Manga Division
Award
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Excellence Award
Awajima hyakkei
(A Hundred Scenes of AWAJIMA)SHIMURA Takako
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Excellence Award
Otouto no otto
(My Brother’s Husband)TAGAME Gengoroh
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Excellence Award
Kikai jikake no ai
(Machinework Love)GODA Yoshiie
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Excellence Award
Non-working City
HO Tingfung
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New Face Award
esoragoto
(Absurd Ideas)nerunodaisuki
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New Face Award
Tamashii Ippai
(Lots of Life)OKUYAMA Yuka
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New Face Award
Machida-kun no sekai
(The World of Machida-kun)ANDO Yuki
Jury Selections
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Atokata no machi
(City of Traces)OZAWA Yuki
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Inuyashiki
OKU Hiroya
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La Page Blanche
(White Page)Penelope BAGIEU / Boulet / Translation: SEKIZUMI Kaoru
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Kyo wo aruku
(Daily Walking)IGARASHI Mikio
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Kenkou de bunkateki na saiteigendo no seikatsu
(Maintain the Minimum Standards of Wholesome and Cultured Living)KASHIWAGI Haruko
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SAYONARA GIRL FRIEND
TAKANO Suzume
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Shinde ikikaerimashita repo
(Report of Death and Rebirth)MURAKAMI Takeo
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Juso
(Curse)HANAWA Kazuichi
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Joshikousei ni korosaretai
(I want to be murdered by a high school girl)古屋 兎丸
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Suna no eikan
(Crown of the Sand)MITA Norifusa
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Zero shiki
(Type Zero)ITO Natsuo
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Tsurumaki cho natsu jikan
(Summer Time in Tsurumaki Town)KOMATSU Shinya
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DEATHCO
KANEKO Atsushi
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Tomino no jigoku (Tomino the Damned)
MARUO Suehiro
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Nito monogatari (Two Paths)
TAKIZAWA Seihou
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Neko to Jii-chan (A life with a cat)
Nekomaki (ms-work)
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How are you?
YAMAMOTO Miki
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Hajime no nitto! (First Knit)
ASHIDA Miki
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COULEUR DE PEAU MIEL (Approved For Adoption)
Jung / Translation: UNO Takanori
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Futari wa tabi no tochu (Michael and Kenchan)
INOHARA Hideharu
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PLINIVS
YAMAZAKI Mari / TORI Miki
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Henshin! (Metamorphosis!)
YOKOYAMA Jun
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La Pomme Prisonniere (Prisoner Apple)
TSURUTA Kenji
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RAFNAS
SHIRAI Yumiko
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LAUREL
OIKAWA Chiyomi
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marble ramble
NAGASAKI Kuniko
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The Land of the Magic Flute
Fons SCHIEDON
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Z
AIHARA Koji
Jury Critiques
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INUKI Kanako
Manga Artist and Guest Professor, Osaka University of the Arts
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KADOKURA Shima
Manga Journalist
Manga is Made by the 'Body'
The "brain" alone cannot create manga. Even if a masterpiece is completed in one's "brain", it takes the "body" countless hours sitting and drawing by hand to bring the work into the world. Same goes for the digital production. I would like to remind this simple truth to all creators globally now that the medium of manga has reached its maturation; the selection of Kakukaku shikajika (So-and-so, …
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Head of the Jury
SUGAYA Mitsuru
Manga Artist and Professor, Kyoto Seika University
New Polemics of Digital Manga
948 entries applied to the manga category, the highest in its history. This impressive quantity of application also indicates the immensity of published works, but it is premature to become content. Presently, the sales of manga books are declining. As such, the publishers are increasing the number of publications to ensure revenue. However, the revenue from manga sales are said to be slightly …
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FURUNAGA Shinichi
Man of Letters and Associate Professor, Tokyo Metropolitan University
The Thing I Felt the Most in Awards...
An Impressive group of masterpieces were left as 50 works were narrowed from 948. We carried on against the daunting challenge, and after the long deliberation process, the masterpiece Kakukaku shikajika (So-and-so, Such-and-such) won the Grand Prize. I renewed my conviction that timing is essential for awards, and some works are difficult to be recognized. For example, Otouto no otto (My …
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MATSUDA Hiroko
Manga Artist
Manga of Love, and Love for Manga
My manga career spans only 20 years, but I have halfa-century of experience reading them. I accepted the offer to become a juror since I thought it was enough to love manga. However, I shouldn't have rationalized by love so nonchalantly. I learned from manga that love is an uphill battle. To describe the reasons to love, and of the need to separate if confronted with reasons otherwise is …
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This Year's Characteristics and the Future Prospects
It is a very joyous thing to see that the number of applications is increasing every year. This year, close to 1000 applied, and I looked forward to reading all of them. However, I was worried evaluations would be inconsistent as there were many pieces comprised of multiple volumes to go through the vast quantity of works under constrained time. I believe the jury members were able to help each …