The Tokyo Anime Awards started in 2002, but was named in 2005. The first, second and third award ceremonies were simply named 'Competition'.[1] The award ceremonies were held at the Tokyo International Anime Fair (TAF) until 2013. In 2014, after the merger of the Tokyo International Anime Fair with the Anime Contents Expo and the formation of the AnimeJapan convention, the Tokyo Anime Awards was changed into a separate festival called Tokyo Anime Awards Festival (TAAF).

Tokyo Anime Award
Awarded forExcellence in animation achievements
CountryJapan
Presented byTAAF Executive Committee,
AJA (since 2014)
TAF Executive Committee (until 2013)
First awarded2002
Websiteanimefestival.jp (TAAF)
tokyoanime.jp (TAF)

Notably, there are Open Entry Awards for amateur creators (the Grand Prize winner is awarded with one million yen).[2] Though there are ten main judges,[3] the total number of judges is over one hundred people.[4][5] Various groups participate in judging the festival, such as anime studio staff members, professors of universities, as well as producers and chief editors of various magazines. (See also: Animation Kobe).

Animation of the Year

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All anime released from December 1 of the year before the festival to November 30 of the current year in Japan become candidates.[2] The anime that best represents the category it was nominated in is chosen as the winner of that category.

In the first year of the celebration, the award was given to Spirited Away as 'Grand Prix'. In the second year, there was no Animation of the Year award; therefore, the 'Best Entry Awards' in the 'Notable Entries' are often recognized as 'Grand Prix', they were: Millennium Actress (film), Hanada Shōnen-shi (TV) and Sentō Yōsei Yukikaze (OVA)

Since 2014, Tokyo Anime Award Festival has given an Anime of the Year Grand Prize in two categories, Film and Television.

Tokyo Anime Award
Year Winner Note
2002 Spirited Away Grand Prix
2003 Not awarded
2004 Mobile Suit Gundam Seed
2005 Howl's Moving Castle
2006 Fullmetal Alchemist the Movie: Conqueror of Shamballa
2007 The Girl Who Leapt Through Time
2008 Evangelion: 1.0 You Are (Not) Alone
2009 Ponyo
2010 Summer Wars
2011 The Secret World of Arrietty
2012 From up on Poppy Hill
2013 Wolf Children
Tokyo Anime Award Festivala
2014 The Wind Rises Film Category
Attack on Titan Television Category
2015 Frozen Film Category
Ping Pong the Animation Television Category
2016 Love Live! The School Idol Movie Film Category
Shirobako Television Category
2017 A Silent Voice Film Category
Yuri!!! on Ice Television Category
2018 In This Corner of the World Film Category
Kemono Friends Television Category
2019 Detective Conan: Zero the Enforcer Film Category
Zombie Land Saga Television Category
2020 Weathering with You Film Category
Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Television Category
2021 Violet Evergarden: The Movie Film Category
Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken! Television Category
2022 Evangelion: 3.0 1.0 Thrice Upon a Time Film Category
Jujutsu Kaisen Television Category
2023 One Piece Film: Red Film Category
Spy × Family Television Category
2024 The First Slam Dunk Film Category
Oshi no Ko Television Category
Notes
a. ^ Anime of the Year Grand Prize for Best Picture

Anime Fan Award

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Picking from over 300-400 titles from television and films, anime fans vote from the candidate pool to pick the best 100 from those titles, with 20 of these titles being films and 80 being television titles. Fans then participate in a runoff vote in order to determine a recipient amongst the 100 chosen titles for the Anime Fan Award.

Initial qualifications to become candidates required titles to have aired from November of the year before the festival to October of the current year in Japan. However, this has since been twice changed — first in 2017 to be from October to October, and again in 2020 to be from October to September.[6]

Tokyo Anime Award Festival
Year Winner Note
2014 Danball Senki Wars
2015 Tiger & Bunny: The Rising
2016 Gintama
2017 Yuri on Ice The only title to win the award twice consecutively.
2018
2019 Banana Fish
2020 Uta no Prince-Sama: Maji Love Kingdom
2021 Idolish7: Second Beat!
2022 Idolish7: Third Beat! Only applies to the 1st Cour.
2023 Mechamato The first non-Japanese-produced animation to win in this category.
2024 Idolish7 The Movie: Live 4bit Beyond The Period

