Kodansha Manga Award
Encyclopedia
is an annual award for serialized
Serial (literature)
In literature, a serial is a publishing format by which a single large work, most often a work of narrative fiction, is presented in contiguous installments—also known as numbers, parts, or fascicles—either issued as separate publications or appearing in sequential issues of a single periodical...

 manga
Manga
Manga is the Japanese word for "comics" and consists of comics and print cartoons . In the West, the term "manga" has been appropriated to refer specifically to comics created in Japan, or by Japanese authors, in the Japanese language and conforming to the style developed in Japan in the late 19th...

 published in the previous year, sponsored by the publisher Kodansha
Kodansha
, the largest Japanese publisher, produces the manga magazines Nakayoshi, Afternoon, Evening, and Weekly Shonen Magazine, as well as more literary magazines such as Gunzō, Shūkan Gendai, and the Japanese dictionary Nihongo Daijiten. The company has its headquarters in Bunkyō, Tokyo...

. It is currently awarded in four categories: children's, shōnen
Shonen
The term refers to manga marketed to a male audience aged roughly 10 and up. The Kanji characters literally mean "few" and "year", respectively, where the characters generally mean "comic"...

, shōjo
Shojo
The term refers to manga marketed to a female audience roughly between the ages of 10-18. The name romanizes the Japanese 少女 , literally: "little female". Shōjo manga covers many subjects in a variety of narrative and graphic styles, from historical drama to science fiction — often with a strong...

, and general. The awards began in 1977, initially with categories for shōnen and shōjo. The first award for the general category was in 1982, and the first children's category's award was in 2003.

Recipients

Year Children Shōnen Shōjo General
1977 Black Jack
Black Jack (manga)
is a manga written and illustrated by Osamu Tezuka in the 1970s, dealing with the medical adventures of the title character, doctor Black Jack....

, Osamu Tezuka
Osamu Tezuka
was a Japanese cartoonist, manga artist, animator, producer, activist and medical doctor, although he never practiced medicine. Born in Osaka Prefecture, he is best known as the creator of Astro Boy, Kimba the White Lion and Black Jack...

 
The Three-Eyed One
The Three-Eyed One
is a romance SF manga by Osamu Tezuka. It was originally serialized in Weekly Shōnen Magazine from 7 July 1974 through 19 March 1978 and was later published into thirteen tankoubon by Kodansha....

, Osamu Tezuka (tie)
Haikara-san ga Tōru
Haikara-san ga Toru
, also known as Smart-san or Mademoiselle Anne, is a Japanese shōjo manga series by Waki Yamato. It was serialized by Kodansha in the magazine Shōjo Friend from 1975 to 1977...

, Waki Yamato
Waki Yamato
is a Japanese manga artist. She debuted in 1966 with the short story Dorobou Tenshi.Since this debut, Yamato steadily created and published a variety of works in the genre of shōjo manga...

 
Candy Candy
Candy Candy
is a Japanese novel, manga, and anime series. The main character, Candice "Candy" White Ardlay is a blonde American girl with freckles, large emerald green eyes and long, curly hair, worn in pigtails with bows. Candy Candy first appeared in a prose novel by famed Japanese writer Kyoko Mizuki in...

, Kyoko Mizuki
Kyoko Mizuki
is one of the pen names of . She is a Japanese writer who is best known for being the author of the manga and anime series Candy Candy.Kyoko Mizuki won the Kodansha Manga Award for Best Shōjo Manga for Candy Candy in 1977 with Yumiko Igarashi....

 and Yumiko Igarashi
Yumiko Igarashi
is a female Japanese manga artist and artist. She is a resident of Sapporo, Hokkaido. She is also the cousin of fellow manga artist Satsuki Igarashi; a member of Clamp....

 (tie)
1978 Football Hawk, Noboru Kawasaki
Noboru Kawasaki
is a Japanese manga artist. He is most famous for drawing the series Star of the Giants. He won the 14th Shogakukan Manga Award in 1969 for Animal 1 and Inakappe Taishō and the 2nd Kodansha Manga Award for shōnen in 1978 for Football Hawk....

 
Seito Shokun!
Seito Shokun!
is a Japanese manga written and illustrated by Yoko Shoji. It is serialized in Kodansha's Shōjo Friend from 1977 to 1984. The individual chapters were published into 24 tankōbon by Kodansha between February 1978 and June 1985...

, Yōko Shōji
Yoko Shoji
is a Japanese manga artist. She is best known for writing Seito Shokun! , for which she won the Kodansha Manga Award for shōjo in 1978.- External links :*...

 
1979 Tonda Couple
Tonda Couple
is a shōnen manga series by Kimio Yanagisawa. It won the 1979 Kodansha Manga Award for shōnen. It was adapted into a 1980 film directed by Shinji Sōmai.- Awards:3rd Kodansha Manga Award*Won: Shōnen2nd Yokohama Film Festival...

, Kimio Yanagisawa
Kimio Yanagisawa
is a Japanese manga artist born on September 26, 1948 in Gosen-shi, Niigata Prefecture, Japan. His real name is pronounced the same way, but is written as . He graduated from Niigata Prefectural Muramatsu High School two years prior to Yoshifumi Kondō...

 
The Star of Cottonland
The Star of Cottonland
is a shōjo manga by Yumiko Ōshima. It was serialized by Hakusensha in the magazine LaLa from 1978 to 1987 and collected in seven tankōbon volumes. The story is about an abandoned kitten called Chibi-neko who is adopted by a young man named Tokio and grows up believing she is human...

, Yumiko Ōshima
Yumiko Oshima
is a female Japanese manga artist and a member of Year 24 group.She made her debut in 1968 with Paula's Tears in Weekly Margaret.She received the 1973 Japan Cartoonists Association Award for excellence for Mimoza Yashiki de Tsukamaete...

 
1980 Susa-no-O, Gō Nagai
Go Nagai
, better known by the penname , is a Japanese manga artist and a prolific author of science fiction, fantasy, horror and erotica. He made his professional debut in 1967 with Meakashi Polikichi, but is best known for creating Cutie Honey, Devilman, and Mazinger Z in the 1970s. In 2005, he became a...

 
Lemon Report, Mayumi Yoshida 
1981 Sanshirō of 1, 2, Makoto Kobayashi  Ohayō! Spank
Ohayo! Spank
is a Japanese shōjo manga written by Shun'ichi Yukimuro and drawn by Shizue Takanashi. The series has been adapted as an anime television series, broadcast in Japan from 1981 to 1982, and a theatrical movie released in 1982...

, Shun'ichi Yukimuro
Shun'ichi Yukimuro
Shun'ichi Yukimuro is a veteran screenwriter for television anime series. During a career spanning some four decades, Yukimuro has written over 3,000 TV anime scenarios, including episodes of many classic series produced by the Toei Animation studio...

 and Shizue Takanashi
Shizue Takanashi
is a Japanese manga artist known for illustrating the manga series of the girls' anime Ojamajo Doremi. In 1981, she won the Kodansha Manga Award for shōjo for Ohayō! Spank.- External links :...

