Cyberpunk: Edgerunners wins Crunchyroll's Anime of the Year award
There wasn’t a bigger sleeper hit during 2022’s fall anime season than Cyberpunk: Edgerunners, which just won Crunchyroll’s Anime of the Year Award.
The announcement came during Crunchyroll’s 2023 Anime Awards over the weekend, where the series beat out heavy hitters like Demon Slayer, Spy x Family, Lycoris Recoil, Ranking of Kings, and Attack on Titan Final Season Part 2.
“It’s a great honor,” reads a statement on the official Cyberpunk: Edgerunners Twitter account. “We’d like to thank everyone for their support, votes, and for watching our anime.”
Additionally, Cyberpunk: Edgerunners also won the best voice acting performance award for the English dub.
Today at the Crunchyroll Anime Awards ceremony, Cyberpunk: #Edgerunners was awarded Anime of the Year and Best VA Performance (EN)! It's a great honor! We'd like to thank everyone for their support, votes, and for watching our anime pic.twitter.com/kwq1W8WCp6
— Cyberpunk: Edgerunners (@edgerunners) March 4, 2023
Cyberpunk: Edgerunners came out to a pretty glowing reception last fall, so it’s not surprising that it scored top honors. Expectations for the Cyberpunk 2077 spinoff were pretty high before release, specifically because of Studio Trigger’s involvement – the studio behind anime classics like Kill la Kill and Little Witch Academia. In fact, the hype was so palpable that Cyberpunk 2077 had a significant bump in popularity.
Cyberpunk 2077‘s world will continue to grow with the upcoming Phantom Liberty expansion later this year – which stars Idris Elba (yes, really).
Written by Kyle Campbell on behalf of GLHF.