Named after

Osamu Tezuka Osamu Tezuka (, born , ''Tezuka Osamu''; – 9 February 1989) was a Japanese manga artist, cartoonist, and animator. Born in Osaka Prefecture, his prolific output, pioneering techniques, and innovative redefinitions of genres earned him suc ...

, the is a yearly

manga Manga ( Japanese: 漫画 ) are comics or graphic novels originating from Japan. Most manga conform to a style developed in Japan in the late 19th century, and the form has a long prehistory in earlier Japanese art. The term ''manga'' is use ...

prize awarded to

manga artist A is a comic artist who writes and/or illustrates manga. As of 2006, about 3,000 professional manga artists were working in Japan. Most manga artists study at an art college or manga school or take on an apprenticeship with another artist be ...

s or their works that follow the Osamu Tezuka manga approach founded and sponsored by

Asahi Shimbun is one of the four largest newspapers in Japan. Founded in 1879, it is also one of the oldest newspapers in Japan and Asia, and is considered a newspaper of record for Japan. Its circulation, which was 4.57 million for its morning edition an ...

. The prize has been awarded since 1997, in

Tokyo Tokyo (; ja, 東京, , ), officially the Tokyo Metropolis ( ja, 東京都, label=none, ), is the capital and List of cities in Japan, largest city of Japan. Formerly known as Edo, its metropolitan area () is the most populous in the world, ...

, Japan.

Current prizes categories

*Grand Prize – for the excellent work during the year *Creative Award – for the creator with innovative or epoch-making expression and fresh talent *Short story Award – for the excellent work or creator of the short story *Special Award – for the person or group who contributed to extend the culture of manga

Prizes winners

1997

*Grand Prize:

Fujiko Fujio was a manga writing duo formed by Japanese manga artists and . They formed their partnership in 1951, and used the Fujiko Fujio name from 1954 until dissolution of the partnership in 1987, upon Fujimoto's illness. The pair was best known ...

for ''

Doraemon ''Doraemon'' ( ja, ドラえもん ) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Fujiko F. Fujio. The manga was first serialized in December 1969, with its 1,345 individual chapters compiled into 45 ''tankōbon'' volumes and p ...

'' *Award for Excellence:

Moto Hagio is a Japanese manga artist. Regarded for her contributions to ''shōjo'' manga (manga aimed at young and adolescent women), Hagio is considered the most significant artist in the demographic and among the most influential manga artists of all ...

for '' A Cruel God Reigns'' *Special Award:

Toshio Naiki Toshio is a common masculine Japanese given name. Possible writings Toshio can be written using different kanji characters and can mean: *敏夫, "agile, man" *敏男, "agile, man" *敏雄, "agile, male" *俊夫, "sagacious, man" *俊雄, "sagac ...

for the foundation and management of ''Modern Manga Library''

1998

*Grand Prize:

Jiro Taniguchi was a Japanese mangaka, manga writer/artist. His works belong to the gekiga, or "dramatic pictures", genre of manga. In France he was knighted a Chevalier of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in 2011. Career Taniguchi began his career as an ...

and

Natsuo Sekikawa Natsuo is a unisex Japanese given name. Possible writings Natsuo can be written using different kanji characters and can mean: *夏雄, "Summer, male". *夏夫, "Summer, husband". *夏緒, "Summer, thread". *夏央, "Summer, central". *夏生, " ...

for the trilogy ''Bocchan No Jidai'' (Times of "

Botchan is a novel written by Japanese author Natsume Sōseki in 1906. It is one of the most popular Japanese novels, read by many during their school years. The central theme of the story is morality, but the narrator serves up this theme with gener ...

") *Award for Excellence:

Yūji Aoki was a Japanese manga artist born in Fukuchiyama, Kyoto, Japan. He is best known for his 1990 debut manga , for which he won the 1992 Kodansha Manga Award for general manga and the 1998 Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize Award for Excellence. Takahi ...

for '' Naniwa Kin'yūdō'' (The way of the Ōsaka loan shark) *Special Award:

Shotaro Ishinomori was a Japanese manga artist who became an influential figure in manga, anime, and , creating several immensely popular long-running series such as '' Cyborg 009,'' the ''Super Sentai'' series (later adapted into the ''Power Rangers'' series), a ...

for the long years of contribution to manga

1999

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*Grand Prize: Naoki Urasawa for ''

Monster A monster is a type of fictional creature found in horror, fantasy, science fiction, folklore, mythology and religion. Monsters are very often depicted as dangerous and aggressive with a strange, grotesque appearance that causes terror and fe ...

