2026 Manga Award: "The More Books Sell"

MyAnimeThoughts Mar 26, 2026 53 Views

Ao Kojima's ``The more I sell books'' has been selected as the grand prize winner of the ``Manga Awards 2026.'' Today, March 26th, an award ceremony is being held in Tokyo.

``The more books sell,'' is a series of short stories that depicts the subtleties of the lives of various bibliophiles, set in the second-hand bookstore Togatsudo, run by a listless young man with curly hair. It will be serialized in KADOKAWA, and the third volume of the book will be released on April 15th. So far, it has also won 1st place in the "This Manga is Amazing! 2026" men's edition and 1st place in the "BOOK OF THE YEAR 2025" comic ranking.

Other entries in the Manga Awards 2026 include Mari Kangi's ``My Little Sister Knows'', Daihi Watabe ``Welcome Home Horizon'', Madou Saito ``Dissecting the Monster'', Kyu Sumiyoshi ``Thank You Pitch'', Ishiko ``The Evil God's Bento Shop'', Tooru Seino ``Dan Mitsu'', Miya Kinuta ``The One Who Was My Friend''. Miya Kinuta's Works'', Akima's ``The Man-Eating Mansion and the Landlord's Maison'' based on the original work by Sora Tanaka, Shiro Usazaki's ``Mao no Ichi'' based on the original work by Osamu Nishi, Yuta Tsukada's ``RIOT'', and Kurao Nabe's ``Roadside Fujii'' were nominated. Comic Natalie will be reporting on the award ceremony.

The ``Manga Award'' is a manga award whose selection committee includes bookstore staff and other manga enthusiasts. Works with a maximum of eight volumes published between January 1st and December 31st of the previous year are eligible. In the first round, each judge selected ``5 works that they would definitely recommend to others.'' In the second round, the works that received the top 10 votes from the first round will be nominated, and the selection committee will read them all and choose the top three. The results were tallied and the Manga Award was decided.