Tezuka_Osamu_Cultural_Prize

Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize

Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize

Award for manga


Named after Osamu Tezuka, the Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize (手塚治虫文化賞, Tezuka Osamu Bunkashō) is a yearly manga prize awarded to manga artists or their works that follow the Osamu Tezuka manga approach founded and sponsored by Asahi Shimbun. The prize has been awarded since 1997, in Tokyo, Japan.

Osamu Tezuka, the prize's namesake, pictured in 1951

Current prizes categories

  • Grand Prize – for the excellent work during the year
  • Creative Award – for the creator with innovative or epoch-making expression and fresh talent
  • Short story Award – for the excellent work or creator of the short story
  • Special Award – for the person or group who contributed to extend the culture of manga

Prizes winners

1997

1998

1999

Naoki Urasawa, two-time recipient of the Grand Prize (1999, 2005)

2000

2001

2002

2003

2004

2005

2006

2007

  • Grand Prize: Ryoko Yamagishi for Terpsichora (The Dancing Girl; Maihime Τερψιχόρα)[34]
  • Creative Award: Nobuhisa Nozoe, Kazuhisa Iwata and Kyojin Ōnishi for Shinsei Kigeki (Divine Comedy)[35]
  • Short story Award: Hiromi Morishita for Ōsaka Hamlet[36]

2008

Osaka International Institute for Children's Literature, 2008 recipient of the Special Award

2009

2010

  • Grand Prize: Yoshihiro Yamada for Hyouge Mono
  • Short story Award: Mari Yamazaki for Thermae Romae
  • New Artist Prize : Haruko Ichikawa for Mushi to Uta
  • Special Award: Yoshihiro Yonezawa to wide achievements of the collection and the commentary activity of basic material of the cartoon research.

2011

2012

  • Grand Prize: Hitoshi Iwaaki for Historie
  • New Artist Prize: Yu Itō for Shut Hell
  • Short Work Prize: Roswell Hosoki for his work in creating Sake no Hosomichi, and other manga.
  • Special Award: "That Weekly Shōnen Jump" - a specific copy of the magazine's 16th issue of 2011 that was shared by over 100 children at the Shiokawa Shoten bookstore in Itsutsubashi, Sendai immediately after the Great East Japan earthquake[37]

2013

  • Grand Prize: Yasuhisa Hara for Kingdom
  • New Artist Prize: Miki Yamamoto for Sunny Sunny Ann!
  • Short Work Prize: Yoshiie Gōda for Kikai-Jikake no Ai (Love of Machine)

2014

2015

  • Grand Prize: Yoiko Hoshi for Aisawa Riku
  • New Creator Prize: Yoshitoki Ōima for A Silent Voice
  • Short Work Prize: Sensha Yoshida for his works as a whole
  • Special Prize: Chikako Mitsuhashi for Chiisana Koi no Monogatari

2016

2017

2018

2019

2020

Kan Takahama, 2020 recipient of the Grand Prize

2021

2022

  • Grand Prize: Uoto for Chi: On the Movements of the Earth[40]
  • New Creator Prize: Natsuko Taniguchi for Kyōshitsu no Katasumi de Seishun wa Hajimaru and Konya Sukiyaki da yo
  • Short Work Prize: Izumi Okaya for Ii Toshi o and Hakumokuren wa Kirei ni Chiranai

2023

2024

  • Grand Prize: Mari Yamazaki, Miki Tori for PLINIVS[42]
  • New Creator Prize: Akihito Sakaue for Kanda Gokura-chō Shokunin-Banashi
  • Short Work Prize: Miri Masuda for Tsuyukusa Natsuko no Isshō
  • Special Prize: COMITIA for contributing to the cultural spread of manga.

See also


References

  1. 第1回 マンガ大賞 藤子・F・不二雄 『ドラえもん』(小学館) (in Japanese). Asahi Shimbun. Retrieved July 18, 2010.
  2. "第9回 2005". Asahi Shimbun (in Japanese). Retrieved 2021-10-06.
  3. Loo, Egan (April 22, 2012). "Historie Wins 16th Tezuka Osamu Prizes' Top Award". Anime News Network. Retrieved June 6, 2022.
  4. Pineda, Rafael Antonio (April 27, 2020). "Nyx no Lantern, Sazae-san's Machiko Hasegawa Win Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prizes". Anime News Network. Retrieved April 28, 2020.
  5. Pineda, Rafael Antonio (April 27, 2021). "Land, Frieren, Demon Slayer Manga Win Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prizes". Anime News Network. Retrieved April 27, 2021.
  6. Loo, Egan (April 22, 2024). "Mari Yamazaki, Miki Tori's Historical Manga PLINIVS Wins Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize". Anime News Network. Retrieved April 22, 2024.

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