Award-winning Works

Introducing award-winning works in 2004 [8th] Japan Media Arts Festival.
* Click the image to read the detailed information of the work.

Art Division

3 minutes²

3 minutes²

Artist:Electronic Shadow
(Naziha MESTAOUI & Yacine AIT KACI)

[Summary]An image is projected onto an uneven white space. A different space with a certain depth suddenly arises within the real world, and the story of man and woman, projected by silhouettes, starts unfolding. This work shows us some potential for future image expression. 

Entarteinment Division

 Wario Ware: Twisted!

Wario Ware: Twisted!

Artist : ABE Goro, representing the Wario Ware: Twisted!
development team / Nintendo Development team

[Summary]You play with this machine by shaking and twisting the game machine itself, which has the card with built-in motion-sensor. Various mini-games are in one package and this game can be enjoyed by broader generations.

Animation Division

MIND GAME

MIND GAME

Artist:YUASA Masaaki/ROBIN Nishi

[Summary]Nishi, the hero, meets his first-love, Myon-chan, by chance. Nishi dies that night but oddly, he and Myon-chan, together with her sister start living in the stomach of a whale?

Manga Division

YUNAGI NO MACHI SAKURA NO KUNI

YUNAGI NO MACHI SAKURA NO KUNI

Artist:KOUNO Fumiyo

[Summary]The setting is Hiroshima in 1955. This work portrays the reality of the A-bomb and the days thereafter, through the eyes of a woman. It asks what the war and the A-bomb mean to ordinary people.         

special achievement prize

YAMAOTO Junya

special achievement prize

YAMAMOTO Junya

 

Born in 1938. Graduated from Nihon University, College of Art, Department of Film.1963 entered Shougakukan. Was in charge of a reprint of JUNGLE TAITEI in the Picture Book Division. Since the appearance of the shoujo manga magazine SHOUJO COMIC, had been engaged in the first appearances and publications of manga magazines such as a separate volume of SHOUJO COMIC or PUCHI FLOWER , for 30 years until his retirement in 1999. April 2000, took up his post as a faculty member at the newly founded Department of Manga in Kyoto Seika University, College of Art. Left his post in 2004 together when the first graduates of the Department of Manga completed their studies.