Named after Osamu Tezuka, the is a yearly manga prize awarded to manga artists or their works that follow the Osamu Tezuka manga approach founded and sponsored by

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. The prize has been awarded since 1997, in

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, 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 f ...

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 ...

'' *Award for Excellence: Moto Hagio for ''

A Cruel God Reigns is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Moto Hagio. It was originally serialized in the manga magazine ''Petit Flower'' from 1992 to 2001, and published as seventeen ''tankōbon'' volumes (collected editions) by Shogakukan. The se ...

'' *Special Award: Toshio Naiki for the foundation and management of ''Modern Manga Library''

1998

*Grand Prize:

Jiro Taniguchi was a Japanese 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 assist ...

and Natsuo Sekikawa for the trilogy ''Bocchan No Jidai'' (Times of " Botchan") *Award for Excellence: Yūji Aoki for ''

Naniwa Kin'yūdō is a Japanese manga series by Yūji Aoki which has been serialized in '' Weekly Morning'' since 1990. The series was awarded the 1992 Kodansha Manga Award for general manga and the 1998 Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize Award for Excellence. Plot ...

'' (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), ...

for the long years of contribution to manga

1999

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*Grand Prize:

Naoki Urasawa is a Japanese manga artist and musician. He has been drawing manga since he was four years old, and for most of his professional career has created two series simultaneously. The stories to many of these were co-written in collaboration with his ...

for '' Monster'' *Award for Excellence:

Akira Sasō is a Japanese manga artist and educator. He has won a Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize and two Japan Media Arts Awards, the latter for his manga '' Shindō'' (1997–98) and ''Maestro'' (2003–07). Biography Sasō was born in Takarazuka, Hyōgo, Ja ...

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 Named after ...

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 is a Japanese manga artist. He won the Award for Excellence at the 4th Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize and the Award for General Manga at the 21st Kodansha Manga Award for ''Dragon Head''. Works * ''Zashiki Onna'' * '' Batāshi Kingyo'' * ''Dragon ...

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, wi ...

'' *Special Award: Frederik L. Schodt 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 Awar ...

and Baku Yumemakura for ''

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'' (The Master of Shade and Light) *Award for Excellence: Kotobuki Shiriagari for '' Yajikita in Deep'' *Special Award: Akira Maruyuma for the valuable service to support comic artists at ''Tokiwa'' house

2002

*Grand Prize:

Takehiko Inoue is a Japanese manga artist. He is best known for the basketball series ''Slam Dunk'' (1990–1996), and the ''jidaigeki'' manga ''Vagabond'', which are two of the best-selling manga series in history. Many of his works are about basketball, I ...

for ''

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'' *Award for Excellence: Kentaro Miura for '' Berserk''

2003

*Grand Prize: Fumiko Takano for ''The Yellow Book: A friend Named Jacques Thibault'' *Creative Award:

Yumi Hotta is a Japanese manga artist. Hotta is best known as the author of the best-selling manga and anime series '' Hikaru no Go'', which is widely credited for the late 90s-2000s boom of the game of go in Japan. The idea behind Hikaru no Go began wh ...

and

Takeshi Obata is a Japanese manga artist that usually works as the illustrator in collaboration with a writer. He first gained international attention for '' Hikaru no Go'' (1998–2003) with Yumi Hotta, but is better known for '' Death Note'' (2003–2006) ...

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 ''Week ...

'' *Short story Award:

Hisaichi Ishii is a Japanese manga artist. He is best known outside Japan for his manga series '' Nono-chan'', which was adapted into the Studio Ghibli anime film ''My Neighbors the Yamadas''. Topics covered by Ishii's manga include baseball (in his debut work), ...

