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ABEMA Announces "Japan Anime Trend Awards 2023"

Dec 28 (Abema) - ABEMA Announces "Japan Anime Trend Awards 2023"

Abema recently aired their "Japan Anime Trend Awards 2023." The awards analyze anime works from various perspectives based on data from seven media outlets, including Spotify, TikTok, X (formerly Twitter), Yahoo! JAPAN, Animate, Anime! Anime!, and ABEMA, to select the "grand prize" winners in each category.

The four-hour live broadcast of "Japan Anime Trend Awards 2023," which started at 8 pm, featured four main MCs: Iwai Yuuki of Haraitchi, Inoue Yusuke of NONSTYLE, Mukai Kiyotaro (Tenshin Mukai), and Murakami of Magical Lovely. The guest lineup included Sayuri Matsumura, Sekai from EXILE/FANTASTICS, Mao Mita, and Miki Utagaki as the moderator.

Anime News Award: "Detective Conan" Movie Series was deemed the most impactful anime news of 2023, including topics about works, voice actor news, and anime adaptations of classic stories. The box office revenue for this year's release, "Detective Conan: The Scarlet Bullet," exceeded 13.8 billion yen. Additionally, Nippon Television's "Friday Roadshow" featured two consecutive weeks of "Detective Conan" movies ("Countdown to Heaven" and "The Darkest Nightmare"), keeping the series a hot topic throughout the year.

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A new hotspot has emerged in Japan: The 'Fuji Dream Bridge' along Shizuoka's Route 139, where foreign tourists are risking life and limb to follow the latest TikTok craze.

Shohei Ohtani's former interpreter made his first public appearance on Tuesday, two months after confessing to massive bank fraud, walking alongside his lawyer on his way to court where he formally entered a 'Not Guilty' plea in a five-minute hearing. Despite numerous questions from reporters as he walked alongside his lawyer, 39-year-old Ippei Mizuhara remained silent.

In the early hours of May 14, several men broke into a house in Minamiaizu, Fukushima Prefecture, tying up a woman in her 60s and stealing cash. Over the past two weeks, similar robbery incidents have occurred in Gunma, Tochigi, and Nagano Prefectures.

Police have arrested a man in his 20s after 3 people were killed in a collision involving seven vehicles on the Tokyo Expressway on Tuesday morning.

In the case of a couple found burned to death in Nasu, Tochigi Prefecture, it has come to light that the man rearrested in connection with the incident stated he was "instructed to kill after the reward was increased."

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