Azuma won the award for the 2005 manga, Disappearance Diary, which was first published in Italy in 2019.
In 1989 Hideo Azuma left his family and work and tried (unsuccessfully) to hang himself using the slope of a mountain.
Manga author Hideo Azuma has won the Gran Guinigi award for “Riscoperta di un’opera” (“Rediscovered Work”) at the 2019 Lucca Comics & Games convention, the largest comic book convention in Europe, which will be held from October 30 – November 03, 2019, in Lucca, Italy.