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Blue Giant, 'your name.,' Shin Godzilla Win Media Arts Awards
posted on by Jennifer Sherman
The Japanese government's Ministry of Cultural Affairs announced the winners of the 20th Japan Media Arts Festival Awards on Thursday.
Manga Division
Grand Prize
Blue Giant by Shinichi IshizukaExcellence Award
Soumubu Soumuka Yamaguchi Roppeita (Yamaguchi Roppeita, General Affairs Department, General Affairs Section) by Kenichiro Takai, Norio Hayashi (original author)
Incomplete Life by Tae Ho Yoon, Ayako Furukawa (translation), Seungbok Kim (South Korea, Japan)
Yūgai Toshi (Harmful City) by Tetsuya Tsutsui
Sunny by Taiyo MatsumotoNew Face Award
Ōten no Mon (The Southern Gate) by Yak Haibara
Tsuki ni hoe rannee (Can't be Howlin' at The Moon) by Yukiko Seike
Jasmin by Yui HataThe website also listed an English PDF with the 29 Jury Selections in the Manga Division. The list featured 27 Japanese works, including: Gou Tanabe's H.P. Lovecraft's "The Colour Out of Space", Kazuto Tatsuta's Ichi-F (A Worker's Graphic Memoir of the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant), Yoshikazu Yasuhiko's Ten no ketsumyaku (Descended from the Emperor), Robico's The precious talk of me and you, Yukinobu Hoshino's Rainman, and more.
Animation Division
Grand Prize
your name. by Makoto ShinkaiExcellence Award
A Silent Voice by Naoko Yamada
Boy and the World by Alê Abreu (Brazil)
A Love Story short film by Anushka Kishani Naanayakkara (United Kingdom)
Among the black waves short film by Anna Budanova (Russia)New Face Award
Moom short film by Daisuke Tsutsumi, Robert Kondo (Japan, United States)
I Have Dreamed Of You So Much short film by Emma Vakarelova (Bulgaria)
Rebellious short film by Arturo ‶Vonno" Ambriz, Roy Ambriz (Mexico)The website also listed an English PDF with the 31 Jury Selections in the Animation Division. The Jury Selections featured 16 Japanese works, including:
Owarimonogatari
Animated TV series
NisiOisinKaze no Matasaburō
Animated short film
Hiroki YamadaGekijō-ban Hibike! Euphonium: Kitauji Kōkō Suisōgaku-Bu e Yōkoso
Animated feature film
Tatsuya IshiharaKabaneri of the Iron Fortress
Animated TV series
Tetsuro ArakiSatie's Parade
Animated short film
Koji YamamuraChieri and Cherry
Animated feature film
Makoto NakamuraERASED
Animated TV series
Tomohiko ItoPigtails
Animated short film
Yoshimi ItazuMob Psycho 100
Animated TV series
Yuzuru TachikawaFeed
Animated short film
Eri Okazaki
Hideaki Anno and Shinji Higuchi's live-action Shin Godzilla film won the Grand Prize in the Entertainment Division, and the Pokémon Go Production Team's (Tatsuo Nomura, representative) Pokémon Go smartphone app won an Excellence Award in the category.
Director of Showa Manga Library Aomushi Yokio Takano also received a Special Achievement award.
[Via 0takomu]
