2021 AuraAnime Awards

The 2021 AuraAnime Awards was the fourth 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, 2021. The awards ceremony was the last of the AuraAnime Awards to air on television in the United States, as the 2022 AuraAnime Awards will instead be made available through a livestream on Flare+.

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 2021, in which the dub in question must've been released or slated for release in 2021.

In March 2021, Memories was nominated for "Best Dub of 2021", becoming the first and so far only feature film to be nominated for the awards. It was also announced in advance that Redo of Healer, due to its content, was disqualified from nomination for the awards. Due to the then-upcoming worldwide rebrand of SurgeAnime to AnimeCore, the U.S. SurgeAnime networks were also nominated for "Best Anime Network of 2021" under the AnimeCore name.

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Aura have recommended that the 2021 awards be conformant to CDC regulations and that attendees of the ceremony wear a mask to protect against the disease.

Categories
Seven categories were announced:


 * Best Shounen Anime of 2021
 * Best Ongoing Shonen Anime
 * Best Dub of 2021
 * Best Shoujo Anime
 * Best Anime Network of 2021
 * Best Mahou Shoujo Anime of 2021
 * Best Seinen Anime

"Favorite Character" was originally planned as a category, but was eventually dropped by July 2021.

There was no runner-up spot for "Best Mahou Shoujo Anime of 2021" due to only two anime series being 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 2021. Winners are noted in bold.

Best Shounen Anime of 2021

 * Cardfight!! Vanguard overDress
 * Digimon Ghost Game
 * Dr. Ramune: Mysterious Disease Specialist
 * Edens Zero
 * Hetalia: World Stars
 * Shaman King (2021) (runner-up)

Best Ongoing Shounen Anime

 * Attack on Titan
 * Black Clover 1
 * Boruto: Naruto Next Generations
 * Cells at Work! 1
 * Digimon Adventure: 1
 * Jujutsu Kaisen 1 (runner-up)
 * My Hero Academia
 * One Piece
 * Pokémon (2019)
 * Shadowverse 1
 * Super Dragon Ball Heroes
 * Yashahime: Princess Half-Demon
 * Yu-Gi-Oh! Sevens

Best Dub of 2021

 * Black Rock Shooter (Discotek Media)
 * Cells at Work! Code BLACK (Aniplex of America)
 * Fruits Basket The Final (Funimation)
 * Memories (Discotek Media) (runner-up)

Best Shoujo Anime

 * Fruits Basket The Final
 * Kiratto Pri Chan (runner-up)
 * Waccha PriMagi!

Best Anime Network of 2021

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

Best Mahou Shoujo Anime of 2021

 * Mewkledreamy Mix!
 * Tropical-Rouge! Pretty Cure

Best Seinen Anime

 * Cells at Work! Code BLACK
 * Cute Executive Officer
 * Pop Team Epic (Pop Team Epic Repeat version) (runner-up)