'' *Award for Excellence: Akira Sasō for '' Shindō'' *Special Award:

Fusanosuke Natsume is a Japanese columnist and cartoonist. Born in Tokyo to Jun'ichi Natsume, grandson of novelist Natsume Sōseki, he attended Aoyama Gakuin University, where he graduated in 1973. He was awarded the Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize (Special Award) i ...

for the excellence criticism of manga

2000

*Grand Prize:

Daijiro Morohoshi is a Japanese manga artist. He is well known for science fiction comics, allegorical comics and horror/mystery comics based on pseudohistory and folklore. The indirect influence by Cthulhu Mythos also appears here and there in his works. B ...

for ''Saiyū Yōenden'' (The Monkey King and other Chinese Legends) *Award for Excellence: Minetarō Mochizuki for ''

Dragon Head is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Minetaro Mochizuki. It was published by Kodansha in '' Weekly Young Magazine'' from 1994 and 1999 and collected in ten '' tankōbon'' volumes. It was licensed in English by Tokyopop, ...

'' *Special Award:

Frederik L. Schodt Frederik L. Schodt (born January 22, 1950) is an American translator, interpreter and writer. Biography Schodt's father was in the US foreign service, and he grew up in Norway, Australia, and Japan. The family first went to Japan in 1965 wh ...

for the distinguished service to introduce Japanese manga round the world

2001

*Grand Prize:

Reiko Okano is a Japanese manga artist. Okano attended a graphic design school after graduating from high school and has never worked as a manga assistant. Her first serialized work was ''Esther, Please'' in 1982. In 1989, she won the Shogakukan Manga Awa ...

and Baku Yumemakura for ''

Onmyōji was one of the official positions belonging to the of the Ministry of the Center under the ritsuryō system in ancient Japan, and was assigned as a technical officer in charge of divination and geomorphology based on the theory of the yin-a ...

'' (The Master of Shade and Light) *Award for Excellence: Kotobuki Shiriagari for '' Yajikita in Deep'' *Special Award:

Akira Maruyuma Akira may refer to: Arts and entertainment *Akira (franchise), ''Akira'' (franchise), a Japanese cyberpunk franchise **Akira (manga), ''Akira'' (manga), a 1980s cyberpunk manga by Katsuhiro Otomo **Akira (1988 film), ''Akira'' (1988 film), an ani ...

for the valuable service to support comic artists at ''Tokiwa'' house

2002

*Grand Prize: Takehiko Inoue for ''

Vagabond Vagrancy is the condition of homelessness without regular employment or income. Vagrants (also known as bums, vagabonds, rogues, tramps or drifters) usually live in poverty and support themselves by begging, scavenging, petty theft, tempor ...

'' *Award for Excellence:

Kentaro Miura was a Japanese manga artist. He was best known for his acclaimed dark fantasy series ''Berserk'', which began serialization in 1989 and continued until his death. As of 2021, ''Berserk'' had more than 50 million copies in circulation, making it ...

for ''

Berserk Berserk (meaning "very angry" or "out of control") may refer to: * ''Berserk'' (manga), a 1989 Japanese manga by Kentaro Miura ** ''Berserk'' (1997 TV series), the first anime adaption of the manga ** ''Berserk'' (2016 TV series), a second adap ...

2003

*Grand Prize:

Fumiko Takano is a Japanese manga artist. She is considered to be one of the manga artists of the " New Wave" of the late 1970s and early 1980s, when she started as a doujinshi (amateur) artist and then drew short stories with an unconventional style for mag ...

for ''The Yellow Book: A friend Named Jacques Thibault'' *Creative Award: Yumi Hotta and Takeshi Obata for ''

Hikaru no Go is a Japanese manga series based on the board game Go, written by Yumi Hotta and illustrated by Takeshi Obata. The production of the series' Go games was supervised by Go professional Yukari Umezawa. It was serialized in Shueisha's ''We ...

