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Anime awards
- Ōfuji Noburō AwardThe Ofuji Noburo Award carries a name that most animation fans outside Japan would struggle to recognize. Yet the award's namesake was one of the earliest…
- Mainichi Film Award for Best Animation FilmThe Mainichi Film Award for Best Animation Film entered the world in 1989, when Hayao Miyazaki's Kiki's Delivery Service took home the first-ever prize.
- Japan Media Arts FestivalThe Japan Media Arts Festival has been asking a deceptively simple question since 1997: what counts as art when a screen is involved?
- Tokyo Anime AwardThe Tokyo Anime Award began in 2002 by handing its very first grand prize to Spirited Away. That single decision said something about where Japanese…
- Animation KobeAnimation Kobe began on the 8th of December 1996, when the city of Kobe gathered anime professionals inside the Kobe Fashion Mart and gave the first…
- AnimageAnimage arrived on Japanese newsstands in July 1978 with an ambition no magazine had yet attempted: to take animation seriously as a subject for ordinary…
- Anime Grand PrixAnime Grand Prix has crowned a single best anime of the year every year since 1979, decided entirely by the readers of one magazine.
- American Anime AwardsMilton Griepp launched the American Anime Awards in 2007 to bring industry recognition to anime and manga releases across North America.
- Crunchyroll Anime AwardsThe Crunchyroll Anime Awards were first presented in January 2017 by the streaming service Crunchyroll. Crunchyroll calls it a "global event that recognizes…
- Seiyu AwardsThe first Seiyu Awards took place on the 3rd of March 2007 inside the 3D Theatre of the Tokyo Anime Center in Akihabara.