The 5th Kyoto Anime Awards awarded the Grand Prize for Fiction

The Kyoto Animation Awards, organized by Kyoto Animation, have been held for five years. Although the audience of this award is not comparable to the Dengeki Bunko Award, the harsh selection conditions are also the reason why many people are eye-catching. In the previous 4 awards, including "The Other Side of the Realm" and "The Second Disease of Middle School Also Fall in Love!" and other animated works only won the encouragement award, but did not win the grand prize. But in the 5th edition, the first award-winning work finally appeared, which was the novel "Violet· Evergarden》（ヴァイオレット?エヴァーガーデン）。 Since it is the first novel award in the history of the Kyoto Animation Awards, it is almost certain that it is only a matter of time before this work is animated.

In addition, the works that won the Encouragement Award in the fiction department were "Santa's Friends" by Misaki Kadokura and "Yesterday's Love is Today's Dream" by Ninto Kuriki. Neither the script nor the comic department won the award.

【Details of the 5th Kyoto Anime Awards】

General Comments:

This year's 5th Kyoto Anime Awards received a large number of submissions, so thank you very much for your support.

We have received works of a very high standard and are very relevant to the theme. The jurors will review their submissions one by one based on the question of what makes the work interesting.

As a result, for the first time in this year's awards, the "Grand Prix" in the fiction category was selected. The award-winning work shook the hearts of the judges, and the energy emanating from it made us feel that "I hope to bring this work into the public's eye" and "I hope that a large number of readers will read this work." In addition, the two works that won the Encouragement Award also have the potential to subvert previous perceptions, and are recognized here.

We believe that it is very difficult to create a work that does not follow the crowd and maintains a high standard. Not to mention that the work also needs to be entertaining and make the reader feel "it's funny". However, it is precisely because of the great difficulty that the works that can break through this difficulty will naturally capture the hearts of a large number of readers and bring them to a new world of works.

We will continue to accept enthusiastic submissions from all over the Kyoto Anime Awards, and we will continue to strive to provide our readers with the highest level of entertainment.

We ask for your continued support for the Kyoto Animation Awards.

All judges of the Kyoto Animation Awards

Grand Prize "Violet· Evergarden》

Short comment: This work fully fits the status of "the first work to win the Novel Award". The information that the author wants to convey is easy to understand in detail, and the article that makes people think about it is strongly expressed. And the mood of the characters and the picture are also impressive. The charm of this work made many judges read it in one go, and the emotion gained from the work also made it deserve its award.

The results of the animation category of the Japan Film Awards were announced

On March 7, the award ceremony of the 37th Japan Film Awards, which attracted much attention, was held in Tokyo· Princehotels. At the award ceremony, the organizer announced the final winner of the best award selected from the previously announced outstanding winners and winners' works.

Among them, in terms of the best animation work award, the latest work "The Wind Rises", the representative of Japan, Hayao Miyazaki, has the last laugh. This work is the last work of director Hayao Miyazaki before announcing his retirement, so it is eye-catching in terms of influence and attention. In addition, the work was also shortlisted for the feature-length animation award in the previous selection of the American Academy Awards, and although it was ultimately defeated by "Frozen", being able to be shortlisted is a testament to the popularity of the work. At the award ceremony on March 7, Toshio Suzuki, a friend who has worked with director Hayao Miyazaki for many years, accepted the award on behalf of the work.

In addition to winning the Best Animation Award, Jean Hisaishi, who produced the music for "The Wind Rises", also won the Best Music Award. In fact, Hisaishi not only composed the music for "The Wind Rises", but also from Studio Ghibli's animated film "The Tale of Kaguyahime" (directed by Isao Takahata) and the live-action film "The Tokyo Family" (directed by Yasujiro Ozu). It can be said that Jean Hisaishi also hit the Best Music Award with many works this time, and in the end, "The Wind Rises" helped him get his wish.

The Japan Film Awards is an award established by the Japan Film Academy Association in 1978. However, compared with the 37-year-old Academy Awards, the "age" of the Animation Works Award is very small, and this is also a new award that has only been added since the 30th session. In addition to the work award, the director award, the script award, and the music award all consider animation works as candidates, and I am afraid that this is only a similar situation in Japan, a major animation country.

