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23rd Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize Nominees Announced
posted on by Egan Loo & Crystalyn Hodgkins
The Black Jack) by recognizing the manga that best follow his tradition.
Haruko Kashiwagi
Shogakukan
Aoi Makino
Shueisha
Sono Ko, Jiruba (Shinobu Arima
Shogakukan
Daru-chan
Remon Haruna
Shogakukan
Nagi no Oitoma (Akita Shoten
Marimo Ragawa
Kodansha
Posuka Demizu
Shueisha
This year's committee – consisting of actress 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 Oya-san to Boku won the Short Work Prize.
Sources: Asahi Shimbun, Comic Natalie
