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Akiko Higashimura's Kakukaku Shikajika Manga Wins Media Arts Award
posted on by Crystalyn Hodgkins
The Japanese government's Ministry of Cultural Affairs announced the winners of the 19th Japan Media Arts Festival Awards on Friday.
Manga Division
Grand Prize
Kakukaku Shikajika (So-and-so, Such-and-such) by Akiko HigashimuraExcellence Award
Awajima Hyakkei (A Hundred Scenes of Awajima) by Takako ShimuraOtōto no Otto (My Brother’s Husband) by Gengoroh Tagame
Kikai Jikake no Ai (Machinework Love) by Yoshiie Gōda
Non-working City by Tingfung Ho (Portugal)
New Face Award
esoragoto! (Absurd Ideas) by nerunodaisuki, a self-published comicTamashii Ippai (Lots of Life) by Yuka Okuyama
Machida-kun no Sekai (The World of Machida-kun) by Yuki Andō
The website also listed an English PDF with the 28 Jury Selections in the Manga Division. The list featured 25 Japanese works, including: Hiroya Oku's Inuyashiki, Usamaru Furuya's Joshikōsei ni Korosaretai, Suehiro Maruo's Tomino no Jigoku, Norifusa Mita's Suna no Eikan, and more.
Animation Division
Grand Prize
Rhizome short film by Boris Labbé (France)Excellence Award
The Case of Hana & Alice by Shunji IwaiIsand (The Master) short film by Riho Unt (Estonia)
My Home short film by Phuong Mai Nguyen (France)
Yùl and the Snake short film by Gabriel Haren (France)
New Face Award
Typhoon Noruda (Taifū no Noruda) by Yōjirō AraiDeux Amis (Two Friends) short film by Natalia Chernysheva (Russia)
Chulyen, a Crow's tale short film by Agnès Patron and Cerise Lopez (France)
The website also listed an English PDF with the 23 Jury Selections in the Animation Division. The Jury Selections featured eight Japanese works, including:
I Can't Breathe
Animated short film
Sayaka KihataThe Anthem of the Heart
Animated feature film
Tatsuyuki Nagai, Mari Okada, and Masayoshi TanakaSarusuberi ~Miss HOKUSAI~
Animated feature film
Keiichi HaraZdravstvuite
Animated short film
Yōko YukiSugar Lump
Animated short film
Ryō ŌkawaraNothing you need to see
Animated short film
Keigo ItoThe Boy and The Beast
Animated feature film
Mamoru HosodaShirobako
Animated TV series
Shirobako Project (Tsutomu Mizushima, representative)
Animator, supervising animator, and character designer Yōichi Kotabe also received a Special Achievement award.
The website for the awards has a full list of the winners in English.
[Via Comic Natalie]