Last year’s winners were Yoshitoki Ōima’s A Silent Voice (shōnen), Ichigo Takano’s Orange (shōjo), and Hozumi’s Les deux Van Gogh (seinen).
About 11,000 middle school and high school students voted on the results this year via their schools or local libraries.
French bookstore L’ange Bleu began holding the awards in 2005 in order to introduce students to high-quality manga titles from the previous year.
The official website for France’s “Mangawa” award announced at the beginning of the month that Yayoiso’s ReLIFE, Matsuri Hino’s Shuriken and Pleats, and Abi Umeda’s Children of the Whales (Kujira no Kora wa Sajō ni Utau or Les enfants de la baleine) won the 2017 awards for the shōnen, shōjo, and seinen categories, respectively.