 
1982 Gakuto Retsuden, Motoka Murakami
Motoka Murakami
is a Japanese manga artist who writes primarily shōnen manga. He won the Kodansha Manga Award for shōnen for Gakuto Retsuden in 1982 and the Shogakukan Manga Award twice, for shōnen for Musashi no Ken in 1984 and for general manga in 1996 for Ron, serialized in Big Comic Original from 1991 to 2006...

 
Yōkihi-den, Suzue Miuchi
Suzue Miuchi
is a Japanese manga artist and author of long running shōjo manga Glass Mask. She was born in Nishinomiya, Japan and grew up in Osaka. She won the Kodansha Manga Award for Youkihi-den and the Japan Cartoonists Association Award ....

 
Karyūdo no Seiza, Machiko Satonaka
Machiko Satonaka
is a Japanese shōjo manga artist. She debuted in 1964 with Pia no Shouzou in Shōjo Friend, for which she received Kodansha New Faces award. She has received multiple awards, including the 1982 Kodansha Manga Award for general manga for Karyūdo no Seiza and a Lifetime Works and Cultural Activities...

1983 The Kabocha Wine
The Kabocha Wine
is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Mitsuru Miura. It was serialized in Kodansha's Weekly Shōnen Magazine from 1981 to 1984...

, Mitsuru Miura
Mitsuru Miura
is a Japanese manga artist. He is best known for the series The Kabocha Wine, which was adapted as an anime television series, and for which he received the 1983 Kodansha Manga Award for shōnen.- External links :...

 
Hi Izuru Tokoro no Tenshi
Hi Izuru Tokoro no Tenshi
is a Japanese manga written and illustrated by Ryoko Yamagishi. It tells a fictionalised account of Prince Shōtoku, a political figure of sixth-century Japan who spread Buddhism, and his unrequited love for Soga no Emishi, which is very unlike the traditionally known stories of these people. It was...

, Ryoko Yamagishi
Ryoko Yamagishi
is a female Japanese manga artist. She is considered to be one of the Year 24 Group. She studied ballet as a child, which plays a part in many of her works. When she read the manga of Machiko Satonaka in 1964, she decided to pursue becoming a manga artist. Although her parents did not agree with...

 
P.S. Genki Desu, Shunpei, Fumi Saimon
Fumi Saimon
is a female Japanese manga artist and novelist. She is best known for the series Tokyo Love Story, which was adapted as a live-action television series. She won the 1983 Kodansha Manga Award for general manga for P.S. Genki Desu, Shunpei and the 1992 Shogakukan Manga Award for general manga for...

1984 Bats & Terry, Yasuichi Ōshima
Yasuichi Oshima
is a Japanese manga artist. In 1984, he won the Kodansha Manga Award for shōnen for Bats & Terry.He is the father of manga artist Towa Oshima.- External links :*...

 
Lady Love
Lady Love (manga)
Lady Love is a Japanese manga series by Hiromu Ono. It won the Kodansha Manga Award for shōjo manga in 1984....

, Hiromu Ono
Hiromu Ono
is a Japanese manga artist. In 1984, she won the Kodansha Manga Award for shōjo for Lady Love.- External links :* at The Ultimate Manga Guide...

 
Akira
Akira (manga)
is a manga series by Katsuhiro Otomo. Set in a post-apocalyptic Neo-Tokyo, the work uses conventions of the cyberpunk genre to detail a saga of turmoil. Initially serialized in the pages of Young Magazine from 1982 until 1990, the work was collected in six volumes by Japanese publisher Kodansha...

, Katsuhiro Otomo
Katsuhiro Otomo
is a Japanese comic book creator, screenwriter and film director. He is best known as the creator of the manga Akira and its animated film adaptation. Otomo has also directed several live-action films, such as the 2006 feature film adaptation of the manga Mushishi.-Biography:Katsuhiro Otomo was...

1985 Bari Bari Densetsu
Bari Bari Densetsu
is an early motorbike racing manga series by Shuichi Shigeno, who went on to create the Initial D series. It was published in 38 volumes between 1983 and 1991 by Kodansha...

, Shuichi Shigeno
Shuichi Shigeno
is a Japanese manga author famous for the anime and manga Initial D. Shigeno has also created Bari Bari Densetsu, Dopkan, and Tunnel Nuketara Sky Blue all prior to the manga that would make him famous in 1995...

 
Okashina Futari, Jūzō Yamasaki
Juzo Yamasaki
is a Japanese manga artist.His best known work is Tsuribaka Nisshi with art by Kenichi Kitami. Yamasaki originally wrote screenplays for Toei, but was laid off and decided to pursue a career in manga instead...

 and Kei Sadayasu
Mahiro Taiken, Naomi Nishi (tie)
1986 Kotaro Makaritoru
Kotaro Makaritoru
is a shōnen manga series written and illustrated by Tatsuya Hiruta. It was published by Kodansha in Shōnen Magazine from 1982 to 1994 and collected in 59 tankōbon volumes, and was followed by two sequel series: Shin Kōtarō Makaritōru!, which ran from 1995 to 2001 and collected in 27 volumes, and...

, Tatsuya Hiruta
Tatsuya Hiruta
is a Japanese manga artist. He is best known for writing the long-running shōnen manga series Kōtarō Makaritōru! and its two sequels, Shin Kōtarō Makaritōru! and Kōtarō Makaritōru! L. In 1986, he won the Kodansha Manga Award for shōnen for Kōtarō Makaritōru!.- External links :*...

 
Yūkan Club
Yūkan Club
is a Japanese manga written and illustrated by Yukari Ichijo. It is serialized in Shueisha's Bessatsu Margaret. Yūkan Club received the 1986 Kodansha Manga Award for the shōjo category. The manga was adapted into an original video animation by Madhouse Studios...

, Yukari Ichijō
Yukari Ichijo
is a Japanese shōjo and josei manga artist. She debuted in 1968 with Yuki no Serenade. In 1986 she received the Kodansha Manga Award for shōjo for Yūkan Club, and in 2007, she received an Excellence Prize in manga at the Japan Media Arts Festival for Pride...

 
Adolf
Adolf (manga)
Adolf, known in Japan as is a manga series made by Dr. Osamu Tezuka.Adolf was published in English by Cadence Books and VIZ Media. The English manga is flipped to read left to right to conform to Western practice....

, Osamu Tezuka
Osamu Tezuka
was a Japanese cartoonist, manga artist, animator, producer, activist and medical doctor, although he never practiced medicine. Born in Osaka Prefecture, he is best known as the creator of Astro Boy, Kimba the White Lion and Black Jack...


