Attack On Titan Creator Hajime Isayama Brings Home Noma Publishing Culture Award

Publishing conglomerate Kodansha introduced on Thursday that Assault on Titan manga creator Hajime Isayama bagged the third Noma Publishing Tradition Award. The prize cash is a million yen (8,800 USD).

Isayama gained the award as a result of world affect of his Assault on Titan manga and its story. Assault on Titan’s cumulative circulation exceeds 100 million copies.

Kodansha offered the explanations for the awards intimately as:

The feature-length darkish fantasy “Assault on Titan” (serialized in Bessatsu Shonen Journal till 2021) has gained the hearts of readers world wide with its meticulously calculated story, and has printed greater than 100 million copies in whole. It has been tailored into anime, merchandising, and video games on a world scale, and a Hollywood live-action movie is within the works. The affect it has had on manga tradition round world is immeasurable.

Creators YOASOBI (two-member rock unit), Shizuka Ijuin (novelist), and Kadokawa Tradition Museum (particular prize) additionally gained awards.

Mariko Hayashi, Kenshi Hirokane, Kenichiro Mogi, and Yoshinobu Noma, President of Kodansha, are accountable for the choice committee for the third Noma Publishing Tradition Award.

The award occasion began in 2019 as a part of Kodansha’s One hundred and tenth-anniversary celebration undertaking. The award honors those that have made glorious contributions to publishing, significantly to “reinventing publishing.”

Isayama’s Assault on Titan manga was serialized in Kodansha’s Bessatsu Shonen Journal from September 2009 to April 2021, and compiled in 34 tankobon volumes.

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