Manga Division
Award
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Excellence Award
Ashitashinuniwa,
(To Die Tomorrow,)KARI Sumako
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Excellence Award
DOUBLE
NODA Ayako
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Excellence Award
Bikacho shinshi kaikoroku
(Memoirs of Amorous Gentlemen)ANNO Moyoco
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Excellence Award
The Arab of the Future: A Childhood in the Middle East, 1978-1984
Riad SATTOUF / Translation: UNO Takanori
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New Face Award
If You Become an Adult
ITO Atsushi
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New Face Award
hana to hoho
(Flower and Cheek)ITOI Kei
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New Face Award
There is no other.
WAYAMA Yama
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Social Impact Award
Yamikin Ushijima-kun
(Ushijima the Loan Shark)MANABE Shohei
Jury Selections
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A-un
(Alpha and Omega)OKAZAKI Mari
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Akagari - THE RED RAT IN HOLLYWOOD
YAMAMOTO Osamu
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AGAPE
MANABE Shohei
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Atezuppo
(Random Guess)nerunodaisuki
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Artiste ne marche pas sur des fleurs.
KOHINATA Marco
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awoniyoshi soremoyoshi
ISHIKAWA Rose
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Seeds of Eros
MONDEN Akiko
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TALES OF THE KINGDOM
NAKAMURA Asumiko
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Kitai fuku ga aru
TSUNEKI Netaro
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Fruit of Knowledge
Liv STRÖMQUIST / Translation: AIKAWA Chihiro
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Kutei doragonzu
(Drifting Dragons)KUWABARA Taku
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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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Vincent
Barbara STOK / Translation: KAWANO Natsumi
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Everyday of garbage cleaning staff
Writer: TAKIZAWA Shuichi / Drawing: TAKIZAWA Yuki
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saturn return
TORIKAI Akane
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Shijukara
(Beginning at 40)SAKAI Eri
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Sukippu to rofa
(Skip and Loafers)TAKAMATSU Misaki
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in the bleak and cold world
TAKANO Suzume
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Zenkamono
(Ex-Convict)Original author: KAGAWA Masahito / Drawing: TSUKISHIMA Toji
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Dance Dance Danseur
George ASAKURA
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All the things my father lost
MATSUDA Hiroko
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Doro no onna tsushin
(Mud Woman’s News)Nikumanko
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Hana-chan and the shape of the world
UEDA Ryotaro
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How many light-years to Babylon?
DOWMAN Sayman
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A Tale From Bali
SASOU Akira
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Fujimi no tokkohei
KOKAMI Shoji / AZUMA Naoki
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Bredo garu – Kataashi no ranna
(Blade Girl – One-Legged Runner)SHIGEMATSU Narumi
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Yamato wa koi no mahoroba
(Yamato is a Splendid Place for Love)HAMATANI Mio
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Yoake no toshokan
(Library at Dawn)NONOU Tao
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Lightness
Catherine MEURISSE / Translation: ONISHI Aiko
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Grey is… Clippings
dee Juusan
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HIKARI-MAN
YAMAMOTO Hideo
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KISS – Kyojin sora wo tobu
(KISS – A Madman Flies in the Sky)ARAI Hideki
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LOST
YATSUME Seiji
Jury Critiques
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NISHI Keiko
Manga Artist
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SHIRAI Yumiko
Manga Artist“Now,” and on to New Frontiers
A striking number of manga dealing with artificial intelligence and robots have won awards many times now. I think the reason for this is that, with so many of them winning awards, manga concerning these topics are able to directly engage with universal dilemmas such as "What are humans?" and "How should humans conduct their lives." That said, these manga are all surprisingly different from one …
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KURATA Yoshimi
Manga Artist and Professor, Otemae University
The Big Bang Comes to the World of Manga!!
All of these manga entries were quite intriguing. It was particularly difficult to select the most successful works from the pool of manga that had already been chosen. I read the prize candidates thinking to myself, "Good art is just plain good!" After I finished reading them, I realized that I have been reading manga continuously for nearly 60 years, and they have never stopped changing. In …
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KAWAHARA Kazuko
Manga Essayist
From Pureness to Darkness
This is my second year on the jury, and the number of entries fell by over 200 from the previous year to a total of 666. The 126 works that cleared the preliminary selection by the Selection Members, however, were all of high quality. I faced my task of reading these works with delight, as well as a heavy sense of responsibility in evaluating them. Robo sapiensu zenshi (Prehistory of Robo …
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OMOTE Tomoyuki
Researcher, Kitakyushu Manga Museum
Japan Media Arts Festival Continues to Change
If media arts are destined to continue changing their nature as media evolves, then the Japan Media Arts Festival must also regularly upgrade itself. The newly established Social Impact Award should be given to works that not only deserve to be widely read, but also have the kind of impact that can change manga and society from its foundation. After careful consideration, the judges' committee …
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The End of a Long Distrust
I was particularly struck by three works: Robo sapiensu zenshi (Prehistory of Robo Sapiens) by SHIMADA Toranosuke, which won the Grand Prize; hana to hoho (Flower and Cheek) by ITOI Kei, for which I wrote the critique when it won a New Faces Award; and WAYAMA Yama's There is no other. also a New Faces Award winner. These works made me sense the possible demise of strategic design, but they also …