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Award season is in full swing, and that also means it’stime for the anime awards. Anime Trending is an anime award in its 11th year, with categories including Anime of the Year, Anime Movie of the Year, and awards for characters, music, and aspects of the shows. Awards are given out based on voting that happens online, and then an awards show is broadcast via YouTube via Anime Trending’s official channel.
The 2025 Anime Trending Awards (which are for anime from 2024) took place on Saturday, March 8th, with a two-and-a-half-hour award show that can be viewed retrospectively viaYouTubeif you missed it when it was airing. While many anime fans are interested in lots of the award categories, arguably the most significant category is for Anime of the Year. Predictions were that it would go to eitherThe Dangers in My Heart,Dandadan, orFrieren: Beyond Journey’s End(herein,Frieren). In the end, it wasFrierenthat took home the win, though many anime titles showed up across the other categories of award.
Frieren Takes Home Anime of the Year
Plus Five More Awards
In total, there were ten anime nominated for Anime of the Year at the Anime Trending Awards 2025. Tens of thousands of votes were cast online between the series, and the final winner was a very close call, with less than 200 votes between second and first place.Frierendid take home the title in the end, though, with a total of 10,280 votes,beatingThe Dangers of My Heart, which had 10,098 votes.
Anime Trending reported on theirofficial website,
In its first week on the Fall 2023 charts, Frieren placed second in Week 1 behind the second season of SPY x FAMILY. It then remained in the top spot between Weeks 2-6, before dropping to second once again in Week 7. The series dropped down to third in Weeks 8-10 and placed second in the last week of the charts.
Despite never fully dominating the top spot in the charts, the anime consistently stayed in the top three positions in a contested season that also featured The Apothecary Diaries and SPY x FAMILY Season 2. Frieren eventually won the Fall 2023 Anime of the Season, securing its nomination for Anime of the Year at this year’s Anime Trending Awards.
In addition to winning Anime of the Year,Frierenalso cleaned out five other categories. The popular fantasy anime won Best in Adapted Screenplay, Best in Sceneries and Visuals, Action or Adventure Anime of the Year, andFantasy Anime of the Year. Its leading male character, Himmel, also won Supporting Boy of the Year in the character categories. While the top position of Anime of the Year may have been a close call forFrieren, the anime overall did extremely well at the awards show.
What Anime Won at the Anime Trending Awards?
The Winners of All Categories
Frierenmay have won six awards in total at the Anime Trending Awards 2025, but it was far from the only anime to take home a prize. Here are all the categories and their winners.
WhileFrierendid win a total of six awards,The Dangers in My HeartandDandadanwon three each. Considering they were the top three anime of the year, withFrierenwinning only narrowly, it makes sense. It is safe to say that, at least according to Anime Trending,Frieren,The Dangers in My Heart, andDandadanare the top anime of 2025. As award season continues, we will see if this trend holds steady, or if 2025 still has surprises left in store for the anime world.
