The chief committee for the 14th Manga Taisho awards listed this 12 months’s 10 nominated works on Monday. (The official English title of the awards is the “Cartoon Grand Prize.”)

Manga Taisho 2021 Nominees

Umi ga Hashiru Endroll
John Tarachine

Oshi no Ko (was additionally nominated final 12 months)
Aka Akasaka, Mengo Yokoyari

Onna no Sono no Hoshi (was additionally nominated final 12 months)
Yama Wayama

Jitenshaya-san no Takahashi-kun
Arare Matsumushi

Darwin Jihen
Shun Umezawa

Dandadan
Yukinobu Tatsu

Chi: Chikyū no Undō ni Tsuite (was additionally nominated final 12 months)
Uoto

Trillion Recreation
Ryoichi Ikegami, Riichirou Inagaki

Hirayasumi
Keigo Shinzō

Look Again
Tatsuki Fujimoto

The nominating committee consists primarily of bookstore staffers who’re in control of their respective shops’ manga. This 12 months’s nominating committee consisted of 99 people, who chosen from 235 titles. Any manga title that was launched in 2021 and has eight volumes or much less is eligible. The quantity cap is deliberately added in order that the prize winners can be comparatively new works that haven’t already earned their reputation via sheer longevity.

The second spherical of voting will decide the winner of Manga Taisho 2022, which will probably be introduced at an awards ceremony to be held someday in mid to late March.

Earlier winners embrace:

• 2021 – Frieren: Past Journey’s Finish by Kanehito Yamada and Tsukasa Abe
• 2020 – The Blue Interval. by Tsubasa Yamaguchi
• 2019 – Astra Misplaced in House by Kenta Shinohara
• 2018 – BEASTARS by Paru Itagaki
• 2017 – Hibiki: Shōsetsuka ni Naru Hōhō by Mitsuharu Yanamoto
• 2016 – Golden Kamuy by Satoru Noda
• 2015 – Kakukaku Shikajika by Akiko Higashimura
• 2014 – A Bride’s Story by Kaoru Mori
• 2013 – Umimachi Diary by Akimi Yoshida
• 2012 – Silver Spoon by Hiromu Arakawa
• 2011 – March is available in like a lion by Chika Umino
• 2010 – Thermae Romae by Mari Yamazaki
• 2009 – Chihayafuru by Yuki Suetsugu
• 2008 – Gaku – Minna no Yama by Shinichi Ishizuka

Sources: Manga Taisho, Comedian Natalie