Open Entries / Competition Grand Prize

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The awards for the creator of the non-commercialized work for TV, movie and OVA, to find new talents and to provide support for subsequent commercialization. The work must be an animation longer than 15 seconds, and no longer than 30 minutes. If the work was not commercialized before, professional creator also can enter this Grand Prize.[7] The 2007 winner, Flutter, was the first work from a non-Asian country to win this award.[8]

Tokyo Anime Award
Year Winner Title Note
2002   Youhei Takamatsu Tokyo Animarathonb
2003   Jung Min-Young Say My Namec
2004   Han Tae-Ho Africa a.F.r.I.c.A
2005   Shin Hosokawa The Demon
2006   Kazuo Ebisawa Crow that wears clothes
2007   Howie Shia Flutter
2008   Helen Huang Adventures in the NPM
2009   Heiko van der Scherm Descendants
2010   G9 1 Tokyo Fantasia
2011   Alice Dieudonne Trois petits points
2012   Chen Xifeng Pig Sale
2013   Tsai Shiu-Cheng Time of Cherry Blossoms
Tokyo Anime Award Festivald
2014   Ari Folman The Congress Featured Film Category
  Augusto Zanovello Lettres de femmes Short Film Category
2015   Tomm Moore Song of the Sea Featured Film Category
  Konstantin Bronzit We Can't Live Without Cosmos Short Film Category
2016   Rémi Chayé Long Way North Featured Film Category
  Siniša Mataić Off Belay Short Film Category
2017   Sébastien Laudenbach The Girl Without Hands Feature Film Category
  Elice Meng Of Shadows and Wings... Short Film Category
2018   Hsin Yin Sung On Happiness Road Feature Film Category
  Ru Kuwahata, Max Porter Negative Space Short Film Category
2019   Raúl de la Fuente, Damian Nenow Another Day of Life Feature Film Category
  Nienke Deutz Bloeistraat 11 Short Film Category
Notes
b. ^ Best Entry Award in Amateur Category
c. ^ Best Entry Award in Student Category
d. ^ Competition Winning Programs

Notable Entry

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The excellent works of the year are chosen according to each section.

Television Category

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The TV animations broadcast from December 1 of the year beforehand to November 30 of the previous year in Japan become candidates.[2]

The 'Best Entry' was selected only in 2003: Hanada Shōnen-shi.

Tokyo Anime Award
Year Winner
2002 InuYasha
Ojamajo Doremi #
Hikaru no Go
Fruits Basket
One Piece
2003 Hanada Shōnen-shi
InuYasha
Overman King Gainer
2004 Astro Boy
Mobile Suit Gundam SEED
Fullmetal Alchemist
2005 Gankutsuou: The Count of Monte Cristo
Sgt. Frog
Futari wa Pretty Cure
2006 Eureka Seven
Black Jack
Mushishi
2007 Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion
The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya
Death Note
2008 Dennō Coil
Tengen Toppa Gurren-Lagann
2009 Macross Frontier
Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion R2
2010 Eden of the East
K-On!
2011 K-On!!
The Tatami Galaxy
2012 Puella Magi Madoka Magica
Tiger & Bunny
2013 Kuroko's Basketball
Sword Art Online
Tokyo Anime Award Festival
2014 Space Brothers
2015 Yo-Kai Watch
2016 Shirobako
2017 Yuri!!! on Ice
2018 Kemono Friends
2019 Zombie Land Saga
2020 Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba
2021 Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken!
2022 Jujutsu Kaisen
2023 Spy × Family
2024 Oshi no Ko

Domestic Feature Film Category

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The animation films released from December 1 of the year beforehand to November 30 of the previous year in Japan become candidates.[2]

The 'Best Entry' was selected only in 2003: Millennium Actress.

Tokyo Anime Award
Year Winner
2002 Princess Arete
Spirited Away
Metropolis
2003 Millennium Actress
The Cat Returns
Crayon Shin-chan: The Storm Called: The Battle of the Warring States
2004 Tokyo Godfathers
Nasu: Summer in Andalusia
2005 Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence
Steamboy
2006 Detective Conan: Strategy Above the Depths
Zeta Gundam: A New Translation - Heirs to the Stars
2007 Paprika
Arashi no Yoru ni
2008 Summer Days with Coo
2009 Ponyo
2010 Summer Wars
2011 The Secret World of Arrietty
2012 From Up on Poppy Hill
2013 Wolf Children
Tokyo Anime Award Festival
2014 The Wind Rises[9]
2015 Stand by Me Doraemon
2016 Love Live! The School Idol Movie
2017 A Silent Voice
2018 In This Corner of the World
2019 Detective Conan: Zero the Enforcer
2020 Weathering with You
2021 Violet Evergarden: The Movie
2022 Evangelion: 3.0 1.0 Thrice Upon a Time
2023 One Piece Film: Red
2024 The First Slam Dunk

