Anime NYC and Japan Society have joined forces to launch the American Manga Awards, the first-ever awards program celebrating manga creators, tales and the publishing professionals who deliver them to readers within the US and Canada.
The awards ceremony will happen on August 22, 2024 on the Japan Society’s Lila Acheson Wallace Auditorium in Midtown Manhattan, the night time earlier than Anime NYC kicks off.
The invitation-only occasion is hosted by writer and translator Matt Alt and acknowledges achievements in eight classes:
- Mangaka Corridor of Fame
- Corridor of Fame for Manga Publishing
- Greatest new manga
- Greatest Persevering with Manga Sequence
- Greatest re-creation of traditional manga
- Greatest translation
- Greatest lettering
- Greatest Publication Design
To be eligible for entry, manga have to be revealed in English (print or book) between August 1, 2023 and July 30, 2024.
Different submission pointers embrace:
- The primary quantity of one of the best new manga have to be revealed (print or digital) inside these eligibility dates.
- No less than one quantity of one of the best ongoing manga sequence will need to have been revealed (print or digital) inside the entry dates
- One of the best re-creation of traditional manga must be a brand new English version of manga (one-shot story or multi-part sequence) initially revealed in Japan not less than twenty years in the past (for 2024, the deadline is December 31, 2004)
Publishers might submit a most of three titles per class.
You possibly can learn extra concerning the submission pointers right here.
A panel of business specialists will choose the nominees for the primary American Manga Awards.
The nominees for Greatest Translation are chosen by translators and authors Matt Alt and Hiroko Yoda. Comics letterers Tom Orzechowski and Nate Piekos choose the nominees for Greatest Lettering. Kinokuniya Bookstores East Coast Regional Supervisor Shiegkazu Watanabe and publication designer Sasha Head will resolve the nominees for greatest publication design.
A committee consisting of Brigid Alverson (ICv2, College Library Journal), Shaenon Garrity (Otaku USA, Publishers Weekly), Minovsky, Renee Scott (Senior Librarian on the New York Public Library) and Lynzee Loveridge (ANN) will choose the highest nominees for Greatest Persevering with choose Manga and one of the best re-creation of traditional manga.
Supply: Anime NYC
