This list of manga awards is an index to articles about notable awards for manga, comics or graphic novels created in Japan or using the Japanese language and conforming to a style developed in Japan in the late 19th century.
This list of manga awards is an index to articles about notable awards for manga, comics or graphic novels created in Japan or using the Japanese language and conforming to a style developed in Japan in the late 19th century.
| Country | Award | Venue / sponsor | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | American Manga Awards | Japan Society (Manhattan) Anime NYC | Manga. First year August 2024 |
| Japan | Akatsuka Award | Shueisha | New manga artist in the comedy manga category[ citation needed ] From 1974 |
| United States | American Anime Awards | New York Comic Con | Excellence in the release of anime and manga in North America [1] From 2007 |
| France | Prix Babelio | Babelio | Manga category [2] |
| Japan | Bungeishunjū Manga Award | Bungeishunjū | Gag, yonkoma, one-panel, and satirical manga [3] [4] From 1955. Inactive |
| Japan | Dengeki Comic Grand Prix | ASCII Media Works | Original one-shot manga [5] |
| United Kingdom | Eagle Award | Mike Conroy, Cassandra Conroy | Favourite Manga Comic. From 2000. [6] Inactive |
| United States | Harvey Award | Harvey Awards Executive Committee | Best Manga Title that has been translated into English. Since 2018 [7] |
| Japan | International Manga Award | Minister for Foreign Affairs (Japan) | Non-Japanese manga artists [8] [9] |
| Japan | Japan Cartoonists Association Award | Japan Cartoonists Association | Manga [10] |
| Japan | Kodansha Manga Award | Kodansha | Serialized manga [11] |
| Japan | Manga Taishō | Manga Taishō | Manga [12] |
| Japan | Next Manga Award | Da Vinci Niconico | Manga [13] |
| Japan | Seiun Award | Federation of Science Fiction Fan Groups of Japan | Best Comic of Science fiction [14] |
| Japan | Shogakukan Manga Award | Shogakukan Publishing | Manga [15] |
| Japan | Saito Takao Award | The Saito Takao Gekiga Cultural Foundation | Manga [16] |
| Japan | Sugoi Japan Award | Yomiuri Shimbun | Manga, Anime, Light novel and Entertainment novel [17] [18] |
| Japan | Tsutaya Comic Award | Culture Convenience Club | Manga [19] |
| Japan | Tezuka Award | Shueisha | Manga [20] |
| Japan | Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize | Asahi Shimbun | Manga [21] |
| Japan | Japan Media Arts Festival | Agency for Cultural Affairs | Manga [22] |
| France | Japan Expo Award | Japan Expo | Manga [23] |
Marimo Ragawa is a Japanese manga artist. She began submitting manga to comic magazines when she was only 12 years old, in the sixth grade of elementary school. She continued to send her manga to the same magazine for four years, but failed to receive a positive critical reception. Ragawa then decided to switch to a different magazine, Hana to Yume. Her first submission to this magazine won a prize called the "Top Prize" (トップ賞). Two years later in 1990, she succeeded in achieving her debut with her one-shot manga Time Limit (タイムリミット), published in Hana to Yume issue No. 22.
The Kodansha Manga Award is one of Japan's major manga awards. The event is sponsored by publisher Kodansha. It has been awarded annually for serialized manga since 1977.
The Shogakukan Manga Award is one of Japan's major manga awards, and is sponsored by Shogakukan Publishing. It has been awarded annually for serialized manga and features candidates from a number of publishers. It is the oldest manga award in Japan, being given since 1955.
Obatarian is a yonkoma manga series by Katsuhiko Hotta which was published by Takeshobo in Manga Life from 1988 through 1998. An anime series was adapted from the manga in 1990 by Sunrise, which aired on TV Asahi. The title Obatarian is a Japanese buzzword from the late 1980s, created as a pun portmanteau of the Japanese word おば and the Japanese title of the 1985 zombie comedy movie The Return of the Living Dead.
The Bungeishunjū Manga Award was an annual award established in 1955 and given out by Bungeishunjū in Japan for gag, yonkoma, one-panel, and satirical manga. The award was also given out for works considered the magnum opus of manga creators.
Masashi Ueda is a manga artist who wrote Kobo, the Li'l Rascal, a four-panel comic that has headlined Daily Yomiuri since 1982 and has amassed over 10,000 strips and 60 compilation volumes, as well as inspiring an anime adaptation.
The Japan Cartoonists Association Award is an annual award for manga, sponsored by the Japan Cartoonists Association. The prize was first awarded in 1972.