What's Michael?
What's Michael?
is a Japanese manga series created by Makoto Kobayashi. In 1984, it began its serialization in the Weekly Morning magazine. The comic shows Michael, an orange American Shorthair tabby cat, his feline friends, and other domesticated pets in a series of humorous episodes.The manga was adapted into...

, Makoto Kobayashi (tie)
1987 Ironfist Chinmi
Ironfist Chinmi
is a Japanese manga series written by Takeshi Maekawa. It was published by Kodansha in Monthly Shōnen Magazine from 1983 to 1997 and collected in 35 tankōbon volumes. It is centered around the story of a boy called Chinmi who learns Kung Fu through the staple manga method of fighting progressively...

, Takeshi Maekawa 
Nana Iro Majikku, Yū Asagiri
Yu Asagiri
, better know by the penname Yū Asagiri , is a female Japanese manga artist from Tokyo, Japan. She made her professional manga debut in 1976. Asagiri received the 1987 Kodansha Manga Award for shōjo for Nana Iro Majikku . Her other works include Golden Cain, Midnight Panther...

 
Actor, Kaiji Kawaguchi
Kaiji Kawaguchi
is a Japanese manga author whose works include Eagle and Zipang. Generally, his stories involve Japan and examine the moral choices that people make in extreme situations. He received the Kodansha Manga Award three times, for Actor in 1987, for The Silent Service in 1990, and for Zipang in 2002...

1988 Mister Ajikko
Mister Ajikko
is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Daisuke Terasawa about a young boy cook. It was later adapted into anime series, produced by TV Tokyo and Sunrise. This show was broadcast from October 8, 1987 to September 28, 1989 with a total of 99 episodes.-Plot:Ajiyoshi Yoichi is a culinary...

, Daisuke Terasawa
Daisuke Terasawa
is a Japanese manga artist. He is best known for writing cooking manga such as Mister Ajikko and Shota no Sushi, which earned him twice the Kodansha Manga Award for shōnen in 1988 and 1996 respectively...

 
Junjō Crazy Fruits, Akemi Matsunae
Akemi Matsunae
is a Japanese shōjo manga artist. She made her debut in 1977 with Yakusoku in Lyrica. In 1988 she won the Kodansha Manga Award for shōjo for Junjō Crazy Fruits.- External links :* at The Ultimate Manga Page...

 
Bonobono
Bonobono
is a yonkoma manga series by Mikio Igarashi. From March 1986 to March 1987, the series ran in the Takeshobo manga magazine Tensai Club before the magazine was replaced with Manga Club, where it has been serialized since April 1987. It has also been serialized in Manga Life since April 1986...

, Mikio Igarashi
Mikio Igarashi
is a Japanese manga artist born 13 January 1955 in the town of Nakaniida , Kami District, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan, though he currently lives in the city of Sendai. He is most well known for his manga series Bonobono and Ninpen Manmaru...


Be-Bop High School, Kazuhiro Kiuchi
Kazuhiro Kiuchi
is a Japanese manga artist and film director. As a manga writer, he is best known for the series Be-Bop High School, which won the 1988 Kodansha Manga Award for shōnen and was adapted as series of live-action movies and as a 9-episode anime OVA series. He was director of one segment of Killers.-...

1989 Meimon! Daisan Yakyūbu, Toshiyuki Mutsu  Chibi Maruko-chan
Chibi Maruko-chan
is a shōjo manga series by Momoko Sakura, later adapted into an anime TV series by Nippon Animation, which originally aired on Fuji Television from January 7, 1990 to September 27, 1992. The series depicts the simple, everyday life of a little girl nicknamed Maruko and her family in suburban...

, Momoko Sakura
Momoko Sakura
, pen name , is a Japanese manga artist from Shimizu, Shizuoka Prefecture. She is the creator of the long-running manga Chibi Maruko-chan , based on her own childhood, and the more surreal fantasy anime series Coji-Coji, which ran from 1997 to 1999...


Shiratori Reiko de Gozaimasu!
Shiratori Reiko de Gozaimasu!
is a shōjo romantic comedy manga by Yumiko Suzuki. It was published by Kodansha in the magazine Mimi from 1988 to 1992 and collected in seven tankōbon volumes. The series was adapted as an anime OVA produced by Ajia-do that was released in 1990, a 11-episode live-action television series broadcast...

, Yumiko Suzuki
Yumiko Suzuki
Yumiko Suzuki is a Japanese sprint canoer who has competed since the mid 2000s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, she earned her best finish of sixth in the K-4 500 m event at Beijing in 2008.-References:*...

 (tie)
Komikku Shōwa-Shi
Komikku Shōwa-Shi
is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Shigeru Mizuki. Komikku Shōwa-shi received the 1989 Kodansha Manga Award for the general category....

, Shigeru Mizuki
Shigeru Mizuki
is a Japanese manga author, most known for his Japanese horror manga GeGeGe no Kitaro . A specialist in stories of yōkai, he is considered a master of the genre...

1990 Shura no Mon
Shura no Mon
is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Masatoshi Kawahara. It was serialized in Kodansha's Monthly Shōnen Magazine from April 1987 to November 1996. The individual chapters were collected and published into 31 tankōbon volumes published between October 1987 and May 1997...

, Masatoshi Kawahara
Masatoshi Kawahara
is a Japanese manga artist. He is best known as the author of the long-running series Shura no Mon and its prequel Shura no Toki, for which he won the Kodansha Manga Award for shōnen in 1989.-External links:* at the Ultimate Manga Page...

 
Pride, Naka Marimura The Silent Service
The Silent Service
is a manga series by Kaiji Kawaguchi. It was published in Kodansha's Weekly Morning manga magazine from 1988 to 1996 and collected in 32 tankōbon volumes. The series was adapted into an anime TV special and OVA series by Sunrise. The first two episodes of the anime were later spliced together and...

, Kaiji Kawaguchi
Kaiji Kawaguchi
is a Japanese manga author whose works include Eagle and Zipang. Generally, his stories involve Japan and examine the moral choices that people make in extreme situations. He received the Kodansha Manga Award three times, for Actor in 1987, for The Silent Service in 1990, and for Zipang in 2002...


Gorillaman, Harold Sakuishi
Harold Sakuishi
, better known by his pen name , is a Japanese manga artist. Sakuishi has a wide variety of interests which include baseball , martial arts, MMA, and music . Each of these has become the basis for his most popular series...

 (tie)
1991 Fighting Spirit, George Morikawa
George Morikawa
is a male Japanese manga author known for the long running series Hajime no Ippo. Hajime no Ippo is a boxing manga, following the main character, Ippo, through his life and boxing career. Hajime no Ippo, as of February 2010, has 90 tankōbon, or volumes, and was adapted into its first anime series...

 
Eien no Nohara, Mieko Ōsaka  Kachō Kōsaku Shima
Kacho Kosaku Shima
is the first in a number of Japanese manga series, by Kenshi Hirokane, about a fictional salaryman named Kōsaku Shima. The series ran from 1983-1992 under this title, winning the 1991 Kodansha Manga Award in the General category. It depicts the life of a salaryman, a Japanese white-collar worker...

