18th Manga Taisho Awards Nominate 10 Titles

The chief committee for the 18th Manga Taisho awards listed this year’s 10 nominated works on Tuesday. (The reliable English title of the awards is the “Cartoon Grand Prize.”)

Manga Taisho 2025 Nominees

Alice, Doko Made mo
Kiko Urino

Onna no Sono no Hoshi (also nominated in 2021, 2022 and 2023)

Yama Wayama

Cosmos

Ryūhei Tamura

Kono Yo wa Tatakau Kachi ga Aru
Hatsumi Kodama

Re-Living My Life with a Boyfriend Who Would now not Be aware Me
Gin Shirakawa, Eiko Mutsuhana, Yugiri Aika

Magus of the Library

Mitsu Izumi

Dokagui Daisuki! Mochizuki-san
Kamome Maruyono

Dokudami no Hana Saku Koro

Shiho Kido

Lady Meets Rock!

Tetsuo Ideuchi、Kuwahali

Robō no Fujii

Nabekurao

The nominating committee is tranquil essentially of bookstore staffers who are to blame of their respective stores’ manga. This year’s nominating committee consisted of 97 folk, who chosen from 238 titles. Any manga title that used to be released in 2024 and has eight volumes or much less is eligible. The volume cap is intentionally added so as that the prize winners would be rather novel works which have now not already earned their popularity by sheer longevity.

The second spherical of balloting will resolve the winner of Manga Taisho 2025, which is able to be launched at an awards ceremony to be held on March 27.

Earlier winners embody:

• 2024 – Kimi to Uchū o Aruku Tame ni by Inuhiko Doronoda

• 2023 – Kore Kaite Shine by Minoru Toyoda

• 2022 – Darwin Jihen by Shun Umezawa

• 2021 – Frieren: Beyond Hump’s Discontinue by Kanehito Yamada and Tsukasa Abe

• 2020 – The Blue Interval. by Tsubasa Yamaguchi

• 2019 – Astra Lost in Rental by Kenta Shinohara

• 2018 – BEASTARS by Paru Itagaki

• 2017 – Hibiki: Shōsetsuka ni Naru Hōhō by Mitsuharu Yanamoto

• 2016 – Golden Kamuy by Satoru Noda

• 2015 – Kakukaku Shikajika by Akiko Higashimura

• 2014 – A Bride’s Sage by Kaoru Mori

• 2013 – Umimachi Diary by Akimi Yoshida

• 2012 – Silver Spoon by Hiromu Arakawa

• 2011 – March is accessible in like a lion by Chika Umino

• 2010 – Thermae Romae by Mari Yamazaki

• 2009 – Chihayafuru by Yuki Suetsugu

• 2008 – Gaku – Minna no Yama by Shinichi Ishizuka

Sources: Manga Taisho, Comic Natalie

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