The 48th edition of the Annual Kodansha Manga Award have revealed the finalists and winners list for 2024
Across all three categories, the Annual Kodansha Manga Awards has announced the manga titles that performed the best. These Awards continue to commemorate great works in the manga industry by recognising the creativity and brilliance of manga artists and writers.
For those who donโt know, Manga are comics or graphic novels from Japan. The majority of manga follow a style developed in Japan in the late nineteenth century. Outside of Japan, the word is typically used to refer to comics originally published in Japan.
Annual Kodansha Manga Award 2024 awards winners and nominees list and winner prize money
Fans eagerly anticipate Annual Kodansha Manga Awards awards each year. These awards started in 1977 with just shลnen and shลjo categories. The general category began in 1982, and the children’s category started in 2003. From 2015, the children’s category was combined into the shลnen and shลjo categories.
Every winning title gets a bronze statue, a certificate, and a prize of 1 million yen (about US$7,500).
"Medalist" by Tsurumaikada won the prestigious Kodansha Manga Award 2024 in the General Category!
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Best Shonen Manga award
The winner of the prestigious Best Shonen Manga award is “Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End.” It is written by Kanehito Yamada and Tsukasa Abe has carried out the illustration part. Shogakukan published it in Weekly Shonen Sunday. This series was also nominated for the award in 2022.
Nominations for this category included,
The Fragrant Flower Blooms With Dignity by Saka Mikami
Gachiakuta by Kei Urana
Tank Chair by Manabu Yashiro
Daemons of the Shadow Realm by Hiromu Arakawa
Best Shojo Manga award
The winner of the Best Shojo Manga award is “Looking At Your Profile” by Rumi Ichinohe, published by Kodansha in Bessatsu Friend.
Nominations for this category included,
Firefly Weddingย by Oreco Tachibana
In the Clear Moonlitย Dusk byย Mika Yamamori
A Sign of Affection byย Su Morishita
General category awards
Winner in the general category is Medalistย by Tsurumaikada. This series was previously nominated in 2023.
Other nominees included the following
OSHI NO KOย written byย Aka Akasaka, drawn byย Mengo Yokoyari
The Darwin Incident by Shun Umezawa
Chiikawa: Nanka Chiisakute Kawaii Yatsuย byย Nagano
Nagatan to Ao toย byย Ichika no Rourijou
Bokyo Taroย byย Yoshihiro Yamada