, Kenshi Hirokane
Kenshi Hirokane
is a Japanese manga artist. He graduated from Waseda University with a degree in law, then worked for Matsushita Electric for four years, before making his manga debut in 1974 with Kaze Kaoru....


Waru
Waru (manga)
is a japanese Josei manga Written and illustrated by Jun Fukami.The manga was published in Kodansha's semimonthly manga magazine Be・Love from 1988 to 1997. In 1991 manga has win 15th Kodansha Manga Award in general category. Manga was collected in thirty-seven tankōbon volumes...

, Jun Fukami (tie)
1992 Kaze Hikaru: Koshien, Sanbachi Kawa and Tarō Nami  Uchi no Mama ga iu Koto ni wa, Mariko Iwadate
Mariko Iwadate
is a Japanese shōjo manga artist who writes primarily for Margaret and Young You. She won the 1992 Kodansha Manga Award for shōjo for Uchi no Mama ga iu Koto ni wa, and her manga Ichigatsu ni wa Christmas was adapted as an anime OVA in 1991.- External links :* at The Ultimate Manga Page*...

 
Naniwa Kin'yūdō
Naniwa Kin'yūdō
is a Japanese manga series by Yūji Aoki which has been serialized in Weekly Morning since 1990. The series was awarded the 1992 Kodansha Manga Award for general manga and the 1998 Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize Award for Excellence....

, Yūji Aoki
Yuji Aoki
was a Japanese manga artist born in Fukuchiyama, Kyoto, Japan. He is best known for , for which he won the 1992 Kodansha Manga Award for general manga and the 1998 Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize Award for Excellence.Takahiro Kochi was his assistant....

1993 3x3 Eyes, Yuzo Takada
Yuzo Takada
is the pseudonym of , a popular Japanese manga artist. He worked as an assistant for manga artist Fujihiko Hosono before starting his career as an original author...

 
Sailor Moon
Sailor Moon
Sailor Moon, known as , is a media franchise created by manga artist Naoko Takeuchi. Fred Patten credits Takeuchi with popularizing the concept of a team of magical girls, and Paul Gravett credits the series with "revitalizing" the magical-girl genre itself...

, Naoko Takeuchi
Naoko Takeuchi
is a Japanese manga artist who lives in Tokyo, Japan. Takeuchi's works have a wide following among anime and manga fans worldwide. Her most popular work, Sailor Moon, rose to become one of the most recognized manga and anime products to date.-Early life:...

 
Parasyte
Parasyte
is a manga series written and illustrated by Hitoshi Iwaaki, and published in Kodansha's Afternoon magazine from 1990 to 1995.The North American version of the manga was published by Tokyopop. The Tokyopop English-language manga went out of print on May 2, 2005. At the 2006 Comic-Con, Del Rey Manga...

, Hitoshi Iwaaki
1994 Shoot!
Aoki Densetsu Shoot!
is a Japanese anime produced by Toei Animation between November 7, 1993 and December 25, 1994 on the Fuji TV television network; there were fifty-eight episodes. The story revolves around a boy named Toshihiko Tanaka, who has just started at Kakegawa High School in order to play soccer with his...

, Tsukasa Ōshima 
Kimi no Te ga Sasayaite iru, Junko Karube
Junko Karube
is a Japanese shōjo manga artist. She is best known for Kimi no te ga Sasayaite iru , about a romance between a deaf woman and a hearing man, for which she won the 1994 Kodansha Manga Award for shōjo.- External links :...

 
Tetsujin Ganma, Yasuhito Yamamoto
Yasuhito Yamamoto
is a Japanese manga artist. He made his debut in 1980 in Young Jump with a gag-comedy manga, before turning to more serious dramas. He won the 1994 Kodansha Manga Award for general manga for Tetsujin Ganma.- External links :* at The Ultimate Manga Page...

1995 Kinda'ichi Case Files, Yōsaburō Kanari and Fumiya Sato
Fumiya Sato
is a female Japanese manga artist. She is best known for the manga series Kinda'ichi Case Files and Detective School Q. In 1995, she received the Kodansha Manga Award for her work on Kinda'ichi Case Files.-External links:*...

 
Sekai de Ichiban Yasashii Ongaku
Sekai de Ichiban Yasashii Ongaku
is a Japanese manga by Mari Ozawa serialized in Kiss from 1993 to 1999. It won the 19th Kodansha Manga Award for shōjo manga and it was adapted into a 2-episode live-action television drama in 1996.-Volumes:...

, Mari Ozawa
Mari Ozawa
is a Japanese josei manga artist who writes primarily for Kiss and Young You. She won the 1995 Kodansha Manga Award for shōjo for Sekai de Ichiban Yasashii Ongaku.-Works:*Sekai de Ichiban Yasashii Ongaku...

 
Hanada Shōnen-shi, Makoto Isshiki
Makoto Isshiki
is a Japanese manga artist. He is best known for his series Piano no Mori, which has been adapted as an anime movie and received the Grand Prize for manga at the 2008 Japan Media Arts Festival...

1996 Shōta no Sushi, Daisuke Terasawa
Daisuke Terasawa
is a Japanese manga artist. He is best known for writing cooking manga such as Mister Ajikko and Shota no Sushi, which earned him twice the Kodansha Manga Award for shōnen in 1988 and 1996 respectively...

 
Tennen Kokekkō, Fusako Kuramochi
Fusako Kuramochi
is a Japanese shōjo manga artist. She debuted with Megane-chan no hitorigoto, published in the 1972 Autumn issue of Bessatsu Margaret. She left Musashino Art University before graduation....

 
Ping-Pong Club
Ping-Pong Club
is a Japanese manga by Minoru Furuya about the members of a middle school ping-pong club. It was adapted as an anime television series in 1995. In 1996, the manga won the Kodansha Manga Award for general manga. The anime series was released in the U.S. by Central Park Media. Some episodes were...

, Minoru Furuya
Minoru Furuya
is a Japanese manga artist . His debut work was Ike! Inachū takkyū-bu, known in English as Ping-Pong Club, published in Young Magazine. In 1996, he won the Kodansha Manga Award for Ping-Pong Club.- Biography :...

1997 Ryūrōden
Ryuroden
, translated as Legend of the Dragon's Son, is a historical fantasy manga by Yoshito Yamahara. It was serialized by Kodansha in Monthly Shōnen Magazine from 1993 to 2007 and collected in 37 tankōbon volumes; in 2005 it was reprinted in 10 bunkoban volumes. In 1997, it won the Kodansha Manga Award...

, Yoshito Yamahara 
Eight Clouds Rising
Eight Clouds Rising
is a Japanese shōjo manga series by Natsumi Itsuki. It won the 21st Kodansha Manga Award for shōjo. It was adapted in 1997 into an OVA series....

