First Annual Manga Taisho Award Noms Announced
anime!anime! has the manga!manga! news of the nominations for the first annual Manga Taisho awards, whose nominees are decided mostly by booksellers who specialize in manga. There are some familiar names on the list, particularly to me…
Fumi Yoshinaga– whose manga Antique Bakery I declared to be underrated –scored THREE nominations in the awards. I.e. 25%. She was nominated for her historical drama Ooku (I noticed some sites called it Ohoku, which may give the incorrect idea that it’s pronounced oh-hoh-ku, but if romanized directly it’s actually Oooku (おおおく), which looks weird in English, so I went with Ooku, which anyone who knows the basics of Japanese pronunciation will get is pronounced “ohh-ku”– just FYI), which also won a Shogakukan award a year or two ago, if I remember correctly.
The other two titles she was nominated for were Kinou Nani Tabeta? (”what did you eat yesterday?”) and Flower of Life. The latter is not BL; I’m not sure about the former but BL isn’t usually given awards, so I bet it’s not. (For those unaware, Fumi Yoshinaga is best known in America for her BL manga, though Japan knows better than to ignore her non-BL works!)
The rest of the nominations are:
- Umi Machi Diary 1 Semishigure no Yamugoro (”Beach Town Diary 1 The Time the Cricket Chirping Stops”) by Akimi Yoshida
- Gaku (”Mountain”) by Shinichi Ishizuka
- Kimi ni Todoke (”Reaching You”) by Karuho Shiina
- Koukoku no Shugosha (”Imperial Guards”) by Daisuke Satou and Yuu Itou
- Tomehane! Suzuri Koukou Shodoubu (”Tomehane! Suzuri High School Calligraphy Club)”) by Katsutoshi Kawai
- Natsume Yuujinchou (”Natsume Friend Directory”) by Yuki Midorikawa
- Himawari Kenichi Legend (”Sunflower Legend of Kenichi”) by Akiko Higashimura
- Moyashimon (could be translated as “Gangly Beansprout Children,” ha!) by Masayuki Ishikawa
- Yotsubato! (”Yotsuba&!”) by Kiyohiko Azuma
Congratulations, Yoshinaga-sensei! @_@ And everyone else too. ;)
Tags: awards, fumi-yoshinaga, kiyohiko azuma, manga taisho, moyashimon, yotsuba&
February 20th, 2008 at 10:31 pm
I’m cheering for Yoshinaga Fumi ^_^
“Kinou Nani Tabeta?” is seinen because it’s running in Weekly Morning (Kodansha’s seinen magazine)
March 11th, 2008 at 12:14 pm
Akimi Yoshida is still making manga?! Dude! I thought she retired! As much as I love Fumi Yoshinaga, I’m rooting for Yoshida-sensei this time, because she’s probably a lot closer to retirement. Either way, though, everybody wins.