#manga awards

[animehouse-moe]

2024 Manga Taisho Award Winners Announced

In somewhat of an uncontested victory, Kimi to Uchuu wo Aruku Tame Ni walked away with nearly a 100 point victory. Following it in second place is Hiromu Arakawa's Daemons of The Shadow Realm. And only 1 point behind it in third place is Tales of Craftsmen From Kanda Gokurachou.

Though three series, it's really 1st and 3rd that are incredibly interesting. Kimi to Uchuu only has one volume out currently, with its second coming in May. Published under Kodansha, given their recent... "aggression" with manga licenses, there's a very strong chance to see an announcement for it sometime this summer.

On the other hand, Tales of Craftsmen is the first ever manga to be nominated, let alone place in the top 3, of the Manga Taisho awards from Leeds Publishing. It's a really incredible feat, and just another feather in its cap considering that it had recently won Freestyle's Read This Manga! award. Add on top that it's been nominated for the Osamu Tezuka Cultural prize, and it's a work that everyone should have their eyes on.

Though, many seem unaware of it, so I have a post in the works for this afternoon to detail its history and journey that led it to such commercial success and critical acclaim on only a single volume. The short of it though is that like with Kimi to Uchuu, manga readers should be making a lot of noise about getting it licensed over here.

[sean-gaffney]

Kodansha Award winners announced.

Shonen: Shangri-La Frontier

Shoujo: My Girlfriend's Child

General: Skip and Loafer

[fencer-x]

In case you missed it...

SASAKI TO MIYANO TOOK 1ST PLACE IN THE 2023 WEB MANGA AWARDS!

That means we get our reward of an extended manga version of the parody Adult AU sensei teased us with years ago--and not just KagiHira as it was originally, but a SasaMyaa version as well!

On top of that, SasaMyaa will start serialization again this summer, with Volume 10 released in December 2023!!

Congratulate Sensei using the hashtags #WEBマンガ総選挙 and #佐々木と宮野 on Twitter!!

[animehouse-moe]

Tales of Craftsmen From Kanda Gokurachou earns Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize

This is... really big news- for me, at least. Tales of Craftsmen from Kanda Gokurachou has netted something massive with their awarding of the New Life/Creative award with this year's Cultural Prize.

Akihito Sakaue has already had an incredible run of popularity and critical acclaim leading up to this, but this award is really the icing on the cake.

It places the manga in elite company, alongside the likes of Frieren, BEASTARS, and Showa Genroku Rakugo Shinju- all of which we have in English print. Though, the point that pulls these series together is that they are a supposed "triple threat", having all won the same category of Tezuka Cultural Prize, and ranked within the top 3 for both Kono Manga Ga Sugoi, and the Manga Taisho awards.

That's not a guarantee by any means for Kanda Gokurachou, but damn if it isn't ever inspiring and hopeful. Really great news for both the series and Sakaue though, so I'm sure they'll be taking the time to celebrate the achievement.

[fairytail-incorrectquotes]

Ivan: I havent been a bad father, just ask my kid. Isn't that right, Lucio?

Laxus: My name's Laxus

[mazojo]

Asmodeus has unlocked the power of gay everyone cheer

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[mettywiththenotes]

The reality of reading bnha is that you will see a panel of two character's holding hands with love and care and you will cry

[where-i-overanalyze]

showing one of the wildest panels w/ foreshadowing i remembered while looking through the manga for one of my long posts

this happens during Medusa's fight with Justin (and then Tezca comes in) and this is right after Justin's like "oh, Tzeca, is that you?" and Tezca spouts this line about how a person's death is up to them and that he's just reflecting their lives up until now.

and Medusa just . . . SEES Crona when talking about how a person's death is a product of what they've done??? and all she says is, "Damn . . ."

like maybe i'm getting way too into it, but it is crazy to me that Medusa seemingly sees that because of her treatment of Crona she is going to die by them, and is just kinda like "fuck it, gotta go all the way i guess." there's no acknowledgement of this moment afterwards, Tezca and Justin fight and the next time we hear from Medusa she's telling Crona they did a good job during their fight with Black☆Star and Tsubaki. Medusa is just so casual about the fact that she's pushed a person so far that it will inevitably lead to her own death. she doesn't even try to amend anything or figure something else out after this. what's the point in amending your wrongs since there's no going back, i suppose.

[mugiwaraboyyy1]

Luffy wins the award for best protagonist at the Anime Awards 2024!

[zabiume]

this moment always cracks me up because ichigo tried so hard to out-tsun himself but luckily or unluckily for him orihime has not one but TWO gay best friends who are determined to wingman for her at any time, any cost because a) they love her to death b) they love him too but they will always call bullshit at his clownery and they will always take her side because that's their BESTIE!!!!