Manga Division
Award
Jury Selections
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JIN
MURAKAMI Motoka
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Aoi Honoo
SHIMAMOTO Kazuhiko
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USAGI DROP
UNITA Yumi
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5minutes from the station
KURAMOCHI Fusako
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Oyasumi Pun Pun
ASANO Inio
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To Kamuroba Village
IGARASHI Mikio
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Kawachi Haruka Jidai Tanpenshu Chiruhi
KAWACHI Haruka
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MOBILESUIT GUNDAM THE ORIGIN
YASUHIKO Yoshikazu
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Kino Nani Tabeta?
YOSHINAGA Fumi
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Samurai Kid
SEKIYA Hisashi
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GIRL'S FIGHT
NIHONBASHI Yowoko
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Shojo Manga
MATSUDA Naoko
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Robot Koyuki
GOUDA Yoshiie
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The Eve
ODA Tobira
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Soredemo Machi wa Mawatte Iru
ISHIGURO Masakazu
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DEBONAIR DRIVE
ASAKURA Sekaiichi
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Natsume Yujin Cho
MIDORIKAWA Yuki
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baio no mokushiroku
MOROHOSHI Daijirou
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Round'bout
WATANABE Peko
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Thank you!!Poster
HAMANO Yuka
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since I were children
MITSUMOCHI Chiharu
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Alittle profesional & Fashionable Kimono-Do
HIRAMATSU Akiko
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HETALIA Axis Powers
HIMARUYA Hidekaz
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The sky brue, ground green, and chidren.
MATSUMOTO Rui
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TORII de MANGA 200ten
YAMAGUCHI Masaru
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a Guide of Floating Beauties
TERADA Megumi
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MOKUHAN MANGASHU BUNGAKU
FUJIMIYA Fuhito
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2K NIWATSUKI YUREITSUKI
TOHYAMA Yoh / KASASHITA Sakasa
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MADAM DRYEYE
NAKAO Takatoshi / IKEDA Riyoko
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HONTOKA NANTOKA
KANDA Yusuke
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cocorobu
KAMIMOTO Ayami / Smelly / HATTORI Motonobu
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LAS-CHIL
UDA Hiroe
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MEMOMANGA
NYAOZO
Jury Critiques
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Head of the Jury
SHIRIAGARI Kotobuki
Manga Artist
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SAITO Chiho
Manga Artist
For the last couple of years the number of the new manga titles I have read was not many. Screening process this time therefore made me a little dizzy against a heap of more than 100 manga titles. After all, I was not able to even to touch the 25 titles that had passed the screening, due to the hectic of my own deadlines of the works. It was not an easy job to read them, but I must say I had …
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NAGAI Go
Head of the Jury / Manga Artist
The five members of the jury chose five works that they liked from among the many submissions, and discussed the good points. The works that received the nod from a number of judges became the recipients of the excellence awards, and one of them is judged as the Grand Prize winner. Each nominee is selected from among the outstanding entries. However, the discussion was intense as deciding the …
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HOSOGAYA Atsushi
Associate Professor, Tokyo Polytechnic University
I joined the panel of jury this year. The screenings took place at a turning point of the government's pop-culture policy, and I recently joined the teaching staff of the manga division of a university. These events made me think a lot about manga. There are many amateur manga artists who support today's manga culture. The daily media orientation of the readers is shifting from paper to digital …
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MURAKAMI Tomohiko
Professor, Kobe Shoin Women's University
Every work that was selected for the final screening is unique and reminds the jury of the depth and breadth of manga expression. I would also like to mention some other works that came up in the discussion. Young and middle-aged artists received many votes in the early stages, and in the end, the 'veterans' yielded to the young. JIN by MURAKAMI Motokazu, MOROHOSHI Daijiro's bio no mokushiroku, …
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There were many submissions to the manga division again this year. In the Web manga category, we saw many approaches that foreshadow the new era of mobile phones and the Web. We also saw great diversity and high-level, eye-catching presentations in the frame manga/independent category. In the feature manga category, we received more distinctive submissions this year than in previous years that …