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Shogakukan Manga Award
The is one of Japan's major manga awards, and is sponsored by Shogakukan Publishing. It has been awarded annually for serialized manga and features candidates from a number of publishers. It is the oldest manga award in Japan, being given since 1955. Categories The current award categories are: * * * * Each winning work will be honored with a bronze statuette, a certificate and a prize of 1 million yen (about US$7,500). Special awards are also occasionally given out for outstanding work, lifetime achievement, and so forth. Recipients The laureates were awarded for comics published during the years listed in the table. However, the laureates were not presented and the prizes were not given out until the beginning of the following year. The prizes are often referred to by the numbers listed below instead of the years. See also * List of manga awards This list of manga awards is an index to articles about notable awards for manga, comics or graphic novels created in Japa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Manga
Manga ( Japanese: 漫画 ) are comics or graphic novels originating from Japan. Most manga conform to a style developed in Japan in the late 19th century, and the form has a long prehistory in earlier Japanese art. The term ''manga'' is used in Japan to refer to both comics and cartooning. Outside of Japan, the word is typically used to refer to comics originally published in the country. In Japan, people of all ages and walks of life read manga. The medium includes works in a broad range of genres: action, adventure, business and commerce, comedy, detective, drama, historical, horror, mystery, romance, science fiction and fantasy, erotica ('' hentai'' and '' ecchi''), sports and games, and suspense, among others. Many manga are translated into other languages. Since the 1950s, manga has become an increasingly major part of the Japanese publishing industry. By 1995, the manga market in Japan was valued at (), with annual sales of 1.9billion manga books a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Inakappe Taishō
is Japanese manga series by Noboru Kawasaki and serialized by Shogakukan in '' Shogakukan no Gakushū Zasshi''. The manga series won the 14th Shogakukan Manga Award. An anime adaptation was created by Tatsunoko Productions. Daizaemon makes a cameo in episode 68 of '' The Song of Tentomushi'', which is also by Kawasaki. Plot A lively boy named Daizaemon in traditional Japanese clothing comes with various kinds of animals to the capital of Tokyo. He has a funny habit of dancing whenever he hears music. He visits a friend of his late father's to learn judo and makes friends with the young daughter of the judo master Kikuko and the cat Nyanko-sensei. For a little girl, Kikuko has wonderful judo tricks inherited from her father while Nyanko-sensei is able to perform a difficult trick of triple turn in the air. Both of them are worthy instructors for Daizaemon. Although he shows clownish behavior once in a while, he is always popular among people around and grows stout and shrewd ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Poe No Ichizoku
is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Moto Hagio. It was serialized in the manga magazines ''Bessatsu Shōjo Comic'' and '' Shūkan Shōjo Comic'' from 1972 to 1976, while a revival of the series has been serialized in ''Flowers'' since 2016. ''The Poe Clan'' is composed of a series of non-chronological stories set between the 18th and 21st centuries that follow the life of Edgar Portsnell, a teenage vampire. The manga has been collected into seven ''tankōbon'' volumes by the publishing house Shogakukan, and was the first manga series to be published by the company in this format. ''The Poe Clan'' has been adapted multiple times, notably as a radio drama, a series of CD audio dramas, a live-action television drama, and a Takarazuka Revue stage play. Fantagraphics Books licensed the manga for an English-language release in North America to be published in two omnibus volumes, the first of which was released in 2019. ''The Poe Clan'' was a critical and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Takao Saito
was a Japanese manga artist, although he rejected the term and considered his work gekiga. He was best known for '' Golgo 13'', which has been serialized in ''Big Comic'' since 1968, making it the oldest manga still in publication. ''Golgo 13'' holds the Guinness World Record for "Most volumes published for a single manga series" and, in accordance with Saito's wishes, it continues to be serialized following his death from pancreatic cancer in September 2021. Saito won several awards in his 66-year career, including the Shogakukan Manga Award twice, and received the Medal with Purple Ribbon and Order of the Rising Sun from the Japanese government for his contributions to the arts. Early life and career Born in Nishiwasa city (now Wakayama city), Saito's family moved to Osaka soon after and opened a barbershop. He did not know he was born in Nishiwasa until he was 43 years old. After his father left the family to become a photographer, his mother raised Saito and his four s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Golgo 13
is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Takao Saito, published in Shogakukan's ''seinen'' manga magazine ''Big Comic'' since October 1968. The series follows the title character, a professional assassin for hire. ''Golgo 13'' is the oldest manga still in publication, and its ''tankōbon'' edition was certified by ''Guinness World Records'' as the highest number of volumes for a manga series. Saito said before his death in 2021 that he wanted the manga to continue on without him and previously raised concerns the manga may be unfinished after he passes away. The Saito Production group of manga creators will continue its publication with the assistance of the ''Big Comic''s editorial department. The series has been adapted into two live-action feature films, an anime film, an original video animation, an anime television series and six video games. With a cumulative total of 300 million copies in circulation in various formats, including compilation boo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kazuo Umezu