, Natsumi Itsuki
Natsumi Itsuki
is a Japanese shōjo manga artist best known for writing science fiction manga. She debuted in 1979 with Megumi-chan ni Sasageru Comedy in LaLa. She won the 1993 Seiun Award for best science fiction manga for Oz and the 1997 Kodansha Manga Award for shōjo manga for Eight Clouds Rising...

 
Dragon Head
Dragon Head
is a post-apocalyptic disaster manga by Minetaro Mochizuki. It was published by Kodansha in Young Magazine from 1995 and 2000 and collected in ten tankōbon volumes. It is licensed in English by Tokyopop, with Volume 10 released 2008-04-01...

, Minetaro Mochizuki
Minetarō Mochizuki
is a Japanese manga artist. He won the Award for Excellence at the 4th Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize and the Award for General Manga at the 21st Kodansha Manga Award for Dragon Head.-References:...

1998 GTO
Great Teacher Onizuka
, officially abbreviated as GTO, is a Japanese shōnen manga written and illustrated by Tohru Fujisawa. It was originally serialized in Weekly Shōnen Magazine from May 1997 to April 2002. The story focuses on 22-year-old ex-bōsōzoku member Eikichi Onizuka, who becomes a teacher at a private high...

, Tooru Fujisawa
Tooru Fujisawa
is a Japanese manga author. His name is romanized as Tohru Fujisawa on the Tokyopop English-language Great Teacher Onizuka books and as Toru Fujisawa on the Kodansha bilingual releases. His first serialized work was Adesugata Junjou Boy, published from 1989 in Weekly Shonen Magazine...

 
Kodocha
Kodocha
is a manga series by Miho Obana, helped periodically by her sister, Kaori Obana. The series is commonly known under the name Kodocha. The manga won the 1998 Kodansha Manga Award for shōjo. In the year 2007, At the American Anime Awards the anime was nominated for best comedy anime...

, Miho Obana
Miho Obana
is a shōjo manga artist born in Tokyo, Japan.She began her manga career as an assistant to Momoko Sakura, creator of Chibi Maruko-chan. She debuted in 1990 with the Mado no Mukō, which was published in the autumn 1990 issue of Ribon Bikkuri...

 
Tobaku Mokushiroku Kaiji, Nobuyuki Fukumoto
Nobuyuki Fukumoto
is a Japanese manga artist well known throughout the Far East for his unique and original gambling ideas, deep psychological analysis of characters and distinct artstyle. Yakuza and gambling are recurring themes in his manga. In English speaking countries, he is known best as the author of Akagi, a...


Sōten Kōro, King Gonta
1999 Chameleon
Chameleon (manga)
is a Japanese manga series created by Atsushi Kase which was serialized in Kodansha's Weekly Shōnen Magazine between 1990 and 1999; forty-seven bound volumes were released. The manga won the twenty-third round of the Kodansha Manga Award in 1999 for shōnen manga, beating out titles such as One...

, Atsushi Kase 
Peach Girl
Peach Girl
is a Japanese shōjo manga series by Miwa Ueda. It was published in Japan by Kodansha in Bessatsu Friend from 1998 to 2003 and collected in 18 volumes...

, Miwa Ueda
Miwa Ueda
is a Japanese manga artist known for her works like Peach Girl and Angel Wars. In 1999, she received the Kodansha Manga Award for shōjo for Peach Girl....

 
Wangan Midnight
Wangan Midnight
is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Michiharu Kusunoki and serialized in Shogakukan's Big Comic Spirits since 1990, later in Kodansha's Young Magazine. In 1999, it won the Kodansha Manga Award for general manga....

, Michiharu Kusunoki
Michiharu Kusunoki
is a Japanese manga artist from Tosa, Kōchi. He is most known for its street racing series Wangan Midnight serialized in Kodansha weekly Young Magazine and which has been adapted into a 26 episode anime series, a series of video games, and a movie....

2000 Legendary Gambler Tetsuya
Legendary Gambler Tetsuya
is a gambling manga written by Fūmei Sai and Yasushi Hoshino. In 2000, it won the Kodansha Manga Award for shōnen. It has been adapted by Toei Animation as a 20-episode anime television series broadcast on TV Asahi from 7 October 2000 to 24 March 2001....

, Fūmei Sai and Yasushi Hoshino 
Guru Guru Pon-chan
Guru Guru Pon-chan
is a manga by Satomi Ikezawa about a Labrador puppy, named Ponta, who turns into a human and falls in love with Mirai Iwaki, who's very popular in his school. In 2000, it won the Kodansha Manga Award for shōjo...

, Satomi Ikezawa
Satomi Ikezawa
is a Japanese manga artist. Her works include Guru Guru Pon-chan, Othello, and Sue-chan wa Himitsu. In 2000, she received the Kodansha Manga Award for shōjo for Guru Guru Pon-chan.-Works:*Anatomy of a Seventeen-Year-Old*Kattobi New Yorker...

 
Vagabond
Vagabond (manga)
is an ongoing manga by Takehiko Inoue, portraying a fictionalized account of Miyamoto Musashi's life, on a loose adaptation of Eiji Yoshikawa's novel Musashi....

, Eiji Yoshikawa
Eiji Yoshikawa
was a Japanese historical novelist, probably one of the best and most famous authors in the genre. Among his most well-known novels, most are revisions of past works. He was mainly influenced by classics such as The Tale of the Heike, Tale of Genji, Outlaws of the Marsh, and Romance of the Three...

 and Takehiko Inoue
Takehiko Inoue
is a Japanese manga artist, best known for the basketball manga Slam Dunk, which has become a success both in Japan and overseas. Many of his works are about basketball, Inoue himself being a huge fan of the sport, and many Japanese children started to play basketball because they read the manga...

2001 Love Hina
Love Hina
is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Ken Akamatsu. It was originally serialized in Weekly Shōnen Magazine by Kodansha from October 21, 1998 to October 31, 2001 and was published in 14 tankōbon volumes by Kodansha. The series tells the story of Keitaro Urashima and his attempts to...

, Ken Akamatsu
Ken Akamatsu
is a Japanese manga artist from Tokyo.Sailor Moon was his introduction to anime and manga fandom.In his teens, Akamatsu applied himself to Film Study . Eventually, he became famous as an illustrator featured in Comiket . He used the pen name...

 
Fruits Basket
Fruits Basket
, sometimes abbreviated , is a Japanese shōjo manga series written and illustrated by Natsuki Takaya. It was serialized in the semi-monthly Japanese magazine Hana to Yume, published by Hakusensha, from 1999 to 2006. The series was also adapted into a 26-episode anime series, directed by Akitaro...

, Natsuki Takaya
Natsuki Takaya
is the penname of a Japanese manga artist best known for creating the series Fruits Basket, which at one time was the best selling manga in the world. She was born on July 7, 1973. Takaya is left-handed and once revealed that she wanted to be a manga artist since first grade, when her sister...

