The 13 finalists for the 50th Kodansha Manga Award, a manga award sponsored by Kodansha, have been announced.
13 finalists for the 50th Kodansha Manga Award
This year's boys category includes Konoshimaruka's ``Sharanai desu'', Mikami Saka's ``Kaoruhana wa dignified bloom'', Urana Kei's ``Gachiakuta'', and Usazaki Shishi based on the original work by Nishi Osamu. ``Mao no Ichi'', Mika Yamamori ``Uruwashi no Yoi no Tsuki'' in the girls' category, Ari Shirakawa based on the original work by Eiko Mutsuhana ``Returning from death to life at a magic school, prologue with an ex-lover'' The winners were Kazuon Kawahara's 'A Star Brighter than the Sun', 'Next Door Stella', and Inuhiko Doronota's 'To Walk in Space with You', Shun Umezawa's 'Darwin Incident', Riku Oseto's 'A Mouse's First Love', U Satomi's 'Sumire-chan', Nene Azuki's 'Mii-chan and Yamada-san'.
The winning entries will be announced on May 11th. In the 49th edition, the boys' category was won by ONE's original work, illustrated by Kyotaro Azuma, and Bose's ``Versus'', the girls' category was won by Coco Uzuki's ``Koisei Shotenshi Tenshi'', and the overall category was won by Hitoshi Iwaaki's ``Historia''.
