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The Oofuji Noburou Award (大藤信郎賞) is an animation award given at the Mainichi Film Awards. It is named after Japanese animator Noburou Oofuji.

Following the death of Noburou Oofuji in 1961, Mainichi established a new award in his honor to recognize animation excellence. A specialist in silhouette animation, Oofuji was one of the earliest Japanese animators to gain international recognition.

With the growth of the animation industry in Japan, the award in the 1980s came to be dominated by big budget studio productions, over the work of the independent animators for whose efforts it was originally established. To address this concern, the Animation Grand Award was established to reward large scale cinematic animation, enabling the Oofuji award to focus on shorter pieces again.

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An ongoing list of my favorite and personal anime movies.

Updated 9.12.2024

Part 1: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/993

We all know that Kyoto Animation has been important to us, wider audience. But unfortunately, a tragedy struck in the studio and caused many casualties and unintentional deaths of innocent lives. Kyoto Animation is known for its animation quality and comfortable story writing. Some of their works were various; comedy, romance, drama, action, and slice of life. Now, this is my collection of KyoAni's best works that touched many hearts.

What I look for the most in an anime above everything else is high-quality writing. That's not to say that manga, visual novel, and light novel adaptations are written poorly; in fact, there are some that have incredible, masterfully-crafted storylines. I have simply personally found that some of the most unforgettable series for me have been novel adaptations.

Given that there currently exists no anime search option for this, the basis of this interest stack is to provide a list of full-length novels that have been adapted into series or movie format.

*Disclaimer: not enough space to add children's classics to this, go check out Nippon Animation's studio page if you want more!

A list of anime that have aesthetic appeal or have particularly distinctive art styles...

I have compiled the animes that have achieved a certain quality with their story and animation and are loved by the majority, with my own short titles. If you don't have much time and are looking for an anime movie, you can check this list.

(It mostly includes romance anime.)

Arranged by score

Explicitly Cannon Couples and Hard Subtext Shows. Subtext shows listed here have substantial content and not just a little bit of teasing here and there. Subtext can also be an unspoken focal point of the series. These are shows I can actually recommend and like enough to suggest checking out.

-some popular shows in here simply worth mentioning because it would be criminal not to mention them.

link to part 2: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/47086

the best gl (yuri) anime genre that are worth to watch and i recommend 100%, good stuff, soft, good representation, etc etc.
(no im not gonna add citrus thats the worst gl ever and its not up for debate)

ill add more if theres anything worth to add, theres not much good gl anime for now unfortunately...

Anime that has the smoothest animation/art style that you shouldn't miss. Something with many frames per second as well as beautiful, vibrant colors, that you don't have a single moment where you'll feel bored.

anime heavily leaning on atmosphere, often set in sad scenarios but not overly dramatic

This is a part of a series of stacks that are about artistic tendencies in anime (and that border the fine line between sophisticated and pretentious).

This stack is a work in progress.

Bibliography:
Bingham, Adam. “Distant Voices, Still Lives: Love, Loss, and Longing in the work of Makoto Shinkai.” Asian Cinema. 20:2 (2009): 217-225.
Griffin, Blake. “Cowboy Bebop: The Acceptance of Loss.” Medium.com. 26 June 2020.
Lack, Jonathan R. “Elegy for a Lost Tomorrow: Representations of Loss in the Works of Isao Takahata.” 2015. University of Colorado, Master’s Thesis. 25-30.
Napier, Susan J. “Elegies.” Anime from Akira to Howl’s Moving Castle. Palgrave Macmillan, 2005. 275-278.

Superb animation that we all love, from our dearest Kyoto Animation Studios.

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Anime that looks like a painting, sorted from A to Z. Mostly watercolor or pastel style with soft and soothing color palette. This list doesn't include Ghibli-esque style. Feel free to comment on my profile if you have some suggestions, and enjoy :)