The first volume of Makoto Isshiki’s Hanada Shōnen-shi (Hanada le Garnement) manga is also nominated for Angoulême’s Best Youth Comic.
The first volume of horror manga creator Kazuo Umezu’s Watashi wa Shingo (Je Suis Shingo) is nominated for the Best Heritage Comic.
The 45th Angoulême International Comics Festival has announced its nominees for Best Comic, which include Yarō Abe’s Shinya Shokudō (The Midnight Diner, La Cantine de Minuit), Nagabe’s The Girl From the Other Side: Siúil, a Rún (L’Enfant et le Maudit: Siúil, a Rún), and Keigo Shinzō’s Tokyo Alien Bros. manga.
The popular story has inspired multiple live-action television series and films and was nominated for the bookseller-selected Manga Taishō (“Cartoon Grand Prize”) in 2009.