Shogakukan, the mega-publishing house behind many famous manga magazines such as Shounen Sunday (and incidentally also an owner of North American anime/manga company Viz Media), announced the results for their 54th Annual Manga Awards earlier this week.
The winners of this year’s awards are all likely unknown to most international fans, but in past years the Shogakukan awards have been bestowed to popular series such as Bleach, Fullmetal Alchemist, Inu-Yasha and Detective Conan.
The awards follows the same format as last year’s awards, divided into the four categories of Children’s, Shoujo, Shounen and General:
Children’s Category
Naisho no Tsubomi (A Secret’s Bud)
Author: Yu Yabu-uchi
Serialized in Shougaku Go-Nensei
Shounen Category
Kurosugemu (Cross Game)
Author: Mitsuru Adachi
Serialized in Weekly Shounen Sunday
Shoujo Category
BLACK BIRD
Author: Kanoko Sakurakoji
Serialized in Betsucomi
General Category
Gaku ~ Minna no Yama (Peak ~ Everyone’s Mountain)
Author: Shin-ichi Ishizuka
Serialized in Big Comic Original
The official awards ceremony will take place on March 3 in Tokyo, where the authors will receive a trophy and an award of ¥1,000,000.
Looking at the past awards, we can see that coincidentally the vast majority of their awards go to titles they publish; last time they graciously gave out one to Kodansha, and over their history they have given out awards to 20 such titles, out of hundreds…
Via Shogakukan.
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How about the other mangas ranks that aren’t also anime bassed?
Or at least not these mangas that are overpopular there.
Becouse none of these are of my taste.
Want to see some lower ranked ones.
Winners are voted by the readers not fans.
Yeah!!! Black Bird!..go go Black Bird!!!finally some recognition for….OK! OK!- I have no idea about ANY of these titles! never even heard of Black Bird- lol.
This makes as much sense as the Oscar Nom’s in the US. Don’t you love when an Industry gives it’s own awards out? no Biased there- lol. For anyone who cares “MILK” will win best picture (and a slew of others) because #1 Sean Penn, #2 Left needs a back-pat, #3 to make-up for “BrokeBack” losing…and #4 the gay thing due to Prop 8 being voted down by over 70% of Californians. Then again I predicted “MILK” the moment I saw the trailer in November- lolol.
This was a rigged election… I refuse to accept these results… this was decided by angry fat guys in basements…
You wanted Naruto or Bleach to win the shounen category? ಠ_ಠ
ಠ_ಠ indeed.
Holy crap. Naisho no Tsubomi getting an award? 😀