In before other people get too much of a chance to complain about it, here are the results of the 8th annual Tokyo Anime Fair Awards:
Best Director
Hayao Miyazaki
Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea
Best TV
Shoji Kawamori
Macross Frontier
Goro Taniguchi
Code Geass R2
Best OVA
Hiroshi Nagahama
Detroit Metal City
Best Overseas
Kung Fu Panda
Best Original Story
Hayao Miyazaki
Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea
Best Screenplay
Ichiro Okouchi
Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion R2
Best Art Direction
Noboru Yoshida
Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea
Best Character Design
Tetsuya Nishio
The Sky Crawlers
Best Voice Actor
Jun Fukuyama
Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion R2
Best Music
Yoko Kanno
Macross Frontier
Source: ANN
Now obviously these are this organization’s awards and not mine and I have little reason to worry or to care too much about what won what one or the other. However, I’m sure these results are going to make a lot of people freak out, in which case I wholly encourage people to make their own awards with no rules and where the points don’t count like I did with the ADAIA’s.
Nevertheless, keeping in mind that the award was given for “greatest contribution to the world of anime in a given category” and not necessarily as a measure of overall quality, everyone feel free to share what you think about the results.
……I really hope I’m not setting up a minefield in sharing this.
OMG CGR2 WON THREE AWARDS OUT OF TEN OMG HOW DARE SOMETHING SO MAINSTREAM AND TRAINWREKCJLDADASF WIN AN AWARD!!~+)`_ IT DID NOTHING TO CONTRIBUTE TO THE WORLD OF ANIME BLAH BLAH CAPSLOCK BLAH BLAH BUTTHURT VITRIOL BLAH BLAH BLAH GENERALLY STUPID OPINION THAT HAS BEEN REPEATED AD NAUSEUM.
@Owen S: Don’t be cheeky now. :p
Kaioshin: HE’S STILL ALIVE, DID I TELL YOU THAT?! THERE’S NO WAY HE’S DEAD, NO, I WON’T ACCEPT IT BAWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW
@Owen S: THIS ANIME DOES NOT MAKE ANY SENSE ANYMORE! I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT IS GOING ON AND I AM JUST WATCHING IT NOW FOR THE KALULU SHIPPING!
Kaioshin: OMG ME TOO!!! THIS ANIME IS SO BAD THAT I’M GOING TO CONTINUE WATCHING IT SO THAT I CAN WHINE WEEK AFTER WEEK ABOUT HOW BAD IT IS, INSTEAD OF DROPPING IT!!!
@Owen S: If only you knew….
Hahahaha, spot on perfomance guys! Yeah, I have a feeling CG2 winning any awards will start another flamethrowing battle a la “Derailed by Darry”…. Why can’t people just get over themselves?!
@Animu: I’d prefer to just leave Derailed By Darry to itself at this point. It’s pretty much closed off from the rest of (reality) the blogosphere at this point and is obviously targetted at it’s own very special demographic of (4channers) readers so it’s better left to it’s own business. Let sleeping dogs lie as they say.