Gintama

Gintama (銀魂< span class="t_nihongo_comma" style="display:none">, lit. “Silver Soul”^?) is a manga series written and illustrated by Hideaki Sorachi. Its adaptation into an anime series was directed by Shinji Takamatsu from episodes one to one hundred and five and by Yōichi Fujita from episode one hundred onwards. The play takes place in Edo - the old name given to the city of Tokyo - which has been conquered by strange alien beings called "Amanto." The manga tells the adventures of a samurai known as Gintoki Sakata, who works independently alongside his friends Shinpachi Shimura and Kagura. Sorachi commented that the series is based on two one-shots that he had made in 2003 for the magazine Shōnen Jump. He also explained that he had incorporated science fiction into the material for that the development of the characters was "to their liking."

The manga began to be published in December 2003 by the Shūeisha publisher in the weekly magazine Shōnen Jump, ending its publication on June 20, 2019, compiling a total of seventy-seven volumes in < format. i>tankōbon. The manga was later adapted into a one-episode original animation of the same name, which was produced by Sunrise and premiered at the 2005 Jump Festa.. This was followed by the anime version produced by the same company as the original animation; The anime began airing in Japan from April 2006 until it ended in March 2010 on the TV Tokyo television network, reaching 201 episodes divided into four sagas. A second original animation, titled "Gintama: Shiroyasha Kotan ", was published at the Jump Festa in 2008. Likewise, in April 2010, a film called "Gintama: Shinyaku Benizakura-Hen" was released. Once the anime ended, Sunrise began production on another one, this time under the title Gintama', which premiered in Japan on April 4, 2011 and ended on April 26. March 2012 with fifty-one episodes. However, a continuation of this same series aired between October 2012 and March 2013. The work has also been adapted into a light novel, multiple video games and several supplementary books. Recently TV Tokyo began broadcasting several episodes of the work under the title Yorinuki Gintama-san, considering them to be the best episodes of the series.

Both anime and manga have achieved great success inside and outside Japan. In a ranking published by TV Asahi on the hundred best anime of 2006, the series reached twenty-second place. Likewise, in another ranking, this one on the best-selling manga in Japan in 2009, Gintama It reached fifth place, with more than 4,700,000 copies of the volumes sold, only surpassed by One Piece, Naruto, Bleach and < i>Fullmetal Alchemist, respectively; while in 2008 it ranked tenth with approximately 2,300,000 copies sold. In April 2010, Gintama was rated the thirteenth most popular anime April 2009 and March 2010 by Animage.

Argument

The story takes place in Edo - the old name by which the city of Tokyo was known -, which has been conquered by strange extraterrestrial beings called "Amanto" (天人, lit. «People of the sky»^?). The samurai of that time fought against the invaders, but the Amanto defeated them and forbade all the people in the city to carry swords. The work focuses on the adventures of a silver-haired samurai known as Gintoki Sakata, who helps a teenager named Shinpachi Shimura save her sister from a group of aliens who wanted to make her part of a brothel. Impressed with Gintoki, Shinpachi decides to become his apprentice and work with him as a freelancer in order to pay Gintoki's monthly rent.

Later, they both rescue a young alien girl named Kagura from a yakuza group who wanted to use her superhuman strength to kill people. After this, Kagura decides to join Gintoki and Shinpachi to work on her own, and the three call themselves «Yorozuya» (万事屋, lit. «We do everything»^?). Sometimes, while doing their job, they often encounter the Shinsengumi police force, although normally these are group allies. Likewise, in the development of the series, multiple characters appear, such as Kotaro Katsura, a revolutionary who maintains a friendly relationship with Gintoki and his friends despite his ambitions to destroy the shōgun, and Shinsuke Takasugi, who acts as the main antagonist of the entire series and also wants to destroy the shōgun but in a more violent way than Katsura.

Main characters

The main characters of the series are briefly described below and the seiyū of the original Japanese version will be named:

• Gintoki Sakata ( ה時, Sakata Gintoki^?) is a samurai usually recognized by its natural curly hair and of good appearance, although he often accuses him of being the source of some of his misfortunes. He lives with Shinpachi, Kagura and Sadaharu, and also work together "to make the world a better place" and to be able to pay the rent of his house. In the separatist war of the Edo, Gintoki was known as the "white devil" (▪, Shiroyasha^?) due to his silver hair.

