13th Japan Media Arts Festival Awards Announced

It is awards time, this time present by the Japanese government Ministry of Cultural Affairs. Like most Japanese awards, the winners are spoiled before the actual award show, which will be at the 13th Japan Media Arts Festival held within Tokyo between February 3rd to 14th. The winners of the 13th Japan Media Arts Festival are as follows.

Animation Division 

Grand Prize: Summer Wars (Mamoru Hosoda)

Excellence Prize(s):

In the Attic (Na půdě aneb Kdo má dneska narozeniny?, trailer) (Jiří Barta)

Tokyo Magnitude 8.0 (Masaki Tachibana)

"The Cable Car" (Claudius Gentinetta/Frank Braun)

"Denshin-Bashira Elemi no Koi" (Hideto Nakata, Sovat Theater, trailer)

Encouragement Prize: "Animal Dance" (Ryō Okawara, video)

Manga Division 

Grand Prize: Vinland Saga (Makoto Yukimura)

Excellence Prize(s):

Imuri (Ranjō Miyake)

Children of the Sea (Daisuke Igarashi)

Kono Sekai no Katasumi ni (Fumiyo Kono)

Hyouge Mono - Tea for Universe, Tea for Life (Yoshihiro Yamada)

Encouragement Prize: Hesheit Aqua (Wisut Ponnimit)

Award of Merit: Shigeru Miyamoto (Mr. Nintendo)

Special Award of Merit: Yoshinori Kanada (animator)

They picked some very good anime/manga this time around. I’m especially pleased that Vinland Saga won the Grand Prize of the manga division. It’s a manga about vikings, what more can you ask for? Other than that you should all check out the anime/manga that one, because they are all truly fantastic.

[Via ANN]