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23rd Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize Nominees Announced
posted on by Egan Loo & Crystalyn Hodgkins
The Asahi Shimbun paper announced the 11 nominees for the 23rd Annual Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize on Monday. The awards commemorate the contributions of the manga pioneer Osamu Tezuka (Astro Boy/Mighty Atom, Kimba the White Lion/Jungle Emperor, Phoenix, Black Jack) by recognizing the manga that best follow his tradition.
Areyo Hoshikuzu
Sansuke Yamada
Kadokawa
Umimachi Diary
Akimi Yoshida
Shogakukan
Astra Lost in Space
Kenta Shinohara
Shueisha
Kenkō de Bunkateki na Saitei Gendo no Seikatsu (A Minimum Healthy and Cultural Life)
Haruko Kashiwagi
Shogakukan
Sayonara Miniskirt (Good-Bye My Mini Skirt)
Aoi Makino
Shueisha
Sono Ko, Jiruba (Jitterbug The Forties)
Shinobu Arima
Shogakukan
Daru-chan
Remon Haruna
Shogakukan
Nagi no Oitoma (Nagi's Long Vacation)
Misato Konari
Akita Shoten
Fragile: Byōrii Kishi Keiichirō no Shoken (Fragile - The Finds of Pathologist Keiichirō Kishi)
Bin Kusamizu, Saburō Megumi
Kodansha
Mashiro no Oto
Marimo Ragawa
Kodansha
The Promised Neverland
Kaiu Shirai, Posuka Demizu
Shueisha
This year's committee – consisting of actress Anne Watanabe; author Kazuki Sakuraba; manga creators Osamu Akimoto, Machiko Satonaka, and Tarō Minamoto; professor and scholar Shōhei Chūjō; manga critic Nobunaga Shinbo; and author and manga researcher Tomoko Yamada – selected the nominees from titles recommended by specialists and bookstore employees. To be eligible, the manga had to have had a compiled volume published in 2018. This is the fourth nomination for Yoshida's Umimachi Diary (the manga was previously nominated in 2008, 2009, and 2011, and the second consecutive nomination for Shirai and Demizu's The Promised Neverland.
Asahi Shimbun will announce the winners in late April, and will host an awards ceremony in Tokyo on June 6.
Last year, 10 titles were nominated, and Satoru Noda's Golden Kamuy won the Grand Prize. Paru Itagaki's BEASTARS won the New Creator prize, and Tarō Yabe's Oya-san to Boku won the Short Work Prize.
Sources: Asahi Shimbun, Comic Natalie
