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The launch of the Japan Anime Awards, planned for a full-scale ceremony in 2027, was also announced.","whyItMatters":"An awards body announced at a prologue event with its own orchestra night is building its audience before it has a ceremony, which puts the 2027 edition under pressure to justify the staging.","webCardHtml":"\u003cp\u003eThe Ikebukuro run spread across four days, with screenings, talk sessions, creator projects, and workshops for children. The awards announcement came on the last of those days, alongside the orchestra set.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEarlier on the same stage, Toshiyuki Itakura, Shoko Nakagawa, and Sally Amaki discussed the works that pulled them into anime. Itakura named Fist of the North Star and the City Hunter ending theme \u0026#34;Get Wild\u0026#34;; Nakagawa credited Sailor Moon and the Akuma-kun opening. Amaki, raised in the U.S., described finding Gintama in junior high school and singing Nakagawa\u0026#39;s \u0026#34;Sorairo Days\u0026#34; at a 22/7 audition.\u003c/p\u003e","blueskyPost":"Mai Kuraki performing Detective Conan songs with the Tokyo Philharmonic gives the Japan Anime Awards launch a template: televised orchestra nights, not a statuette show.","twitterPost":"Mai Kuraki and the Tokyo Philharmonic turn Detective Conan songs into concert hall material, a model for the Japan Anime Awards.","threadsPost":"Mai Kuraki singing Detective Conan songs with the Tokyo Philharmonic is the format the Japan Anime Awards could borrow. A 2027 ceremony needs moments that work live, and an orchestra set with Nami Nakagawa and Ai Higuchi already proved the songs carry outside a screen.","newsletterBlurb":"Tokyo Anime Next ran four days in Ikebukuro and closed November 2 with the Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra backing Mai Kuraki, Nami Nakagawa, and Ai Higuchi. 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