• Shinpachi Shimura (bundling, Shimura Shinpachi^?) he is a teenager who joins to work with Gintoki to learn from his samurai customs. Although he commonly criticizes Gintoki's lazy behavior, Shinpachi considers him to be a very important person in the same way that Kagura is. Shinpachi also considers himself a comic character and tends to take that as something important.

• Kagura (cancer, Kagura^?) is the second person who joins to work independently with Gintoki in the series; she is a young alien who possesses a superhuman force. Kagura has a relationship with Gintoki like that of a father with his daughter, and often imitates his bad habits. Also, Kagura usually eats everything and seems to have an insatiable hunger and also tries to be very protective with Gintoki and also affectionate, referring to it normally as "Gin-chan".

• Sadaharu (., Sadaharu^?) It is a caterpillar that had been abandoned by a couple of Miko sisters, who left it for economic problems. Later, it is picked up by Kagura, who gives it a name and becomes his pet (in addition to sadaharu Kagura has already had other pets). Apparently, Kagura is the only one who can control him because of his great strength. Most of the time Sadaharu helps the other main characters with their problems. After a while, even Gintoki — who originally did not want Sadaharu around him — refuses to return Sadaharu to Miko sisters.

Theme and style

Sorachi's main goal in Gintama is the use of "comedy"; However, after the spread of the manga, the author began to add more dramatic material to the story, although always maintaining the main theme. Several of the jokes seen in the manga are comments made by the characters themselves regarding the story. history, that is, breaking the "fourth wall." A clear example of this is in the first chapter, after Gintoki fights a group of aliens to protect Shinpachi and his sister, where Shinpachi complains because he had only fought in "one page" and Gintoki responds that "a page takes him." a mangaka for a long time. There are also other types of comic situations, but these are more general, so the reader would have to know Japanese culture to understand them. The humor of the work has been described by some reviewers as "strange" and "strange", and is considered divided into two categories: "humor in science fiction" - referring to aliens - and "samurai comedy."

The comedy tends to point out "an obsession with modern society", including some holidays and famous mythical characters, as well as references to characters that are based on historical ones. Likewise, the alien invasion of Japan Fiction has brought several social problems to human beings, mainly due to the lack of social equality.

Production

The work is based on two one-shots that the author had made in 2003 for the magazine Shōnen Jump. Although he was preparing to write his first manga, his editor suggested he create one based on the Shinsengumi (新選組, Shinsengumi< /span>^?); Sorachi tried to create the series inspired by the Shinsengumi, but in the end he couldn't come up with anything out of the ordinary. Instead of completely abandoning the idea of focusing on ancient Japan, he began to create his own story, adding science fiction elements in the development of many characters, making it "to his liking." Although Sorachi considered that the < i>one-shots "would be very poor", the creation of one of them helped him add extraterrestrial characters to Gintama. The author had little hope that the manga would be became popular, since many people told him that it would not exceed two volumes. Furthermore, once the third volume was published, the mangaka discovered that he had "no new material to use." The original title of the work was going to be "Yorozuya Gin-chan." (万事屋銀ちゃん, '«Yorozuya Gin-chan»'^?), like the Gintoki freelancer group. However, it had no impact on Sorachi and after a long debate, he decided to title it "Gintama". The pilot chapter had a different plot than the original work, since in it Shinpachi and Gintoki They had gathered at the beginning of the story and there were more Shinsengumi based on Harada Sanosuke. As all of those Shinsengumi were a larger number than the most recurring characters in the series, Sorachi decided to remove them, commenting that they were not fun. Although Sorachi considered that the one-shot "Samuraider" was very poor, the one-shot setting served as the basis for Gintama, such as the addition of alien characters. Sorachi liked the Bakumatsu and Sengoku periods because they were both times of change and therefore presented the positive and negative points of humanity. The series was then set in an alternate Bakumatsu to give greater importance to the characters' bushido, as at the time the samurai were at the lowest point in their lives. Sorachi also cited the manga series Rurouni Kenshin (1994–1999), set during the Bakumatsu and Meiji periods, as a major source of inspiration.

