Summer Wars wins top award at Tokyo Anime Fair
The top award given at the Tokyo Anime fair is given to the animation which has made the greatest contribution to the world of anime. Summer wars has won the award for 2009, winning five out of seven categories. Summer wars also won the Domestic Feature film category.
Awards for individual achievement
Best Director
Mamoru Hosoda
Best Original Story
Mamoru Hosoda
Summer Wars
Best Screenplay
Satoko Okudera
Summer Wars
Best Art Direction
Youji Takeshige
Summer Wars
Best Character Design
Yoshiyuki Sadamoto
Summer Wars
Best Voice Actor
Hiroshi Kamiya
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Best Music
Shiro Sagisu
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A little background on Summer Wars:
Summer Wars (サマーウォーズ Samā Wōzu?) is a 2009 anime science fiction film. The film focuses on a timid eleventh-grade math genius who has been falsely implicated in the hacking of a virtual world and, with the aid of a classmate’s extensive family, must prevent the real and computer-simulated worlds from colliding. It was produced by the Japanese animation studio Madhouse and directed by Mamoru Hosoda.
