Aha Entertainment Sweeps Double Honors: Dynamic Golden Sheep Awards Unveil Outstanding Winners
On October 27, 2024, the 14th China International Animation and Animation Expo (hereinafter referred to as the “Comic Expo”) concluded successfully at the Guangdong Modern International Exhibition Center in Houjie Town, Dongguan City. This event brought together the elites of the global animation industry. The animation “Wu Liuqi: Shadow Destiny” produced by Aha Entertainment stood out among them and won the “Excellent International Communication Domestic Cartoon – Excellent Nominated Work” and “Excellent Online Cartoon” from Dynamic Golden Sheep -Double awards for “outstanding works”.
Since its launch in 2015, the “Dynamic Golden Sheep” outstanding works selection project has given full play to the demonstration and leading role of outstanding domestic film and television animation works, promoted domestic film and television animation to improve the quality and international competitiveness of their works, and promoted the high-quality development of domestic film and television animation. This year, a total of 90 works were shortlisted for the final review. After selection by the review committee, a total of 24 works in 8 categories stood out.
This time “Wu Liuqi: Shadow Fate” won the double award of Dynamic Golden Sheep at the Comic Expo, which is not only an affirmation of the strength of Aha Entertainment, but also an important encouragement to China’s original animation. Since its establishment, Aha Entertainment has been committed to promoting the innovation and development of China’s original animation IP. It is an innovative entertainment content company with the vision of “creating a global creator co-creation platform and content ecosystem”.
It is reported that the “Wu Liu Qi” animation series is China’s first Netflix Original series. At present, it has been used overseas in five language dubbing versions: Chinese, French, Spanish, Japanese and English, as well as 29 language subtitle versions, covering 190 countries and regions around the world, becoming the Chinese original animation with the largest and most extensive audience coverage in the world. “Wu Liuqi” has not only won the love of fans with its unique plot and painting style, but its series of songs have also quickly exploded on major music platforms at home and abroad with its high-burning, warm and healing style.
The fifth season of “Memory Fragments of Wu Liuqi” was officially launched on October 2 and quickly received an enthusiastic response from the audience. The first broadcast attracted more than 160,000 viewers to participate in the rating, and received an astonishingly high average score of 9.8. The fifth season has been online for two weeks. So far, the global long and short video views have exceeded 20 billion, and the number of followers across the entire network has exceeded 50 million. With this With strong momentum, it has successfully ranked TOP1 on the hot lists of Tencent Video, Bilibili, iQiyi, Weibo Animation and other platforms.
As an IP with international influence, the “Wu Liu Qi” series has won many world-class, national and industry awards and honors for its excellent quality. As early as 2018, it was successfully shortlisted for the main competition unit of the “Animation Series (TV Films)” of the Annecy International Animation Film Festival in France, known as the “Oscar of the Animation Industry”, becoming the only Chinese animation series to win this honor in recent years. Subsequently, in 2020, “Wu Liuqi” won the Best Animation Script Award at the 26th Shanghai Magnolia Awards for its outstanding script, making it the first time in the past five years that “Magnolia” has won the title of Chinese animation. In addition, it has been dually recognized as a key national cultural export enterprise and key project in 2021-2022 and 2023-2024 for two consecutive years. In 2023, it was also successfully selected into the “Achievement Funding Category” and “Cultural Services Export Trade Category” of Shanghai’s financial support fund project to promote the development of cultural and creative industries. It has been reported many times by authoritative media such as “People’s Daily”, “Guangming Daily”, “China Daily” and CGTN, demonstrating its international influence and cultural communication value. In 2024, “Wu Liuqi: Shadow Destiny” won the 2023 “Audiovisual China Global Broadcast” Outstanding Work Award issued by the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television. This series of honors not only demonstrates the outstanding status and widespread influence of “Wu Liuqi” in the international animation field, but is also a huge encouragement to the continuous development and innovation of the Chinese animation industry.
Under the strategy of building global IP, Aha Entertainment is gradually building a diversified and international animation industry system. By opening IP, more creators from around the world are invited to join in the co-creation, which enriches and extends the world view of IP, forms an IP matrix under a unified world view, and continuously launches more masterpieces with global influence. At the same time, in order to meet the expectations of fans, Aha Entertainment actively expands derivatives, offline activities and other derivative businesses, forming a complete content ecosystem covering animation, comics, games, pop-up stores, livehouse concert performances and retail merchandise. , hoping to provide fans with a more diverse and richer experience.
This time “Wu Liuqi: Shadow Fate” won the double award of Dynamic Golden Sheep at the Comic Expo, which is not only an affirmation of the strength of Aha Entertainment, but also an important encouragement to China’s original animation. Since its establishment, Aha Entertainment has been Committed to promoting the innovation and development of China’s original animation IP, it is a new entertainment content company with the vision of “creating a global creator co-creation platform and content ecosystem”.
Editor in charge: Li Yue