The main characters were originally created as Toshiro Hijikata, the vice-commander of the Shinsengumi in the series, because Sorachi is a fan of them, especially Hijikata Toshizō, after having seen the film Burn! Sword!. Likewise, the author mentioned that most of the characters are based on Edo, while others are based on the Japanese folklore hero Sakata no Kintoki. Sorachi commented that when working on the chapters he had frequent He had trouble finishing writing them, handing them over to his supervisor before he could review them. He also added that although he had explained on other occasions that some of his ideas are "random", he usually focuses on facts that are related to the manga. However, when he has trouble with an idea, he usually gets help from his editor.

Content of the work

Manga

The Gintama manga began to be published in December 2003 by the Shūeisha publisher in the Japanese magazine Shōnen Jump, a magazine in which it still continues its edition, compiled until date by sixty-four volumes with more than five hundred and eighty chapters. In September 2018 it was announced that it would stop publishing in Shonen Jump and would be transferred to Jump GIGA in December. On December 28 it was published in Jump GIGA with chapter 699 and ended its publication in Jump GIGA with chapter 701 in February it was announced. which would be transferred to the Gintama App. On May 13, chapter 702 was published. The final chapter will be published on June 17, 2019. Later Shueisha announced that the final chapter would be published on June 20, 2019. The series ended in volume 77 which was released on August 2. The first tankōbon - the volume format - of the series was released on April 2, 2004, while the fiftieth was released on July 4, 2013. Likewise, Shūeisha has published several of the Gintama chapters on the official Shōnen Jump website. The work has also given rise to a light novel and several supplementary books.

In a ranking of the best-selling manga in Japan in 2009, Gintama reached fifth place, with more than 4,700,000 copies sold, surpassed only by One Piece, Bleach, Naruto and Fullmetal Alchemist, respectively; while in 2008 it ranked tenth with approximately 2,300,000 copies sold. By 2011 Gintama managed to occupy sixth place with more than 4,400,000 sales. Of volume twenty-four, more than five hundred thousand copies were sold, becoming the thirty-fourth best-selling manga in Japan; volumes twenty-three and twenty-five also managed to achieve a similar number of sales. The Spanish version of the manga is published by Editores de Tebeos—formerly known as Ediciones Glénat—Spain.

Anime

Gintama

The anime was produced by Sunrise and directed by Shinji Takamatsu from episode one to one hundred and five and by Yoichi Fujita from episode one hundred to its end. Although in January 2009 Fujita had mentioned that he was not going to work on the fourth saga of the series, the following month it was confirmed that he would be responsible for the anime.

This adaptation began to be broadcast in Japan on April 4, 2006 until it ended on March 25, 2010 on the TV Tokyo television network, reaching 201 episodes divided into four sagas. The sagas have also been released for sale on DVD by Aniplex in their country of origin; Thirteen volumes were distributed with the aforementioned format of the first saga between July 26, 2006 and June 26, 2007. The second saga was also published in a set of thirteen volumes between July 25, 2007 and June 23. July 2008. The third saga was published with the same number of volumes between August 27, 2008 and August 26, 2009. For its part, the DVDs of the fourth season began to be published on August 28. October 2009. In a ranking published by TV Asahi of the hundred best anime of 2006, the series reached twenty-second place. In April 2010, Gintama was ranked as the thirteenth most popular anime between April 2009 and March 2010 by Animage.

On the same date, TV Tokyo began broadcasting several episodes of Gintama under the title Yorinuki Gintama-san (よりぬき銀魂さん, 'Yorinuki Gintama-san'< sup>? lit. "The best of Gintama"), being "the best of..." a parody of the anime Sazae- san. In addition to its broadcast in high definition, new opening themes and ending themes were created. Subsequently, a new Gintama anime began airing on TV Tokyo from the October 4, 2012, which will be new episodes. In Spain Gintama is broadcast by Canal Extremadura. Other networks that broadcast the series are I.Sat (Latin America), MTV Italia (Italy) and ABS-CBN (Philippines).

Gintama'

In March 2010, Yoichi Fujita stopped directing the anime until the staff obtained enough material to continue working. Shinji Takamatsu – the previous director – commented that “it's not over, it hasn't even started yet! It will definitely be back." Additionally, in December of that same year, Shūeisha stated that the Gintama anime would resume in April 2011. Gintama' (銀魂', 'Gintama''< span class="t_nihongo_help">^?) was the title given to this sequel, which premiered in Japan on April 4, 2011. The The first DVD of this series was released on July 27, 2011. On the other hand, the twenty-sixth episode of this sequel featured a special crossover with the series Sket Dance. This sequel ended on March 26, 2012 with a total of fifty-one episodes. However, on October 4, 2012, a continuation of this anime began to be broadcast, which concluded definitively on March 28. from 2013 with thirteen episodes.

