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The winners of the Anime of the Year categories from the Tokyo Anime Award Festival 2025 (TAAF 2025) were announced on Friday. A panel of judges selected the winners from a pool of 417 titles that either screened, aired, or were distributed in Japan between October 1, 2023 and September 30, 2024, with 100 titles (80 television anime and 20 theatrical anime) ultimately in the running for the Anime of the Year awards.

Grand Prize
Look Back (Feature Film)
Sousou no Frieren (Television Series)

Anime Fan Award
Kitarou Tanjou: Gegege no Nazo

Individual Awards
Writers Category: Hiroyuki Yoshino (Kitarou Tanjou: Gegege no Nazo)
Directors Category: Kiyotaka Oshiyama (Look Back)
Animators Category: Touko Yatabe (Kitarou Tanjou: Gegege no Nazo)
Visual Artists Category: Mai Ichioka (Kitarou Tanjou: Gegege no Nazo)
Sound Artists/Performers Category: Evan Call (Sousou no Frieren, Sengoku Youko: Yonaoshi Kyoudai-hen)

Note: The titles listed for the individual awards are merely titles the recipient has worked on during this period; they are not the sole title the recipient won the award for. The Anime Fan Award is awarded to the entry that received the most votes in the general voting.

The Tokyo Anime Award Festival is scheduled to be held in Ikebukuro, Tokyo between March 7 and 10. The event will also present additional entries from around the world for its Feature Animation Competition and Short Animation Competition categories. The former category includes 34 entries from 26 countries, while 997 entries from 70 countries were submitted for the latter. TAAF 2025 Preliminary Selection Committee is selecting 30 of these entries (four for Feature Animation and 29 for Short Animation) to qualify for the Grand Prize and the Award of Excellence in their respective categories, with each category awarding it to two titles.

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Feb 3, 10:56 AM
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Should take it serious?
Feb 3, 11:12 AM
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I am not surprised at all that Look Back is there. I don't live in Japan but i bet that movie started a discussion.
Feb 3, 12:44 PM
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So, can it be said that Frieren actually became a universally recognized best anime series of its year?
Feb 3, 12:48 PM
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please add the award winning tag to frieren and look back already i made a request too here https://myanimelist.net/forum/?goto=post&topicid=2004232&id=72318981
Feb 3, 3:23 PM
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Look Back wins? Good.
Feb 3, 5:27 PM
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Congratulations to Sousou no Frieren, it deserves the grand prize award :)



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Feb 3, 7:42 PM
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amen on frieren!!
Feb 3, 7:46 PM
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what a joke. meanwhile , the Oscars finally get better nominees in animation when choosing Inside out 2 and wild robot among them
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Frieren deserves it
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Sousou no Frieren won an award. The world is healing. It seems there is still hope for the modern anime community
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Woooooooooooo!!!!!!!!

Feb 6, 8:13 AM

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Out of everything, Freeren? Bleh
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Nice results. Congratulations to all winners. They definitely deserve those "Anime of the Year" titles, in my opinion.
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I really enjoyed Kitarou Tanjou: Gegege no Nazo so I'm happy.
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