{"id":124845,"date":"2025-06-15T05:07:58","date_gmt":"2025-06-15T12:07:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/?p=124845"},"modified":"2025-06-15T05:08:02","modified_gmt":"2025-06-15T12:08:02","slug":"chao-anime-film-scores-annecy-jury-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/2025\/06\/15\/chao-anime-film-scores-annecy-jury-award\/","title":{"rendered":"ChaO Anime Film Scores Annecy Jury Award"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">The mermaid x human anime romance film <a href=\"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/2025\/06\/05\/chao-anime-films-trailer-main-poster-unleash-a-whirlpool-of-romance\/\"><em>ChaO<\/em><\/a> is the recipient of Annecy International Animation Film Festival 2025&#8217;s Jury Award in the Feature Film category.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Other winners that hail from Japan include<strong> Ryo Orikasa<\/strong>&#8216;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.annecyfestival.com\/en\/the-festival\/official-selection-2025\/off-limits\/the-graffiti?t=1749934309\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>The Graffiti<\/em><\/a> (Off-Limits Award, Short Film category) and <strong>Masataka Kihara<\/strong>&#8216;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.annecyfestival.com\/en\/the-festival\/official-selection-2025\/graduation-films\/q?t=1749934311\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Q<\/em> <\/a>(Lotte Reiniger Award, Graduation Films category).<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\"><em>ChaO\u00a0<\/em>is set in a world of humans and mermaids, where male protagonist Stephan works at a shipbuilding company as an office worker. A proposal from the mermaid princess Chao brings a wave of change to his life.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">The film will premiere in Japan on August 15 JST and will be brought to North America <a href=\"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/2025\/06\/03\/gkids-to-bring-chao-mermaid-romance-film-to-north-america\/\">by GKIDS<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\"><em>ChaO<\/em> is a <strong>Studio 4\u00b0C\u00a0<\/strong>production directed by <strong>Yasuhiro Aoki<\/strong>\u00a0(<em>Psycho-Pass: The Movie<\/em> co-character designer, SAMURAI NOODLES \u201cTHE ORIGINATOR\u201d unit director et al.). Other staff include <strong>Hirokazu Kojima<\/strong>\u00a0(<em>Shoka<\/em>,\u00a0<em>More Than a Married Couple, But Not Lovers<\/em> ending design and animation) as character designer and animation director and <strong>Hiroshi Takiguchi<\/strong>\u00a0(<em>Weathering With You<\/em>) as background art director.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\"><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.annecyfestival.com\/en\/the-festival\/2025-awards\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Annecy website<\/a> (via <span class=\"css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3\"><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/animationbiz_jp\/status\/1934140398311755955\">@animationbiz_jp<\/a>)<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The mermaid x human anime romance film ChaO is the recipient of Annecy International Animation Film Festival 2025&#8217;s Jury Award in the Feature Film category. Other winners that hail from Japan include Ryo Orikasa&#8216;s The Graffiti (Off-Limits Award, Short Film category) and Masataka Kihara&#8216;s Q (Lotte Reiniger Award, Graduation Films category). ChaO\u00a0is set in a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":123789,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[14,97,10727,1631],"class_list":["post-124845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-anime","tag-anime","tag-anime-movie","tag-chao","tag-studio-4"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/ChaO-main-poster-1-scaled-e1749989236670.jpeg?fit=1809%2C1019&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8n4QV-wtD","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124845"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124845"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124845\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":124855,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124845\/revisions\/124855"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/123789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}