 
20th Century Boys
20th Century Boys
is a science fiction-mystery manga created by Naoki Urasawa. It won the 2001 Kodansha Manga Award in the General category, an Excellence Prize at the 2002 Japan Media Arts Festival, and the 2003 Shogakukan Manga Award in the General category. The last two volumes of the story were serialized under...

, Naoki Urasawa
Naoki Urasawa
is a Japanese manga artist.-Early life:He graduated from Meisei University with a degree in economics. In 2008, Urasawa had a guest teaching post at Nagoya Zokei University, where he taught classes on manga.-Manga career:...

2002 Cromartie High School
Cromartie High School
by Eiji Nonaka, is a Japanese comedy manga, which was subsequently adapted into an anime and a 2005 live-action movie titled Cromartie High - The Movie directed by Yūdai Yamaguchi. It follows the everyday life of Takashi Kamiyama and his odd classmates at Cromartie High School, an infamous school...

, Eiji Nonaka
Beck, Harold Sakuishi (tie)
Antique Bakery
Antique Bakery
is a manga by Fumi Yoshinaga depicting the lives of four men who work in a small bakery. It was published in Japan by Shinshokan and in English by Digital Manga Publishing. The series won the 2002 Kodansha Manga Award for shōjo manga...

, Fumi Yoshinaga
Fumi Yoshinaga
is a Japanese manga artist known for her shōjo and shōnen-ai works.-Personal:Fumi Yoshinaga was born in Tokyo, Japan in 1971. She attended the prestigious Keio University in Tokyo....

 
Zipang
Zipang (manga)
is a Japanese manga written and illustrated by Kaiji Kawaguchi. It was first serialized in Kodansha's Weekly Morning magazine from 2000 until 2009, and published in 43 volumes. Its popularity has extended to middle schoolers who enjoy history...

, Kaiji Kawaguchi
Kaiji Kawaguchi
is a Japanese manga author whose works include Eagle and Zipang. Generally, his stories involve Japan and examine the moral choices that people make in extreme situations. He received the Kodansha Manga Award three times, for Actor in 1987, for The Silent Service in 1990, and for Zipang in 2002...

2003 Mirmo!
Mirmo!
is a manga series written by Hiromu Shinozuka and serialized in Ciao magazine from 2001 Jul through 2005 Dec. It was also published in twelve collected volumes by Shogakukan. The manga series was awarded the 2003 Kodansha Manga Award and the 2004 Shogakukan Manga Award for children's manga. The...

, Hiromu Shinozuka
Hiromu Shinozuka
is a Japanese manga artist. She writes in Ciao magazine. She debuted with Takkyu Shōjo in 1999. Her manga Mirmo! received the Kodansha Manga Award for children's manga in 2003 and the Shogakukan Manga Award for children's manga in 2004, and there is a 172-episode anime adaptation as well.-External...

 
Kunimitsu no Matsuri, Yūma Andō
Tadashi Agi
is a Japanese manga storywriter, novelist and screenwriter. His original name is Shin Kibayashi . He graduated from Tokyo Metropolitan Musashi Senior High School and Waseda University School of Economics & Political Science. The penname "Tadashi Agi" is shared with his sister...

 and Masashi Asaki
Masashi Asaki
is a Japanese manga artist. He is best known as the artist for the series Psychometrer Eiji and Kunimitsu no Matsuri, both written by Tadashi Agi under the name Ando Yuma, both of which have been adapted as live-action dramas. His current series, which he both writes and draws, is Denshi no Hoshi....

 
Honey and Clover
Honey and Clover
is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Chika Umino. It is also known as and H&C. It is published by Shueisha, initially serialized from June 2000 to July 2006 in the magazines CUTiEcomic, Young YOU, and Chorus, and collected in ten bound volumes...

, Chika Umino 
Tramps Like Us
Tramps Like Us
is a Japanese josei manga series by Yayoi Ogawa. It is about Sumire, a young professional woman who takes in a younger man as a pet, and her attempts to keep her coworkers and conventionally-perfect boyfriend from finding out about her pet...

, Yayoi Ogawa (tie)
The Life of the Genius Professor Yanagizawa, Kazumi Yamashita
Kazumi Yamashita (manga artist)
is a Japanese manga artist. Although she writes primarily older shōjo manga, she is best known for The Life of Genius Professor Yanagizawa, which was published in the seinen magazine Morning, and for which she received the 2003 Kodansha Manga Award for general manga.- External links :* * at The...

2004 Ultra Ninja Scrolls, Kazuhiko
Kazuhiko
- People :* Kazuhiko Aoki, a video game producer* Kazuhiko Chiba, J. League footballer, played for Albirex Niigata.* Kazuhiko Hasegawa, film director* Kazuhiko Hosokawa, professional golfer* Kazuhiko Ikematsu, freestyle wrestler* Kazuhiko Inoue, a voice actor...

 
Shana Ō Yoshitsune, Hirofumi Sawada  Nodame Cantabile
Nodame Cantabile
is a manga by Tomoko Ninomiya. It was serialized in Japan by Kodansha in the magazine Kiss from July 2001 to October 2009 and collected in 23 tankōbon volumes. A two-volume sequel, called Nodame Cantabile: Opera Chapter, which began serialization in the 10 December 2009 issue of Kiss, was released...

, Tomoko Ninomiya
Tomoko Ninomiya
is a Japanese manga artist, based in Saitama Prefecture, Japan. In 1989, she made her debut with London Doubt Boys.She is best known for her series Nodame Cantabile, which received the 2004 Kodansha Manga Award for shōjo manga...

 
Basilisk: The Kouga Ninja Scrolls
Basilisk: The Kouga Ninja Scrolls
is a Japanese manga and anime series. The manga was authored by Masaki Segawa and published in Japan in 2003 and 2004, based on the novel The Kouga Ninja Scrolls by Futaro Yamada published in 1958. The anime, produced in 2005 by Gonzo Studios, closely follows the manga aside from a handful of...

, Fūtarō Yamada
Futaro Yamada
was the pen name of , a Japanese author.He was born in Yabu, Hyogo.In 1947, he wrote a mystery novel and was awarded a prize by a novel magazine .He was discovered by Edogawa Rampo and became a novelist....

 and Masaki Segawa
2005 Sugar Sugar Rune
Sugar Sugar Rune
or Sugar² Rune is a manga by Moyoco Anno and an anime TV series based upon it. The anime series' time slot was replaced by Demashita! Powerpuff Girls Z in mid-2006.- Story :...

, Moyoco Anno
Moyoco Anno
is a Japanese manga artist and a fashion writer, with numerous books published in both categories. Her manga and books have attained considerable popularity among young women in Japan. Though she primarily writes manga of the josei demographic, her most popular series, Sugar Sugar Rune, is...