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 for '' Helter Skelter'' *Creative Award: Takashi Morimoto for ''Naniwadora ihon'' (Variant edition of the Naniwa wastrel) *Short story Award:

Risu Akizuki is the pen name of a Japanese four-panel manga artist. She made her professional manga debut with ''Okusama Shinkaron'' in 1988. Her most famous work is '' OL Shinkaron''. She won the 8th Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize Named after Osamu Tez ...

for '' OL Shinkaron'' and other works *Special Award: Tarō Minamoto for the pioneer works of historical manga and contribution to manga culture

2005

*Grand Prize:

, Osamu Tezuka and Takashi Nagasaki for ''

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'' *Creative Award:

Fumiyo Kōno , commonly romanized Fumiyo Kouno, is a Japanese manga artist from Nishi-ku, Hiroshima, known for her 2004 manga ''Town of Evening Calm, Country of Cherry Blossoms'' and her 2007 manga ''In This Corner of the World'' which got an anime film adap ...

for ''

Town of Evening Calm, Country of Cherry Blossoms is a one-volume manga written and illustrated by Fumiyo Kōno. The two connected stories were first published in Japan by Futabasha in '' Weekly Manga Action'' in 2003 and 2004, then collected in a single ''tankōbon'' volume in 2004. The s ...

'' *Short story Award: Rieko Saibara for ''

Jōkyō Monogatari is a Japanese manga written and illustrated by Rieko Saibara. It was adapted into a live action film in 2013. In 2005, the manga, along with ''Mainichi Kaasan'', won Saibara the Short story Award at the Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prizes. Cast * ...

'' and ''

Mainichi Kaasan is a Japanese comedy manga series written and illustrated by Rieko Saibara, based on her experiences as a housewife and mother. It was serialized on a weekly basis in the newspaper's morning edition from October 2002 to 26 June 2017. The ...

'' *Special Award: Kawasaki City Museum for the collection of manga works from

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to the present day, and its exhibitions

2006

*Grand Prize:

Hideo Azuma was a Japanese manga artist. Azuma made his professional debut in 1969 in the Akita Shoten manga magazine '' Manga Ō''. He was most well known for his science fiction ''lolicon''-themed works appearing in magazines such as '' Weekly Shōnen ...

for '' Disappearance Diary'' *Creative Award:

Asa Higuchi is a Japanese manga artist, born in Urawa, Saitama Prefecture (now part of Saitama City). She graduated from Saitama Prefecture's prestigious Urawanishi High School and Hosei University's department of psychology, with a major in sports psycho ...

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 colle ...

'' *Short story Award:

Risa Itō , also romanized as Risa Itou, is a Japanese manga artist. She was born in 1969 in Hara Town, Suwa District in Nagano Prefecture, the eldest of three sisters. She graduated from Suwa Futaba High School and studied ''Formative Fine Arts'' at ...

for ''One Woman, Two Cats'', '' Oi Piitan!!'' (''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 is a Japanese manga artist. She is one of the Year 24 Group, a collection of female artists who innovated (girls') manga throughout the 1970s. Her major works include and '' Terpsichora''. Biography Ryoko Yamagishi was born on September 2 ...

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

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) *Short story Award: Hiromi Morishita for '' Ōsaka Hamlet''

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 shor ...

for ''

Moyashimon ''Moyasimon: Tales of Agriculture'', known in Japan as , is a Japanese manga series by Masayuki Ishikawa. It was serialized in Kodansha's seinen magazine ''Evening'' from July 2004 to June 2013 and moved to the magazine ''Monthly Morning Two' ...

'' *Creative Award: Toranosuke Shimada for ''Träumerei'' *Short story Award: Yumiko Ōshima 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 is a Japanese manga artist known for her shōjo and boys' love works. Life Fumi Yoshinaga was born in Tokyo, Japan in 1971. She discovered amateur manga, doujinshi, in junior high school, when a friend showed her a doujinshi depicting a romant ...

for '' Ōoku: The Inner Chambers'' *Grand Prize:

Yoshihiro Tatsumi was a Japanese manga artist whose work was first published in his teens, and continued through the rest of his life. He is widely credited with starting the gekiga style of alternative manga in Japan, having allegedly coined the term in 1957. H ...