The qualifications for the selection of candidates for the Japan Film Awards are: works from the period of December 16, 2012 ~ December 14, 2013. A total of 186 were eligible. Among them, 37 animations accounted for about one-fifth. In addition to "The Wind Rises", works such as "The Tale of Kaguyahime", "Captain Harrok of the Space Pirate", "The Tale of the Rebellion" of Madoka Magi☆ Magic, and "Lupin III vs Detective Conan THEMOVIE" have all passed the initial screening and become candidates for the selection. "The Tale of Kaguyahime" adopts a unique style of painting, bringing traditional Japanese stories back to the big screen; "Captain Harrok the Space Pirate" is a 3D animated movie with excellent graphics; "Theatrical Version of Madoka Magical Girl ☆ Magic "New Edition" Rebellious Story", as a late-night animation, not only broke the relevant box office records, but also gradually brought late-night works into the field of vision of ordinary people; "Lupin the Third vs Detective Conan THEMOVIE" is a powerful combination of two national characters, Conan Edogawa and Lupin III, and the work itself has also set a staggering box office of 4 billion yen. In the face of so many excellent works, "The Wind Rises" can still stand out, which also proves that it is the pinnacle of animation works in 2013.

【The 37th Japan Film Awards】

"Theatrical Monster Zoroli Guard! Dinosaur Egg

"Lupin III vs Detective Conan THEMOVIE"

The Tale of Kaguya

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Persona 3THEMOVIE #1 SpringofBirth

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"Theatrical version of Madoka Magical Girl ☆ Magic "New Edition" Rebellious Story"

"Theatrical Heartbeat! The beautiful girl of light, Ai, is married!? Hope dress that connects the future! 》

"Theatrical version of the future gospel of the realm of emptiness"

"Little Bird Swims Six Flowers, Changed to the Theater Version, the Second Disease also has to fall in love! 》

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Captain Harlock, the Space Pirate

"Theatrical Sakura Ghost Chapter 1 Kyoto Randan"

"Theatrical Torik Food God's Super Food Treasure"

"The Wind Rises"

"Theatrical Pocket Monster God's Speed Gano Sekett Mewtwo Awakens"

"The Eternal House of Everything"

Let's Fly Anpanman! Handkerchief of Hope

"Spring"

The Garden of Words and Leaves

The Legend of Saint Brother

"The Cinematic Destiny Stone Gate Conforms to the Immediate Sense of the Realm"

"Detective Conan Theatrical Version of the Detective of the Sea"

"Crayon Shin Fool is delicious! B-grade food escape! 》

"AURA~Demon Dragon Temple's Light Fang's Final Battle~"

"The theatrical version of the flower kappa blooms! Popcorn? The Great Adventure of the Land of Butterflies

Dragon Ball Z God vs. God

"Theater Blossom Iroha HOMESWEETHOME"

"Theatrical Pretty Girl of Light All-Star NewStage2 Friends of the Heart"

"The Great Adventure of Shimajiro and the Whisk ~ Take it off! Flower of Seven Colors~》

"The Secret Prop Museum of the Theatrical Version of Nobita Doraemon"

"The Miracle of Endymion"

The Golden Age of the Branded Warriors III.

"Theatrical Hunter Crimson Phantom"

"Blue Exorcist Movie Version"

"Theatrical version of the weirdo Zoroli Big, Big, Big, Adventure! 》

The Japanese Agency for Cultural Affairs has invested heavily in encouraging animation production

"AnimeMirai" is a program that has been in place since 2010 to develop animation makers, and was formerly known as the "Young Animation Maker Development Program". As the name suggests, AnimeMirai is a program designed to train capable animators, especially concept artists.

At AnimeMirai 2014, a total of 38 million yen will be awarded for 30-minute animations. The production cost of a 30-minute TV animation is about 1,000~15 million yen, and this subsidy may have the effect of changing the future of the Japanese animation industry. But there are also conditions for receiving this subsidy. First of all, experienced makers must be trained in the skills of newcomers. And during the animation production period, the producer must concentrate on the work and pay the artist according to the difficulty.

For many years, the industry has been plagued by a shortage of Japanese animation producers. There are too few newcomers to animation, and the experienced animation makers are too busy to teach newcomers how to make them. And before he became a good maker, he had to go through a long period of low-paid life. Such a vicious circle abounds in the Japanese animation industry, and newcomers are often deterred by it.

