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Skip & Loafer Wins Animation Award in China

The 20th China Animation & Comic Competition Golden Dragon Award (CCAC Golden Dragon Award) awarded the Skip and Loafer anime series on with The Overseas Animation Award at a ceremony on Tuesday. It marked the first time that a work from Japan has won the award.

The CCAC Golden Dragon Award is the official competition of China International Comics Festival. The official website for the awards states the awards are "one of the major projects of the cultural development reform plan," and are regarded "as the most authoritative and influential award in China, which also enjoys the longest history."

The television streamed the series as it aired in Japan.

Dragonar Academy) composed the music.

releasing the manga digitally and in print in English, and it describes the story:

Excellent student Iwakura Mitsumi has always dreamt about leaving her small town, going to a prestigious university, and making positive change in the world. But she's so focused on reaching her goals that she's not prepared for the very different (and overwhelming) city life that awaits her in a Tokyo high school. Luckily, she makes fast friends with Shima Sousuke, a handsome classmate who's as laid-back as she is over-prepared. Can this naive country girl make it big in Tokyo with Sousuke by her side?

Takamatsu Monthly Afternoon magazine in August 2018.

The manga nominated in the Best General Manga category of Kodansha's 44th annual Manga Awards in 2020.

Source: Comic Natalie