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San Diego Comic-Con 2022 just wrapped up, and there were some great moments for manga creators. Moto Hagio was finally inducted into the Will Eisner Comic Awards Hall of Fame by the Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards, and Junji Ito received the Eisner Award for …Read more »
Lil’ Leo (Leo-kun in the original Japanese) is about an endearing talking cat. Leo is two-years-old and lives with a woman he thinks of as his mother, and it’s never questioned how or why he can talk. It’s just taken for granted, and this allows …Read more »
Moto Hagio, a major trailblazer for shojo manga, has published a memoir in Japan called Ichido Kiri no Ōizumi no Hanashi (translated as A One-Time Story About Ōizumi). It’s about her life from 1970-72, when she was living with other manga creators. It also gives …Read more »
Comic-Con International has released its list of nominations for the 2021 Will Eisner Comic Awards Hall of Fame. Mangaka Moto Hagio, whose work such as The Heart of Thomas greatly influenced shojo and shonen-ai manga, is the only manga creator nominated. The other nominees are …Read more »
With all the devastatingly masculine media I tend to personally cover around here, one would almost think I have no room in my heart for softer fare. Far from it, I just don't have time to dig through anything that ranges from mediocre to outright …Read more »
San Diego Comic-Con is in full swing, and mangaka Kenichi Sonoda and Hitoshi Ariga have won the esteemed Inkpot Award. Comic-Con explains that this award is “given to individuals for their contributions to the worlds of comics, science fiction/fantasy, film, television, animation, and fandom services.” …Read more »
The judges have revealed 19 people who are being added to the Will Eisner Comics Awards Hall of Fame in 2024. One of them is Keiji Nakazawa, whose manga Barefoot Gen was inspired by his own life story of surviving the atomic bombing of Hiroshima. …Read more »
The Asahi Shimbun reported on the winners of the 51st Japan Cartoonists Association Awards. The Grand Prize for the comic book category went to Golden Kamuy by Satoru Noda. Looking to the top prize in the cartoon category, the winner was Teinei na Kurashi wo …Read more »
The winners of the spring 2022 Medal with Purple Ribbon have been announced! These medals are given out by the Japanese government and are meant for “individuals who have contributed to academic and artistic developments, improvements and accomplishments.” This year both Hideaki Anno and founder …Read more »
The government of Japan bestows the Medal with Purple Ribbon on “individuals who have contributed to academic and artistic developments, improvements and accomplishments.” This autumn, they’ve giving it to Masaaki Yuasa. Yuasa has been in the anime business for a long time. He began as …Read more »
The Japanese government has unveiled the names of 21 people who will receive this year’s Person of Cultural Merit honor, and two of them are beloved by otaku. First up is none other than Gundam creator Yoshiyuki Tomino. Tomino got his start working under Osamu …Read more »
Asahi Shimbun Publishing and Pixiv have announced that they’re looking for horror stories, and the winner will be crowned in the Asahi Horror Comic Awards. They’ve tapped some important people to be judges, including horror master and Eisner Award winner Junji Ito. Ito won’t be …Read more »
The winners of this year’s Person of Cultural Merit award, given out by the Japanese government, have been announced. Among them is Shigeaki Saegusa, who composed music for Mobile Suit Gundam: Char’s Counterattack, Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam and Mobile Suit Gundam ZZ. As Anime News …Read more »
Inuyasha creator Rumiko Takahashi just received Japan’s esteemed “Medal with Purple Ribbon, awarded to individuals who have contributed to academic and artistic developments, improvements and accomplishments.” As Japanese site grape explains, this medal is given out twice a year, and Takahashi is only the tenth …Read more »
The Harvey Awards have announced their 2020 winners. Kodansha’s Witch Hat Atelier by Kamome Shirahama has won in the Best Manga category, beating out H.P. Lovecraft’s at the Mountains of Madness by Gou Tanabe, The Poe Clan by Moto Hagio, The Way of the Househusband …Read more »
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