The 14 finalists for the 46th “Kodansha Manga Award,” organized by Kodansha, have been announced.
The finalists in the Shonen category for the 2022 awards are: “Shangri-La Frontier: The Crap Game Hunter Takes on the Masterpiece” “Freiren: The Funeral,” “That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime,” and “The Cuckoo’s Fiancée.”
In the Shōjo category, the nominees are “The Beautiful Evening Moon,” “Nina of the Star-Falling Kingdom,” “Fingertips and Love,” and “My Happy Marriage.”
In the General Category, the following works were selected: “[My Favorite Child],” “Chi. —On the Motion of the Earth—,” “Skip & Loafer,” “Hakozume: The Police Box Girls’ Counterattack,” “The Delinquent and the Girl with the White Cane,” and “I’d Rather Be a Stranger in My Next Life,” for a total of 14 works.
The winners of the 46th Kodansha Manga Award will be announced on May 11, 2022. In the 44th Kodansha Manga Award, the winners were “Tokyo Manji Revenge (Boys’ Category)” “The Important Talk Between You and Me” (Girls’ Category), and “Blue Period” (General Category); while the winners of the 45th Kodansha Manga Award were “Blue Lock” (Boys’ Category), “Hananoi-kun and the Disease of Love” (Girls’ Category), and “Yuria-sensei’s Red Thread” (General Category).
The winners of the 46th Kodansha Manga Awards will be announced on May 11, 2022!
| Shonen Category | Miki Yoshikawa, “The Cuckoo’s Fiancée” (Weekly Shonen Magazine / Kodansha) Rina Kōri and Ryōsuke Fuji, “Shangri-La Frontier: The Crap Game Hunter Takes on the God Game” (Weekly Shonen Magazine / Kodansha) Kanehito Yamada and Tsukasa Abe, “Freiren: The Funeral” (Weekly Shonen Sunday / Shogakukan) Fuse, Yasuki Kawakami, and Mitsuba, “That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime” (Monthly Shonen Sirius / Kodansha) |
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| Girls’ Category | Mika Yamamori, “The Beautiful Moonlit Night” (Dessert / Kodansha) Rikachi, “Nina of the Star-Falling Kingdom” (BE・LOVE / Kodansha) Suu Morishita, *Fingertips and Love* (Dessert / Kodansha) Akumi Agaki, Rito Takasaka, and Tsukihō Tsukioka, *My Happy Marriage* (Gangan ONLINE / Square Enix) |
| General Category | Aka Akasaka & Mengo Yokoyari, “My Favorite Child” (Weekly Young Jump / Shueisha) Misaki Takamatsu, “Skip & Loafer” (Monthly Afternoon / Kodansha) Uotoyo, “Chi. —On the Motion of the Earth—” (Weekly Big Comic Spirits / Shogakukan) Mitsuko Tai “Hakozume: The Police Box Girls’ Counterattack” (Morning / Kodansha) Uoyama “The Delinquent and the Girl with the White Cane” (Manga Hack / KADOKAWA) Asuto Konishi, “I’d Rather Be a Stranger in the Next Life” (Afternoon / Kodansha) |
| Award Winners Announced | May 11, 2022 |
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