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 ...

'' *Short story Award:

Hikaru Nakamura Christopher Hikaru NakamuraSaint Young Men'' *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 for ''

Hyouge Mono is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by . It was serialized in the manga magazine ''Weekly Morning'' from 2005 to 2017 and collected into 25 volumes by publisher Kodansha. ''Hyouge Mono'' won an Excellence Prize for manga at ...

'' *Short story Award:

Mari Yamazaki is a Japanese manga artist known for her seinen comedy manga ''Thermae Romae''. She was born in Tokyo, but now lives in Chicago. She was awarded the 3rd Manga Taishō and the Short Story Award in the 2010 Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prizes. An anime ...

for ''

Thermae Romae is a Japanese manga series by Mari Yamazaki. It won the third Manga Taishō and the Short Story Award at the 14th Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize. The manga has been licensed in North America by Yen Press. Fuji TV produced a live-action film ...

'' *New Artist Prize : Haruko Ichikawa for ''Mushi to Uta'' *Special Award:

Yoshihiro Yonezawa was a Japanese manga critic and author. He is also known for being Comiket's co-founder and president. He died of lung cancer at 53. He won the 2007 Seiun Award in the special category and 2010 Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize Special Award. Biog ...

to wide achievements of the collection and the commentary activity of basic material of the cartoon research.

2011

*Grand Prize:

Motoka Murakami is a Japanese manga artist who primarily writes for the Seinen demographic despite beginning his career with Shounen works. He won the Kodansha Manga Award for shōnen for '' Gakuto Retsuden'' ( ja) in 1982 and the Shogakukan Manga Award twice, ...

for '' Jin'' *Grand Prize: Issei Eifuku and Taiyo Matsumoto for '' Takemitsuzamurai'' *New Artist Prize:

Hiromu Arakawa is a Japanese manga artist. She is best known for the manga series '' Fullmetal Alchemist'' (2001–2010), which became a hit both domestically and internationally, and was adapted into two anime television series. She is also known for '' Silv ...

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 th ...

'' *Short Work Prize: Keisuke Yamashina for his work in creating ''C-kyū Salaryman Kōza'', ''Papa wa Nanda ka Wakaranai'', and other salaryman manga.

2012

*Grand Prize:

Hitoshi Iwaaki is a Japanese manga artist, whose works include the science-fiction/horror series ''Parasyte''. The Mixx editions of ''Parasyte'' romanize his name as "Hitosi Iwaaki", while the Del Rey Manga editions use "Hitoshi Iwaaki". Career During hig ...

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'' *Short Work Prize: Roswell Hosoki 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 run ...

''" - 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

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2013

*Grand Prize: Yasuhisa Hara for ''

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'' *New Artist Prize: Miki Yamamoto for '' Sunny Sunny Ann!'' *Short Work Prize: Yoshiie Gōda for ''Kikai-Jikake no Ai'' (Love of Machine)

2014

*Grand Prize: Chica Umino for '' March Comes in Like a Lion'' *New Artist Prize:

Machiko Kyō was a Japanese actress who was active primarily in the 1950s. Early life and education Kyō, an only child, was born in Osaka in 1924. Her father left when she was five years old, and she was raised by her mother and grandmother. She adopted ...

for '' Mitsuami no Kamisama'' *Short Work Prize: Yūki Shikawa for '' Onnoji'' *Special Award: Fujiko Fujio (A) for '' Manga Michi'' and '' Ai... Shirisomeshi Koro ni...'' *Readers' Award: Chūya Koyama for '' Space Brothers''

2015

*Grand Prize: Yoiko Hoshi for '' Aisawa Riku'' *New Creator Prize:

Yoshitoki Ōima is a Japanese manga artist and writer, best known for her manga series '' A Silent Voice'' and ''To Your Eternity''. Life Ōima was born on March 15, 1989 in Ōgaki, Japan as the third daughter of a sign language interpreter mother and has ...

