What Is Achievement Award?
The Achievement Award was first established as an award for a category of Tokyo International Anime Fair (TAF) held in 2005 to honor individuals who made a great contribution to the development of the animation culture and industry. The award was designed to honor his/her longtime achievement for technical skills, methods of expression and human resources development in the animation production as well as contributions made for broadly improving the social status of the animation industry through activities such as education, international exchanges, etc. It was firstly announced as Special Achievement Award then changed the name to Achievement Award in the 3rd year and marks its 17th edition in 2021 honoring a total of 186 people including awardees of this year.
Awardees of TAAF2021

Toshio SuzukiProducer

Momoko SakuraOriginal Author

Takao KoyamaWriter

Yoshiyuki TominoDirector

Toshitsugu SaidaAnimator

Takeshi SeyamaEditor

Kayo IshuuSinger

Michio HazamaVoice Actor
Awardees of TAAF2020

Shoji SatoProducer

Junzo NakajimaProducer

Takeshi Shudo (The Deceased)Writer

Kazuko Nakamura (The Deceased)Animator

Hisao Shirai (The Deceased)Director of Shooting

Akiko KoyamaColor Coordinator

Michio MamiyaComposer

Masako IkedaVoice Actress