 
Capeta
Capeta
is a Japanese sports manga and anime about kart racing by Masahito Soda. The manga won the Kodansha Manga Award for shōnen in 2005.The series consists of three separate arcs. The first is about Capeta's first experiences with kart racing at the age of 10...

, Masahito Soda
Masahito Soda
is a Japanese manga artist. Soda studied at Nihon University, but left prior to graduating. He worked as an assistant for Taku Kitazaki, and debuted in 1990 with GET ROCK, published in Magazine Special...

 
Oi Pītan!!, Risa Itō
Risa Ito
, also romanized as Risa Itou, is a Japanese manga artist. She won the 2005 Kodansha Manga Award for shōjo for Oi Pītan!! and the 2006 Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize Short Story Award for One Woman, Two Cats, Oi Piitan!!, and Onna no Mado. Her manga Oruchuban Ebichu was adapted by Gainax as an anime...


A Perfect Day for Love Letters
A Perfect Day for Love Letters
is a Japanese manga short story series written and illustrated by George Asakura. Each story depicts a relationship that revolves around the use of love letters. The stories were originally published by Kodansha in the shōjo manga magazine Bessatsu Friend, and collected in two bound volumes...

, George Asakura
George Asakura
is a Japanese manga artist. She made her debut in 1995 with Punky Cake Junkie, which was published in the magazine Bessatsu Friend DX Juliet. She is best known for A Perfect Day for Love Letters, for which she received the 2005 Kodansha Manga Award for shōjo manga, and Knock Your Heart Out!...

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Dragon Zakura
Dragon Zakura
is a Japanese manga by Norifusa Mita, which won the 2005 Kodansha Manga Award for general manga and an Excellence Prize at the 2005 Japan Media Arts Festival. It was adapted into live action television series of the same name broadcast on TBS in 2005.- Plot :...

, Mita Norifusa
2006 Kitchen Princess
Kitchen Princess
is a shōjo manga series written by Miyuki Kobayashi and drawn by Natsumi Andō. It won the Kodansha Manga Award for children's manga in 2006. and is published by Kodansha in Japan and by Del Rey Manga in the USA....

, Miyuki Kobayashi and Natsumi Andō
Natsumi Ando
is a Japanese manga artist. She is best known for Zodiac P.I. as well as Kitchen Princess, for which she won the Kodansha Manga Award for children's manga in 2006.-Works:* * * * ; English translation: Zodiac P.I....

 
Air Gear
Air Gear
is a shōnen manga written and illustrated by Ito "Oh Great" Ōgure. Air Gear revolves around the life of Itsuki Minami "Ikki", also known as "Baby Face", "Lil Crow", and his friends. The story follows their use of Air Treks, an in-universe invention derived from inline skates...

, Oh! Great
Oh! great
Oh! great, whose real name is , is a Japanese manga artist most recognized for the manga series Tenjho Tenge and Air Gear. In 2006, he received the Kodansha Manga Award for shōnen for Air Gear. Oh! great also created the adult series Silky Whip...

 
Life
Life (manga)
is a shōjo manga series created by Keiko Suenobu, a manga creator well known for her work on Vitamin and Happy Tomorrow. Life was serialized in Bessatsu Friend, a publication of Kodansha, and deals with many controversial topics such as self-mutilation, bullying, rape, suicide, and manipulation...

, Keiko Suenobu
Keiko Suenobu
is a female Japanese shōjo manga artist from Kitakyūshū, Fukuoka. In 2006, Suenobu's manga series, Life won the Kodansha Manga Award for best shōjo manga.- Works : , English translation: Life...

 
Mushishi
Mushishi
is a manga series written and illustrated by Yuki Urushibara, published in Kodansha's Afternoon magazine from 1999 to August 2008.The manga was adapted into an anime television series in 2005. The Artland production was directed by Hiroshi Nagahama...

, Yuki Urushibara
Yuki Urushibara
is a Japanese manga artist. She is best known for the series Mushishi, for which she received an Excellence Prize for manga at the 2003 Japan Media Arts Festival and the 2006 Kodansha Manga Award for general manga...

2007 Tenshi no Frypan
Tenshi no Frypan
is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Etsushi Ogawa. It was serialized in Kodansha's Comic Bom Bom, which was aimed at elementary-aged boys. Tenshi no Frypan received the 2007 Kodansha Manga Award for the children's category....

, Etsushi Ogawa
Etsushi Ogawa
is a Japanese manga artist . He graduated from Keio University with a degree in economics. He is most famous for the manga Chūka Ichiban, which was made into an anime.In 2007, he won the 31st Kodansha Manga Award for children's manga for Tenshi no Frypan....

 
Sayonara Zetsubō Sensei
Sayonara Zetsubo Sensei
is a Japanese manga by Kōji Kumeta, serialized in Weekly Shōnen Magazine. It is a comedy about a teacher who takes all aspects of life, word and culture in the most negative light possible. It satirizes politics, media, and Japanese society...

, Kōji Kumeta
Kōji Kumeta
, is a Japanese gag manga artist. His most famous works are Go!! Southern Ice Hockey Club, Katte ni Kaizō and Sayonara Zetsubō Sensei. His other major works include √P Root Paradise, Sodatte Darling!! and...


Dear Boys: Act 2
Dear Boys
is a sports manga by Hiroki Yagami, published by Kodansha in Monthly Shōnen Magazine. As of June 2007, the Dear Boys series has 25 volumes in total, including the Dear Boys: The Early Days and Dear Boys: Act 2...

, Hiroki Yagami
Hiroki Yagami
is a Japanese manga artist. In 2007, he won the 31st Kodansha Manga Award for shōnen manga for Dear Boys Act II.-Works:* Futari ni Omakase* Dear Boys** Dear Boys The Early Days** Dear Boys Act II** Dear Boys Act III* G-Taste-References:...

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I.S., Chiyo Rokuhana  Ōkiku Furikabutte
Okiku Furikabutte
, often shortened to just , is a baseball manga series by Asa Higuchi, serialized in the monthly seinen Afternoon magazine since 2003. It has been adapted into a TV anime series, animated by A-1 Pictures, which premiered in Japan on TBS...

, Asa Higuchi
Asa Higuchi
is a female Japanese manga artist, born in Urawa, Saitama Prefecture . She graduated from Saitama Prefecture's prestigious Urawanishi High School and Hosei University's department of psychology, with a major in sports psychology...

2008 Shugo Chara!
Shugo Chara!
, also known as My Guardian Characters, is a Japanese shōjo manga series created by the manga author duo, Peach-Pit. The story centers on elementary school girl Amu Hinamori, whose popular exterior, referred to as "cool and spicy" by her classmates, contrasts with her introverted personality...

, Peach-Pit
PEACH-PIT
is a female manga artist duo in Japan, made up of and . Their group name derives from the diner hangout Peach-Pit from the TV show Beverly Hills, 90210. Although both have similar styles, with some artwork it is possible to identify which artist drew it. Both are known for their bishōjo styled works...