'' *Short story Award: Hisaichi Ishii for '' Gendai Shisō no Sōnanshātachi'' (Victims of modern ideas) *Special Award:

Shigeru Mizuki was a Japanese manga artist and historian, best known for his manga series '' GeGeGe no Kitarō''. Born in a hospital in Osaka and raised in the city of Sakaiminato, Tottori, he later moved to Chōfu, Tokyo where he remained until his death ...

for the creative pictures and the long years of activities

2004

*Grand Prize:

Kyoko Okazaki is a Japanese manga artist. Okazaki often focuses on urban Japanese life in Tokyo from the 1980s and 1990s. Okazaki's characters are bold and freewheeling, holding unconventional sets of values. Her writings are often studded with modern jargon ...

for '' Helter Skelter'' *Creative Award:

Takashi Morimoto is a masculine Japanese given name. Possible writings The name Takashi can have multiple different meanings depending on which kanji is used to write it. Some possible writings of the name include: *江詩 - "estuary , inlet, poem" *隆 - "prosp ...

for ''Naniwadora ihon'' (Variant edition of the Naniwa wastrel) *Short story Award: Risu Akizuki for '' OL Shinkaron'' and other works *Special Award:

Tarō Minamoto Taro (''Colocasia esculenta'') is a tropical plant grown primarily for its edible corms. Taro may also refer to: Plants * ''Alocasia macrorrhizos'', giant taro * ''Cyrtosperma merkusii'', swamp taro *''Xanthosoma sagittifolium'', blue taro Place ...

for the pioneer works of historical manga and contribution to manga culture

2005

*Grand Prize: Naoki Urasawa,

and

Takashi Nagasaki is a Japanese author, manga writer and former editor of manga. He started his professional career at Shogakukan in 1980 and worked as an editor on the publisher's various manga magazines, including as editor-in-chief of '' Big Comic Spirits'' ...

for ''

Pluto Pluto (minor-planet designation: 134340 Pluto) is a dwarf planet in the Kuiper belt, a ring of bodies beyond the orbit of Neptune. It is the ninth-largest and tenth-most-massive known object to directly orbit the Sun. It is the largest k ...

'' *Creative Award: Fumiyo Kōno for '' Town of Evening Calm, Country of Cherry Blossoms'' *Short story Award:

Rieko Saibara is a Japanese manga artist. She made her professional debut in 1988 with , serialized in '' Weekly Young Sunday''. In 1989, she graduated from the Department of Visual Communication Design at Musashino Art University. Saibara has received nume ...

for '' Jōkyō Monogatari'' and '' Mainichi Kaasan'' *Special Award: Kawasaki City Museum for the collection of manga works from

Edo period The or is the period between 1603 and 1867 in the history of Japan, when Japan was under the rule of the Tokugawa shogunate and the country's 300 regional ''daimyo''. Emerging from the chaos of the Sengoku period, the Edo period was character ...

to the present day, and its exhibitions

2006

*Grand Prize: Hideo Azuma for ''

Disappearance Diary is a manga by Hideo Azuma and published by East Press in Japan in March 2005. The manga is a somewhat-fictionalized autobiography of part of the author's life and of his alcohol dependency problems. It has received multiple awards inside an ...

'' *Creative Award: Asa Higuchi for ''

Big Windup! , often shortened to just , is a Japanese baseball-themed manga series written and illustrated by Asa Higuchi. It has been serialized in Kodansha's ''seinen'' manga magazine ''Monthly Afternoon'' since September 2003, with its chapters coll ...

'' *Short story Award: Risa Itō for ''One Woman, Two Cats'', ''

Oi Piitan!! is a Japanese josei manga series written and illustrated by Risa Itō and serialized in Kodansha's '' Kiss'' magazine, and compiled into 17 tankōbon volumes. A sequel started in 2018 Reception It won the shōjo manga category of the 29t ...

'' (''Hey Pitan!''), ''Onna no mado'' (A Woman's Window) and other works *Special Award: Kousei Ono for the long years of the introduction of comics from abroad to Japan as a commentator for manga

2007

*Grand Prize: Ryoko Yamagishi for ''

Terpsichora , also known as Maihime Τερψιχόρα in Greek, is a Japanese manga written and illustrated by Ryoko Yamagishi. The manga was awarded the grand prize for the 11th Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize in 2007. Media Factory published the 10 ''tank� ...

