Award Winning - Page 2

The manga is about ten-year-old Chie, \"the most unfortunate girl in Japan,\" who manages her family diner while her unemployed yakuza father and her mother are separated. Note: Jarinko Chie won the 26th Shogakukan Manga Award for best general manga in 1981.

In Shimoyama Middle School, the Experiment Club and Karate Club each only have one member left, and as a result, must share one classroom. These two students, Sharaku Homura and Yamazaki Yousuke (a.k.a Karate Kid) together solve numerous impossible mysteries that they happen to run into! Originally a doujinshi by Nemoto Shou, now an award-winning manga, having won the Hokkaido Mystery Cross Match Award!

Within the winding streets of Kyoto\'s geisha district lives a 16 year old girl named Kiyo. After failing to become a Maiko, a traditional dance apprentice, she starts working as caterer for her troupe. This is the story of her daily life. --- - **Won the 65th Shogakukan Manga Award for Shonen Manga**

My childhood friend who became separated three years ago is dancing on TV as a top idol. And it was the childhood friend who moved to the next to my room to see it!? A gem of romantic comedy that won the Comic Walker Manga Award at the 6th Kakuyomkon is now available as a comic!

15th Itten Toppa (One Point Breakthrough) Award, Future Talent. Focal Point: Expressions. A young woman reflects on her manga-making past after losing the callus on her finger.

A work which highlights the “present” of the capital punishment system through Oikawa Naoki, a newly recruited prison officer, who faces condemned criminals everyday and agonizes. Based on close and careful research, the author tackles with the serious theme of the “capital punishment system” head-on. Won the 11th Japan Media Arts Festival Grand Prize for Manga.

It has been three years since she moved in with her boyfriend, who dotes on his pet reptile. The main character, Izumi, explodes with jealousy and confesses her own secret to him. That she is a “dragon”...!? A vivid and sad interracial love story.

Big Comic & Big Comic Original 8th Joint Newcomer Award, Honorable Mention. An office worker, diagnosed with depression after succumbing to power harassment at work, gains a new appreciation for life through a pike she discovers at the supermarket.

Ayumu attends a high school festival at the school of his former classmate and first love, Tsubame, but Tsubame\'s friend, Ryuu, sees through his unfulfilled feelings for his first love, and he is harshly criticized by him. Hurt, Ayumu tries to find a new love, but the person he meets almost kidnaps him. Ayumu is saved by Ryuu, who is unexpectedly ......? A spin-off series of \"Hatsukoi Note\"!

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Taiwan during the Qing dynasty was deeply patriarchal. Women were disregarded from birth, their only purpose was to find a good marriage. But once married, the pressure was on to provide sons. This gave rise to various folk practices which claimed to ensure male offspring. Chieh-Niang watches as her sister-in-law, obsessed with giving birth to a son, gives in to these superstitions. And she herself is under pressure to marry – can she ever break free? Walking by the river one day, she comes across the body of a woman. A priestess is summoned to ensure the woman\'s spirit passes peacefully and does not haunt the town. The priestess, with her mysterious ways, does seem able to communicate with the spirit world, and Chieh-Niang, seeing a glimmer of hope, enrolls as her apprentice. But soon after, small handprints start appearing on her legs as she sleeps, while more women go missing or are found dead. What will Chieh-Niang do, and will she find the life she wants? Tan-Tsiu-Niu was selected as a recommended book by the former Minister of Culture and was recommended as a must-read book for the 2020 World Book Day by the National Museum of Taiwan Literature.

In the 13th century, Fatima, a captive of the Mongol Empire, the most powerful empire on earth, was taken prisoner and assigned to serve in the imperial palace. With knowledge from Iran, the era\'s foremost experts on medicine and science, Fatima seeks a world in which she can display her talents. She meets Töregene, the sixth wife of the second emperor, Ögedei, who has mixed feelings about the Mongol Empire....