The Case of Hana & Alice, Typhoon Noruda, Awajima Hyakkei, Otōto no Otto , more also win awards

The Japanese government's Ministry of Cultural Affairs announced the winners of the 19th Japan Media Arts Festival Awards on Friday.

Manga Division

Grand Prize

Kakukaku Shikajika

(So-and-so, Such-and-such) by Akiko Higashimura

Excellence Award

Awajima Hyakkei

Otōto no Otto

Kikai Jikake no Ai

Non-working City

(A Hundred Scenes of Awajima) by Takako Shimura(My Brother's Husband) by Gengoroh Tagame(Machinework Love) by Yoshiie Godaby Tingfung Ho (Portugal)

New Face Award

esoragoto!

Tamashii Ippai

Machida-kun no Sekai

(Absurd Ideas) by nerunodaisuki, a self-published comic(Lots of Life) by Yuka Okuyama(The World of Machida-kun) by Yuki Ando

The website also listed an English PDF with the 28 Jury Selections in the Manga Division. The list featured 25 Japanese works, including: Hiroya Oku's Inuyashiki , Usamaru Furuya's Joshikōsei ni Korosaretai , Suehiro Maruo's Tomino no Jigoku , Norifusa Mita's Suna no Eikan , and more.

Animation Division

Grand Prize

Rhizome

short film by Boris Labbé (France)

Excellence Award

The Case of Hana & Alice

Isand (The Master)

My Home

Yùl and the Snake

by Shunji Iwaishort film by Riho Unt (Estonia)short film by Phuong Mai Nguyen (France)short film by Gabriel Haren (France)

New Face Award

Typhoon Noruda (Taifū no Noruda)

Deux Amis (Two Friends)

Chulyen, a Crow's tale

by Yojiro Araishort film by Natalia Chernysheva (Russia)short film by Agnès Patron and Cerise Lopez (France)

The website also listed an English PDF with the 23 Jury Selections in the Animation Division. The Jury Selections featured eight Japanese works, including:

I Can't Breathe

Animated short film

Sayaka Kihata The Anthem of the Heart

Animated feature film

Tatsuyuki Nagai, Mari Okada, and Masayoshi Tanaka Sarusuberi ~Miss HOKUSAI~

Animated feature film

Keiichi Hara Zdravstvuite

Animated short film

Yoko Yuki Sugar Lump

Animated short film

Ryo Okawara Nothing you need to see

Animated short film

Keigo Ito The Boy and the Beast

Animated feature film

Mamoru Hosoda Shirobako

Animated TV series

Shirobako Project (Tsutomu Mizushima, representative)

Animator, supervising animator, and character designer Yoichi Kotabe also received a Special Achievement award.

The website for the awards has a full list of the winners in English.

[Via Comic Natalie]