 
Saikyō! Toritsu Aoizaka Kōkō Yakyūbu
Saikyo! Toritsu Aoizaka Koko Yakyubu
is a shōnen manga by Motoyuki Tanaka. The manga began its serialization in Shōnen Sunday from 2005 vol. 6 and ended in 2010 vol. 20. In 2008 the series won the Kodansha Manga Award in the shōnen category.-Story:...

, Motoyuki Tanaka 
Kimi ni Todoke
Kimi ni Todoke
is a romance shōjo manga by . It has been published by Shueisha in Bessatsu Margaret since 2005 and collected in 14 tankōbon volumes as of September 2011. In 2008, it won the Best Shōjo Manga award in the 32nd Annual Kodansha Manga Award. The series was also nominated for the first Manga Taisho...

, Karuho Shiina 
Moyashimon
Moyashimon
Moyasimon: Tales of Agriculture, known in Japan as , is a manga series created by Masayuki Ishikawa. It has been serialized in Kodansha's seinen magazine Evening since August 2004. It won the 2008 Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize for Grand Prize and the 2008 Kodansha Manga Award for general manga...

, Masayuki Ishikawa
2009 Meitantei Yumemizu Kiyoshirō Jiken Note, Kaoru Hayamine and Kei Enue
Kei Enue
is a female Japanese shōjo manga artist. Her work has been serialized in Kodansha's Nakayoshi magazine, except for her last manga which ran in KC Deluxe.Her manga Channel W has been published in Spain by Planeta DeAgostini.-List of works:...

 
Q.E.D.
Q.E.D. (manga)
is a detective manga by Motohiro Katou. The main character Sou Touma encounters a variety of mystery cases. Sou often works in tandem with his friend and potential love interest Kana, with him supplying the brain while she acts as brawn....

, Motohiro Katou
Motohiro Katou
is a Japanese manga artist, best known for creating the Q.E.D. series.He made his debut on game-related works for Enix. Presently he publishes his detective manga at Kodansha.In 2009, he received the Kodansha Manga Award for his work on Q.E.D..- Works :...


Fairy Tail
Fairy Tail
is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Hiro Mashima. It has been serialized in Weekly Shōnen Magazine since August 23, 2006, and has been published by Kodansha in 29 tankōbon volumes . An ongoing anime produced by A-1 Pictures and Satelight was released in Japan on October 12, 2009,...

, Hiro Mashima
Hiro Mashima
is a Japanese manga artist. He is most known for his fantasy manga Groove Adventure Rave, published by Kodansha's Weekly Shonen Magazine, from 1999 to 2005. The series was later adapted into an anime. However, the anime adaption was cancelled before it could complete the series.In 2003, he...

 
Kiyoku Yawaku
Kiyoku Yawaku
is a Japanese shōjo manga series by Ryo Ikuemi. It won the 2009 Kodansha Manga Award for shōjo....

, Ryo Ikuemi
Ryo Ikuemi
is a Japanese shōjo manga artist. She writes mainly for Margaret, where she debuted in 1979 at age 15 with Maggie. She received the 2000 Shogakukan Manga Award for shōjo for Bara-Iro no Ashita , and the 2009 Kodansha Manga Award for shōjo for Kiyoku Yawaku...

 
Ah! My Goddess, Kōsuke Fujishima
Kosuke Fujishima
is a Japanese manga artist.Born in Chiba, Japan, he first came to public attention as an editor of Puff magazine, his first job after completing high school. Fujishima originally intended to be a draftsman, but took the editorial role after failing to get a drafting apprenticeship...

2010 Inazuma Eleven
Inazuma Eleven (manga)
is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Tenya Yabuno. It is based on the Level-5 video game series of the same title. The manga has been published by Shogakukan in CoroCoro Comic since the June 2008 issue...

, Ten'ya Yabuno 
Ace of Diamond
Ace of Diamond
is a shōnen baseball manga written and illustrated by Yūji Terajima and published by Kodansha. It has been serialized by Weekly Shōnen Magazine since 2006. In 2008, Ace of Diamond received the Shogakukan Manga Awards for the shōnen category...

, Yūji Terajima
Yuji Terajima
is a Japanese manga artist, born in Mannō, Kagawa. He is the writer and illustrator of the baseball manga, Daiya no Ace which won the 2008 Shogakukan Manga Award in the Shōnen category....

 
Kuragehime
Kuragehime
is a Japanese josei manga series written and illustrated by Akiko Higashimura. It began serialization in the Kodansha manga magazine Kiss on November 10, 2008. An 11-episode anime television series based on the manga was produced by Brain's Base and aired on Fuji TV's Noitamina programming block...

, Akiko Higashimura
Akiko Higashimura
is a Japanese manga artist from Miyazaki, Japan. Higashimura debuted in the Japanese seinen manga magazine Weekly Morning. Higashimura later became more notable for her work on Kisekae Yuka-chan which debuted in YOU magazine...

 
Giant Killing
Giant Killing
is an ongoing Japanese football manga series created by Masaya Tsunamoto. A 26-episode anime adaptation animated by Studio DEEN began airing in Japan on the BS hi network on April 4, 2010. In 2010, it won the Kodansha Manga Award for best general manga....

, Masaya Tsunamoto
2011 Honto Ni Atta! Reibai Sensei, Hidekichi Matsumoto  Shingeki no Kyojin
Shingeki no Kyojin
is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Hajime Isayama, which is set in a world where the remains of the human population live inside cities surrounded by enormous walls due to the sudden appearance of the Titans, gigantic humanoid creatures who devour humans seemingly without reason...

, Hajime Isayama 
Chihayafuru
Chihayafuru
is a manga series written and illustrated by Yuki Suetsugu, serialised in Be Love and published by Kodansha. It is about a school girl, Chihaya Ayase, who after seeing her sister become a fashion model, is inspired by a new classmate to take up Hyakunin Isshu karuta competitively...

, Yuki Suetsugu
Yuki Suetsugu
is a Japanese manga artist. Her career was put on hiatus after she was discovered of being accountable for plagiarism, including tracing. She later resumed her work on March 2007.She debuted in 1992 in Kodansha's Nakayoshi magazine with Taiyō no Romance...

 
March comes in like a lion
March Comes in Like a Lion
is an ongoing manga series by Chica Umino, best known for Honey and Clover. It began serialization in Hakusensha's seinen manga magazine Young Animal from its fourteenth issue in 2007 . A television commercial announcing the series was also aired by Hakusensha on numerous Japanese television...

, Chika Umino
Chūya Koyama, George Asakura
George Asakura
is a Japanese manga artist. She made her debut in 1995 with Punky Cake Junkie, which was published in the magazine Bessatsu Friend DX Juliet. She is best known for A Perfect Day for Love Letters, for which she received the 2005 Kodansha Manga Award for shōjo manga, and Knock Your Heart Out!...

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