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NEWS: Frozen, Ping Pong, Tiger & Bunny Win at Tokyo Anime Award Festival




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Stark700



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PostPosted: Sun Mar 22, 2015 7:21 pm Reply with quote
Grats to Ping Pong! Well deserved. The manga is just as great Razz
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PostPosted: Sun Mar 22, 2015 7:37 pm Reply with quote
Majority of my favorites won. Nice. Congrats to all of them.
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PostPosted: Sun Mar 22, 2015 8:47 pm Reply with quote
Glad to know that Frozen is anime too...
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I just binge-watched Ping Pong over the last couple days... it's great. I can see why it would get an award. Wish they had spent a bit more money on the ping pong scenes though lol.
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PostPosted: Sun Mar 22, 2015 9:44 pm Reply with quote
konqueror wrote:
Glad to know that Frozen is anime too...


And Song of the Sea. Though "anime" really just means "animation," and they are both clearly animated.

If those rules are as loose as I think they are, you could screen your animated short film once at some Japanese university and be qualified for nomination.
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leafy sea dragon wrote:

And Song of the Sea. Though "anime" really just means "animation," and they are both clearly animated.

Actually no it doesn't. That however is a long standing old debate I don't want to get into right now. I don't have anything against Frozen per se but having it there at all, let alone win, just makes me shake my head. Perhaps I'm just being an old curmudgeon.
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PostPosted: Sun Mar 22, 2015 10:02 pm Reply with quote
All right then--fair enough. Frozen did take the country by storm though (snowstorm, maybe?), comparable to what happened in North America.

Makes me wonder if Big Hero 6 will take the win next year.
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leafy sea dragon wrote:
All right then--fair enough. Frozen did take the country by storm though (snowstorm, maybe?), comparable to what happened in North America.

I won't argue with that fact. It did take the country by storm. I again am not sure why. Nothing against it, I enjoyed it, but I could list a handful of other Pixar movies in recent years better than Frozen. That's just me though. Whatever the reasons they all came together to form the perfect storm (pun) of marketability and success.
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Psycho 101 wrote:

Actually no it doesn't. That however is a long standing old debate I don't want to get into right now. I don't have anything against Frozen per se but having it there at all, let alone win, just makes me shake my head. Perhaps I'm just being an old curmudgeon.

It is my understanding that the English definition of anime is animation created in Japan. However in Japan there really isn't a need for such a distinction and they have always referred to all animation as anime. So for us English speakers Frozen isn't an anime, but it is to the Japanese.
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I won't argue with that fact. It did take the country by storm. I again am not sure why.


It's 'cus they don't have real shoujo anime in Japan anymore, and it fills a void. That, and Frozen's basically a Disney-fied version of all those NHK World Masterpiece Theater storybook anime.
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Panoptican wrote:
Psycho 101 wrote:

Actually no it doesn't. That however is a long standing old debate I don't want to get into right now. I don't have anything against Frozen per se but having it there at all, let alone win, just makes me shake my head. Perhaps I'm just being an old curmudgeon.

It is my understanding that the English definition of anime is animation created in Japan. However in Japan there really isn't a need for such a distinction and they have always referred to all animation as anime. So for us English speakers Frozen isn't an anime, but it is to the Japanese.
Actually Panopticon your absolutly right, anime is short for animation in Japan everything thats animated counts as anime, while over here in the west we have always made the distinction between anime and animation by cultural themes and visual style. and to be honest I still dont get why we still have these debate anyways. Very Happy
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PostPosted: Mon Mar 23, 2015 1:19 am Reply with quote
The Tokyo Anime Award Festival started out as the Tokyo International Anime Fair, and their guidelines don't make a distinction between animation.

http://animefestival.jp/en/festival/competition/

  • The Tokyo Anime Award Festival 2015 is an international animation film festival for promotion of animation films, co-hosted by the Tokyo Anime Award Festival Executive Committee and the Association of Japanese Animations. This takes over the Tokyo Anime Award, part of the Tokyo International Anime Fair, which started in 2002, and this year’s competition marks the 14th in 2015.


http://animefestival.jp/en/festival/competition/feature/

  • Any animation film produced with any method that fulfills the following conditions may be enterd:

    1) Work completed on and after January 1, 2013

    2) Featured Animation Film

    • The work entered must be a 60 min. or longer featured animation film unreleased in Japan whose main purpose is to be released publicly, including at theaters. Note featured animation films having already been commercially released in Japan for a certain continuing period are not accepted; however, those submitted just to film festivals or screened only at graduation shows are not deemed as “commercially released”.

    • Featured animation films commercially released in Japan during the designated period may be nominated for Anime of the Year. Please contact to the office for further information.



Psycho 101 wrote:
leafy sea dragon wrote:

All right then--fair enough. Frozen did take the country by storm though (snowstorm, maybe?), comparable to what happened in North America.

I won't argue with that fact. It did take the country by storm. I again am not sure why. Nothing against it, I enjoyed it, but I could list a handful of other Pixar movies in recent years better than Frozen. That's just me though. Whatever the reasons they all came together to form the perfect storm (pun) of marketability and success.


I still believe it's the music - at least 4 Frozen / Anna and The Snow Queen songs (Japanese and English) were regularly around the Japanese Weekly Billboard Top 20 for several weeks in a row. (Pretty girls and happy pop music go a long way in Japan, after all.) Plus, a show doesn't have to be "heavy" to be considered tops by Japanese people (heck, just recall the many light/SOL anime that top otaku lists).
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PostPosted: Mon Mar 23, 2015 7:50 am Reply with quote
Congratulations to all winners, but especially to Masaaki Yuasa and Isao Takahata. I loved both Ping Pong and The Tale of Princess Kaguya.
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