# Manga Award Winners (2008-2025)

The Manga Award is an event in which bookstore staff and other manga enthusiasts choose the manga they would most like to recommend to their friends. We have compiled a list of past grand prize winners, from the first \`\`Minna no Yama'' to \`\`Chihayafuru'', \`\`Thermae Romae'', \`\`Golden Kamuy'', \`\`Funeral Free Ren'', and 2025's \`\`Alice, Even the Universe''.

- 34 votes · 18 items
- Apr 28, 2025 · Kenichi Ogawa
- https://even.best/en/l/5461/manga-award-winners-2008-2025

## Top 18

1. **BEASTARS (Itagaki Paru)** (3 · ▲4 ▼1) — 11th Manga Award (2018). The votes for the second round were 78 points.
2. **March Comes in Like a Lion (Chika Umino)** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — 4th Manga Award (2011). The votes for the second round were 75 points.
3. **Umimachi diary (Akio Yoshida)** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — 6th Manga Award (2013). The votes for the second round were 89 points.
4. **Hibiki ~How to become a novelist~ (Mitsuharu Yanagimoto)** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — 10th Manga Award (2017). The votes for the second round were 67 points.
5. **Everyone's Mountain (Shinichi Ishizuka)** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — 1st Manga Award (2008). The votes for the second round were 68 points.
6. **Silver Spoon (Hiroshi Arakawa)** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — 5th Manga Award (2012). The votes for the second round were 76 points.
7. **Blue Period (Tsubasa Yamaguchi)** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — 13th Manga Award (2020). The votes for the second round were 69 points.
8. **Funeral Freelen (Yamada Kaneto/Abe Tsukasa)** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — 14th Manga Award (2021). The votes for the second round were 91 points.
9. **Chihayafuru (Yuki Suetsugu)** (1 · ▲2 ▼1) — 2nd Manga Award (2009). The votes for the second round were 102 points.
10. **Thermae Romae (Yamazaki Mari)** (1 · ▲2 ▼1) — 3rd Manga Award (2010). The votes for the second round were 94 points.
11. **Is it something like that (Akiko Higashimura)** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — 8th Manga Award (2015). The votes for the second round were 80 points.
12. **Golden Kamuy (Satoru Noda)** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — 9th Manga Award (2016). The votes for the second round were 91 points.
13. **Astra in the distance (Kenta Shinohara)** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — 12th Manga Award (2019). The votes for the second round were 94 points.
14. **Darwin Incident (Umezawa Shun)** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — 15th Manga Award (2022). The votes for the second round were 74 points.
15. **Draw this and die (Minoru Toyota)** (0 · ▲1 ▼1) — 16th Manga Award (2023). The votes for the second round were 102 points.
16. **Talking about the bride (Kaoru Mori)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 7th Manga Award (2014). The votes for the second round were 94 points.
17. **To walk through space with you (Doronota Inuhiko)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 17th Manga Award (2024). The votes for the second round were 96 points.
18. **Alice, even the universe (Kiko Urino)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 18th Manga Award (2025). The votes for the second round were 102 points.

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