2020 AuraAnime Awards

The 2020 AuraAnime Awards is the upcoming third annual AuraAnime Awards. The awards ceremony, held in Los Angeles, California (like previous AuraAnime Awards before it) will air 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 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.

Categories
Ten categories were announced:


 * Best Shounen Anime
 * Best Dub of 2020
 * Best Shoujo Anime
 * Favorite Character
 * Best Anime Network of 2020
 * Best Mecha Anime
 * Best Mahou Shoujo Anime of 2020
 * Best Fighting Anime
 * Best Seinen Anime

Best Shounen Anime

 * Boruto: Naruto Next Generations
 * Digimon Adventure:
 * Haikyu!!: To the Top
 * I'm From Japan
 * My Hero Academia
 * Pokémon (2019)
 * Seton Academy: Join the Pack!
 * Super Dragon Ball Heroes
 * Yu-Gi-Oh! Sevens

TBA.

Best Dub of 2020

 * JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Golden Wind (Viz Media)
 * Thermae Romae (Discotek Media)

TBA.

Best Shoujo Anime
TBA.
 * Fruits Basket

Favorite Character

 * Izuku (My Hero Academia)

TBA.

Best Anime Network of 2020
TBA.

Best Mecha Anime
TBA.

Best Mahou Shoujo Anime of 2020

 * Healin' Good PreCure
 * Mewkledreamy

TBA.

Best Fighting Anime
TBA.

Best Seinen Anime

 * Asteroid in Love
 * Show by Rock!! Mashumairesh!!

TBA.