The four 30-minute anime works that were born in this way are "AnimeMirai". They have been making zuò since 2011 and this year will be their fourth year. The selection of works will be carried out by a "selection evaluation committee" composed of experienced producers, animation program producers, and academic experiencers. Actually, I (the Japanese media author) also worked on the "Selection Evaluation Committee" for a period of time in 2012 and 2013. The general task is to browse through the application materials and select the most suitable works among them. The application materials include a brief story, character design, storyboarding, and more. An important criterion for judging is whether the work itself is "interesting" enough. It's quite difficult to see if a work is interesting or not at the proposal stage, but people in TV animation production always pick and choose the one with the most possibilities.

Toshiyuki Inoue, the representative director of the Japan Animation Producers Association, said, "In the beginning, people often said that we couldn't produce good animators with just four short animations. However, after four years of perseverance and the increase in the number of participants, we have gradually begun to understand what it means to train animation makers. "Not only the newcomers, but also the experienced makers who have trained them have been inspired. Yasuhiro Yoshiura, who is the supervisor of HARMONIE, said, "Working in the same place with all the original artists was a precious experience for me as a supervisor. Naoyuki Onda, the superintendent of "Kurosu CHRONUS", also said, "I think I have benefited the most from myself. ”

The short anime of "AnimeMirai 2014" will be screened in theaters nationwide from March 1 to 14. This is a good opportunity to show the strength of newcomers in the animation industry, and the production costs will be paid by the state funds. This year's entries include "HARMONIE" (UltraSuperPictures), "Super Large First Year and Super Primary Second Year" (A-1 Pictures), "Parol's Future Island" (SHIN-EIANIMATION), and "Kuranosu CHRONUS" (STUDIO4°C).

The 15th anniversary celebration of the Bones Society is about to be held

Since its establishment in 1998, the animation company BONES (commonly known as "Bones Society") has accompanied us through many ideas. The company celebrated its 15th anniversary in October 2013. In this regard, the company's chairman and planner Nan Yayan said that the Bone Society has created many excellent animation works for anime fans in the past 15 years. Among them, there are many masterpieces such as "Fullmetal Alchemist", "Symphonic Psalm", "Cowboy Heaven's Gate", "Ouran High School Men's Public Relations Department" and so on, which have many fans so far.

On the occasion of its 15th anniversary, the Bone Society has brought us a brand new work. This is the TV anime "SPACE☆DANDY" and "Norajin", which have been airing since January 2014. In order to commemorate the special day of the 15th anniversary, the Bone Club recently announced that it will hold an event called "The 15th Anniversary Event of the Bone Society" "Norajin" and "SPACE☆DANDY" in Tokyo Piccadilly on March 23 ~ We have a fate~". As you can see from the title, this screening will also bring together elements from the two works, "SPACE☆DANDY" and "Norajin". According to the plan, on the day of the event, in addition to the first screening, there will also be a special program with a lineup of luxurious guests.

"SPACE☆DANDY" is an anime directed by Shinichiro Watanabe. Watanabe has previously been known for his masterpieces such as Cowboy Bebop, and has countless fans around the world. The quality of this work is one of the best in Japan, and the presence of a large number of well-known animators, creators, and singers in the industry makes "SPACE☆DANDY" a topic of conversation.

On the other hand, "Norajin" is an adaptation of the manga of the same name in the "Monthly Shonen Magazine" (Kodansha) (original: Toka Adachi). The film is in charge of Kotaro Tamura, a cutting-edge director in the industry, and the wonderful Cheng dù of the work itself has been confirmed by the current popularity lists.

However, in addition to the fact that these two works are both responsible for the system of the Bone Society, the composition of the committee is completely different. It was on this special day to commemorate the 15th anniversary that the cross-committee collaboration was born. It's also a one-day special event that you can't miss.

The event that starts at 21 p.m. will be divided into two parts. The first part will be the first to broadcast episode 13 of "SPACE☆DANDY". At that time, director Shinichiro Watanabe will hold a symposium with the two main characters of the work, Junichi Suwabe (Dandy service) and Satake Uki (QT service), and it is definitely worth looking forward to what kind of explosion they will bring to us.

In the second part, the organizers will release the final words of "Nora God" first. In addition, director Kotaro Tamura, Yuki Kaji, Asami Imai (accompaniment, Mayu), and Takahiro Sakurai will discuss their views on the work.

