The Committee of judges also gave a special prize of 200,000 yen (2,500 dollars) to the Kochi Prefecture for their efforts in support of the manga. Similar to the Japan Koshien high school baseball tournaments, Kochi is home to the Koshien Manga competition in which school students trying to win prizes by drawing manga.
The President of the Chamber of advisers award went to Rieko Saibara for his manga of sectors of the life of Mainichi Kaasan (pictured left). The manga has been adapted into an anime series that has been airing since 2009. The anime is transmitted today on the distribution of media Crunchyroll website.
The Minister of education, culture, sports, science and technology prize went to modern science fiction manga and shojo manga pioneer Moto Hagio (A, A, A drunken dream ', which were once) in recognition of its working set. Fantagraphics published A drunken Dream and other stories in North America last year. VIZ Media published previously, A, A' and which were once, while the Comic Journal of Fantagraphics published his short story "hanshin" along with an interview in a matter of manga special shojo. They were eleven eventually turned into an anime film of the same name as Central Park media, distributed in North America.
The prizes will be awarded on June 10 in a ceremony at the Imperial Hotel in Tokyo. The Committee of judges included Anpanman creator Takashi Yanase, creator of the Yamato space battleship Captain Harlock Leiji Matsumoto, creator of Furiten-kun Masashi Ueda and creator of Lady Ann Machiko Satonaka. Yaro Abe Shinya Shokudo, Takumi Nagayasu from the legend of mother Sarah/Mibu Gishi Den, creator of the manga's four panels Aoni Yamane and Hideko Mizuno of honey & honey won last year's Awards.
Source: Sankei
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