The staff of the Tokyo Anime Award Festival (TAAF) event announced the winners of the 2024 Lifetime Achievement Awards on Thursday:
Producer
Shunzō Katō (Anpanman films, The Rose of Versailles, Akira)
Manga creator
Akira Toriyama (Dragon Ball manga, Dr. Slump manga, Dragon Quest game series character design)
Scriptwriter
Sukehiro Tomita (Space Runaway Ideon, Digimon Frontier, Macross 7)
Director/writer
Ryousuke Takahashi (Armored Trooper Votoms, Fang of the Sun Dougram, Flag)
Animator/character designer
Shūichi Seki (Belladonna of Sadness, Vicke the Little Viking, Little Lulu)
Composer
Yuji Ohno (Lupin III franchise themes, Space Adventure Cobra)
Voice actor
Toshio Furukawa (Piccolo in Dragon Ball Z, Ataru in Urusei Yatsura, Shin in Fist of the North Star)
Duplo System Representative Director
Chikara Yamamoto (Head of company that produced trace machines for transferring drawings on paper to cels)
The Tokyo Anime Award Festival will be held from March 8 to March 11.
Sources: Press release, TAAF website, Comic Natalie
