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NEWS: No Anime Wins Awards at 2013 Annecy




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FlamingFirewire



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PostPosted: Tue Jun 18, 2013 12:35 am Reply with quote
It's too bad Patema Inverted didn't win anything
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I predict unending fonts of butthurt from people who think that the only good animation is anime in 3...2...1...
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PostPosted: Tue Jun 18, 2013 1:27 am Reply with quote
FlamingFirewire wrote:
It's too bad Patema Inverted didn't win anything


It was only screening, but not competing.
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TsunaReborn!



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PostPosted: Tue Jun 18, 2013 2:00 am Reply with quote
It would have been good to see at least one pick up an award.
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walw6pK4Alo



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PostPosted: Tue Jun 18, 2013 4:20 am Reply with quote
The Berserk films aren't good enough to be award winners, so that's fine with me.
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PostPosted: Tue Jun 18, 2013 4:20 am Reply with quote
Well is this related strictly to film or tv as well. The fact that many anime never win anything is because most international awards only give out awards to film.

That being said, I think the Berserk films look terrible. Im surprised such a beloved franchise got relegated to really crappy cgi looking graphics. Or at least thats how the trailers made it look like.
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PostPosted: Tue Jun 18, 2013 9:16 am Reply with quote
Meh. (And the band played on).
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ConanSan



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PostPosted: Tue Jun 18, 2013 10:00 am Reply with quote
If anything this suggests that Japan needs to step it up.
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qjackson



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PostPosted: Tue Jun 18, 2013 1:18 pm Reply with quote
It is a bit disappointing but this nothing that shouldn't change anything. There just happened to be better animated films out there that weren't anime.

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If anything this suggests that Japan needs to step it up.


Maybe or they were just out beaten this year. I would start worrying when no anime starts winning any awards outside of the anime industry awards.
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Looking at the award winners this is hardly a surprising result. There are a number of 3D productions in the list, and the 2D winners have a distinctly "Western" or "European" look.

Thinking back over 2012 I'd have a hard time picking any anime television series that I would say was distinctive or original. Shin Sekai Yori probably comes the closest followed by Shirokuma Cafe.

You'll notice, too, that most of the winners discuss social issues; works with themes about class, war and the environment seem to have done well. Those are not the kinds of animated stories that sell well among Japanese otaku these days.
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PostPosted: Tue Jun 18, 2013 9:36 pm Reply with quote
walw6pK4Alo wrote:
The Berserk films aren't good enough to be award winners, so that's fine with me.


maybe the worst anime movie award.
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Adamb15



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PostPosted: Wed Jun 19, 2013 2:05 am Reply with quote
yuna49 wrote:
Looking at the award winners this is hardly a surprising result. There are a number of 3D productions in the list, and the 2D winners have a distinctly "Western" or "European" look.

Thinking back over 2012 I'd have a hard time picking any anime television series that I would say was distinctive or original. Shin Sekai Yori probably comes the closest followed by Shirokuma Cafe.

You'll notice, too, that most of the winners discuss social issues; works with themes about class, war and the environment seem to have done well. Those are not the kinds of animated stories that sell well among Japanese otaku these days.


So Annecy is like any other Indie Film competition?

I don't know if that's normal, because Animation and Anime aren't main stream, or stupid because I like anime.
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ConanSan



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PostPosted: Wed Jun 19, 2013 3:03 pm Reply with quote
qjackson wrote:
Maybe or they were just out beaten this year. I would start worrying when no anime starts winning any awards outside of the anime industry awards.
Regardless, step it up, Japan.
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