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Macross F, Trigun Maximum Win at Japan Sci-Fi Con

posted on by Egan Loo
Naoyuki Katō also win Seuiun Awards

The 48th Japan Science Fiction Convention (Nihon SF Taikai or Japan SF Con/T-con 2009) gave Seiun Awards to Legend of the Galactic Heroes) on Saturday in Tochigi Prefecture, Japan.

"Seiun Shō" literally translates to "nebula awards," but the Japan SF Con's Seiun Awards are more akin to Worldcon's Hugo Awards, in that the attendees of each respective convention vote on the winners. There is another set of awards, The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of Japan's Nihon SF Taishō honors, that are the rough Japanese equivalent of Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America's Nebula Awards. publishing Nojiri's Usurper of the Sun novel this September.

It was at 1981's Daicon III and 1983's Daicon IV (the local names for those year's SF Cons) that a local group of artists showcased their talents with two intricate opening animation shorts — most of those artists later became the studio Gainax.

Japanese Long Fiction


Harmony
Hayakawa Publishing



Japanese Short Fiction


"Peer Peer Douga at the South Pole"
Housuke Nojiri
Hayakawa Publishing



Translated Long Fiction


Spin
Robert Charles Wilson
Translated by Mogi Takeshi
Tokyo Sogensha



Translated Short Fiction


"The Merchant and the Alchemist's GATE"
Ted Chiang
Translated by Nozomi Ohmori
Hayakawa Publishing



Media


Macross Frontier
Creator: Shōji Kawamori/Studio Nue
Chief Director: Shōji Kawamori
Director: Yasuhito Kikuchi
Satelight
Presented by MBS


Comic


Trigun Maximum
Yasuhiro Nightow
Young King Comics
Released in North America by Dark Horse Comics



Art


Naoyuki Katō



Nonfiction


Nippon Con File 2007
SFWJ (Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of Japan)
Kadokawa Haruki Corporation



Free Entry


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Source: animeanime.jp

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