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Another year has passed, and it's time once again for the Japan Academy Film Prize, one of the most prestigious awards in the Japanese film calendar, to crown the Best Animated Film. Ahead of the full event on March 13, the Award for Excellence recipients were released today, revealing that both Chainsaw Man , The Movie: Reze Arc and Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Infinity Castle are up for Best Animation Film. Winners for each category are chosen from those picked for an Award for Excellence, a kind of nomination process.
The complete list of the Award for Excellence for the Japan Academy Film Prize for Best Animation Film includes: Chainsaw Man , The Movie: Reze Arc Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Infinity Castle 100 Meters Peleliu: Guernica of Paradise Detective Conan: One eyed Flashback The full award is really anyone's game this year, as Demon Slayer -Kimetsu no Yaiba- The Movie: Mugen TrainOpens in a new tab won the award in 2020, and Look Back, based on another manga written by Chainsaw ManOpens in a new tab creator Tatsuki Fujimoto, won last year.
Of course, 100 Meters has been praised for its animation, and Detective ConanOpens in a new tab is a continuing cultural icon of the Japanese entertainment landscape, having been nominated many times before without winning.
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In this episode, Roose discusses the recent announcement of the Japan Academy Film Prize nominations for Best Animated Film. Among the nominees are Chainsaw Man , The Movie: Reze Arc and Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Infinity Castle, alongside other titles like 100 Meters, Peleliu: Guernica of Paradise, and Detective Conan: One Eyed Flashback. The Award for Excellence acts as a nomination stage, with winners selected from this group. Roose highlights that Demon Slayer’s previous film, Mugen Train, won the award in 2020, and Look Back, a work by Chainsaw Man’s creator Tatsuki Fujimoto, won last year, making this year’s competition particularly open.
Roose shares his personal thoughts on the nominees, expressing enthusiasm for Chainsaw Man , The Movie: Reze Arc, though admitting he has not yet watched the full anime. He also recommends 100 Meters, noting that while it starts slowly, it builds into a compelling story with meaningful themes about perseverance and individual struggle. Roose appreciates how 100 Meters uses running as a metaphor for life’s challenges, emphasizing the personal nature of competition and growth. Regarding Demon Slayer, Roose acknowledges its high quality in animation and storytelling but voices concern about the franchise’s dominance in awards.
He feels it might be unfair for Demon Slayer to win again this year, especially since it won recently and has multiple upcoming projects, which could lead to a repetitive cycle of wins. Similarly, he notes that Tatsuki Fujimoto’s recent win for Look Back might make another win for Chainsaw Man less likely, despite his personal liking for the series. Roose also mentions other nominees like Detective Conan, a long standing cultural icon in Japanese entertainment, and Peleliu, which he has not seen but recognizes for its animation quality.
Outside of animation, he briefly touches on other categories and nominees for the Japan Academy Film Prize, including live action films and foreign language films, highlighting the breadth of the awards. The episode closes with Roose encouraging listeners to support the podcast by increasing their listening time to help reach monetization goals. He thanks his audience and reminds them to take care of themselves, maintaining a friendly and personal tone throughout the discussion.
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Basics. What's good? It's your boy, Roose. Welcome back again to another episode of the podcast. Today we are reading Chainsaw Man, Rize Arc, Demon Slayer, Infinity Castle nominated for Japan Academy Film Prize for Best Animated Film. It says here, 100 meters, Detective Conan and Peleliu round out the nominations. I just want to say, if you guys have not seen Chainsaw Man, Rize Arc, you probably should because it's really good. I've seen bits and bobs, so I should actually watch the full anime before I even try to do anime episodic reviews on it or even topic idea videos on it. But there's another anime that I really think everyone should watch and that is 100 Meters. It was very slow in the beginning.
I kept turning it on and off, but then I kept going onto TikTok and I kept seeing epic moments in it. And when I finally got to the epic moments, I finally understood what the anime was all about. That was why it started off that slow. So if you're watching it and you find yourself thinking, damn, this is some dead recommendation, some boring ass recommendation, trust the process and just go with it. Don't forget to follow the podcast. We are close to 220 followers. Let's move on. It says in our tour, another year has passed and it's time once again for the Japan Academy Film Prize, one of the most prestigious awards in the Japanese film calendar to crown the best animated film.