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 for '' Hanagami Sharaku'' and

Kiyohiko Azuma is a Japanese manga artist. From 1999 to 2002, he authored the ''yonkoma'' comedy manga series ''Azumanga Daioh'', which was later adapted as an anime series by J.C.Staff. In 2003, he began ''Yotsuba&!'', a slice-of-life manga series about th ...

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, and has si ...

'' *New Creator Prize: Yuki Andō 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 ...

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

2017

*Grand Prize:

Fusako Kuramochi is a Japanese manga artist. While still in high school, she made her professional debut with , published in the Autumn 1972 issue of ''Bessatsu Margaret''. She won the magazine's gold medal for amateur manga artists. Afterwards, Kuramochi stud ...

for '' Hana ni Somu'' *New Creator Prize: Haruko Kumota for '' Descending Stories: Showa Genroku Rakugo Shinju'' *Short Work Prize: Kahoru Fukaya for '' Yomawari Neko'' *Special Prize:

Osamu Akimoto is a Japanese manga artist from Katsushika, Tokyo. He is best known for his long-running comedy series '' KochiKame: Tokyo Beat Cops'', which was continuously published in ''Weekly Shōnen Jump'' for 40 years from 1976 to 2016. With 1,960 chapt ...

for ''

Kochira Katsushika-ku Kameari Kōen-mae Hashutsujo , often shortened to , and known in English as ''KochiKame: Tokyo Beat Cops'', is a Japanese comedy manga series written and illustrated by Osamu Akimoto. It takes place in the present day, in and around a neighborhood police station ( k� ...

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 is a Japanese manga artist. She is best known as the creator of the manga series ''Beastars'', for which she has won the 2018 Manga Taishō, a Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize, a Kodansha Manga Award, and a Japan Media Arts Festival Award. She is ...

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 '' ...

'' *Short Work Prize: Taro Yabe for '' Oya-san to Boku'' *Special Prize: Tetsuya Chiba 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 ...

2019

*Grand Prize: Shinobu Arima for '' Jitterbug The Forties'' *New Creator Prize: Sansuke Yamada for '' Areyo Hoshikuzu'' *Short Work Prize: Ken Koyama 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. ''Golgo ...

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 for '' Nyx no Lantern'' * New Creator Prize: Rettō Tajima for ''

Mizu wa Umi ni Mukatte Nagareru is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Rettō Tajima. It was serialized in Kodansha's ''shōnen'' manga magazine ''Bessatsu Shōnen Magazine'' from August 2018 to July 2020, with its chapters collected in three volumes. A li ...

'' * Short Work Prize: Yama Wayama for '' Captivated, by You'' * Special Prize:

Machiko Hasegawa was a Japanese manga artist and one of the first female manga artists. She started her own comic strip, ''Sazae-san'', in 1946. It reached national circulation via the ''Asahi Shimbun'' in 1949, and ran daily until Hasegawa decided to retire in ...

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 isla ...

'' * New Creator Prize: Kanehito Yamada and Tsukasa Abe for '' Frieren: Beyond Journey's End'' * Short Work Prize: Hiroko Nobara for '' Kieta Mama Tomo'' and '' Tsuma wa Kuchi o Kiite Kuremasen'' * Special Prize: Koyoharu Gotouge for creating a social phenomenon with ''

Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Koyoharu Gotouge. It follows teenage Tanjiro Kamado, who strives to become a demon slayer after his family was slaughtered and his younger sister, Nezuko Kamado, Nezuko, turned into a ...

2022

* Grand Prize: Uoto for '' Chi: Chikyū no Undō ni Tsuite'' * New Creator Prize: Natsuko Taniguchi for '' Kyōshitsu no Katasumi de Seishun wa Hajimaru'' and '' Konya Sukiyaki da yo'' * Short Work Prize: Izumi Okaya for '' Ii Toshi o'' and '' Hakumokuren wa Kirei ni Chiranai''

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