OVA Category

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The Original Video Animations (OVAs) released from December 1 of the year beforehand to November 30 of the previous year in Japan become candidates.[2]

The 'Best Entry' was selected only in 2003: Sentō Yōsei Yukikaze. Sentō Yōsei Yukikaze (2003 and 2006) and Diebuster (2005 and 2007) were awarded two times.

Tokyo Anime Award
Year Winner
2002 Animation Runner Kuromi
2003 Sentō Yōsei Yukikaze
Return of the Magician
JoJo's Bizarre Adventure
2004 The Animatrix
Macross Zero
2005 Animation Runner Kuromi 2
Diebuster
2006 Karas
Sentō Yōsei Yukikaze
2007 Diebuster
Freedom
2008 Nasu: A Migratory Bird with Suitcase
2009 Detroit Metal City
2010 Time of Eve
2011 Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn
2012 Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn
2013 Not awarded

International Theater Award

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The international animation films released from December 1 of the year beforehand to November 30 of the previous year in Japan become candidates.[2]

Founded in 2003. One work is selected and awards presented every year.

Tokyo Anime Award
Year Winner
2003 Monsters, Inc.
2004 Lilo & Stitch
2005 Finding Nemo
2006 The Incredibles
2007 Cars
2008 Ratatouille
2009 Kung Fu Panda
2010 WALL-E
2011 Toy Story 3
2012 Tangled
2013 The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn

Individual awards

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The individual awards for the activities of the previous year.[2]

Best Director

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The awards for directors. Though this award does not limit to the directors of films, it has a tendency to be given to film directors.

Tokyo Anime Award
Year Winner Directed Note
2002 Akitaro Daichi TV category
Hayao Miyazaki Film category
2003 Keiichi Hara Crayon Shin-chan: The Storm Called: The Battle of the Warring States[10] Film
2004 Satoshi Kon Tokyo Godfathers[10] Film
2005 Hayao Miyazaki Howl's Moving Castle Film
2006 Yoshiyuki Tomino Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam A New Translation: Heirs to the Stars Film
2007 Mamoru Hosoda The Girl Who Leapt Through Time Film
2008 Hideaki Anno Evangelion: 1.0 You Are (Not) Alone Film
2009 Hayao Miyazaki Ponyo Film
2010 Mamoru Hosoda Summer Wars Film
2011 Hiromasa Yonebayashi The Secret World of Arrietty Film
2012 Akiyuki Shinbo Puella Magi Madoka Magica TV series
2013 Mamoru Hosoda Wolf Children Film
Tokyo Anime Award Festival
2014 Tetsurō Araki
2015 Isao Takahata
2016 Yōichi Fujita
2017 Makoto Shinkai
2018 Tatsuki
2019 Yoshiaki Kyōgoku
2020 Makoto Shinkai
2021 Haruo Sotozaki
2022 Hideaki Anno
2023 Gorō Taniguchi
2024 Takehiko Inoue

Best Original Story

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The awards for the original creators of the work. Founded in 2005.

Tokyo Anime Award
Year Winner Original Story of Note
2005 Masamune Shirow Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence Manga
2006 Hiromu Arakawa Fullmetal Alchemist Manga
2007 Yasutaka Tsutsui The Girl Who Leapt Through Time Novel
2008 Taiyō Matsumoto Tekkon Kinkreet Manga
2009 Hayao Miyazaki Ponyo
2010 Mamoru Hosoda Summer Wars
2013 Reki Kawahara Sword Art Online Light novel

Best Screenplay

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The awards for screenwriters.

Tokyo Anime Award
Year Winner Screenplay of Note
2002 Takashi Yamada TV category
Hayao Miyazaki Film category
2003 Ichirō Ōkouchi Overman King Gainer[10] TV series
2004 Sho Aikawa Fullmetal Alchemist[10] TV series
2005 Mamoru Oshii Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence Film
2006 Dai Satō Eureka Seven TV series
2007 Satoko Okudera The Girl Who Leapt Through Time Film
2008 Keiichi Hara Summer Days with Coo Film
2009 Ichirō Ōkouchi Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion R2 TV series
2010 Satoko Okudera Summer Wars Film
2011 Miho Maruo Colorful Film
2012 Gen Urobuchi Puella Magi Madoka Magica TV series
2013 Satoko Okudera
Mamoru Hosoda
Wolf Children Film

Best Screenplay / Original Story

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The awards for screenwriters since 2014.

