The Tokyo Anime Award Festival 2024 (TAAF 2024) finally announced the Anime of the Year awards on 18th April 2024, Anime of the Year has three categories: Best Film, Individual Award, and Anime Fan Award. A panel of judges selected the winners from a pool of 412 titles that either screened, aired, or were distributed in Japan between October 1, 2022, and September 30, 2023, with 100 titles (80 television anime and 20 theatrical anime) ultimately in the running for the Anime of the Year awards.
The following are the winners of the TAAF 2024 Anime of the Year award.
The best feature film goes to
Slam Dunk
© 2022 THE FIRST SLAM DUNK Film Partners
The best anime television series goes to
oshi no ko
The Best Anime Fan Award goes to
IDOLiSH7 Movie: LIVE 4bit – BEYOND THE PERiOD
Individual Awards
Writers & Directors Category:
Takehiko Inoue (The First Slam Dunk)
A manga artist. Inoue’s representative works are “SLAM DUNK” with a domestic circulation of more than 140 million in total, ongoing “REAL” and “Vagabond”. He received numerous awards including the Art Encouragement Prize for New Artists from Agency for Cultural Affairs. His activities such as “Inoue Takehiko: The LAST Manga Exhibition” which used the whole museum and “Shinran”, the folding screen painting he drew for Shinshu Otani-ha Higashi Honganji caused a sensation. “THE FIRST SLAM DUNK” based on his original manga, written and directed by himself won the Best Animation Award of the Japan Academy Film Prize.
Animators Category:
Takeshi Honda (Kimitachi wa Dou Ikiru ka)
Born in Ishikawa in 1968. Honda served as an animation director for the first time for the TV series, “Nadia, The Secret of Blue Water” made by GAINAX Co., Ltd. after he made his animation debut at Atelier Giga. Then he participated in “Millennium Actress” (2001), “COIL A CIRCLE OF CHILDREN” (2007) at MADHOUSE Inc., and served as a chief animation director for “EVANGELION:3.0 YOU CAN (NOT) REDO.” (2012) at khara, Inc. For the titles of STUDIO GHIBLI INC., he served as an animation director for “Boro the Caterpillar” (2018) and “The Boy and the Heron” (2023).
Visual Artists Category:
Daiki Nakazawa (The First Slam Dunk)
Nakazawa studied CG while working as an office worker then joined TOEI ANIMATION CO., LTD. He was involved in numerous works as a chef CG designer or CG director after starting his career as a CG designer for “Xenosaga THE ANIMATION” in 2015. His representative works as a CG director include “ONE PIECE FILM Z” (2012), “Dragon Ball ‒Z: Battle of Gods” (2013), “POP IN Q” (2016) and “MAZINGER Z: INFINITY” (2017).
Sound Artists/Performers Category:
YOASOBI (“Oshi no Ko”, Kidou Senshi Gundam: Suisei no Majo)
YOASOBI is a J-POP duo that makes “novel into music”.
Their debut single “Yoru ni Kakeru” broke a record of an accumulated total of 10 billion stream counts for the first time in Japan. “Idol”, released in 2023 won 73 titles for the year at home and abroad including the first place in Billboard Global Excl. U.S. Chart. The duo is remarkably active both at home and abroad and will participate in the Coachella Festival, the world’s biggest music festival in April.
The Tokyo Anime Award Festival (TAAF) is an annual event celebrating excellence in Japanese animation. It showcases diverse works, from feature films to short films and TV series, recognizing outstanding contributions to the anime industry. TAAF includes film screenings, seminars, and awards ceremonies, drawing international attention to anime artistry.
Source: Official Site