In addition, attendees of the event will also receive surprise gifts. This is an original miniature colored paper drawn by Toshihiro Kawamoto, who is the character of "Norajin", and Yoshiyuki Ito, who is the character of "SPACE☆DANDY". The gifts given by the two industry design experts must be quite collectible.

Tickets for the event cost 2,500 yen (tax included) and will go on sale on the official website of Shinjuku Piccadilly from 22 o'clock on March 13. Tickets for the Piccadilly will not be available until the doors of the Shinjuku Piccadilly open on March 14. If you have a friend, don't miss the opportunity to buy tickets.

"The 15th Anniversary of the Bone Society's "Nora God" and "SPACE☆DANDY" Preview Screening ~ We are destined for this~"

Date: March 23 (Sunday) from 9 p.m

Venue: Shinjuku Piccadilly 1st Viewing Room

Attendee Bonus: Toshihiro Kawamoto? An original miniature colored paper drawn by Kayuki Ito

Ticket sale price: 2,500 yen (tax included / all seats can be reserved)

【Cast】

"Norajin": directed by Kotaro Tamura, Yuki Kaji (Yukine), Asami Imai (accompaniment, Mayu) and Takahiro Sakurai (Mussel service)

"SPACE☆DANDY": Chief Director Shinichiro Watanabe, Junichi Suwabe (Dandy Service), Satake Uki (QT Service)

The new "Engage in Ji Daily" establishes a new voice actor combination

Norio Tsukutsuru's four-panel manga "Engaging in Hime Daily" recently announced the news of TV animation. Yesterday (February 25th),This work held a press conference in Tokyo.,It was announced that the voice actor group "IMYMEMINE" formed by the four voice actors who starred in this work, Yuki Kuwabara, Yuka Skyscraper, Sashiro Ono, and Hisa Higashiro made their official debut.

Four voice actors appeared in cosplay uniforms and greeted everyone warmly, "We are 'IMYMEMINE'!" In the TV anime "Shohime Daily", which will be broadcast on BS11 and other channels from July, Kuwabara will play the protagonist Arikawahime, Skyscraper will play 18 Ban, Ono will play the role of Chairman Yunko, and Tojo will play the role of Albertina II senior. In addition, the four of them will also sing OP songs and ED songs together.

At the press conference, Yuyuki Yanase, the director and performer of the anime, and the original author, Tsukushi, also appeared. Tsukuru said: "When you see my name, many people may think that I am a man, but in fact I am a woman!" AND SHE ALSO APPEARED IN THE SAME UNIFORM AS "IMYMEMINE". "IMYMEMINE" praised him: "The teacher is so cute." Tsukuru said, "My own manga animation has been my dream since I was a child. This time it can finally be achieved. The staff will definitely be able to make a good work, and I hope that "Ji Daily" will become a work that brings happiness to everyone. ”

"This anime tells the story of the 'pseudo-girl' Yukawahime, who can only live at school in women's clothes after the student council helps pay off her debts," said Yanase Superintendent. Kuwabara, who starred in Arikawahime, said with a wry smile: "He looks so cute, but he hides a secret that is heavy." Ono, who plays the role of President Yunko, said, "My name is 'Yunko', and when I pronounce it, it means 'poop', so I want to say this name several times!" Her speech drew laughter from the audience.

Yanase said, "Because it's a laughing school drama, I want to make it a happy anime." If the system is too joyful, it will reveal flaws, and the table is in the picture. I hope to make zuò happily until the end. He also warned the voice actor on the spot: "This is probably your first time playing the leading role, I will be very nagging at work, you have to be mentally prepared." The four voice actors replied together, "We'll do our best!" ”

Next, each of the four voice actors introduced their characteristics. Dongcheng said: "I am responsible for complaining, and I will complain mercilessly when the other three people are off the line." Ono said, "Stick to your own style and never compromise." "The charm of singing and live performances." Kuwabara said, "The one who eats the most is the smallest." "Please look forward to their active performance in the future.

The TV anime "Hime's Daily" began to be broadcast on BS11 and other channels in July. The OP song "Troublemaker" and the ED song "Let's Make" will be released on March 5th. The Regular, Limited and LIVE Limited Editions will be released at the same time.