'' (The Dancing Girl; Maihime Τερψιχόρα) *Creative Award: Nobuhisa Nozoe, Kazuhisa Iwata and Kyojin Ōnishi for ''Shinsei Kigeki'' (

Divine Comedy The ''Divine Comedy'' ( it, Divina Commedia ) is an Italian narrative poem by Dante Alighieri, begun 1308 and completed in around 1321, shortly before the author's death. It is widely considered the pre-eminent work in Italian literature a ...

) *Short story Award: Hiromi Morishita for ''

Ōsaka Hamlet is a designated city in the Kansai region of Honshu in Japan. It is the capital of and most populous city in Osaka Prefecture, and the third most populous city in Japan, following Special wards of Tokyo and Yokohama. With a population of ...

2008

International Institute for Childrens Literature Osaka

*Grand Prize:

Masayuki Ishikawa is a Japanese manga artist. He is best known for ''Moyasimon: Tales of Agriculture'' and ''Maria the Virgin Witch''; both of which were adapted into an anime television series. Career He made his debut as a manga artist in 1997 with the short ...

for '' Moyashimon'' *Creative Award: Toranosuke Shimada for ''Träumerei'' *Short story Award:

Yumiko Ōshima is a Japanese manga artist and is associated with the Year 24 group that heavily influenced the development of shōjo manga in the 1970s. Career She made her debut as a professional manga artist in 1968 with the short story "Paula no Namida" ...

for '' GūGū Datte Neko De Aru (Cher Gou-Gou...mon petit chat, mon petit ami.)'' *Special Award: ''International Institute for Children's Literature, Osaka Prefecture''
English Official site

2009

*Grand Prize: Fumi Yoshinaga for '' Ōoku: The Inner Chambers'' *Grand Prize: Yoshihiro Tatsumi for ''

A Drifting Life is a thinly veiled autobiographical Japanese manga written and illustrated by Yoshihiro Tatsumi that chronicles his life from 1945 to 1960, the early stages of his career as a cartoonist. The book earned Tatsumi the Tezuka Osamu Cultural Pri ...

'' *Short story Award:

Hikaru Nakamura Christopher Hikaru NakamuraSaint Young Men is a Japanese slice of life comedy manga series written and illustrated by Hikaru Nakamura. Its plot involves Jesus Christ and Gautama Buddha, who are living as roommates in an apartment in Tokyo. It has been serialized by Kodansha in the ...

'' *New Artist Prize :

Suehiro Maruo (born January 28, 1956 in Nagasaki, Japan) is a Japanese manga artist, illustrator, and painter. Biography Maruo graduated from junior high school in March 1972 but dropped out of senior high school. At the age of 15, he moved to Tokyo and began ...

for '' Panorama-tō Kitan'' (Anecdote of the Panorama Island)

2010

*Grand Prize:

Yoshihiro Yamada Yoshihiro is a Japanese masculine given name, and less commonly, a surname. There are dozens of different ways to write the name in kanji. Some examples of possible writings *義弘, "justice, vast" *義広, "justice, wide" *義寛, "justice, g ...

for '' Hyouge Mono'' *Short story Award: Mari Yamazaki for '' Thermae Romae'' *New Artist Prize :

Haruko Ichikawa is a feminine Japanese given name. Its most common translation is "spring child" (春子, which may also be read as a Korean name Chun-ja), though other kanji provide different meanings. Notable people with the name include: * Princess Haruko (� ...

for ''Mushi to Uta'' *Special Award: Yoshihiro Yonezawa to wide achievements of the collection and the commentary activity of basic material of the cartoon research.

2011

*Grand Prize: Motoka Murakami for '' Jin'' *Grand Prize:

Issei Eifuku is a Japanese-language term used by ethnic Japanese in countries in North America and South America to specify the Japanese people who were the first generation to immigrate there. are born in Japan; their children born in the new country are ...

and Taiyo Matsumoto for ''

Takemitsuzamurai is a Japanese historical samurai manga series written by Issei Eifuku and illustrated by Taiyō Matsumoto. It was published in Shogakukan's ''Big Comic Spirits'' ''seinen'' manga magazine, with its chapters collected in eight '' wideban'' volu ...

'' *New Artist Prize: Hiromu Arakawa for ''

Fullmetal Alchemist is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Hiromu Arakawa. It was serialized in Square Enix's ''shōnen'' manga anthology magazine ''Monthly Shōnen Gangan'' between July 2001 and June 2010; the publisher later collected the ...