Ahead of the full event on March 13th, the award for excellence recipients were released today, revealing that both Chainsaw Man, the movie Rize Arc and Demon Slayer Kimetsu no Yaiba Infinity Castle are up for best animation film. Winners for each category are chosen from those picked for an award for excellence, a kind of nomination process.
The complete list of the award for excellence for the Japan Academy Film Prize for best animation film includes Chainsaw Man, the movie, of course, Rize Arc, Demon Slayer Kimetsu no Yaiba Infinity Castle, 100 Meters, which is very, very new, Peleliu, Guernica of Paradise, I have not seen this, Detective Conan, which I do know of, but I've never watched because it has like a thousand episodes and I'm not really interested in it, titled One Eyed Flashback. The full award is really anyone's game this year, as Demon Slayer Kimetsu no Yaiba the movie Mugen Train won the award in 2020 and Look Back, based on another manga written by Chainsaw Man creator Tatsuki Fujimoto, won last year.
Of course, 100 Meters has been praised for its animation and Detective Conan is a continuing cultural icon of the Japanese entertainment landscape, having been nominated many times before without winning. Outside the Best Animation Film Award, anime director Kisaoburo Sugi will receive an award for Distinguished Service from the Chairman. Sugi is best known as the director of the Touch series but has also worked as an animator on the original Astro Boy series and as a director on Street Fighter II, the animated movie, and Cinema Roll, the movie.
For Best Film, Kokuho, Heroes Island, Suzuki, Bakudan, First Kiss, and Tokyo Taxi are up for the top honours, while Conclave, Twilight of the Warriors, Walled In, Mission Impossible, The Final Reckoning, One Battle After Another, and F1 are best for Best Foreign Language Film. Kokuho, currently the highest grossing live action Japanese film, has the best nominations at 17, including Best Director, Best Screenplay, Best Actor, 2 nominations for Best Supporting Actor, and 3 for Best Supporting Actresses. The 49th Japan Academy Film Prize Ceremony will be held on March 13th at the Grand Prince Hotel in Takanoa.
In terms of who I personally feel as though should win the award, I want to say Chainsaw Man because I liked it, even though I haven't fully seen it, but I want to give a chance to Chainsaw Man. But I also want to say Demon Slayer because it's just that good in terms of animation and quality and story.
But, last year Demon Slayer won for Mugen Train in of itself, and if they were to win this year for Infinity Castle, it kinda is unfair to everyone else because we all know Demon Slayer for part 3 of the Infinity Castle, sorry part 2 of the Infinity Castle is going to come out maybe next year or the next year after that, and it's just going to be a cycle of them winning every year, which I do think is very very unfair because they milk the series. They make series and then they make movies and it's just unfair for them to be in every single form of medium, if that makes sense.
Chainsaw Man, writer Tatsuki won last year with the title Look Back, which was his new series away from Chainsaw Man, and so I think it would be also unfair for him to win, even though I did mention Chainsaw Man for the movie Rize Arc. So there's an anime that yes I did say that was boring in the beginning, but was actually entertaining and does have a lot more meaning and much more, should I say, of a reality based importance to us living is definitely 100 meters. I think 100 meters is very good. I didn't like it in the beginning because I wasn't actually giving it a chance because it was so slow, but after I went past it, it was very fun to watch.
I'm not going to lie, I really did enjoy every different person's view on why they ran and what their reasoning was, especially when they were in a form of drought and they had to lift themselves back up because that's what running is, it's an individual sport and when you compare it to life, in terms of real life, everything is very individualistic so you're always going to have your ups, you're always going to have your downs, there's always going to be people that has more talent than you, there's always going to be people that might work a bit more than you, but at the end of the day the race is against yourself and if that race is being raced by yourself against yourself, the only person you're really competing is yourself but yeah, it was really good, I really liked it there's more to it, but I'll probably make a video on that expressing my topic on the series and what kind of ideas I would like to make for the videos in the future so take care of yourselves, it's been your boy Roose, Mr36 and whether you're watching or listening to this in the morning, afternoon, evening make sure to take care of yourselves.
Lastly our last goal is to reach 2000 hours monetized on the podcast, we are getting up there, but I need you guys to go back to the beginning of the podcast and just start listening to every single episode on the podcast every single day to build up the watch time out as much as possible daily, put it in another device put it somewhere, put it on low volume and just rinse out the podcast so we can get monetized, okay? Take care of yourselves and I'm out, peace.