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Shin Godzilla, 'your name.,' Kabaneri, Erased Nominated for Seiun Sci-Fi Awards
posted on by Jennifer Sherman
The 56th Japan Science Fiction Convention (Nihon SF Taikai) revealed the list of nominees for the 48th Seiun Awards last week.
The nominees of the Media and Comic categories include:
Media Category
- Shin Godzilla film
- your name. anime film
- Kabaneri of the Iron Fortress television anime
- Rogue One: A Star Wars Story film
- Concrete Revolutio television anime
- Zegapain ADP anime film
- Look Who's Back film
- Kuromukuro television anime
Comic Category
- Kochira Katsushika-ku Kamearikouen-mae Hashutsujo (all 200 volumes)
- Dainana Jyoshikai Houkou (all 10 volumes)
- Spirit Circle (all 6 volumes)
- Wombs (all 5 volumes)
- Erased (all 9 volumes)
- Izumi Takemoto's Natsu ni Sekirannun Made
In the Art category, won the Best Artist award in 2014.
In the Japanese Long Story category, Gangu Shūrisha novel received a manga adaptation.
Yukikaze anime.
Ken Liu's The Grace of Kings novel and Peter Tieryas' United States of Japan novel were nominated in the Translated Long Story category, and Ken Liu's "Simulacrum" was nominated in the Translated Short Story category. His "Good Hunting" won last year's Seiun award in the Translated Short Story category. Viz published his story "won the Hugo Award, and "The Paper Menagerie" by Liu won the Seiun award in the Translated Short Story category in 2015, as well as Nebula, Hugo, and World Fantasy Awards. His "The Man Who Ended History: A Documentary" novella was nominated for a Hugo in 2012 and a Nebula award in 2011.
Additionally, Barbara Ikai manga previously won a Seiun Award.
The "movement launched by Zegapain ADP and tie-ins," Hiroyuki Nanba's "Nanba Hiroyuki Kenban Seikatsu 40 Shūnen Kinen Live ~Isshō Kenmei~" event received nominations in the Free category.
The awards this year are again separated into nine categories: Japanese Long Story, Japanese Short Story, Translated Long Story, Translated Short Story, Media, Comic, Art, Nonfiction, and a "Free" category. Each category has between 5-10 nominees. The nominees were chosen among works that were released between January 1 and December 31, 2016.
The attendees of the 56th Japan Science Fiction Convention at "Donburacon" in Shizuoka will vote on the winners. The staff will announce the winners at the end of July.
"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 the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America's Nebula Awards. Like the Hugo Awards, the Seiun Awards honor all forms of speculative fiction — including but not limited to science fiction — and related materials.
Previous winners of the Seiun Awards Moyashimon, and more.
Source: Animation Business Journal