'' *Short Work Prize:

Keisuke Yamashina Keisuke (written: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , or ) is a masculine Japanese given name. Notable people with the name include: *, Japanese footballer *, Japanese general *, Japanese mixed martial artist *, Japanese footballer * ...

for his work in creating ''C-kyū Salaryman Kōza'', ''Papa wa Nanda ka Wakaranai'', and other salaryman manga.

2012

*Grand Prize: Hitoshi Iwaaki for ''

Historie (stylized as ''HISTORIĒ'') is a Japanese historical manga series written and illustrated by Hitoshi Iwaaki. It has been serialized in Kodansha's ''seinen'' manga magazine '' Monthly Afternoon'' since 2003, with its chapters collected in ...

'' *New Artist Prize: Yu Itō for ''

Shut Hell is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Yu Itō. It was serialized in Shogakukan's ''seinen'' manga magazines ''Weekly Big Comic Spirits'' (2008–2010) and ''Monthly Big Comic Spirits'' (2010–2017), with its chapters collecte ...

'' *Short Work Prize:

Roswell Hosoki Roswell may refer to: * Roswell incident Places in the United States * Roswell, Colorado, a former settlement now part of Colorado Springs * Roswell, Georgia, a suburb of Atlanta * Roswell, Idaho * Roswell, New Mexico, known for the purported 1 ...

for his work in creating ''Sake no Hosomichi'', and other manga. *Special Award: "That ''

Weekly Shōnen Jump is a weekly ''shōnen'' manga anthology published in Japan by Shueisha under the '' Jump'' line of magazines. The manga series within the magazine consist of many action scenes and a fair amount of comedy. The chapters of the series that r ...

''" - a specific copy of the magazine's 16th issue of 2011 that was shared by over 100 children at the Shiokawa Shoten bookstore in Itsutsubashi, Sendai immediately after the

Great East Japan earthquake Great may refer to: Descriptions or measurements * Great, a relative measurement in physical space, see Size * Greatness, being divine, majestic, superior, majestic, or transcendent People * List of people known as "the Great" *Artel Great (born ...

2013

*Grand Prize:

Yasuhisa Hara is a Japanese manga artist and the creator of the series ''Kingdom.'' With more than 100 million ''tankōbon'' copies in circulation worldwide, ''Kingdom'' is one of the best-selling mangas in history. In 2013, Hara won the Grand Prize of ...

for '' Kingdom'' *New Artist Prize: Miki Yamamoto for '' Sunny Sunny Ann!'' *Short Work Prize:

Yoshiie Gōda Yoshiie is both a masculine Japanese given name and a Japanese surname. Possible writings Yoshiie can be written using different combinations of kanji characters. Here are some examples: *義家, "justice, house" *吉家, "good luck, house" *善 ...

for ''Kikai-Jikake no Ai'' (Love of Machine)

2014

*Grand Prize:

Chica Umino is the pen name of an anonymous Japanese Mangaka, manga artist, designer and illustrator. Umino is noted for being the author and creator of the ''Honey and Clover'' series, for which she received the Kodansha Manga Award in 2003, and which ha ...

for '' March Comes in Like a Lion'' *New Artist Prize: Machiko Kyō for '' Mitsuami no Kamisama'' *Short Work Prize:

Yūki Shikawa Yuki, Yūki or Yuuki may refer to: Places * Yuki, Hiroshima (Jinseki), a town in Jinseki District, Hiroshima, Japan * Yuki, Hiroshima (Saeki), a town in Saeki District, Hiroshima, Japan * Yūki, Ibaraki, a city on Honshu island in Japan * Yuki, ...

for '' Onnoji'' *Special Award: Fujiko Fujio (A) for ''

Manga Michi Manga ( Japanese: 漫画 ) are comics or graphic novels originating from Japan. Most manga conform to a style developed in Japan in the late 19th century, and the form has a long prehistory in earlier Japanese art. The term ''manga'' is use ...

