Tokyo Anime Award

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)

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).

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).

  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. ^ 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