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Totto-Chan: The Little Girl at the Window Wins 2024 Scotland Loves Anime Judges Award
posted on by Andrew Osmond
The festival released the following statement from the jurors:
"For its sensitive portrayal of a neurodiverse child, its nuanced account of a society drifting into austerity, war and defeat, and its message of resilience in face of hardship, not to mention its firm grounding in reality and its true-life account of the formative years of a Japanese celebrity, the majority vote in the jury conferred the Judges Award on Totto-Chan: The Little Girl at the Window."
Totto-Chan: The Little Girl at the Window is Shinei Animation's anime film of Tetsuko Kuroyanagi's Madoigwa no Totto-chan autobiographical memoir, directed by Shinnosuke Yakuwa. The film opened in Japan on December 8. Kuroyanagi's memoir tells her story of going to school at Tomoe Gakuen, after not fitting at her original elementary school. She meets unique students and learns new things at school, even as Japan descends into war. Kuroyanagi published the book in Japan in 1981, where it became a bestseller over the next year. It became required reading for Japanese elementary school students in the 1980s, and was also translated in English and many other languages worldwide.
The 2024 Scotland Loves Anime festival ran from November 1 to 3 in Glasgow, November 4 to 10 in Edinburgh, and November 15 to 17 in London,
Source: Email communication from Scotland Loves Anime.
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