Who Needs Oscars When You’ve Got Shogakukan Awards?
The 21st Shogakukan Awards were held in Japan yesterday, and anime!anime! notes winners in the four categories: Kids, Shounen, Shoujo, and General Audience.
The outstanding General Audience manga were Takeshi Natsuhara’s swindler drama Kurosagi and Bambino!, Sekiya Tetsuji’s cooking manga which got a live-action drama adaptation in April ‘07. (Kurosagi had a drama adaptation in ‘06, and it looks like a live-action movie is hitting theaters in Japan this march, too.)
Baseball manga Daiya no A, by Yuuji Terajima, picked up the outstanding Shounen manga award, and the winner in the shoujo category was Boku no Hatsukoi wo Kimi ni Sasagu (”I Dedicate my First Love to You”) by Kotomi Aoki, who some may know is also the mangaka behind Boku wa Imouto ni Koi wo Suru (”I’m In Love with my Little Sister”).
And finally, the winner in the kids’ category is Keshikasukun by Noriyuki Murase.
Original source: Shogakukan
Secondary source: anime!anime!
Tags: awards, shogakukan