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prize awarded to manga artists or their works that follow the Osamu Tezuka manga approach founded and sponsored by Asahi Shimbun. The prize has been awarded since 1997, in

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Current prizes categories

*Grand Prize – for the excellent work during the year *Creative Award – for the creator with innovative or epoch-making expression and fresh talent *Short story Award – for the excellent work or creator of the short story *Special Award – for the person or group who contributed to extend the culture of manga

Prizes winners

1997

*Grand Prize: Fujiko Fujio for ''

Doraemon ''Doraemon'' ( ja, ドラえもん ) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Fujiko F. Fujio. The manga was first serialized in December 1969, with its 1,345 individual chapters compiled into 45 ''tankōbon'' volumes and ...

'' *Award for Excellence: Moto Hagio for '' A Cruel God Reigns'' *Special Award:

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for the foundation and management of ''Modern Manga Library''

1998

*Grand Prize: Jiro Taniguchi and Natsuo Sekikawa for the trilogy ''Bocchan No Jidai'' (Times of "

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") *Award for Excellence:

Yūji Aoki was a Japanese manga artist born in Fukuchiyama, Kyoto, Japan. He is best known for his 1990 debut manga , for which he won the 1992 Kodansha Manga Award for general manga and the 1998 Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize Award for Excellence. Takahi ...

for '' Naniwa Kin'yūdō'' (The way of the Ōsaka loan shark) *Special Award: Shotaro Ishinomori for the long years of contribution to manga

1999

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*Grand Prize: Naoki Urasawa for '' Monster'' *Award for Excellence: Akira Sasō for '' Shindō'' *Special Award: Fusanosuke Natsume for the excellence criticism of manga

2000

*Grand Prize: Daijiro Morohoshi for ''Saiyū Yōenden'' (The Monkey King and other Chinese Legends) *Award for Excellence: Minetarō Mochizuki for '' Dragon Head'' *Special Award: Frederik L. Schodt for the distinguished service to introduce Japanese manga round the world

2001

*Grand Prize: Reiko Okano and Baku Yumemakura for '' Onmyōji'' (The Master of Shade and Light) *Award for Excellence:

Kotobuki Shiriagari is a Japanese manga artist and actor. Life Shiriagari was born in Shizuoka in 1958. He studied graphic design at Tama Art University in Tokyo. In early 1981, after graduation, he began to work as an advertising illustrator for the beer compa ...

for '' Yajikita in Deep'' *Special Award: Akira Maruyuma for the valuable service to support comic artists at ''Tokiwa'' house

2002

*Grand Prize:

Takehiko Inoue is a Japanese manga artist. He is best known for the basketball series ''Slam Dunk'' (1990–1996), and the ''jidaigeki'' manga ''Vagabond'', which are two of the best-selling manga series in history. Many of his works are about basketball, In ...

for '' Vagabond'' *Award for Excellence: Kentaro Miura for '' Berserk''

2003

*Grand Prize: Fumiko Takano for ''The Yellow Book: A friend Named Jacques Thibault'' *Creative Award: Yumi Hotta and Takeshi Obata for '' Hikaru no Go'' *Short story Award: Hisaichi Ishii for '' Gendai Shisō no Sōnanshātachi'' (Victims of modern ideas) *Special Award:

Shigeru Mizuki was a Japanese manga artist and historian, best known for his manga series ''GeGeGe no Kitarō''. Born in a hospital in Osaka and raised in the city of Sakaiminato, Tottori, he later moved to Chōfu, Tokyo where he remained until his death ...

for the creative pictures and the long years of activities

2004

*Grand Prize: Kyoko Okazaki for '' Helter Skelter'' *Creative Award: Takashi Morimoto for ''Naniwadora ihon'' (Variant edition of the Naniwa wastrel) *Short story Award: Risu Akizuki for '' OL Shinkaron'' and other works *Special Award:

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for the pioneer works of historical manga and contribution to manga culture

2005

*Grand Prize: Naoki Urasawa, Osamu Tezuka and

Takashi Nagasaki is a Japanese author, manga writer and former editor of manga. He started his professional career at Shogakukan in 1980 and worked as an editor on the publisher's various manga magazines, including as editor-in-chief of ''Big Comic Spirits'' fr ...

for ''

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'' *Creative Award:

Fumiyo Kōno , commonly romanized Fumiyo Kouno, is a Japanese manga artist from Nishi-ku, Hiroshima, known for her 2004 manga ''Town of Evening Calm, Country of Cherry Blossoms'' and her 2007 manga ''In This Corner of the World'' which got an anime film adap ...

for '' Town of Evening Calm, Country of Cherry Blossoms'' *Short story Award: Rieko Saibara for '' Jōkyō Monogatari'' and ''

Mainichi Kaasan is a Japanese comedy manga series written and illustrated by Rieko Saibara, based on her experiences as a housewife and mother. It was serialized on a weekly basis in the newspaper's morning edition from October 2002 to 26 June 2017. The ...

