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Tokyo Anime Award Festival Closes After 13 Editions

The festival’s X account and YouTube channel will close September 30, while its website will become an archive.

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The Tokyo Anime Award Festival announced Friday that it ended its events in March. Its final edition, TAAF 2026, ran March 13–16.

The Tokyo Anime Award Festival (TAAF) announced on its official website Friday that its events ended this past March. TAAF 2026 ran March 13–16.

On September 30, the festival will close its X (formerly Twitter) account and YouTube channel. Its website will serve as an archive starting that day.

This year, Kenshi Yonezu received the Anime of the Year division’s Best Sound/Performance award. The honor recognized four anime theme songs he contributed over the past year:

  • “Plazma” for Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuuX.
  • “Bow and Arrow” for Medalist.
  • “Iris Out” for Chainsaw Man – The Movie: Reze Arc.
  • “Jane Doe,” a collaboration with Hikaru Utada, for Chainsaw Man – The Movie: Reze Arc.

Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuuX took the television category award. Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Infinity Castle - Akaza Sairai won the animated film category. It is the first film in the Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Infinity Castle trilogy.

Judges considered titles that premiered, either entirely or partly, between October 1, 2024, and September 30, 2025.

TAAF began as an independent festival in 2014 and held 13 editions. It grew out of the Tokyo Anime Award, part of the Tokyo International Anime Fair from 2002–2013.

Sources: Tokyo Anime Award Festival via ANN

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