Original animations

There are a total of two original Gintama animations produced by Sunrise and both published during the Jump Festa. The first with the same title as the original series, had a single episode made up of several stories that were intended to show the characters of the work; It was published at the Jump Festa in 2005. The second animation, this one called «Gintama: Shiroyasha Kotan» (< span class="t_nihongo_kanji" lang="ja">白夜叉降誕, '«Gintama: Shiroyasha Kotan»'< sup>?), also a single episode, focuses on the war between the aliens Amanto and the samurai. It was later revealed that it was a trailer for a film that had been cancelled; was published at the Jump Festa in 2008. On September 30, 2009, a DVD titled «Gintama Jump Anime Tour 2008 & 2005 » was broadcast by Aniplex, which contains a video of the two animations of the series.

Movies

In October 2009, Warner Bros. registered the Internet domain website "Gintama-movie.com", although it did not confirm whether the film would be made. In the fifty-eighth issue of magazine Shōnen Jump in 2009, the development of said film was confirmed with the phrase «Gintama Wasshoi Matsuri!», with «Wasshoi» being a commonly used war cry at festivals in Japan. Before the film's premiere, a festival called «Gintama Haru Matsuri 2010» (銀魂 春祭り2010, «Gintama Haru Matsuri 2010»^? lit. «Gintama: spring festival") took place at the Ryōgoku Kokugikan arena in Ryōgoku in March 2010. There, the first three minutes of the film were shown to the audience. The DVD of this event was released on April 6, 2011. Subsequently, the film was released on April 24, 2010, and was titled "Gintama: Shinyaku Benizakura-Hen" (銀魂 新訳紅桜篇 , «Gintama: Shinyaku Benizakura-Hen» ^?); The plot of this is a continuation of the story of the series, in which Kotaro Katsura had been attacked by a member of the Kiheitai army and "Yorozuya" begins to search for him. The film featured the songs "Bakuchi Dancer" (バクチダンサー, «Bakuchi Dancer» ^?) and «Boku Tachi no Kisetsu» ( 僕たちの季節, «Boku Tachi no Kisetsu»^?) by the Japanese band Does like musical themes. In addition, it earned more than $2,118,342 during its first days after it was released.

In August 2012, Shōnen Jump, the magazine where the manga series is published, announced that a second film would be released in 2013, with a script written by the same author of the work., Hideaki Sorachi. The film was released on July 6, 2013 with the title «Gintama: Kanketsu-hen - Yorozuya yo Eien Nare» (劇場版 銀魂 完結篇 万事屋よ永遠なれ, «Gintama: Kanketsu-hen - Yorozuya yo Eien Nare» ^?), and tells the adventures of Gintoki, who travels to a future where he has to deal with a mysterious group of villains. The film had two themes: «Genjō Destruction» " style="display:none">, «Genjō Destruction»^?) by SPYAIR and «Pray» by Tommy heavenly6. According to Yoichi Fujita, the director, & #34;if Gintama: Kanketsu-hen - Yorozuya yo Eien Nare turns out to be a success, it will evaluate the possibility of producing a sequel.

On January 8, 2021, the final film was released that adapted the remaining chapters of the manga (these being 699 to 704) that did not have the opportunity to be included in the last animated season. The film was released under the title Gintama: THE FINAL. In Japan alone, it grossed 1,900,000,000 yen (approximately $18 million). The film was released in 10 countries apart from Japan, of which are South Korea, Vietnam, Macau, United Arab Emirates, Taiwan, Singapore, Indonesia, Hong Kong, United States and Canada.

The premise of the film is based on telling the final battle that takes place at the Edo terminal, where the Tendoushuu tries to revive Utsuro to achieve the immortality they have been searching for for quite some time, however, Gintoki, Takasugi and Katsura are ready to avoid him at all costs. While they try to achieve their goal, several well-known characters join them to stop the Amanto once and for all.