'' *Special Award: Kawasaki City Museum for the collection of manga works from

Edo period The or is the period between 1603 and 1867 in the history of Japan, when Japan was under the rule of the Tokugawa shogunate and the country's 300 regional '' daimyo''. Emerging from the chaos of the Sengoku period, the Edo period was character ...

to the present day, and its exhibitions

2006

*Grand Prize: Hideo Azuma for ''

Disappearance Diary is a manga by Hideo Azuma and published by East Press in Japan in March 2005. The manga is a somewhat-fictionalized autobiography of part of the author's life and of his alcohol dependency problems. It has received multiple awards inside and ...

'' *Creative Award:

Asa Higuchi is a Japanese manga artist, born in Urawa, Saitama Prefecture (now part of Saitama City). She graduated from Saitama Prefecture's prestigious Urawanishi High School and Hosei University's department of psychology, with a major in sports psycho ...

for '' Big Windup!'' *Short story Award: Risa Itō for ''One Woman, Two Cats'', '' Oi Piitan!!'' (''Hey Pitan!''), ''Onna no mado'' (A Woman's Window) and other works *Special Award: Kousei Ono for the long years of the introduction of comics from abroad to Japan as a commentator for manga

2007

*Grand Prize: Ryoko Yamagishi for ''

Terpsichora , also known as Maihime Τερψιχόρα in Greek, is a Japanese manga written and illustrated by Ryoko Yamagishi. The manga was awarded the grand prize for the 11th Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize in 2007. Media Factory published the 10 ''tank� ...

'' (The Dancing Girl; Maihime Τερψιχόρα) *Creative Award: Nobuhisa Nozoe, Kazuhisa Iwata and Kyojin Ōnishi for ''Shinsei Kigeki'' (

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) *Short story Award:

Hiromi Morishita Hiromi may refer to: *Hiromi, Ehime, city in Shikoku, Japan *Hiromi (given name), unisex Japanese given name (including a list of persons with the name) *Hiromi (comedian), Japanese comedian *Hiromi (model), Japanese fashion model * Meitetsu Hiromi ...

for '' Ōsaka Hamlet''

2008

International Institute for Childrens Literature Osaka

*Grand Prize: Masayuki Ishikawa for '' Moyashimon'' *Creative Award: Toranosuke Shimada for ''Träumerei'' *Short story Award: Yumiko Ōshima for '' GūGū Datte Neko De Aru (Cher Gou-Gou...mon petit chat, mon petit ami.)'' *Special Award: ''International Institute for Children's Literature, Osaka Prefecture''
English Official site

2009

*Grand Prize: Fumi Yoshinaga for '' Ōoku: The Inner Chambers'' *Grand Prize: Yoshihiro Tatsumi for '' A Drifting Life'' *Short story Award: Hikaru Nakamura for ''

Saint Young Men is a Japanese slice of life comedy manga series written and illustrated by Hikaru Nakamura. Its plot involves Jesus Christ and Gautama Buddha, who are living as roommates in an apartment in Tokyo. It has been serialized by Kodansha in the ...

'' *New Artist Prize : Suehiro Maruo for '' Panorama-tō Kitan'' (Anecdote of the Panorama Island)

2010

*Grand Prize: Yoshihiro Yamada for '' Hyouge Mono'' *Short story Award: Mari Yamazaki for '' Thermae Romae'' *New Artist Prize : Haruko Ichikawa for ''Mushi to Uta'' *Special Award:

Yoshihiro Yonezawa was a Japanese manga critic and author. He is also known for being Comiket's co-founder and president. He died of lung cancer at 53. He won the 2007 Seiun Award in the special category and 2010 Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize Special Award. Biog ...

to wide achievements of the collection and the commentary activity of basic material of the cartoon research.

2011

*Grand Prize:

Motoka Murakami is a Japanese manga artist who primarily writes for the Seinen demographic despite beginning his career with Shounen works. He won the Kodansha Manga Award for shōnen for '' Gakuto Retsuden'' ( ja) in 1982 and the Shogakukan Manga Award twice, ...

for '' Jin'' *Grand Prize: Issei Eifuku and Taiyo Matsumoto for '' Takemitsuzamurai'' *New Artist Prize: Hiromu Arakawa for '' Fullmetal Alchemist'' *Short Work Prize: Keisuke Yamashina for his work in creating ''C-kyū Salaryman Kōza'', ''Papa wa Nanda ka Wakaranai'', and other salaryman manga.

