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Akira Toriyama, Toshio Furukawa & Others Win Taaf 2024 Lifetime Achievement Awards
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The official website of Tokyo Anime Award Festival, or Taaf in short, announced the winners of the 2024 Lifetime Achievement awards on Dec 14, 2023. The award recognizes individuals who have made significant contributions to the development of animation industry and culture.

The following members have won the Taaf 2024 Lifetime Achievement Award;

1. Shunzo Kato

A renowned producer behind numerous works of Tms Entertainment and Telecom Animation. Anpanman, Akira, Space Cobra are some of his well known anime.

2. Akira Toriyama

Mangaka, who is known for Dragon Ball, Dr. Slump – Arale-chan, Sandland, among others.

3. Sukehiro Tomita

He is a scriptwriter, known for his work on Space Runaway Ideon, Macross II, Digimon Frontier, Gall Force, etc.

4. Ryousuke Takahashi

A director, who is known for original works such as Armored Trooper Votoms, Fang of the Sun Dougram, Cyborg 009, Phoenix, and others. Taaf describes him as “a rare creator who has consistently unfolded his unique worlds across a wide range of genres,...
See full article at AnimeHunch
  • 12/15/2023
  • by Ami Nazru
  • AnimeHunch
Fantasia 2011: ‘Ninja Kids!!!’ earns its three exclamation points as a light-hearted romp
Ninja Kids!!! aka Nintama Rantarô

Written by Yoshio Urasawa, based on the manga Rakudai Ninja Rantaro by Soubee Amako

Directed by Takashi Miike

Japan, 2011

This year the Fantasia Film Festival have been running screenings they call “My First Fantasia” to encourage the next generation of obsessed film geeks. The screening of Ninja Kids!!! was an unofficial extension of those screenings with a good third of the audience around ten years old.

There was a lot for them to enjoy in Miike’s colourful adaptation of Amako’s gag manga. Mixed with the slapstick and the poop jokes was a naive but touching story of a young boy from a very unsuccessful Ninja family learning what it takes to be a great Ninja.

Between the over-sized glasses of our hero Rantarō and the wacky Ninja school setting, there is a whiff of early Harry Potter to the film, mixed with buffoonish villains in Dick Tracy make-up.
See full article at SoundOnSight
  • 7/20/2011
  • by Michael Ryan
  • SoundOnSight
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