Manga Division
Award
Jury Selections
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March Comes in Like a Lion
UMINO Chika
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cocoon
KYO Machiko
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WOMBS
SHIRAI Yumiko
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Aoi Honoo
SHIMAMOTO Kazuhiko
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Otoko no Isshou
NISHI Keiko
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Ore to Neko-Nyan
KARASAWA Nawoki
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Karan
KIMURA Kon
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Koukou Kyuuji ZAWA-san
MISHIMA Eriko
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Sayonara mo Iwazuni
UENO Kentaro
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Shingeki no Kyojin
ISAYAMA Hajime
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Diaspolice
Richard WOO(Script) / SUGIMURA Shinichi(Artist)
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Tokyo Kaido
MOCHIZUKI Minetaro
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Tomehane!
KAWAI Katsutoshi
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Torokeru Tekkoujo
NOMURA Munehiro
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Fantasium
SUGIMOTO Ami
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BABY BOOM
YOKOYAMA Yuichi
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Hoshigahara Aomanjuu no Mori
IWAOKA Hisae
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Machi de Uwasa no Tengu no Ko
IWAMOTO Nao
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Mushi to Uta
ICHIKAWA Haruko
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Today's Kyom-Chan
MIYAMA Yasunori
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Ten Holes,More or Less
NOMURA Munehiro
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shindou kamen
HIRAI Kokoro / FUJII Kei(FUJIIGUMI)
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Shanghai Story Akasaka Kumiko 2010
CHIKUHAMA Kazuko (Director: CHIKUHAMA Kenichi / Artist: CHIKUHAMA Kazuko)
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Versus Underhanded Pitch
AIDA Yu
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Busy Rider
SEAH Ze Lin
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Note Book
KOBAYASHI Kei
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ComicmagazineKakuh
NISHINO Sorao
Jury Critiques
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Head of the Jury
NAGAI Go
Head of the Jury / Manga Artist
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KAWAGUCHI Kaiji
Manga Artist
The power to draw vividly and with emotional attachment
HISTORIE, a manga that follows the life since childhood of the boy who would later in his life become the secretary to Alexander the Great, and Fuuunji-tachi bakumatsuhen, a comical manga that depicts, from a global perspective, the adventures of a group of samurai in the last days of the TOKUGAWA Shogunate, are both works on a grand scale. What these two works that remained in the competition …
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SAITO Chiho
Manga Artist
Awarded work reflects the spirit of history
HISTORIE received the highest critical acclaim by most members of the jury and relatively smoothly was selected as the winner of the Grand Prize. In contrast, the manga works nominated for the Excellence Prize were uniformly superb, so it was very difficult to narrow them down to four recipients of the prize. This fact alone demonstrates the concentration of diverse manga works of the highest …
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HOSOGAYA Atsushi
Associate Professor, Tokyo Polytechnic University
Compete on the fun of interpretation
Like last year, the awarded works in the 14th Japan Media Arts Festival included many historical sagas. Some critics argue that "the great fiction" has been long lost, but isn't it possible that the evolution of human history and deeds are filled with more dynamism and adventure than pure fiction? Furthermore, calling historical facts into doubt is not a taboo anymore, and it is a known fact that …
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MURAKAMI Tomohiko
Professor, Kobe Shoin Women's University
Appealing works by female artists
The 14th Japan Media Arts Festival featured a lineup of uniformly splendid works, and those that failed to win any award lost by a very small margin. In that sense, the screening process was a tough battle that allowed for no room to consider gender balance. As a result, this year for the first time there were no awarded works by female manga artists. Screening from the progress of female artists …
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Interest in verifying historical significance of the past
The many of the final candidates of Award-Winning Works of the Manga Division that won the votes of the jury dealt with history. These include HISTORIE which portrayed the rise and fall of ancient Greece and Macedonia, Fuuunji-tachi bakumatsuhen which depicted the history of the Edo Period on the eve of opening up the country in an easy-to-understand manner, and RED which told the story of the …