The Mainichi Shimbun bi-weekly has appear its winners for the 67th Annual Mainichi Blur Awards. Mamoru Hosoda's Wolf Accouchement anime blur and Katsuhiro Otomo's activated abbreviate "Combustible" were a part of the winners.

Wolf Accouchement won this year's Animation Blur Award. The film's adventure covers 13 years and begins with a 19-year-old academy apprentice called Hana who encounters and avalanche in "fairy tale-like" adulation with a "wolf man." After marrying the wolf man, Hana gives bearing and raises two wolf accouchement — an earlier sister called Yuki ("snow") who was built-in on a albino day, and a adolescent brother called Ame ("rain") who was built-in on a backing day. When the wolf man al of a sudden dies, Hana decides to move to a rural boondocks far removed from the city. Funimation affairs to absolution the blur theatrically and on home video this year in North America. Hosoda's Summer Wars had won the aforementioned accolade in 2010.

Otomo's "Combustible" abbreviate won the Noburou Oofuji Award, which ceremoniousness activated works that action new forms of artistic expression. Otomo created a one-shot manga alleged "Hi no Yōjin" in the actual aboriginal affair of the Comic Cue album from East Press in December of 1994. The adventure centers about humans who put out fires in Japan's actual Edo period. The film, which is a allotment of the Abbreviate Peace anime album project, competed at France's Annecy endure year, and it was aswell buried at the Platform International Animation Anniversary in Los Angeles in October. That anniversary aswell presented Otomo with a Lifetime Achievement Award. The abbreviate won the Grand Prize in Animation at the Ministry of Cultural Affairs' Japan Media Arts Anniversary Awards in December.

The live-action Thermae Romae blur won the Tatsuya Blur Fan Accolade in the calm category. Those who authority T Cards, the associates agenda of the Tsutaya video rental chain, voted for the winners of this award. Additionally, Sakura Ando won the Best Supporting Actress Accolade for her achievement as Gamuko in Takashi Miike's live-action blur adjustment of Ikki Kajiwara's Ai to Makoto (Ai and Makoto) affair manga.

At endure year's awards, Hotarubi no Mori e won the Animation Blur Accolade and Isamu Hirabayashi's "663114" anime abbreviate won the Noburou Oofuji Award.

This year's awards commemoration was captivated on February 7 in Kawasaki in Kanagawa Prefecture.