The winners of the Anime of the Year categories from the Tokyo Anime Award Festival 2022 (TAAF 2022) were announced on Thursday. A panel of judges selected the winners from a pool of 446 titles that either screened, aired, or were distributed in Japan between October 1, 2020 and September 30, 2021, with 100 titles (80 television anime and 20 theatrical anime) ultimately in the running for the Anime of the Year awards.

Grand Prize
Evangelion: 3.0+1.0 Thrice Upon a Time (Feature Film)
Jujutsu Kaisen (TV) (Television Series)

Anime Fan Award
IDOLiSH7: Third Beat!

Individual Awards
Writers Category: Hideaki Anno (Evangelion: 3.0+1.0 Thrice Upon a Time)
Directors Category: Hideaki Anno
Animators Category: Akira Matsushima (Kimetsu no Yaiba Movie: Mugen Ressha-hen)
Visual Artists Category: Yuuichi Terao (Kimetsu no Yaiba Movie: Mugen Ressha-hen)
Sound Artists and Performers Category: Yuki Kajiura (Sword Art Online: Progressive Movie - Hoshi Naki Yoru no Aria), Gou Shiina (Kimetsu no Yaiba: Mugen Ressha-hen)

Note: The Anime Fan Award is awarded to the entry that received the most votes in the general voting. 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 Tokyo Anime Award Festival is scheduled to be held in Ikebukuro, Tokyo between March 11 and 14, and will in addition to the Anime of the Year categories also present additional entries from around the world for its Feature Animation Competition and Short Animation Competition categories. In total, 31 entries from 27 countries were submitted to the former category, while 874 entries from 57 countries were submitted to the latter. TAAF 2022 Preliminary Selection Committee selected 36 of these entries (four for Feature Animation and 32 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.

Source: Official Site, Comic Natalie

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