45th Angoulême International Comics Festival awarded manga creator Naoki Urasawa (20th Century Boys, Monster, Pluto) with the Fauve Special Award and the Fauve Polar SNCF Special Award for mystery works.
The first volume of horror manga creator Kazuo Umezu’s Watashi wa Shingo (Je Suis Shingo; My Name is Shingo) received the Best Heritage Comic award.
The first volume of Makoto Isshiki’s Hanada Shōnen-shi (Hanada le Garnement) manga was also nominated for Angoulême’s Best Youth Comic.
Urasawa previously received Angoulême’s grand prize for long-form work award for 20th Century Boys in 2004 and an Intergenerational Award for Pluto in 2011.