'' and '' Ai... Shirisomeshi Koro ni...'' *Readers' Award:

Chūya Koyama is a Japanese writer, best known for his '' Space Brothers'' series, published regularly since 2007. On 2 November 2016 his artwork was carried into space by the H-IIA H-IIA (H-2A) is an active expendable launch system operated by Mits ...

for '' Space Brothers''

2015

*Grand Prize: Yoiko Hoshi for '' Aisawa Riku'' *New Creator Prize: Yoshitoki Ōima for '' A Silent Voice'' *Short Work Prize: Sensha Yoshida for his works as a whole *Special Prize:

Chikako Mitsuhashi Chikako (written: , or ) is a feminine Japanese given name. Notable people with the name include: *Chikako, Princess Kazu (''Kazunomiya'') was the wife of 14th ''shōgun'' Tokugawa Iemochi. She was renamed Lady Seikan'in-no-miya after she took ...

for '' Chiisana Koi no Monogatari''

2016

*Grand Prize:

Kei Ichinoseki Kei may refer to: People * Kei (given name) * Kei, Cantonese for Ji(姫) * Kei, Cantonese for Qi(奇, 祁, 亓) * Shō Kei (1700–1752), king of the Ryūkyū Kingdom * Kei (singer) (born 1995), stage name of South Korean singer Kim Ji-yeon ...

for '' Hanagami Sharaku'' and Kiyohiko Azuma for ''

Yotsuba&! is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Kiyohiko Azuma, the creator of ''Azumanga Daioh''. It has been serialized since March 2003 in the monthly magazine ''Dengeki Daioh'' by ASCII Media Works, formerly MediaWorks (publisher), ...

'' *New Creator Prize:

Yuki Andō Yuki, Yūki or Yuuki may refer to: Places * Yuki, Hiroshima (Jinseki), a town in Jinseki District, Hiroshima, Japan * Yuki, Hiroshima (Saeki), a town in Saeki District, Hiroshima, Japan * Yūki, Ibaraki, a city on Honshu island in Japan * Y ...

for '' Machida-kun no Sekai'' *Short Work Prize: Tatsuya Nakazaki for '' Jimihen'' *Special Prize:

Kyoto International Manga Museum The Kyoto International Manga Museum (京都国際マンガミュージアム, Kyōto Kokusai Manga Myūjiamu) is located in Nakagyō-ku, Kyoto, Japan. The museum's collection includes approximately 300,000 items as of 2016, with 50,000 volumes o ...

in recognition of its 10th anniversary and its contributions to manga culture

2017

*Grand Prize: Fusako Kuramochi for ''

Hana ni Somu Hana or HANA may refer to: Places Europe * Haná, an ethnic region in Moravia, Czech Republic * Traianoupoli, Greece, called Hana during the Ottoman period * Hana, Norway, a borough in the city of Sandnes, Norway West Asia * Hana, Iran, a city ...

'' *New Creator Prize: Haruko Kumota for '' Descending Stories: Showa Genroku Rakugo Shinju'' *Short Work Prize: Kahoru Fukaya for '' Yomawari Neko'' *Special Prize: Osamu Akimoto for '' Kochira Katsushika-ku Kameari Kōen-mae Hashutsujo''

2018

*Grand Prize: Satoru Noda for ''

Golden Kamuy is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Satoru Noda. It was serialized in Shueisha's manga magazine ''Weekly Young Jump'' from August 2014 to April 2022, with its chapters collected in thirty-one ''tankōbon'' volumes. The s ...

'' *New Creator Prize: Paru Itagaki for ''

BEASTARS ''Beastars'' (stylized in all caps) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Paru Itagaki. It was serialized in Akita Shoten's ''Weekly Shōnen Champion'' from September 2016 to October 2020, with its chapters collected in 22 ''t ...

'' *Short Work Prize:

Taro Yabe Taro () (''Colocasia esculenta)'' is a root vegetable. It is the most widely cultivated species of several plants in the family Araceae that are used as vegetables for their corms, leaves, and petioles. Taro corms are a food staple in Africa ...

for '' Oya-san to Boku'' *Special Prize:

Tetsuya Chiba is a Japanese manga artist famous for his sports stories. Chiba's works include ''Ashita no Joe'', his best known work, and '' Notari Matsutarō''. Many of his early titles are still in print due to continued popularity. Life He was born in C ...

for ''

Ashita no Joe is a Japanese boxing manga series written by Asao Takamori (a pen name of Japanese author and manga writer Ikki Kajiwara, and one that's a variation on his real name) and illustrated by Tetsuya Chiba. The story follows a young man named J ...

