SPY×FAMILY, Takopi’s Authentic Sin Nominated for Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prizes

The Asahi Shimbun paper introduced the 9 nominees for the twenty seventh 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 finest comply with his custom.

Umi ga Hashiru Endroll (The Seas Roll on the Finish Credit)
John Tarachine
Akita Shoten

Onna no Ko ga Iru Basho wa (The Locations The place Ladies Exist)
Ebine Yamaji
Kadokawa

SPY×FAMILY
Tatsuya Endō
Shueisha
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Takopi’s Authentic Sin (Takopī no Genzai)
Taizan 5
Shueisha
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CESARE – Il Creatore che ha distrutto (Cesare – Hakai no Sōzōsha)
Fuyumi Soryo
Kodansha

Hirayasumi
Keigo Shinzō
Shogakukan

Tōkyō Higoro (Tokyo On a regular basis)
Taiyo Matsumoto
Shogakukan

Yuria Sensei no Akai Ito (Yuria’s Pink String)
Kiwa Irie
Kodansha

This yr’s judging committee – manga creator Osamu Akimoto, manga creator Machiko Satonaka, entertainer Minami Takahashi, author and Tohoku College of Artwork and Design teacher Yukiko Tomiyama, professor and scholar Shōhei Chūjō, manga critic Nobunaga Minami, and comic and manga creator Taro Yabe – chosen the nominees from titles really useful by specialists and bookstore workers. To be eligible, the manga needed to have had a compiled quantity revealed in 2022.

Asahi Shimbun will announce the winners in late April, and can host an awards ceremony in Tokyo on June 8. The Grand Prize winner will obtain a bronze statue and a pair of million yen (about US$14,800), whereas the opposite winners will every obtain a bronze statue and 1 million yen (about US$7,400).

Final yr, 9 titles have been nominated, and Uoto‘s Chi -Chikyū no Undō ni Tsuite- received the Grand Prize. Natsuko Taniguchi’s Kyōshitsu no Katasumi de Seishun wa Hajimaru received the New Creator prize, and Izumi Okaya’s Ii Toshi o and Hakumokuren wa Kirei ni Chiranai received the Brief Work Prize.

Sources: The Asahi Shimbun, Comic Natalie