Animanga in the News: 2/18/11

Here you will find a run down of today's anime and manga news! If anything sent waves through the anime and manga world today, you'll find it in this post! By the way, I'm saladesu, one of the translator-moderators of MH, and I'll be posting a post like this every day (as much as possible, anyway). Look forward to them ;)

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Studio Ghibli's film "The Borrower Arrietty" (directed by Yonebayashi Hiromasa) won the Animation of the Year award at the 34th Japan Academy Prizes in Tokyo on the 18th.

Other nominees for the award were Asention's Colorful (directed by Hara Keiichi), Shinei Animation's "Doraemon: Nobita no Ningyo Daikaisen" (directed by Kuzuha Kouzou), TMS Entertainment's "Detective Conan: The Lost Ship in The Sky" (directed by Yamamoto Yasuichirou), and Toei Animation's "One Piece Film Strong World" (directed by Sakai Munehisa).

Created just 4 years ago, the same award had been awarded to "The Girl Who Leapt Through Time", "Tekkonkinkreet", "Ponyo on the Cliff", and "Summer Wars" in previous years. Prior to this, Studio Ghibli had won the overall Picture of the Year Award for "Princess Mononoke" and "Spirited Away".

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"EVANGELION:2.22 YOU CAN (NOT) ADVANCE" won the User Award at Blu-Ray Prize 2011, the only category of the prizes decided by user votes. Roughly 3,200 people cast their votes for the huge hit, setting a record for the highest number of votes for any series in the Awards' history. This is the second year running that an anime has won the User Award, with "Bakemonogatari" winning the same award in last year's awards.

For Best High Definition Anime Category, American full-CG animation "9", directed by Shane Acker and produced by Tim Burton and Timur Bekmambetov, took home the prize.

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