Kōhei Horikoshi is a Japanese manga artist known for creating the manga series Oumagadoki Zoo, Barrage, and My Hero Academia, all of which have been serialized in Shueisha's shōnen manga magazine Weekly Shōnen Jump. His latter work had over 100 million copies in circulation by April 2024, making it one of the best-selling manga series of all time. Horikoshi is a graduate of Toho High School and Nagoya University of Arts and is a native of Aichi Prefecture. He was a former assistant for Yasuki Tanaka, creator of the manga series Summer Time Rendering, Hitomi no Catoblepas, and Kagijin.
Hajime Isayama is a Japanese manga artist. His first series, Attack on Titan (2009–2021), became one of the best-selling manga series of all time with 140 million copies in circulation as of November 2023. He was awarded the Kodansha Manga Award in 2011, a Harvey Award in 2014, and was honored with the Fauve Spécial award at the 50th Angoulême International Comics Festival in 2023.
Giatrus is a Japanese manga written and illustrated by Shunji Sonoyama. It spawned two other manga, two anime television series, a television drama, and an anime film. This TV series marked the debut of Joe Hisaishi, composer of My Neighbor Totoro and Spirited Away. The official English title is Gon, The Stone-Age Boy.
Love Me, Love Me Not is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Io Sakisaka. It was serialized in Shueisha's Bessatsu Margaret magazine from June 2015 to May 2019, with Its chapters collected in 12 tankōbon volumes. Viz Media licensed the manga in English release.
Made in Abyss is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Akihito Tsukushi. It has been serialized online in Takeshobo's digital publication Web Comic Gamma since October 2012, and has been collected in 13 tankōbon volumes. The story follows an orphaned girl named Riko, who finds and befriends a part-robot boy named Reg, and descends with him into the titular "Abyss" that leads deep into the Earth, in hopes of exploring it and finding her mother.
Beastars is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Paru Itagaki. It was serialized in Akita Shoten's shōnen manga magazine Weekly Shōnen Champion from September 2016 to October 2020, with its chapters collected in 22 tankōbon volumes. The manga is licensed for English release in North America by Viz Media. The story takes place in a modern world of civilized, anthropomorphic animals with a cultural divide between carnivores and herbivores, and where eating meat is strictly illegal.
Kaiu Shirai is the pen name of a Japanese manga artist and writer whose real name and date of birth are unknown. He is best known for his manga series The Promised Neverland.
Paru Itagaki is a Japanese manga artist. She is best known as the creator of the manga series Beastars, for which she has won numerous awards. She is the daughter of manga artist Keisuke Itagaki.
Blue Giant is a Japanese jazz-themed manga series written and illustrated by Shinichi Ishizuka. It was serialized in Shogakukan's Big Comic from May 2013 to August 2016, with its chapters compiled in ten tankōbon volumes. A sequel, titled Blue Giant Supreme was serialized in Big Comic from September 2016 to April 2020, with its chapters compiled in eleven tankōbon. A third series, titled Blue Giant Explorer, was serialized in Big Comic from May 2020 to May 2023, with its chapters compiled in nine tankōbon. A fourth series, titled Blue Giant Momentum, began in Big Comic in July 2023. In North America, the manga has been licensed for English release by Seven Seas Entertainment, which is publishing it in a two-in-one omnibus edition, and the first volume was released in November 2020.
Posuka Demizu is a Japanese manga artist, illustrator and designer. She is particularly known for having drawn The Promised Neverland manga series.
Nagi no Oitoma is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Misato Konari. It has been serialized in Akita Shoten's josei manga magazine Elegance Eve since June 2016, with its chapters collected into eleven tankōbon volumes as of February 2024. A television drama adaptation aired from July to September 2019.
Tōmei na Yurikago: Sanfujinkain Kangoshi Minarai Nikki is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Bakka Okita. It was first serialized in Kodansha's josei manga magazines Kiss Plus and Hatsu Kiss, with its chapters collected in seven tankōbon volumes. The series was adapted into a ten-episode television drama broadcast on NHK from July to September 2018.
Masakazu Ishiguro is a Japanese manga artist. He debuted in 2000 with the one-shot Hero prior to launching And Yet the Town Moves in 2005, which won the Seiun Award for Best Comic and an Excellence Award at the Japan Media Arts Festival. In 2018, he launched Heavenly Delusion, which topped the Kono Manga ga Sugoi! guidebook's list of the top manga for male readers.
