Animation Division
Award
Jury Selections
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the Garden of sinners :Thanatos.
AOKI Ei
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The Sky Crawlers
OSHII Mamoru
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CODE GEASS Lelouch of the Rebellion R2
TANIGUCHI Goro
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SAYONARA ZETSUBOU SENSEI
SHINBOU Akiyuki
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Sutefan no ongaeshi
NAITO Maro/SUZUKI Yukihiro/AOKI Jun/EDO Atushi
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STRIKE WITCHES
TAKAMURA Kazuhiro
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SOULEATER
IGARASHI Takuya
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TETSUWAN BIRDY DECODE
AKANE Kazuki
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Tokyo Marble Chocolate
SHIOTANI Naoyoshi
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NORAMIMI
KOYAMA Yoshitaka
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HAKABA KITARO
CHIOKA Masatoshi
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HELLS ANGELS
YAMAKAWA Yoshinobu
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Minamike
OOTA Masahiko
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Vegetable Fairies Episode 5 The Lost Piano
AMANO Yoshitaka
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BUILDINGS
JOKO Tomoyoshi
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CHRISTIAN BAUER-Tree of Life
HASHIMOTO Daisuke
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DEVOUR DINNER
MIZUE Mirai
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Omstart
CORNELIUS / TSUJIKAWA Koichiro
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shift
YAGI Tomoko
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Syscapes # Interlude
Eric SCHOCKMEL
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swimming
HIRAYAMA Shiho
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A Tale of Carefree King 3
MISUMI Yoshiko
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Orchestra
OKUDA Masaki / OGAWA Yutaro / OKAWARA Ryo
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LITTLE BIRD IN GINGHAM
NAGAI Katsumi
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Man and Whale
YAMAMURA Koji
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Cornelis
NAKATA Ayaka
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Sketchbook hanayayahei story
TAKEUCHI Ryohei
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advices
LI Jie
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Knyacki! Heaven and Hell
ITO Yuichi
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mending a puncture
OKAMOTO Masanori
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Man in the tunnel-alley
IWAISAWA Kenji
Jury Critiques
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Head of the Jury
SUZUKI Shinichi
Animation Director
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IKUHARA Kunihiko
Animation Director
[Critique by work category] Long Animation (Movie, TV, Original Video Animation)
In the final screening process, a rather harsh view emerged that no piece of work from this genre was worthy of a prize, but after the audition, I paused and realized something. KAIBA, The Sky Crawlers, HELLS ANGELS, SOULEATER, the Garden of sinners, and HAKABA KITARO. Believe it or not, these works are all set in "higan" (the other shore, where the dead live). The river that divides the dead and …
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KIFUNE Sonoko
Animation Artist
[Critique by work category] Short Animation
The maturation of digital technology has enabled both professionals and amateurs to meet on the same ground, and animation has become rich and varied. Few of the 223 short animation made a strong or conspicuous impact, but it was easy to select 22 fine works. However, it was surprising that the Grand Prize, three Excellence Prizes, and the Encouragement Prize went to short animations. The House …
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There was a total of 346 entries to this division this year. We had many fine works in the Short Animation Genre this year whereas there was no outstanding piece of work in long animations. As a result, a short animation, The House of Small Cubes, was selected as the Grand Prize winner with no objections. A man lives in a house amid an eerie silence that skillfully suggests global warming: this …