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8th Kyoto Animation Awards Grants Honorable Mention in Full-Length Novel Category
posted on by Rafael Antonio Pineda
The official website of the anime studio A Silent Voice) announced the results of the eighth Kyoto Animation Award program on Saturday.
The studio awarded an honorable mention in the full-length novel category for Hiroshi Yūki's Nijūseiki Denki Mokuroku (20th Century Electricity Catalog). The studio awarded no grand prizes, and no Animation DO Special Award prizes in the full-length novel category, and no grand prizes, Animation DO Special Award prizes, and honorable mentions in the short novel category.
This is the first time in three years that a novel was awarded an honorable mention.
The category for the awards this year differed from previous years. In previous years, Kyoto Animation divided the categories into manga, scenario, and novel categories. The studio awarded no grand prizes, no Animation DO Special Award prizes, and no honorable mentions in the in all three categories both last 2015.
In the fifth annual awards in 2014, the adaptation of Violet Evergarden.
For the fourth awards in 2013, three novels were third awards in 2012.
Previous honorable mention recipients in the contest's history have been animated despite not winning the grand prize. The honorable mention works that have been Tamako Market anime.
Kyoto Animation did not mention this possibility.
[Via Yaraon!]