Live-action

In June 2016, Shūeisha announced that the series would have a live-action adaptation of the series. It premiered on July 14, 2017. The film was directed, as well as the script, by Yūichi Fukuda. The film stars Shun Oguri as Gintoki Sakata, along with Kanna Hashimoto as Kagura and Masaki Suda as Shinpachi Shimura. The film follows a retelling of the franchise's successful Benizakura arc in which Kotaro Katsura is attacked by a member of the Kiheitai army, and Odd Jobs Gin begins searching for him.

A live-action sequel was announced in November 2017 by director Yuichi Fukuda and Shun Oguri and was scheduled to premiere in summer 2018. In April 2018, it was announced that Shun Oguri, Kanna Hashimoto and Masaki Suda would reprise their roles as Gintoki, Kagura and Shinpachi respectively. The film also received a provisional title of Gintama 2 (Kari) or Gintama 2 (Temporary title), which was eventually replaced by the final name, remaining as " Gintama 2: Okite wa Yaburu tame ni koso Aru" ("Gintama 2: rules are made to be broken"). The film opens on August 17, 2018, grossing 280 million yen on its first day, selling one million tickets in just 7 days.

Along with the release of the film, a 3-episode miniseries called "Gintama 2 - Yonimo Kimyou na Gintama-chan" ("Gintama 2: The strange and unusual Gintama chan"), on dTV. The 3 episodes would be revealed one per week, starting on August 18. Their names would be 1. "I can't sleep". 2. "Hijikata stops smoking.". 3. “It doesn't matter how old you are, you hate going to the dentist.” After a week of being released, the first episode reaches 4 million views.

Soundtrack

The soundtrack for Gintama is composed by Eiichi Kamagata and is published by Audio Highs. The first compiled compact disc, "Gintama Original Soundtrack", was released in Japan on September 27, 2006 and contained a total of thirty-six tracks, including some opening themes and ending themes. This was followed by the second compact disc, "Gintama Original Soundtrack II » which was published on November 11, 2007 and consisted of forty tracks with some opening and closing themes, although they were not broadcast in the animated series. Two years later, on June 24, 2009, the third album was published — and last so far—, «Gintama Original Soundtrack III», which contained twenty-eight tracks, in addition to the theme «Dondake! Gintaman» (どんだけー! ギンタマン, «Dondake! Gintaman»^?), which was used as a joke in the hundredth episode of the series. Apart from the anime's soundtrack, «Gintama Best» (銀魂 BEST, «Gintama Best»^?)< /span>, which includes the full version of the first five opening themes and the first nine ending themes of the series. Additionally, it consisted of a DVD with the videos of these musical themes but without closing credits. Likewise, an album titled «Gintama Best 2» (銀魂 BEST 2, «Gintama Best 2»^?) was published on June 22, 2011. Like the previous one, this one featured the following opening and ending themes from the first anime series, along with the additional DVD of their respective videos.

Video games

As with several other series, numerous Gintama video games have been created and these have appeared on different types of consoles. A video game titled Gintama: Gin-san to Issho! was published for the PlayStation 2. Boku no Kabuki-chō Nikki (銀魂 銀さんと一緒!ボクのかぶき町日記, 'Gintama: Gin-san to Issho! Boku no Kabuki-chō Nikki'^?), on August 30, 2007. One was also published for Wii, Gintama: Yorozuya Chūbu Tsukkomaburu Dōga (銀魂 万事屋ちゅ〜ぶ ツッコマブル動画, 'Gintama: Yorozuya Chūbu Tsukkomaburu Dōga'^?), on October 25, 2007. Likewise, one was published for Nintendo DS, Gintama: Gintama Kuesuto Gin-san ga Tenshoku-shitari Sekai o Sukuttari (銀魂 銀玉くえすと 銀さんが転職したり世界を救ったり< /span>, ' Gintama: Gintama Kuesuto Gin-san ga Tenshoku-shitari Sekai o Sukuttari'^?), on December 6, 2007. Two other video games for Nintendo DS were published the same year, Gintama: Dīesu Yorozuya Daisōdō! (銀魂でぃ〜えす・万事屋大騒動!, 'Gintama: Dīesu Yorozuya Daisōdō!' ^?) and Gintama: Gintoki vs Hijikata!? Kabuki-cho Gitama Daisōdatsusen!! 戦!!, 'Gintama: Gintoki vs Hijikata!? Kabuki-cho Gitama Daisōdatsusen!!'^{?< /sup>}).