is a Japanese manga artist, musician and actor. He is among the most famous authors of horror manga and has been vital for its development since the 1960s. Life Umezu was born in Kōya, Wakayama Prefecture, but raised in the mountainous Gojō, Nara Prefecture. His mother motivated him to draw when he was seven years old. His father would tell him local legends about ghost and snake women before going to bed. He was inspired to start drawing manga by reading Osamu Tezuka's '' Shin Takarajima'' in fifth grade. He was part of a drawing circle with others called "Kaiman Club". In 1955, he published his first manga at the age of 18 with ''Mori no Kyōdai'' based on the fairytale Hansel and Gretel with the kashihon publisher Tomo Book. He would soon shift towards the gekiga movement and publish manga in the kashi-hon industry in Osaka of the time, which would allow him more freedom than serializing his manga in magazines. His specialty was to include paranormal elements in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Drifting Classroom
is a Japanese horror manga series written and illustrated by Kazuo Umezu. It was serialized in the manga magazine '' Weekly Shōnen Sunday'' from 1972 to 1974, and published as collected ''tankōbon'' volumes by Shogakukan. The series follows a school that is mysteriously transported through time to a post-apocalyptic future. In 1987, ''The Drifting Classroom'' was adapted into a live-action film directed by Nobuhiko Obayashi. ''The Long Love Letter'', a Japanese television drama loosely based on ''The Drifting Classroom'', was released in 2002. The series was critically acclaimed, and won a Shogakukan Manga Award in 1974. Plot Sixth grader Sho Takamatsu travels to school after a bitter argument with his mother Emiko. While in class, a tremor shakes the facility, and the school is transported to an otherworldly wasteland. Yu, a three-year-old boy who was caught in the tremor, shows Sho a memorial buried in the dust commemorating the disappearance of their school. It tran ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shinji Mizushima
was a Japanese manga artist. He is best known for several baseball manga, such as ''Yakyū-kyō no Uta'', ''Dokaben'', and '' Abu-san''. He is a two-time recipient of the Shogakukan Manga Award. His works have been collected into more than 540 tankōbon volumes, making him one of the most prolific manga artists of all time. Biography Mizushima began his career in 1958 when his debut work, ''Shinya no Kyaku'', was awarded by a local manga magazine based in Osaka. He moved to Tokyo in 1964, where he began to publish numerous works for the ''Shōnen King'' magazine. His first serious work involving baseball came in 1969, when he published ''Ace no Jyōken''. He also began to work for the '' Shōnen Sunday'' and ''Shōnen Champion'' magazines in 1970, where he published his first major hits in ''Otoko do Ahou Kōshien'' and ''Zenikko''. His most iconic work, ''Dokaben'', was first serialized on ''Shōnen Champion'' in 1972, and ''Yakyū-kyō no Uta'' was published in ''Monthly Sh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tatsuo Yoshida
was a Japanese cartoonist, writer, manga artist and anime pioneer who founded the anime studio Tatsunoko Productions. Biography Born in 1932, Yoshida grew up in the hardship of war-torn Japan. A self-taught artist, his first job was as working for local newspapers in Kyoto. After finding success as a manga artist in Tokyo, including winning the Shogakukan Manga Award in 1972 for ''The Adventures of Hutch the Honeybee'', in 1962 he founded Tatsunoko with his two younger brothers, Kenji (who took over Tatsuo's position as producer after he died) and Toyoharu (a.k.a. Ippei Kuri). The studio's name has a double Japanese meaning of "Tatsu's child" and "sea dragon" which was the inspiration for its seahorse logo. Yoshida made the jump from print to the screen and found modest success with the anime racing series ''Mach GoGoGo''. Once adapted to the English language market, it achieved resounding, worldwide success as ''Speed Racer''. Yoshida also created the action series ''Gatcha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shinji Nagashima
, better known by the pen name , was a Japanese manga artist born in Tokyo, Japan. His pseudonym came about due to a publisher's error when printing his name, and he continued using the pseudonym after that. His oldest son is classical guitarist Shiki Nagashima. History From the time he was in junior high school, Nagashima aspired to become a manga artist. After dropping out of school during junior high, he worked as a paperboy and a tofu salesman. He made his professional debut as a manga artist in 1952 with his story . After becoming acquainted with Osamu Tezuka due to occasionally living at Tokiwa-sō, he became Tezuka's assistant. While there, he formed the group Musashi Production with artists including Atsushi Sugimura (who was working under the pseudonym Kontarō), Kyūta Ishikawa and Kuni Fukai (who was working under the pseudonym Hirō Fukai). He soon became friends with several members of the Gekiga Kōbō, including Yoshihiro Tatsumi and Takao Saito, while living ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Masako Watanabe
(born 16 May 1929, in Tokyo, Japan) is a Japanese manga artist. She began her professional career as an illustrator of books in 1949. She switched to creating manga after reading Osamu Tezuka's works, debuting in 1952 with ''Namida no Sanbika''. She quickly became the most popular female manga artist of her time. She was noted in the 1960s for using pastel colors instead of the bright primary colors common at the time, and for pioneering both '' shōjo'' (written for teenage girls) horror stories with ''Blue Foxfire'' and ''shōjo'' mystery stories with ''Glass no Shiro'' (''Glass Castle''). In 1971, she received the Shogakukan Manga Award The is one of Japan's major manga awards, and is sponsored by Shogakukan Publishing. It has been awarded annually for serialized manga and features candidates from a number of publishers. It is the oldest manga award in Japan, being given since ... for ''Glass no Shiro'' and ''Sei Rosalindo''. In the 1980s, she turned from ''shōjo'' to se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
