Entertainment Division
Award
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Excellence Award
echochrome ii
SUZUTA Ken / FUJIKI Jun / SUZUKI Tatsuya
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Excellence Award
sakanaction "arukuaround"
SEKI Kazuaki
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Excellence Award
amazarashi "natsu wo matteimashita"
YKBX
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Excellence Award
Tabio Slide Show
KODAMA Yuichi / TANAKA Koichiro / MODEKI Ryuta / SAKO Minoru
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Excellence Award
iPad magic
UCHIDA Shinya
Jury Selections
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Patchwork Heroes
IKEDA Yuki
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METAL GEAR SOLID PEACE WALKER
KOJIMA Hideo (KONAMI)
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New SUPER MARIO BROS. Wii
ASUKE Shigeyuki representing the New SUPER MARIO BROS. Wii development team
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PixelJunk™ Shooter
Dylan CUTHBERT
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kagenotou
TSUTIHASHI Osamu
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GHOST TRICK
TAKUMI Shu
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Sengoku Basara : Samurai Heroes
KOBAYASHI Hiroyuki
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DRAGON QUEST MONSTERS-Joker2
HORII Yuji
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NO MORE HEROES 2 DESPERATE STRUGGLE
SUDA51
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FINAL FANTASY XIII
“FINAL FANTASY XIII” Development Team
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Pokémon Black Version and Pokémon White Version
MASUDA Junichi
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METALMAX3
MIYAOKA Hiroshi
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Yakuza4
NAGOSHI Toshihiro
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LOST PLANET 2
TAKEUCHI Jun
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e-Sports Ground
INUKAI Hiroshi
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i3DG
MASE Jitsuro / NAGAE Tom (DIRECTIONS.Inc)
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N-3D
MASE Jitsuro / NAGAE Tom (DIRECTIONS.Inc)
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Esper Domino
SUKI Jarashi
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NIKODAMA
KUWAKUBO Ryota
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ab_rah
YOSHINO Kohei (networks)
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I ❤ XXX / OHTSUKA Ai
MORIMOTO Chie / YANAGISAWA Show
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make.believe / Genki Rockets
MIZUGUCHI Tetsuya / TAMAI Kenji (Genki Rockets)
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Nike Music Shoe
ITO Naoki / Frank HAHN
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Pico / SJQ
TSUCHIYA Takafumi (TAKCOM)
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recorder
OKAMOTO Noriaki
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"VENUS & JESUS/ETSUKO YAKUSHIMARU"
MANABE Daito
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太宰治短編小説集 走れメロス
SHIBUE Suhei
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toireno kamisama with OSHIO Kotaro / UEMURA Kana
HASHIMOTO Daisuke
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MOYASHIMON -TALES OF AGRICULTURE -
IWAMOTO Akira
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The Last Piece -Chapter of HANAZAWA Etsuko - / SiM
MIZUNO Takanobu
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mameshiba
KIM Sukwon / WATANABE Shouko
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CREATIVE IS ENDLESS BATTLE
SAWABE Yoshiaki
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ORIGAMI EcoDrive
NOZOE Takeshi
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PEACE SHADOW PROJECT
OYAGI Tsubasa / NAGASHIMA Rikako / OKURA Seiichi / BABA Kampei
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SHIRO CHEERS SYSTEM
KODAMA Yuichi / NAKAMURA Hiroki / KISHI Yuki / BABA Kampei
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Wonderwall Website
NAKAMURA Yugo
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Air Sampai
KANEDA Koichi
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NIHON-IRO
TERAMOTO Makoto
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HourFace
FUKAZAWA Takeshi
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NullFace
KONDO Ryo
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TEAMLAB HANGER
INOKO Toshiyuki
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Action papercraft kamikara Dinosaur
NAKAMURA Haruki
Jury Critiques
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Head of the Jury
HORII Yuji
Game Designer
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ITO Gabin
Editor / Creative Director
Works that cannot be isolated as works
It was difficult to examine all the entries for the game genre. How is one supposed to grasp and evaluate the sequel to a major hit game? How can these be compared to a work that compiles new ideas into something smaller? The axes of evaluation are too far apart, leaving them incomparable. But this is probably because I simply did not encounter a work that was remarkably new. Honestly, the …
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UCHIYAMA Koshi
Creative Director
What lies beyond the great turning point
As someone that has been belonged to advertising, I was disappointed in the lack of attractiveness on average of the advertisements. New expressions and ideas that captured people's hearts once spread throughout the world from advertisements. Today, however, these are generated from MVs or interactive art. A large number of stimulating works have actually been found in these areas. I felt a …
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SAITO Yutaka
Game Designer
I want to judge the hottest works of today
There were a large number of fresh moving image works. There were also many website and play equipment works that were rather unique. However, the jury felt that the works submitted to the genre of game all lacks something. The key areas of the works failed to offer anything new--most were part of a series or remakes of existing works. I understand that this is a structural aspect of the …
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TERAI Hironori
Stretching the potential of media
This division consistently remains at the industry's front line and is an area that must boldly try new possibilities while being subjected to the consequences of competition and evolution. At the same time, the category allows us to experience a large variety of different trials. I saw many works in the moving images and website genres that made new attempts while questioning the very grounds of …
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Human touch is necessary for the production of work
I was chosen as a jury member of the Entertainment Division of the Japan Media Arts Festival for the first time. As the Entertainment Division includes various genres such as games, play equipments, movies, characters, and websites, it was difficult to screen all the works by the same criteria, and there were heated discussions during the screening process. Still, IS Parade featuring Twitter …