Tokyo Anime Award Festival
Year Winner Note
2014 Yasuko Kobayashi
Hayao Miyazaki
Reiko Yoshida
2015 Jukki Hanada
2016 Shū Matsubara
2017 Reiko Yoshida
2018 Kinoko Nasu
2019 Jukki Hanada
2020 Koyoharu Gotouge
2021 Reiko Yoshida
2022 Hideaki Anno
2023 Reiko Yoshida
2024 Takehiko Inoue

Best Art Direction

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The awards for the staffs of art direction.

Tokyo Anime Award
Year Winner Art Direction of Note
2002 Yuji Ikeda TV category
Yōji Takeshige Film category
2003 Nobutaka Ike Millennium Actress[10] Film
2004 Nobutaka Ike Tokyo Godfathers[10] Film
2005 Shinji Kimura Steamboy Film
2006 Takeshi Waki Mushishi TV series
2007 Nizo Yamamoto The Girl Who Leapt Through Time Film
2008 Shinji Kimura Tekkon Kinkreet Film
2009 Noboru Yoshida Ponyo Film
2010 Yōji Takeshige Summer Wars Film
2011 Yōji Takeshige The Secret World of Arrietty Film
2012 Takumi Tanji Children Who Chase Lost Voices Film
2013 Hiroshi Ohno Wolf Children Film
A Letter to Momo Film
Tokyo Anime Award Festival
2014 Yōji Takeshige
2015 Kazuo Oga
2017 Shunichiro Yoshihara
2020 Mikiko Watanabe Violet Evergarden: Eternity and the Auto Memory Doll Watanabe was among the 36 killed as result of the Kyoto Animation arson attack and was awarded posthumously for her work.
2021 Mikiko Watanabe Violet Evergarden: The Movie Watanabe was again awarded posthumously for her work.

Best Character Designer

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The awards for character designers.

Tokyo Anime Award
Year Winner Character Design of Note
2002 Masatomo Sudo TV category
Hayao Miyazaki Film category
2003 Kōsuke Fujishima Sakura Wars[10] Film
2004 Hisashi Hirai Mobile Suit Gundam SEED[10] TV series
2005 Hiroyuki Okiura Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence Film
2006 Ken'ichi Yoshida Eureka Seven TV series
2007 Yoshiyuki Sadamoto The Girl Who Leapt Through Time Film
2008 Atsushi Nishigori Tengen Toppa Gurren-Lagann TV series
2009 Tetsuya Nishio The Sky Crawlers Film
2010 Yoshiyuki Sadamoto Summer Wars Film
2011 Yoshihiko Umakoshi HeartCatch PreCure! TV series
2012 Masakazu Katsura Tiger & Bunny TV series
2013 Yoshiyuki Sadamoto Wolf Children Film
Tokyo Anime Award Festival
2014 Sushio
2015 Takahiro Kishida
2016 Naoyuki Asano

Best Voice Actor

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The awards for voice actors by their performance. Rumi Hiiragi (2002) and Chieko Baisho (2005) are more famous as actress in Japan.

Tokyo Anime Award
Year Winner Acted as Note
2002 Kurumi Mamiya TV category
Rumi Hiiragi Film category
2003 Kappei Yamaguchi InuYasha[10]
2004 Romi Park Edward Elric[10]
2005 Chieko Baisho Sophie (Howl's Moving Castle) Film
2006 Akio Ōtsuka Black Jack (Black Jack) TV series
2007 Aya Hirano Haruhi Suzumiya
(The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya)
TV series
2008 Mamoru Miyano Setsuna F. Seiei (Mobile Suit Gundam 00) TV series
Light Yagami (Death Note) TV series
2009 Jun Fukuyama Lelouch Lamperouge
(Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion R2)
TV series
2010 Hiroshi Kamiya Koyomi Araragi (Bakemonogatari) TV series
2011 Aki Toyosaki Yui Hirasawa (K-On!!) TV series
2012 Hiroaki Hirata Kotetsu T. Kaburagi/Wild Tiger (Tiger & Bunny) TV series
2013 Yuki Kaji Amata Sora (Aquarion Evol) TV series
Haruyuki Arita (Accel World) TV series
Tokyo Anime Award Festival
2014 Hideaki Anno
2015 Daisuke Ono
Koki Uchiyama

Best Music

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The awards for composers (and other music related people).

