 Character designer Tadashi Hiramatsu won the award for Best Animator.In the 2017 Japan Character Awards presented by the Character Brand Licensing Association (CBLA), "Yuri on Ice" won the Japan Character Grand Prize New Face Award.The CBLA gave the show the prize for taking an unusual subject like figure skating and making it appeal to audiences, especially women, and predicted the show, "can continue to grow on a global level."