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Hiromu Arakawa's Silver Spoon Wins 5th Manga Taisho Award
posted on by Egan Loo
Creator Hiromu Arakawa received this year's Manga Taisho (Cartoon Grand Prize) for her Silver Spoon (Gin no Saji) series. Arakawa thanked the judges, her assistants, her family, and her fans, and she also drew the following illustration upon receiving the award:
Unlike many other manga prizes which are chosen by the editors of the manga publishers themselves, the Manga Taisho nominating committee is mostly composed of the bookstore staffers who are in charge of their respective stores' manga sections. The awards are also limited to works published last year with eight or less volumes to promote relatively newer works. The committee nominated 15 works this year.
Shinichi Ishizuka won the first ever Manga Taisho for his Gaku - Minna no Yama work in 2008, and Mari Yamazaki and Chica Umino won the next awards for their Thermae Romae and March comes in like a lion manga, respectively.
Manga Taisho 2012 Final Results
Silver Spoon Hiromu Arakawa
76 points
Giga Tokyo Toy BoxUme
61 points
Nobunaga Concerto Ayumi Ishii
57 points
Shōwa Genroku Rakugo ShinjūHaruko Kumota
49 points
25-ji no Bakansu (1 a.m. Vacation)Haruko Ichikawa
46 points
DriftersKouta Hirano
Published by Dark Horse Comics in North America
43 points
GurazeniYūji Moritaka, Keiji Adachi
41 points
I am a HeroKengo Hanazawa
40 points
GetenrouMasakazu Ishiguro
37 points
Takasugi-san's ObentoNozomi Yanahara
37 points
Hibi Rock Katsumasa Enokiya
32 points
Flowers of EvilShūzō Oshimi
To be published by Vertical in North America
28 points
Shigatsu wa Kimi no UsoNaoshi Arakawa
27 points
Hozuki no Reitetsu Natsumi Eguchi
24 points
Tonari no Seki-kunTakuma Morishige
12 points
Source: Mainichi Shimbun's Mantan Web
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