Seiun award-fiction with the Japanese applicants sent

The organizers of Donbura with the announced the list of candidates for 42nd Seiun Awards this year. As members of the 50th Japanese National Science Fiction Convention, participants Donbura the voting equivalent Japanese Hugo Awards. Vying for best Media has the following titles:
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The Tatami Galaxy (Yojo-Han Shinwa Taikei)

In the category comic, the following are the candidates:

Fullmetal Alchemist

Arakawa

Lucifer and biscuit Hammer (Hoshi no Samidare)

Satoshi Komine (Biography)
Natsu no Arashi!
Jin Kobayashi
Wunderkammer
Rosuke Nishikawa
Saru
Daisuke Igarashi
Kick-Ass

Mark Millar (writer), John Romita Jr. (artist), Mitsuko Mitsuoka (translator)
Bentoraa Bentoraa
Ryoma Nomura
SF Taisho Banbutsu Riron: Special Edition (Perfect Edition)
Miki Tori

In the category of free entry, the following are the candidates: return of the spacecraft Hayabusa acceleration probe EarthConfirmation Ikaros solar sail demonstrator by rays "robot and the Arts: Visual images in 20th century Japan" return from Wakayama University Institute for Education on the launch of SpaceiPad in Japan's exhibitionSF Museum 50th anniversary anthology Live magazine feed Hayabusa

In the Fiction category, creator of The Tatami Galaxy Tomihiko Morimi earned a nomination for his novel Penguin Highway. Studio Nue Illustrator Naoyuki Kato (Starship Troopers, Legend of the Galactic Heroes) and Masaru Ohishi (Chronicle of planet Aqua) are among the nominees in the category of art.

The Donbura will take place in Shizuoka during the weekend of September 3-4. Series of novels by Kaoru Kurimoto late Guin Saga anime film by Mamoru Hosoda summer wars, Naoki Urasawa and Osamu Tezuka manga Pluto, statue of Gundam scale 1/1-Sunrise, Kato and the late editor/"science fiction researcher" Takumi Shibano Seiun awards garnered last year.

Source: Japan Anime
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