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In This Corner of the World, Kemono Friends Win Tokyo Anime Award Festival's Top Prizes
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The Tokyo Anime Award Festival revealed more of this year's winners on Wednesday.
Theatrical Animation Division
In This Corner of the WorldTelevision Animation Division
Kemono FriendsAnime Fan Award
Yuri!!! on IceBest Script/Original Work
Kinoko NasuBest Director
TATSUKIBest Animator
Takahiro KishidaBest Art/Color/Visual
Nobutaka YodaBest Sound/Performance
Yuki KajiuraThis is the second year that Yuri!!! on Ice won the Anime Fan Award. The festival already announced recipients of this year's Meritorious Service Award beforehand:
Singer
Kumiko Ohsugi (Attack No. 1, Ace o Nerae!, Doraemon)
Art Director
Shôhei Kawamoto (Doraemon television anime and films, Heidi - A Girl of the Alps)
Voice Actor
Kiyoshi Kobayashi (Lupin III's Daisuke Jigen)
Director
Tsutomu Shibayama (Doraemon television anime and films, Chibi Maruko-chan)
Director
Gisaburō Sugii (Touch, Jack to Mame no Ki, Night on the Galactic Railroad, Street Fighter II: The Animated Movie)
Animator
Masami Suda (Speed Racer, Fist of the North Star, Kyokujitsu no Kantai)
Producer
Yoshio Takami (Galaxy Express 999, Hans Christian Andersen's The Little Mermaid, Fist of the North Star, Sakigake!! Otoko Juku)
Scriptwriter
Hiroyuki Hoshiyama (Osomatsu-kun, Mobile Suit Gundam, Patlabor the Mobile Police, Dirty Pair)
Sound Director
Yasunori Honda (The Super Dimension Fortress Macross: Do You Remember Love?, Megazone 23, Record of Lodoss War)
Production Founder
Kōichi Motohashi (Dog of Flanders, Conan, the Boy in Future, Chibi Maruko-chan. Founder of Nippon Animation.)
Animation History Researcher
Yasushi Watanabe (Nihon Anime Eigashi)The Tokyo Anime Award Festival will be held from March 9 to 12.
The event's official website hosted the poll for this year's Anime Fan Award. The works listed in the poll had to screen or air between October 16, 2016, and October 14, 2017. The site had already used a previous fan poll to narrow down the works from 539 to 100, and fans could vote on their favorite from the top 100 list once a day. The poll ended on February 14.
Studio Ghibli and Hayao Miyazaki's The Wind Rises won the film award at 2014's festival and Attack on Titan won the television award. In 2015, Frozen and Ping Pong the Animation won these respective awards. A Silent Voice and Yuri!!! on Ice won last year.
[Via Ota-Suke]