Tokyo Anime Award
Year Winner Music of Note
2002 Kōhei Tanaka TV category
Joe Hisaishi Film category
2003 Yoko Kanno Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex[10] TV series
2004 Yoko Kanno
2005 Joe Hisaishi Howl's Moving Castle Film
2006 Michiru Oshima Fullmetal Alchemist TV series
2007 Susumu Hirasawa Paprika Film
2008 Yoko Kanno Genesis of Aquarion TV series
2009 Yoko Kanno Macross Frontier TV series
2010 Shiro Sagisu Evangelion: 2.0 You Can (Not) Advance Film
2011 Cécile Corbel The Secret World of Arrietty Film
2012 Satoshi Takebe From Up On Poppy Hill Film
2013 Yoko Kanno Kids on the Slope TV series
Aquarion Evol TV series
Tokyo Anime Award Festival
2014 Hiroyuki Sawano
2015 Hiroyuki Sawano
2017 Hiroyuki Sawano
2018 Yuki Kajiura
2019 Mamoru Miyano
2020 Yuki Kajiura
2021 Yuki Kajiura
2022 Yuki Kajiura
Go Shiina
2023 Ado
2024 Yoasobi

Best Animator

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The awards for animators since 2014.

Tokyo Anime Award Festival
Year Winner Note
2014 Kitarō Kōsaka
2015 Kumiko Takahashi
Nobutake Itō
Osamu Tanabe
2016 Chikashi Kubota
2017 Tadashi Hiramatsu
2018 Takahiro Kishida
2019 Hitomi Kariya
2020 Akira Matsushima
2021 Akira Matsushima
2022 Akira Matsushima
2023 Yoshimichi Kameda
2024 Takeshi Honda

Merit Award

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Director
Year Winner Note
2009 Hiroshi Sasagawa
2010 Isao Takahata
2011 Tomoharu Katsumata
2012 Osamu Dezaki
2013 Noboru Ishiguro
2014 Kimio Yabuki
2015 Toshio Hirata
2016 Toyoo Ashida
2017 Hiroshi Ikeda
2018 Tsutomu Shibayama
2019 Hisayuki Toriumi
Voice Actor
Year Winner Note
2006 Mari Shimizu
2007 Nobuyo Ōyama, Noriko Ohara, Michiko Nomura, Kaneta Kimotsuki and Kazuya Tatekabe
2009 Jōji Yanami
2010 Seizō Katō
2011 Midori Katō, Ichirō Nagai, Miyoko Asō and Takako Sasuga
2012 Masako Nozawa
2013 Tōru Ōhira
2014 Chikao Ohtsuka
2015 Hiroshi Ōtake
2016 Yshiko Ōta
2017 Eiko Masuyama
2018 Kiyoshi Kobayashi
2019 Kazuko Sugiyama
2020 Masako Ikeda
2021 Michio Hazama
2022 Shōzō Iizuka

See also

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References

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  1. ^ 'Competition' Archived 2007-03-29 at the Wayback Machine at the first event (2002), outline of 'Competition'[dead link] at the second event (2003), 'Competition' Archived 2008-02-09 at the Wayback Machine at the third event (2004)
  2. ^ a b c d e f g Information about the awards Archived 2007-07-06 at the Wayback Machine at the 6th event (2007)
  3. ^ judges[permanent dead link] at the second event (2003) in English, judges[permanent dead link] at the fifth event (2006) in Japanese
  4. ^ judges[permanent dead link] at the first event (2002). There was 127 judges including 72 staffs of the event.
  5. ^ Winners Archived 2007-06-21 at the Wayback Machine at the fourth event (2005). There was 197 judges. See the comment of Joe Hisaishi
  6. ^ "Award-winning works". animefestival.jp. Retrieved 9 February 2023.
  7. ^ about open entry at the 6th event (2007)
  8. ^ "Shia wins top prize". Regina Leader-Post. 24 March 2007. Retrieved 15 January 2011.
  9. ^ "Previous Winners | Tokyo Anime Award Festival 2022".
  10. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k About the 'Individual Awards' in 2003 and 2004: works were not officially announced, just persons.
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