Yoko Kanno Wins Tokyo Anime Fair 2009 Best Music (…again!)
This is the fourth time she got this award, which she has previously won in 2003, 2004, and 2008. Last year, she got it for the Aquarion movie, and this year, she got it for… DUH.
The awards night will be held on March 20, 2009 at the Tokyo Big Site. I hope Kanno gets to attend the event herself this time.
The rest of the awardees are:
TV Awards: Macross Frontier, Code Geass R2
OVA Award: Detroit Metal City
Overseas Award: Kung Fu Panda
Movie Award: Ponyo on the Cliff
Director Award: Hayao Miyazaki for Ponyo
Original Work Award: Hayao Miyazaki for Ponyo
Screenplay Award: Ichiro Okochi for Code Geass R2
Artistic Award: Shou Yoshida for Ponyo
Character Design Award: Tetsuya Nishio for Sky Crawlers
Voice Artist Award: Jun Fukuyama for Code Geass R2
Music Award: Yoko Kanno for Macross Frontier
Source: TAF 2009 News
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February 20th, 2009 at 8:52 pm
(I’m still waiting for someone to bitch about the winners, especially since Code Geass R2 is in there… I haven’t watched it, but apparently it has requisite bitching always tagging behind it, as I’ve observed… LOL)