Tokyo Revengers, Evangelion: 3.0+1.0: Thrice Upon A Time, and Uma Musume Pretty Derby won awards in the anime, film, and game categories. The results were announced as part of the award’s cultural category.
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Ken Wakui’s Tokyo Revengers manga began serialization in Kodansha’s Weekly Shonen Magazine in 2017, amassing a total of 24 collected volumes throughout its run so far. A 24 episode anime adaptation produced by Liden Films aired during the Spring 2021 anime season, with a live-action film following in the summer. Kodansha USA licenses the manga in English digitally, with Seven Seas distributing physical copies. The anime was streamed on Crunchyroll as it aired in Japan.
Cygames’ Uma Musume Pretty Derby multimedia franchise has spawned a variety of anime and manga adaptations since 2016. An anime series produced by PA Works and Studio Kai aired from 2018 to 2021, with Crunchyroll simulcasting it as it aired. A mobile game was initially scheduled for a 2018 release but was delayed until February 20221.
Tokyo Revengers knocked off Demon Slayer as the most searched for anime series after a two-year reign, with the latter coming in third behind Jujutsu Kaisen in the 2021 polls. Evangelion beat out the Rurouni Kenshin: The Final live-action film and Mamoru Hosoda’s science fantasy, BELLE, which came in at second and third. Hosoda is best known for directing Summer Wars, Wolf Children, and 2018s Mirai.
Winners are determined based on the number of searches they amass in a given category. The results are then compared to the previous years with the most improved results getting the top awards for each grouping. The results for this year’s awards are based on results from January 1st to November 1st.
Source: Comic Natalie via Anime News Network
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