Images (from left to right): A Sereia da Floresta©2023 Hiro Kawakara EDITORA JBC - Todos os direitos reservados, RISEPOLLY©preecha jai-ordthon 2024, The Banana Sprout©2024 Zuo Hsuan/Gaea Books
The International Manga Award has revealed its list of winners.
First established in 2007, the International Manga Award is an annual award created by Japanese Foreign Minister Taro Aso to encourage non-Japanese manga artists. The selection is managed by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan, where award honorees are recommended by the advisers. These advisors include Machiko Satonaka, a prolific manga artist and head of the Character Creative Arts Department at the Osaka University of Arts, and other manga artists.
Each award honoree is separated into three categories: the Gold Award, the Silver Award, and Bronze Award. For the 18th iteration of the International Manga Award, the winners were selected out of 716 entries from 95 countries. The award ceremony will be held in Tokyo this March.
Here are the winners for each category:
Gold Award:
- The Forest Mermaid by Hiro Kawahara (Brazil)
Silver Award:
- RISE POLLY by Preecha Jai-ordthon (Thailand)
- The Banana Sprout col.2 by Zuo Hzuan (Taiwan)
- Scars by Brandon Arias (Chile)
Bronze Award:
- Chronicles of man - Noãn, illustrated by Nguyen Thuy Linh, written by Nguyen Trung Thach (Vietnam)
- Whisky San, illustrated by Alicia Grande (Spain), written by Fabien Rodhain (France) and Didier Alcante (Belgium)
- Grey is… by dee Juusan (Jordan)
- Last Call to Leave Earth by Cassio Ribeiro (Brazil)
- Degas and Cassatt, The Dance of Solitude, illustrated by Efa, written by Salva Rubio (Spain)
- The idealist by 水然(watery) (China)
- Cats Legend in the Forbidden City, illustrated by 金涛, written by 北京漫传奇文化传播有限公司,刘玮(China)
- SIGI - Tome - 1 - Operation Brunnhilde, illustrated by David Morancho (Spain), written by Erik Arnoux (France)
- Little Feather, illustrated by Nao, written by Ivan Navinkin (Russia)
- Underground, Volume 1: Fight Club by John-Raymond De Bard (USA)
- Dream and his twin brother Death, illustrated by KoLODa, written by CoFi-Tan (Ukraine)