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Aug 23, 2018

Tokyo Anime Award Festival 2019 (TAAF)

The Tokyo Anime Award Festival 2019 (東京アニメアワードフェスティバル) returns to the Japan capital’s Ikebukuro district in March to celebrate another year of animation features and shorts.  


Maintaining the slogan, “Tokyo is the hub of contemporary Animation” Tokyo Anime Award Festival (TAAF 2019) organizers, the Tokyo Anime Award Festival Executive Committee and The Association of Japanese Animations, will once again be looking to inspire audiences and creators with a long weekend of high-quality screenings and competition from March 8 to 11 in what is one of the most prominent international animated film festivals in Japan.


The event, co-hosted by the Tokyo Metropolitan Government, was opened to submissions for its Feature Animation and Short Animation competition categories in May 2018, with a November deadline.  


Feature Animation and Short Animation categories are open to creators from across the globe (professional, amateur, student) whose submission has (for the most part) yet to have a theatrical or commercial release.


A Preliminary Selection Committee will then undertake the Sisyphean task of creating a shortlist of nominees. During the four-day festival, nominated features and shorts will be screened at selected theaters across the emerging Tokyo-anime-hub Ikebukuro, before a Grand Prize and Award of Excellence are determined by jury panel for each category. Winners will receive cash prizes of up to 500,000 yen.


Previous editions of the festival have received submissions in their hundreds from nearly 60 countries and regions. Look out for a list of Nominated Works on the TAAF website after November. 


The TAAF’s Anime of the Year category draws from works of anime released / broadcast in Japan over the past year. Works are selected based on a number of factors that include commercial success, story telling, technical aspects, and originality. Out of those selected, Grand Prizes are awarded to one TV series and one feature. Winners are selected by industry vote.


In previous years the Anime of the Year category has seen over 500 works selected for consideration.


TAAF 2018 Anime of the Year feature-film winner was the MAPPA Co., Ltd.- produced “In This Corner of the World (この世界の片隅に).


Tokyo Anime Award Festival 2019 (TAAF) photo


To honor those anime creators that have helped bring the industry to the lofty heights at which it currently sits, TAAF has been handing out its Achievement Award since the festival’s days as part of the Tokyo International Anime Fair.


Outside of the competition the Tokyo Anime Award Festival program has, in previous years, included talk shows, special anniversary screenings of celebrated anime, and workshops. TAAF 2019 looks set to host once again workshops aimed at children, part of the event organizers’ efforts to nurture the future of the anime industry.


Ahead of the Tokyo Anime Award Festival 2019 the pre-event TAAF 2019 Creator’s Salons will be held at WACCA Ikebukuro across three sittings in September, November and December. “Salons” cover anime screenings and industry discussion. Participation is by online application (first-come-first-served).


Tokyo Anime Award Festival 2019 (TAAF) photo

(Tokyo Anime Award Festival 2019 comes to theaters across Ikebukuro, Tokyo)


Tickets for the Tokyo Anime Award Festival are typically available online via PassMarket. Tickets for individual programs / screenings are usually around 1,000 - 1,200 yen. Passes to take in the competitions were 4,000 yen for adults in 2018.  


The Tokyo Anime Award Festival traces its origins back to 2002 when the Tokyo Anime Award was handed out as part of the program at the Tokyo International Anime Fair (TAF). When TAF was merged with the Anime Contents Expo in 2014, to form the current event AnimeJapan, the Tokyo Anime Award ventured out on its own under its current moniker, Tokyo Anime Award Festival (TAAF).


Tokyo Anime Award Festival 2019


WhereTheaters across Ikebukuro (TBA)
WhenMarch 8 - 11, 2019
Webhttp://animefestival.jp/en/
TicketsAdults from 1,000 yen (TBA)



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