2022 AuraAnime Awards

The 2022 AuraAnime Awards is the upcoming fifth annual AuraAnime Awards. The awards ceremony, to be held in Los Angeles, California (like previous AuraAnime Awards before it) will stream on Flare+ on December 31st, 2022. The ceremony would be the first of the AuraAnime Awards made available for streaming due to the expiration of the broadcast deal with AuraNightfall following the 2021 AuraAnime Awards.

While there is no requirement concerning when it premiered, the anime must have had new episodes in Japan air (via TV, home media, or streaming) between January 1st and December 30th of the year that the awards are airing. The only exceptions are nominations for Best Anime Dub of 2022, in which the dub in question must've been released or slated for release in 2022.

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Aura have recommended that the 2022 awards be conformant to CDC regulations and that attendees of the ceremony wear a mask to protect against the disease.

Categories
Six categories were announced:


 * Best Shounen Anime of 2022
 * Best Ongoing Shonen Anime
 * Best Dub of 2022
 * Best Shoujo Anime
 * Best Anime Network of 2022
 * Best Seinen Anime

Starting with the 2022 awards, "Best Mahou Shoujo Anime" was merged into "Best Shoujo Anime" following the end of the Mewkledreamy anime in addition to a consecutive two-year win streak for the Pretty Cure franchise (in particular, Healin' Good and Tropical Rouge!) with no runner-up spot due to the only other nomination in the category both years being that year's Mewkledreamy season (season 1 for 2020, Mix! for 2021).

Nominations
1 indicates that even though the anime isn't ongoing anymore as of December 31st, it is still nominated due to premiering before the year of the awards and airing new episodes in 2022.

Best Shounen Anime of 2022

 * Shadowverse Flame
 * Spy × Family
 * Tomodachi Game
 * Urusei Yatsura (2022)
 * Yu-Gi-Oh! Go Rush!!

TBA.

Best Ongoing Shounen Anime

 * Attack on Titan 1
 * Boruto: Naruto Next Generations
 * Cardfight!! Vanguard overDress
 * Digimon Ghost Game
 * JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Stone Ocean 2
 * One Piece
 * Pokémon (2019)
 * Shaman King (2021) 1
 * Super Dragon Ball Heroes
 * Yashahime: Princess Half-Demon
 * Yu-Gi-Oh! Sevens 1

2 Stone Ocean debuted on Netflix in December 2021; however, it was not present at the 2021 AuraAnime Awards as it premiered as the nominations were locked in.

Best Dub of 2022

 * Gal & Dino (Funimation)
 * LBX Girls (Funimation)
 * Odd Taxi (Crunchyroll)

TBA.

Best Shoujo Anime

 * Delicious Party Pretty Cure
 * Tokyo Mew Mew New
 * Waccha PriMagi!

Best Anime Network of 2022

 * AnimeCore/AnimeCore Extra
 * AuraNightfall
 * EXO
 * Toonami
 * Vision Anime Pulse

Best Seinen Anime

 * Uzumaki
 * Ya Boy Kongming!