The winners of the 70th Shogakukan Manga Award have been announced.
They are:
• Draw This, Then Die (Kore Kaite Shine) by Minoru Toyoda [serialized in Shogakukan’s Gessan)
• Burning Kabaddi (Shakunetsu Kabaddi) by Hajime Musashino [serialized in Shogakukan’s Manga ONE]
• Natsume Arata no Kekkon by Taro Nogizaka [serialized in Shogakukan’s Big Comics Superior)
• Puniru is A Kawaii Slime (Puniru wa Kawaii Slime) by Maeda-kun [serialized in Shogakukan’s Weekly Corocoro Comic]
The finalist list also includes:
• In the Clear Moonlit Dusk (Uruwashi no Yoi no Tsuki) by Mika Yamamori [serialized in Kodansha’s Dessert]
• Kagurabachi by Takeru Hokazono [serialized in Shueisha’s Weekly Shonen Jump]
• Kujou no Taizai by Manabe Shohei [serialized in Big Comic Spirits]
• The Apothecary Diaries: Maomao’s Notes from the Inner Palace (Kusuriya no Hitorigoto ~Maomao no Koukyuu Nazotoki Techou~) by Minoji Kurata [serialized in Shogakukan’s Sunday GX)
• Black Alice by Satomi Nakamura [serialized in Shogakukan’s CIAO]
• Manchuria Opium Squad (Manshu Ahen Squad) by Tsukasa Munma and Shikaku [serialized in Kodansha’s Young Magazine]
• Yume no Shizuku, Kin no Torikago by Chie Shinohara [serialized in Shogakukan’s Anekei Petit Comic]
• Red Blue by Atsushi Namikiri [serialized in Shogakukan’s Shonen Sunday]
Source: Shogakukan (via Comic Natalie)