2012

*Grand Prize: Hitoshi Iwaaki for '' Historie'' *New Artist Prize: Yu Itō for '' Shut Hell'' *Short Work Prize: Roswell Hosoki for his work in creating ''Sake no Hosomichi'', and other manga. *Special Award: "That '' Weekly Shōnen Jump''" - a specific copy of the magazine's 16th issue of 2011 that was shared by over 100 children at the Shiokawa Shoten bookstore in Itsutsubashi, Sendai immediately after the Great East Japan earthquake

2013

*Grand Prize: Yasuhisa Hara for '' Kingdom'' *New Artist Prize: Miki Yamamoto for '' Sunny Sunny Ann!'' *Short Work Prize: Yoshiie Gōda for ''Kikai-Jikake no Ai'' (Love of Machine)

2014

*Grand Prize: Chica Umino for '' March Comes in Like a Lion'' *New Artist Prize: Machiko Kyō for '' Mitsuami no Kamisama'' *Short Work Prize: Yūki Shikawa for '' Onnoji'' *Special Award: Fujiko Fujio (A) for '' Manga Michi'' and '' Ai... Shirisomeshi Koro ni...'' *Readers' Award:

Chūya Koyama is a Japanese writer, best known for his '' Space Brothers'' series, published regularly since 2007. On 2 November 2016 his artwork was carried into space by the H-IIA H-IIA (H-2A) is an active expendable launch system operated by Mitsub ...

for '' Space Brothers''

2015

*Grand Prize: Yoiko Hoshi for '' Aisawa Riku'' *New Creator Prize: Yoshitoki Ōima for '' A Silent Voice'' *Short Work Prize: Sensha Yoshida for his works as a whole *Special Prize: Chikako Mitsuhashi for '' Chiisana Koi no Monogatari''

2016

*Grand Prize: Kei Ichinoseki for '' Hanagami Sharaku'' and

Kiyohiko Azuma is a Japanese manga artist. From 1999 to 2002, he authored the ''yonkoma'' comedy manga series ''Azumanga Daioh'', which was later adapted as an anime series by J.C.Staff. In 2003, he began ''Yotsuba&!'', a slice-of-life manga series about the ...

for '' Yotsuba&!'' *New Creator Prize: Yuki Andō for '' Machida-kun no Sekai'' *Short Work Prize: Tatsuya Nakazaki for '' Jimihen'' *Special Prize:

Kyoto International Manga Museum The Kyoto International Manga Museum (京都国際マンガミュージアム, Kyōto Kokusai Manga Myūjiamu) is located in Nakagyō-ku, Kyoto, Japan. The museum's collection includes approximately 300,000 items as of 2016, with 50,000 volumes o ...

in recognition of its 10th anniversary and its contributions to manga culture

2017

*Grand Prize: Fusako Kuramochi for '' Hana ni Somu'' *New Creator Prize: Haruko Kumota for '' Descending Stories: Showa Genroku Rakugo Shinju'' *Short Work Prize: Kahoru Fukaya for '' Yomawari Neko'' *Special Prize: Osamu Akimoto for '' Kochira Katsushika-ku Kameari Kōen-mae Hashutsujo''

2018

*Grand Prize: Satoru Noda for '' Golden Kamuy'' *New Creator Prize: Paru Itagaki for ''

BEASTARS ''Beastars'' (stylized in all caps) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Paru Itagaki. It was serialized in Akita Shoten's ''Weekly Shōnen Champion'' from September 2016 to October 2020, with its chapters collected in 22 '' ...

'' *Short Work Prize: Taro Yabe for '' Oya-san to Boku'' *Special Prize: Tetsuya Chiba for '' Ashita no Joe''

2019

*Grand Prize: Shinobu Arima for '' Jitterbug The Forties'' *New Creator Prize: Sansuke Yamada for '' Areyo Hoshikuzu'' *Short Work Prize: Ken Koyama for ''

Little Miss P is a Japanese manga series by Ken Koyama. The series follows the titular character, an anthropomorphized period, as she visits menstruating women in various scenarios and contexts. Launched as a webcomic in 2017, Little Miss P was serialized ...

'' *Special Prize: Takao Saito for '' Golgo 13'' in recognition of its 50th anniversary

2020

* Grand Prize: Kan Takahama for '' Nyx no Lantern'' * New Creator Prize: Rettō Tajima for '' Mizu wa Umi ni Mukatte Nagareru'' * Short Work Prize: Yama Wayama for '' Captivated, by You'' * Special Prize: Machiko Hasegawa in recognition of what would have been her 100th birthday on January 20

2021

* Grand Prize: Kazumi Yamashita for '' Land'' * New Creator Prize: Kanehito Yamada and Tsukasa Abe for '' Frieren: Beyond Journey's End'' * Short Work Prize: Hiroko Nobara for '' Kieta Mama Tomo'' and '' Tsuma wa Kuchi o Kiite Kuremasen'' * Special Prize: Koyoharu Gotouge for creating a social phenomenon with '' Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba''

2022

* Grand Prize: Uoto for '' Chi: Chikyū no Undō ni Tsuite'' * New Creator Prize: Natsuko Taniguchi for '' Kyōshitsu no Katasumi de Seishun wa Hajimaru'' and '' Konya Sukiyaki da yo'' * Short Work Prize: Izumi Okaya for '' Ii Toshi o'' and '' Hakumokuren wa Kirei ni Chiranai''

References

External links

Official webpage
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