Crunchyroll Anime Award for Best Character

The Crunchyroll Anime Award for Best Character is fictional character awards given at the Crunchyroll Anime Awards since its inaugural edition in 2017. It is given for the best anime characters from the previous year. Winners are determined through a combined voting process by judges and public voting.

Originated as four individual characters awards (Best Protagonist, Best Antagonist, Best Boy, and Best Girl) until 2022, all of which will be consolidated into two categories: Best Main Character and Best Supporting Character, while introducing a new category "Must Protect At All Costs" Character, an award recognizes characters that evoke strong protective instincts in viewers due to their vulnerability or endearing qualities, inspire a strong desire to safeguard them at all costs.

Spy x Family's Anya Forger won the award multiple times, 1 for Best Supporting Character and 3 for "Must Protect At All Costs" Character in consecutive years, the most of any anime characters to date. My Hero Academia holds the records for both the most wins (7) and nominations (15) with Izuku Midoriya received the most with 3 awards out of 5 nominations, the latter jointly tied with Ranking of Kings's Bojji.

So far, My Hero Academia was the only series to received six nominations in four individual characters categories in a single edition, sweeps all four for the first time; the awards for Best Boy and Best Girl received two nominations from the same series in the second edition.