Award Winning - Page 3

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....

An adaptation of Patricia A. McKillip\'s \"The Forgotten Beasts of Eld.\" 16 years old when a baby is brought to her to raise, Sybel has grown up on Eld Mountain. Her only playmates are the creatures of a fantastic menagerie called there by wizardry. Sybel has cared nothing for humans, until the baby awakens emotions previously unknown to her. And when Coren- the man who brought this child- returns, Sybel\'s world is again turned upside down.

A ‘fearsome psycho-thriller’ centering on the ‘dark side of adolescence’. Following Ichikawa Kyoutarou, a teenage boy belonging to the very bottom caste of his school, this work details his troubled interactions with a certain classmate, and his attempt to hide murderous impulses that find themselves in the darkest recesses of his soul. In reality, though, it\'s a sweet youth rom-com between a messed up boy and a bright, if somewhat strange, beautiful girl. - Won the Tsugi ni Kuru Web Manga 2020 Award. - Was nominated for the 2020 and 2021 Manga Taisho Award. - Won the top prize of 2021 Tsutaya Comic Awards

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Tensai Bakabon (Or, \"The Genius Bakabon\" ) is a gag manga starring ironically the titular character\'s father, only known as \"Bakabon\'s Papa\". The manga generally centers around episodic stories of Papa causing trouble around town due to his own and his son\'s complete and utter incompetence. This usually attracts the attention of the local trigger-happy policeman \"Honkan\", as well as causing issues for Bakabon\'s mother (Also just known as \"Bakabon\'s Mama\" ) and his younger, but extremely intelligent brother, Hajime. While the series is quite old, many of the jokes and stories are timeless in execution, and hold up well today, which is largely why it\'s considered a classic series in Japan. 3 Bilingual comics where released by Kodansha in the early 2000s. --- - **Won the Bungeishunjū Manga Award in 1971**

Inaba Akira, a second year student at Naruyama High School, is a candidate for the next student council president due to his good manners and excellent grades. He was highly trusted by his teachers, and was loved by his classmates for his bright and friendly personality. However, he also had a serious problem...

Just living is not enough.

A boy who knows nothing about love receives a love consultation. As a oneshot, Chapter 1 won an Encouragement Award from the New Generation Sunday Awards.