2022 AuraAnime Awards

The 2022 AuraAnime Awards was the fifth and final AuraAnime Awards. The awards ceremony, held in Los Angeles, California (like previous AuraAnime Awards before it) was livestreamed on Flare+ on December 31st, 2022. The ceremony was the first and only AuraAnime Awards made available for streaming due to the expiration of the broadcast deal with AuraNightfall following the 2021 AuraAnime Awards.

While there was 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 were 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.

On September 3rd, 2022, Aura cut funding for the awards, making the 2022 ceremony the final AuraAnime Awards. On January 10th, 2023, the awards were pulled from streaming on Flare+, but not written-off as a loss on Aura's taxes given the final event's success.

Categories
Eight categories were announced:


 * Best Shounen Anime of 2022
 * Best Ongoing Shonen Anime
 * Best TV Series Dub of 2022
 * Best Feature Film Dub of 2022
 * Best Shoujo Anime
 * Best Sports Anime
 * Best Anime Network of 2022
 * Best Seinen Anime

For 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).

On September 3rd, 2022, the "Best Dub of 2022" category was split into two- one specific for dubs of television anime and one specific for dubs of feature films.

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.

Winners are listed in bold.

Best Shounen Anime of 2022

 * Cardfight!! Vanguard will+Dress
 * Shadowverse Flame
 * Spy × Family
 * Tomodachi Game
 * Urusei Yatsura (2022) (runner-up)
 * Yu-Gi-Oh! Go Rush!!

TBA.

Best Ongoing Shounen Anime

 * Attack on Titan (runner-up)
 * Boruto: Naruto Next Generations
 * Digimon Ghost Game
 * JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Stone Ocean 2
 * My Hero Academia
 * One Piece
 * Pokémon (2019)
 * Shaman King (2021) 1
 * Super Dragon Ball Heroes
 * Yashahime: Princess Half-Demon 1
 * 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 TV Series Dub of 2022

 * Gal & Dino (Funimation)
 * LBX Girls (Funimation)
 * Natsume's Book of Friends (Crunchyroll)
 * Odd Taxi (Crunchyroll) (runner-up)

Best Feature Film Dub of 2022

 * Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero (Crunchyroll)
 * Flying Phantom Ship (Discotek Media) (runner-up)
 * One Piece Film: Red (Crunchyroll)

TBA.

Best Shoujo Anime

 * Delicious Party Pretty Cure
 * Tokyo Mew Mew New
 * Waccha PriMagi! (runner-up)

Best Sports Anime

 * Aoashi
 * Blue Lock (runner-up)
 * The Prince of Tennis II: U-17 World Cup
 * Shoot! Goal to the Future

Best Anime Network of 2022

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

Best Seinen Anime

 * Golden Kamuy season 4
 * Pop Team Epic season 2
 * Ya Boy Kongming! (runner-up)