{"id":20035,"date":"2010-02-02T17:14:05","date_gmt":"2010-02-02T21:14:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/?p=20035"},"modified":"2010-02-02T17:25:15","modified_gmt":"2010-02-02T21:25:15","slug":"7th-animax-grand-prix-winning-anime-scheduled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/7th-animax-grand-prix-winning-anime-scheduled\/","title":{"rendered":"7th Animax Grand Prix Winning Anime Scheduled"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/shoka_key.jpg\" alt=\"shoka_key\" title=\"shoka_key\" width=\"135\" height=\"90\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-20036\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The <i>Shoka<\/i> (Calligrapher) anime TV special will air on the Animax anime channel on March 27. The special is an adaptation of writer Kenji Saido&#8217;s story concept, which won last year&#8217;s 7th annual <a href=\"http:\/\/www.animax.co.jp\/animax_grand_prize\/\" target=\"_blank\">Animax Grand Prize<\/a> competition for aspiring anime screenwriters. Each of the previous 6 winning entries has been animated as a TV special. Shoka is animated by Production I.G under the direction of Makoto Yamada (You&#8217;re Under Arrest OAV series).<\/p>\n<p><i>Shoka<\/i> is a supernatural action story set in feudal Japan revolving around a school of <i>sumi<\/i> artists whose secret drawing techniques cause them to become pulled into political power struggles in Edo, the pre-Tokyo capitol of Japan.<\/p>\n<p>The previous Animax Grand Prize winning anime TV specials have been:<\/p>\n<p>2003: <strong>Super Kuma-san<\/strong>, created by Hiromasa Tani &#038; animated by Toei<br \/>\n2004: <strong>Azusa, Otetsudai Shimasu!<\/strong>, created by Yuuko Kawabe &#038; animated by TMS<br \/>\n2005: <strong>Hotori ~Tada Saiwai wo Koinegau~<\/strong>, created by Maya Miyazaki &#038; animated by Sunrise<br \/>\n2006: <strong>Lily to Kaeru to<\/strong>, created by Ikuko Yoshinari &#038; animated by Toei<br \/>\n2007: <strong>Yumedamaya Kidan<\/strong>, created by Tsukino Akari &#038; animated by Production I.G<br \/>\n2008: <strong>Takane no Jitensha<\/strong>, created by Hayato Takamaga &#038; animated by A-1 Pictures<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/news\/2010-02-02\/7th-animax-award-winner-shoka-to-debut-in-march\" target=\"_blank\">Anime News Network<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Shoka (Calligrapher) anime TV special will air on the Animax anime channel on March 27. The special is an adaptation of writer Kenji Saido&#8217;s story concept, which won last year&#8217;s 7th annual Animax Grand Prize competition for aspiring anime screenwriters. Each of the previous 6 winning entries has been animated as a TV special. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anime-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20035"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20035\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20058,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20035\/revisions\/20058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}