2020 AuraAnime Awards

The 2020 AuraAnime Awards was the third annual AuraAnime Awards. The awards ceremony, held in Los Angeles, California (like previous AuraAnime Awards before it) aired on Nickelodeon Family's AuraNightfall block on December 31st, 2020.

Planning for the awards began in February 2020; the reason for this delay was due to an awards mix-up at the 2019 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 2020, in which the dub in question must've been released or slated for release in 2020. In April 2020, Aura announced that further nominations for Best Anime Dub of 2020 would not be announced until July due to the effects of the 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic delaying many dubs and simuldubs.

The awards staff have announced in advance of planning for the awards that both Interspecies Reviewers (due to Funimation dropping the license) and Jewelpet: Attack Travel! (due to being a short anime film while AuraAnime only nominates TV anime series and OVAs/ONAs for the awards) were disqualified from nomination.

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Aura have recommended that the 2020 awards be conformant to CDC regulations and that attendees of the ceremony wear a mask to protect against the disease.

Categories
Eight categories were announced:


 * Best Shounen Anime of 2020
 * Best Ongoing Shonen Anime
 * Best Dub of 2020
 * Best Shoujo Anime
 * Favorite Character
 * Best Anime Network of 2020
 * Best Mahou Shoujo Anime of 2020
 * Best Seinen Anime

The Best Fighting Anime and Best Mecha Anime categories were originally going to be awarded, but were dropped and merged into existing categories Best Shounen/Seinen Anime for the 2020 event due to the lack of nominations that came out in 2020.

There was no runner-up spot for Best Shoujo Anime or Best Mahou Shoujo Anime of 2020 as there were only two anime series nominated for the award.

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 2020.

Best Shounen Anime of 2020

 * Digimon Adventure:
 * Haikyu!!: To the Top
 * Jujutsu Kaisen
 * Seton Academy: Join the Pack!
 * Shadowverse
 * Yashahime: Princess Half-Demon
 * Yu-Gi-Oh! Sevens (runner-up)

Best Ongoing Shonen Anime

 * Black Clover
 * Boruto: Naruto Next Generations
 * Gundam Build Divers Re:Rise
 * I'm From Japan1
 * My Hero Academia
 * One Piece
 * Pokémon (2019)
 * Super Dragon Ball Heroes (runner-up)

Best Dub of 2020

 * JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Golden Wind (Viz Media)
 * Shirobako (Sentai Filmworks) (runner-up)
 * Thermae Romae (Discotek Media)

Best Shoujo Anime

 * Fruits Basket
 * With a Dog AND a Cat, Every Day is Fun

Favorite Character

 * Izuku (My Hero Academia) (runner-up)
 * Moroha (Yashahime)
 * Ranka (Seton Academy: Join the Pack!)

Best Anime Network of 2020

 * AuraNightfall
 * EXO
 * SurgeAnime Network/Extra (runner-up)
 * Toonami
 * Vision Anime Pulse

Best Mahou Shoujo Anime of 2020

 * Healin' Good PreCure
 * Mewkledreamy

Best Seinen Anime

 * Asteroid in Love
 * Show by Rock!! Mashumairesh!!
 * Wave, Listen to Me! (runner-up)