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Manga Award Winners (2008-2025)

The top 3 according to 34 votes from people: BEASTARS (Itagaki Paru) · March Comes in Like a Lion (Chika Umino) · Umimachi diary (Akio Yoshida). (Updated Apr 28, 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''.

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Top 18

  1. 1

    BEASTARS (Itagaki Paru)

    11th Manga Award (2018). The votes for the second round were 78 points.

    ▲ 4 ▼ 1

    3
  2. 2

    March Comes in Like a Lion (Chika Umino)

    4th Manga Award (2011). The votes for the second round were 75 points.

    ▲ 3 ▼ 0

    3
  3. 3

    Umimachi diary (Akio Yoshida)

    6th Manga Award (2013). The votes for the second round were 89 points.

    ▲ 3 ▼ 0

    3
  4. 4

    Hibiki ~How to become a novelist~ (Mitsuharu Yanagimoto)

    10th Manga Award (2017). The votes for the second round were 67 points.

    ▲ 3 ▼ 0

    3
  5. 5

    Everyone's Mountain (Shinichi Ishizuka)

    1st Manga Award (2008). The votes for the second round were 68 points.

    ▲ 2 ▼ 0

    2
  6. 6

    Silver Spoon (Hiroshi Arakawa)

    5th Manga Award (2012). The votes for the second round were 76 points.

    ▲ 2 ▼ 0

    2
  7. 7

    Blue Period (Tsubasa Yamaguchi)

    13th Manga Award (2020). The votes for the second round were 69 points.

    ▲ 2 ▼ 0

    2
  8. 8

    Funeral Freelen (Yamada Kaneto/Abe Tsukasa)

    14th Manga Award (2021). The votes for the second round were 91 points.

    ▲ 2 ▼ 0

    2
  9. 9

    Chihayafuru (Yuki Suetsugu)

    2nd Manga Award (2009). The votes for the second round were 102 points.

    ▲ 2 ▼ 1

    1
  10. 10

    Thermae Romae (Yamazaki Mari)

    3rd Manga Award (2010). The votes for the second round were 94 points.

    ▲ 2 ▼ 1

    1
  11. 11

    Is it something like that (Akiko Higashimura)

    8th Manga Award (2015). The votes for the second round were 80 points.

    ▲ 1 ▼ 0

    1
  12. 12

    Golden Kamuy (Satoru Noda)

    9th Manga Award (2016). The votes for the second round were 91 points.

    ▲ 1 ▼ 0

    1
  13. 13

    Astra in the distance (Kenta Shinohara)

    12th Manga Award (2019). The votes for the second round were 94 points.

    ▲ 1 ▼ 0

    1
  14. 14

    Darwin Incident (Umezawa Shun)

    15th Manga Award (2022). The votes for the second round were 74 points.

    ▲ 1 ▼ 0

    1
  15. 15

    Draw this and die (Minoru Toyota)

    16th Manga Award (2023). The votes for the second round were 102 points.

    ▲ 1 ▼ 1

    0
  16. 16

    Talking about the bride (Kaoru Mori)

    7th Manga Award (2014). The votes for the second round were 94 points.

    ▲ 0 ▼ 0

    0
  17. 17

    To walk through space with you (Doronota Inuhiko)

    17th Manga Award (2024). The votes for the second round were 96 points.

    ▲ 0 ▼ 0

    0
  18. 18

    Alice, even the universe (Kiko Urino)

    18th Manga Award (2025). The votes for the second round were 102 points.

    ▲ 0 ▼ 0

    0

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