The Asahi Shimbun paper announced the winners for the 24th Annual Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize awards on Tuesday.
The awards commemorate the contributions of the manga pioneer Osamu Tezuka (Astro Boy/Mighty Atom, Kimba the White Lion/Jungle Emperor, Phoenix, Black Jack) by recognizing the manga that best follow his tradition.
The committee also awarded the Special Prize to the late Machiko Hasegawa, who would have celebrated her 100th birthday on January 20 earlier this year (Hasegawa passed away in 1992).
Last year, 11 titles were nominated, and Shinobu Arima’s Jitterbug The Forties (Sono Ko, Jiruba) won the Grand Prize.