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Summer Wars, Vinland Saga Win Media Arts Awards (Update 3)
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The Japanese government's Ministry of Cultural Affairs has announced the winners of the 13th Japan Media Arts Festival Awards on Thursday.
Animation Division
Grand Prize
Summer Wars (Mamoru Hosoda)Excellence Prize
In the Attic (Na půdě aneb Kdo má dneska narozeniny?, trailer) (Jiří Barta)
Tokyo Magnitude 8.0 (Masaki Tachibana)
"The Cable Car" (Claudius Gentinetta/Frank Braun)
"Denshin-Bashira Elemi no Koi" (Hideto Nakata, Sovat Theater, trailer)Encouragement Prize
"Animal Dance" (Ryō Okawara, video)Jury Recommended Works in Long Animation (Films, TV, OVA)
| Title | Artist | Category |
|---|---|---|
| Oblivion Island: Haruka and the Magic Mirror | Shinsuke Sato | Movie |
| Canaan | Masahiro Ando | TV |
| To | Yukinobu Hoshino | TV |
| Sweet Blue Flowers | Kenichi Kasai | TV |
| Guin Saga | Atsushi Wakabayashi | TV |
| Scarecrowman | Yoshio Takeuchi | TV |
| Toradora! | Tatsuyuki Nagai | TV |
| Negibōzu no Asatarō | Yousuke Asama | TV |
| Nodame Cantabile: Paris | Chiaki Kon | TV |
| Eden of the East | Kenji Kamiyama | TV |
| Xam'd: Lost Memories | Masayuki Miyaji | TV |
Manga Division
Grand Prize
Vinland Saga (Makoto Yukimura)Excellence Prize
Imuri (Ranjō Miyake)
Children of the Sea (Daisuke Igarashi)
Kono Sekai no Katasumi ni (Fumiyo Kono)
Hyouge Mono - Tea for Universe, Tea for Life (Yoshihiro Yamada)Encouragement Prize
Hesheit Aqua (Wisut Ponnimit)Award of Merit
Shigeru Miyamoto (game creator)Special Award of Merit
Yoshinori Kanada (animator)Jury Recommended Works (Story Manga)
| Title | Artist |
|---|---|
| Jin | Motoka Murakami |
| Aoi Honoo | Kazuhiko Shimamoto |
| Bunny Drop | Yumi Unita |
| Eki kara 5-bun (Five Minutes from the Station) | Fusako Kuramochi |
| Oyasumi Punpun | Inio Asano |
| Kamuropa-mura e | Mikio Igarashi |
| Haruka Kawachi's Period Drama Short Story Collection Chiruhi | Haruka Kawachi |
| Mobile Suit Gundam the Origin | Yoshikazu Yasuhiko |
| Kinō Nani Tabeta? | Fumi Yoshinaga |
| Samuraikko | Hisashi Sekiya |
| Shōjo Fight | Yoko Nihonbashi |
| Shōjo Manga | Naoko Matsuda |
| Shin Jigyaku no Uta: Robot Koyuki | Yoshiie Gōda |
| Zenyasai | Tobira Oda |
| Soredemo machi wa mawatteiru | Masakazu Ishiguro |
| Debonair Drive | Sekaiichi Asakura |
| Natsume's Book of Friends | Yuki Midorikawa |
| Mirai Saijiki Bio no Mokushiroku | Daijiro Morohoshi |
| Roundabout | Peko Watanabe |
In addition, the Naruto: Narutimate Storm (Naruto: Ultimate Ninja Storm) game was one of the winners of the Excellence Prizes in the Entertainment Division. Hidekaz Himaruya's Hetalia was one of the jury-recommended works in the self-produced/web manga section.
The 13th Japan Media Arts Festival will be held in Tokyo from February 3 to February 14 next year. Previous winners of the Media Arts Festival Awards have included Kunio Katō's "Tsumiki no Ie" ("The House of Small Cubes"), Gainax's Gurren Lagann, Mitsuo Iso's Dennō Coil, Makoto Isshiki's The Piano Forest, Masaaki Yuasa's Kaiba, Koji Yamamura's acclaimed "Franz Kafka's A Country Doctor" short, Takehiko Inoue's Vagabond and Real manga, Nintendo's Nintendogs pet simulator, Aniplex's Kamichu! slice-of-life school anime, and Mamoru Hosoda's The Girl Who Leapt Through Time time-traveling anime remake.
Source: Comic Natalie
Update: More background information added.
Update 2: Jury-recommended long works in the Animation category added.
Update 3: Jury-recommended long works in the Manga category added.
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