2019

*Grand Prize:

Shinobu Arima is a Japanese verb meaning or . It is a Japanese given name used by either sex. Shinobu is also the dictionary form of ''shinobi'' which can be combined with ''mono'' (者) to make ''shinobi no mono'' (忍びの者), an alternative name of ...

for '' Jitterbug The Forties'' *New Creator Prize:

Sansuke Yamada is a Japanese manga artist, illustrator, and musician. He is noted for his early career in gay manga, as the lead singer of the '' kayōkyoku'' group Tomari, and for his 2013 award-winning manga series . Biography Yamada was born in 1972 in T ...

for ''

Areyo Hoshikuzu is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Sansuke Yamada. Serialized in the manga magazine ''Comic Beam'' from September 2013 to February 2018, the series follows two veterans of the Imperial Japanese Army in the aftermath of World ...

'' *Short Work Prize:

Ken Koyama Ken or KEN may refer to: Entertainment * ''Ken'' (album), a 2017 album by Canadian indie rock band Destroyer. * ''Ken'' (film), 1964 Japanese film. * ''Ken'' (magazine), a large-format political magazine. * Ken Masters, a main character in t ...

for '' Little Miss P'' *Special Prize:

Takao Saito was a Japanese manga artist, although he rejected the term and considered his work gekiga. He was best known for '' Golgo 13'', which has been serialized in '' Big Comic'' since 1968, making it the oldest manga still in publication. ''Golg ...

for ''

Golgo 13 is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Takao Saito, published in Shogakukan's ''seinen'' manga magazine ''Big Comic'' since October 1968. The series follows the title character, a professional assassin for hire. ''Golgo ...

'' in recognition of its 50th anniversary

2020

* Grand Prize:

Kan Takahama is a Japanese manga artist born in Amakusa, Kumamoto Prefecture. Debuting in 2001, she became known for her short stories published in the alternative magazine ''Garo'', later collected and republished in her award-winning Kinderbook. Her uni ...

for ''

Nyx no Lantern is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Kan Takahama. It was serialized in Leed's ''Monthly Comic Ran'' from March 2015 to June 2019, with its chapters collected in six '' tankōbon'' volumes In 2018, ''Nyx no Lantern'' won the ...

'' * New Creator Prize: Rettō Tajima for '' Mizu wa Umi ni Mukatte Nagareru'' * Short Work Prize: Yama Wayama for '' Captivated, by You'' * Special Prize: Machiko Hasegawa in recognition of what would have been her 100th birthday on January 20

2021

* Grand Prize: Kazumi Yamashita for ''

Land Land, also known as dry land, ground, or earth, is the solid terrestrial surface of the planet Earth that is not submerged by the ocean or other bodies of water. It makes up 29% of Earth's surface and includes the continents and various isl ...

'' * New Creator Prize: Kanehito Yamada and

Tsukasa Abe Tsukasa, most often written 司 or by its hiragana つかさ is a Japanese given name and surname, and can also be written with other kanji, such as 官, 官, 首, 宰 or 吏, or written in katakana, ツカサ and may refer to: Females: *, Japan ...

for '' Frieren: Beyond Journey's End'' * Short Work Prize: Hiroko Nobara for ''

Kieta Mama Tomo Kieta is a port town located on the eastern coast of the island of Bougainville in Papua New Guinea, near the township of Arawa. After extensive destruction during the 1990 Civil Uprising on Bougainville, Kieta has few inhabitants now, and is kno ...

'' and '' Tsuma wa Kuchi o Kiite Kuremasen'' * Special Prize: Koyoharu Gotouge for creating a social phenomenon with '' Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba''

2022

* Grand Prize: Uoto for '' Chi: Chikyū no Undō ni Tsuite'' * New Creator Prize:

Natsuko Taniguchi is a feminine Japanese given name. Possible writings Natsuko can be written using different kanji characters and can mean: *夏子, "summer, child" *懐子, "reminiscence, yearn, child" *捺子, "press, print, affix a seal, stamp, child" *奈� ...

for '' Kyōshitsu no Katasumi de Seishun wa Hajimaru'' and ''

Konya Sukiyaki da yo Konya () is a major city in central Turkey, on the southwestern edge of the Central Anatolian Plateau, and is the capital of Konya Province. During antiquity and into Seljuk times it was known as Iconium (), although the Seljuks also called it D ...

'' * Short Work Prize:

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