Image source: American Manga Awards ceremony (Bolts) — via Anime News Network
The American MangaAwards celebrate manga creators and publishers who have made significant contributions inmanga's popularity, both in North America and Japan.
The award categories and their respective winners are as follows:
Billy Bat (volume 1) by Naoki Urasawa and Takashi Nagasaki
Publisher: Kana/Abrams ComicArts
Editor: Kristiina Korpus
The Summer Hikaru Died (volume 6) by Mokumokuren
Publisher: Yen Press
Editor: Jacquelyn Li
"Cocoon" by Machiko Kyō
Publisher: Viz Media
Editor: Pancha Diaz
Mushishi Collector's Edition (volumes 1-2) by Yuki Urushibara
Publisher: Kodansha
Editor: Maggie Le
Madeleine Jose for Maid to Skate by Suzushiro
Publisher: Viz Media
Editor: Jack Carrillo Concordia
Jan Mitsuko Cash for MAGICA (volume 1) by Yuzuko Hoshimi
Publisher: Kodama Tales
Editor: Haize
Wendy Chan for Fruits Basket: The Complete Box Set, by Natsuki Takaya
Publisher: Yen Press
Editors: Danielle Niederkorn, JuYoun Lee
Additionally, the awards inducted two people into the Manga Publishing Hall of Fame:
The award ceremony also honored manga creator Akiko Higashimura (Princess Jellyfish, Blank Canvas: My So-Called Artist’s Journey, Tokyo Tarareba Girls) with the "American Manga Award of Distinction."
Update: Additionally, the awards honored MANGA Plus editorial director Shuhei Hosono with the "Shueisha Centennial Award."
Previous recipients of the Manga Publishing Hall of Fame include: manga translation and publishing team Studio Proteus, its founder and editor Toren Smith; translators Dana Lewis, Alan Gleason, and Frederik Schodt; manga artist and letterer Tomoko Saitō; comic creator Adam Warren; and comic letterers Tom Orzechowski and L. Lois Buhalis.
Professionals working in an editorial capacity with North American manga publishers voted todetermine the winners.
Deb Aoki (Publishers Weekly, Comics Beat, Mangasplaining podcast) leads the American Manga Awards Planning Committee.
Last year's ceremony took place last August in New York City. The winners included The Guy She Was Interested In Wasn't a Guy at All, The Apothecary Diaries, "Tamaki & Amane," Ashita no Joe: Fighting for Tomorrow, The Otaku Love Connection, and Planetes DeluxeEdition.
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