48th Kodansha Manga Award


Kodansha’s official web site introduced the winners of the forty eighth Annual Manga Award on Might 14, 2024.

The choice committee consisted of notable figures from the manga business, together with Natsumi Ando, ​​Tsunami Umino, Etsuji Ogawa, Koji Kumeta, Kaoru Hayamine, Norifusa Mita, and Makoto Yukimura.

Every winner will obtain a certificates, a bronze statue and a money prize of 1 million yen.

Take a look at the winners in all three classes, specifically Shonen, Shojo and common class, beneath:

Finest Shonen Manga

Winner: Kanehito Yamada & Tsukasa Abe’s Freezing: Past the tip of the journey

Freezing: Beyond the end of the journey

The nominees on this class have been:

  • The aromatic flower blooms with dignity
  • Gachiakuta
  • Tank seat
  • Daemons of the Shadow Realm

Finest Shojo Manga

Winner: Rumi Ichinohe’s I see your face, turned away

I see your face, turned away

The nominees on this class have been:

  • Within the vivid moonlit twilight
  • Firefly marriage ceremony
  • An indication of affection

Normal class

Winner: Tsurumaikadas Medalist

Medalist

The nominees on this class have been:

  • Oshi no Ko
  • The Darwin Incident
  • Chiikawa
  • Nagatan to Ao to: Ichika no Ryoricho
  • Bokyo Taro

The Kodansha Manga Award, sponsored by publishing big Kodansha, is an annual award for serialized manga revealed within the earlier 12 months.

Rina Onerous and Ryosuke Fuji’s Shangri-La border received the perfect shonen manga within the forty seventh Kodansha Manga Award Ano Ko no Kodomo received greatest shojo manga and Misaki Takamatsu Skip and idler received the perfect manga within the common class.

Kodansha Manga Awards started in 1977, with classes for shōnen and shōjo. The primary award for the overall class was in 1982. Kodansha launched an award for the youngsters’s class in 2003. Nonetheless, this was merged into the shōnen and shōjo classes beginning in 2015.

Supply: Kodansha