In addition, several of the Gintama characters appear in video games such as Jump Super Stars, its sequel, Jump Ultimate Stars and J-Stars Victory VS; Both are games where you fight with a large number of characters from other manga published by Shōnen Jump.

Novels and guides

Gintama has been adapted into a five-volume light novel written by Tomohito Osaki, illustrated by Hideaki Sorachi – the same author of the series – and published by the Shūeisha publishing house. The novel, titled 3-Nen Z-Gumi Ginpachi-sensei» (3年 Z組銀八先生, «3-Nen Z-Gumi Ginpachi-sensei»^?), narrates the adventures of the characters of the work in a school environment and with Gintoki as a teacher. The first volume of the adaptation was released on February 3, 2006, while the fifth volume was released on April 4, 2011.

Likewise, the series has several guides, both for the manga and the anime. The first manga guide, «Gintama Official Character Book - Gin Channel!» (銀魂 公式キャラクターブック｢銀ちゃんねる!｣, «Gintama Official Character Book - Gin Channel!»^{?< /sup>}), was published on April 4, 2006 by Shūeisha and features an exclusive interview by Hideaki Sorachi and patches of the main characters as well as information about them. The second guide, « Gintama Official Character Book 2 - Fifth Grade» (銀魂公式キャラクターブック2 ｢銀魂五 年生｣, < i>«Gintama Official Character Book 2 - Fifth Grade»^?), was released on May 5, 2009; Like the previous guide, this one also contains an interview by Sorachi and information on new characters that had appeared in the series since the release of the first guide. The first guide for the anime, "Gintama Official Animation Guide & "Gayagaya Box"ガヤ箱 , «Gintama Official Animation Guide "Gayagaya Box"»^?), was broadcast on April 4, 2008 to celebrate the broadcast of the one hundredth episode, and also has comments from the Japanese voice actors. This was followed by another guide, «Official Animation Guide Gintama Anime Paraparakan» (オフィシャルアニメーションガイド　銀魂あにめパラパラ館, «Official Animation Guide Gintama Anime Paraparakan »^?) on April 5, 2011. A set of three guides on anime characters titled «Gintama Character Book» , Gintama Kyarakutazu Bukku^?), was also published in Japan in 2010.

Reception

Both the Gintama anime and manga have achieved great success inside and outside of Japan. In a ranking published by TV Asahi on the hundred best anime of 2006 based on an online survey, the series reached twenty-second place; likewise, in Another ranking of the best-selling manga in Japan in 2009, Gintama reached fifth place with more than 4,700,000 copies sold, only surpassed by One Piece , Naruto, Bleach and Fullmetal Alchemist respectively; in 2008 it ranked tenth with approximately 2,300,000 copies sold. In the same year, Gintama also appeared in two surveys conducted by Oricon, in which it took first place in the category of "funniest manga" and fifth in the "most interesting manga." In another 2009 survey, the work was classified as the sixth manga series that could be adapted into a live-action film. By 2011, the work managed to occupy sixth place in the best-selling manga with more than 4,400,000 sales.

Likewise, various publications from different media have served to praise and criticize the series. Carlo Santos of Anime News Network commented that the manga was a "one-of-a-kind comedy", but on the other hand criticized that the series was "very difficult to follow" when there are fast scenes. Jokes about the shōnen were also praised by About.com reviewer Deb Aoki, who, like Santos, considered the series "a considerably distracting manga." The character designs were appreciated by its variations, including the aliens that appear in the work. Katherine Dacey of Pop Culture Shock noted that "those characters add visual interest and life to each of their panels in the story, keeping the reader entertained as the series unfolds." However, Michael Aronson, reviewer for Manga Life, criticized the low number of alien characters and that some chapters focus too much on fights. The anime adaptation has also appeared in several Japanese television rankings; in August 2008, TV Tokyo announced that Gintama and Naruto "contributed to strong overseas sales," and in a survey conducted by Puff, Gintama won the best animation category. The DVD of the original animations of the series, Gintama Jump Anime Tour 2008 & 2005, became the best-selling DVD animation in Japan during 2009, with a total of 61,226 units sold two weeks after being released.

The anime has been distinguished by the fan vote as the "Most Popular Anime" at the 2016 edition of the Tokyo Anime Awards.