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The Japan Game Awards are run by Japan's CESA and are usually revealed during the Tokyo Game Show (TGS) at the end of September. Its Future Division prize honours unreleased titles shown at that year's edition with the most future potential. ANANTA was named to the 2025 Future Division on 2025-09-28 alongside Tokyo Game Show 2025, one of 11 winning works — our wiki's only officially-sourced, already-decided award, distinct from the still-voted Golden Joystick nomination. Use this page for 'ANANTA Japan Game Awards' and 'ANANTA awards' queries.

The Japan Game Awards are run by Japan’s CESA (Computer Entertainment Supplier’s Association) and are among the country’s most established annual industry honours, with results traditionally revealed during the Tokyo Game Show (TGS) at the end of September. Within them, the Future Division award goes to unreleased titles shown at that year’s edition that are judged to carry the most future potential — so it reads less as a final verdict on a shipped game and more as a shared bet by the industry and players on what a work might become. ANANTA’s intersection with it came on September 28, 2025, when, alongside the 2025 Tokyo Game Show, the game was named to that edition’s Future Division, one of 11 winning works. It is currently our wiki’s only award that is both officially sourced and already decided, in contrast to the Golden Joystick Awards nomination, which is still being voted on. One contrast worth placing side by side: ANANTA won at TGS 2025 yet was absent from TGS 2026 (we have logged that separately — see our timeline and the TGS2026 wrap-up post); together the two facts sketch how the project’s show rhythm changed across the two years. Related pages: award details on the Game Info page, and the full third-party-recognition rundown in the “Who has ANANTA actually been endorsed by?” post. Where nothing official has been published, we mark it “TBA” rather than turning community speculation into fact.

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