threaten to ruin everything.
From the same studio of The 100 Girlfriends Who Really, Really, Really, Really, Really Love You, and the returning director Kousuke Murayama of the latest film Grisaia: Phantom Trigger the Animation Stargazer, comes the latest series animating the events of The Fruit of Grisaia, a romance visual novel. Bibury Animation Studio founder Tensho, director of the previous film and Rewrite, is handling the series composition. Grisaia Phantom Trigger is set to stream starting January 2025.
Years after Yuuji Kazami’s attempt at a normal school life at “Mihama Academy” ends, the school has been renovated into a specialist training school giving young girls firearms to defend their country. Six school girls each with their own specialty from firearms to explosives and data processing, tackle dangerous cases against terrorists.
Farmagia
Adapted from the video game Farmagia, which included character designs from Hiro Mashima the creator of FAIRY TAIL, the animation studio Bridge and director Akihiko Sano bring their prestigious experience into this new anime. With series composition by Toshizo Nemoto, known for writing for many Ultraman movies and Log Horizon as series composer, this new anime starts streaming January 2025.
The peaceful rule of the Magus Diluculum ends abruptly, and a power struggle begins in Felicidad. In an effort to protect their freedom, farmers called Farmagia raise monsters from the ground, and Farmagia Ten intends to prevent the tyrannical Glaza from taking over with the help of his friends.
Originally written by Tsukasa Tanimai in a novel series from 2017, Teogonia has been adapted with director Kunihiro Mori from Mars Daybreak and series composition by Tomoyasu Okubo. Asahi Production, behind Million Doll and Gushing Over Magical Girls, is producing the animation.
A simple village boy, Kai defending his home in the endless war against demihumans, nearly joins his comrades in being slaughtered. But he suddenly remembers a life he’s never lived, in another world, and awakens to magical abilities. Hoping to protect his village Lag, he trains to use this power against the armies seeking to destroy his home and family.
Fire Force Season 3
Premiering in April 2025, then January 2026, the final season of Fire Force will be split into two parts. Animated by David Production again, the studio behind Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure, based on Atsushi Ohkubo’s manga.
Explosions are erupting all around Tokyo, and have been for centuries. Spontaneous human combustion resulting in “Infernals,” fire-wreathed and senseless monsters that were once normal people, plague what’s left of humanity. As if to match the threat, some victims awaken to pyrokinesis instead, and the titular Fire Force was formed to combat the constant threat. Shinra, with his pyrokinesis solely focused on his feet, joins Fire Force’s Company 8 to unravel the mystery behind the flames, and whether Fire Force itself may be behind it.
ZENSHU
An original anime series animated by MAPPA, widely known as a legendary studio with fantastic animation from Jujutsu Kaisen, Chainsaw Man, the final season of Attack on Titan, and the remake of Ranma ½. The series is directed by Mitsue Yamazaki, director of Sleepy Princess in the Demon Castle and How Heavy Are the Dumbbells You Lift?, and script by Kimiko Ueno, who handled several episodes of Delicious in Dungeon and Ranma ½ of 2024. ZENSHU is coming January 2025, simulcasting on Crunchyroll.
Natsuko Hirose’s position as director is going fantastically, with her first anime becoming a massive success. However, her second attempt has completely stalled. The planned romantic comedy has gotten stuck on the storyboarding process, holding up the entire production. She’s never been in love, and without the experience, her career as a genius director may crumble, leaving only a one-hit wonder.
To Be Hero X
From studio BeDream comes a series with an artistic merging between 2D and 3D animation styles under director Li Haoling, best known for also directing LINK CLICK, To Be Hero, and its second season, To Be Heroine. The new series has been confirmed to release in 2025 on Crunchyroll.
Belief is measurable in this world, and “trust” grants powers, trusting that a hero can fly allows them the ability. A hero’s fans and believers literally ensure their strength, and a fall to anonymity would leave them powerless. Heroes are actively supported, watched, applauded to maintain their powers, and every 2 years the rankings are adjusted in a hero tournament, their powers fluctuating with their performance. The most powerful hero, with the public’s trust on their back, is lauded as hero “X”, a title that anyone could rise to take, if the world believed they could.
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- Crunchyroll Anime Awards And Upcoming Anime Titles Announced At CCXP 2024 - December 11, 2024
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