Osamu Tezuka Culture Award
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Named after Osamu Tezuka
, the is a yearly comic book
prize awarded to manga
artists or their works that follow the Osamu Tezuka manga approach founded and sponsored by Asahi Shimbun
. The prize has been awarded since 1997, in Tokyo
, Japan
.
Osamu Tezuka
was a Japanese cartoonist, manga artist, animator, producer, activist and medical doctor, although he never practiced medicine. Born in Osaka Prefecture, he is best known as the creator of Astro Boy, Kimba the White Lion and Black Jack...
, the is a yearly comic book
Comic book
A comic book or comicbook is a magazine made up of comics, narrative artwork in the form of separate panels that represent individual scenes, often accompanied by dialog as well as including...
prize awarded to manga
Manga
Manga is the Japanese word for "comics" and consists of comics and print cartoons . In the West, the term "manga" has been appropriated to refer specifically to comics created in Japan, or by Japanese authors, in the Japanese language and conforming to the style developed in Japan in the late 19th...
artists or their works that follow the Osamu Tezuka manga approach founded and sponsored by Asahi Shimbun
Asahi Shimbun
The is the second most circulated out of the five national newspapers in Japan. Its circulation, which was 7.96 million for its morning edition and 3.1 million for its evening edition as of June 2010, was second behind that of Yomiuri Shimbun...
. The prize has been awarded since 1997, in Tokyo
Tokyo
, ; officially , is one of the 47 prefectures of Japan. Tokyo is the capital of Japan, the center of the Greater Tokyo Area, and the largest metropolitan area of Japan. It is the seat of the Japanese government and the Imperial Palace, and the home of the Japanese Imperial Family...
, Japan
Japan
Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...
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Current prizes categories
- Grand Prize - for the excellent work during the year
- Creative Award - for the creator with innovative or epoch-making expression and fresh talent
- Short story Award - for the excellent work or creator of the short story
- Special Award - for the person or group who contributed to extend the culture of manga
1997
- Grand Prize: Fujiko FujioFujiko Fujiowas a nom de plume of a manga writing duo formed by two Japanese manga artists. Their real names are and . They formed their partnership in 1951, and used the Fujiko Fujio name from 1954 until dissolution of the partnership in 1987....
for DoraemonDoraemonis a Japanese manga series created by Fujiko F. Fujio which later became an anime series and an Asian franchise... - Award for Excellence: Moto HagioMoto Hagiois a manga artist born on May 12, 1949 in Ōmuta, Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan, though she currently lives in Saitama Prefecture. She is considered a "founding mother" of modern shōjo manga, especially shōnen-ai. She is also a member of the Year 24 Group...
for Zankoku na kami ga shihai suru (A cruel God rules in heaven) - Special Award: Toshio Naiki for the foundation and management of Modern Manga Library
1998
- Grand Prize: Jiro TaniguchiJiro Taniguchiis a Japanese manga artist.- Biography:He began to work as assistant of the late manga artist Kyota Ishikawa. He made his manga debut in 1970 with Kareta Heya , published in the magazine Young Comic....
and Natsuo Sekikawa for the trilogy Bocchan No Jidai (Times of "BotchanBotchanBotchan is a novel written by Natsume Sōseki in 1906. It is considered to be one of the most popular novels in Japan, read by most Japanese during their childhood. The central theme of the story is morality.-Narrative:...
") - Award for Excellence: Yūji AokiYuji Aokiwas a Japanese manga artist born in Fukuchiyama, Kyoto, Japan. He is best known for , for which he won the 1992 Kodansha Manga Award for general manga and the 1998 Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize Award for Excellence.Takahiro Kochi was his assistant....
for Naniwa Kin'yūdōNaniwa Kin'yūdōis a Japanese manga series by Yūji Aoki which has been serialized in Weekly Morning since 1990. The series was awarded the 1992 Kodansha Manga Award for general manga and the 1998 Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize Award for Excellence....
(The way of the Ōsaka loan shark) - Special Award: Shotaro IshinomoriShotaro Ishinomoriwas a Japanese manga artist who became an influential figure in manga, anime, and tokusatsu, creating several immensely popular long-running series such as Cyborg 009 and Himitsu Sentai Goranger, what would go on to become part of the Super Sentai series, and the Kamen Rider Series...
for the long years of contribution to manga
1999
- Grand Prize: Naoki UrasawaNaoki Urasawais a Japanese manga artist.-Early life:He graduated from Meisei University with a degree in economics. In 2008, Urasawa had a guest teaching post at Nagoya Zokei University, where he taught classes on manga.-Manga career:...
for MonsterMonster (manga)is a seinen manga written and illustrated by Naoki Urasawa, published by Shogakukan in Big Comic Original between 1994 and 2001, and reprinted in 18 tankōbon volumes. It was adapted by Madhouse as a 74-episode anime TV series, which aired on NTV from April 7, 2004 to September 28, 2005... - Award for Excellence: Akira Sasō for Shindō (The prodigy)
- Special Award: Fusanosuke NatsumeFusanosuke Natsumeis a Japanese columnist, cartoonist. Born in Tokyo to Junichi Natsume, grandson of novelist Natsume Sōseki, he attended Aoyama Gakuin University, which he graduated in 1973. He has written the book , which was illustrated by Fumi Yoshinaga....
for the excellence criticism of manga
2000
- Grand Prize: Daijiro MorohoshiDaijiro Morohoshiis a Japanese manga artist.He grew up in Adachi-ku, Tokyo.He is well known for SF comics, allegorical comics and horror/mystery comics based on pseudohistory and folklore.The indirect influence by Cthulhu Mythos also appears here and there in his works....
for Saiyū Yōenden (The Monkey King and other Chinese Legends) - Award for Excellence: Minetarō MochizukiMinetarō Mochizukiis a Japanese manga artist. He won the Award for Excellence at the 4th Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize and the Award for General Manga at the 21st Kodansha Manga Award for Dragon Head.-References:...
for Dragon HeadDragon Headis a post-apocalyptic disaster manga by Minetaro Mochizuki. It was published by Kodansha in Young Magazine from 1995 and 2000 and collected in ten tankōbon volumes. It is licensed in English by Tokyopop, with Volume 10 released 2008-04-01... - Special Award: Frederik L. SchodtFrederik L. SchodtFrederik L. Schodt is an American translator, interpreter and writer.Schodt's father was in the US foreign service, and he grew up in Norway, Australia, and Japan. The family first went to Japan in 1965 when Schodt was fifteen. They left in 1967 but Schodt remained to graduate from Tokyo's American...
for the distinguished service to introduce Japanese manga round the world
2001
- Grand Prize: Reiko OkanoReiko Okanois a Japanese manga artist. In 1989, she won the Shogakukan Manga Award for shōjo for Fancy Dance. She is married to director Makoto Tezuka.- References :...
for Onmyōji (The Master of Shade and Light) - Award for Excellence: Kotobuki ShiriagariKotobuki Shiriagariis a Japanese manga artist and actor from Shizuoka, Japan, known for dark humor and his social criticism. In early 1981, after graduating from Tama Art University, he began to work in the field of advertising as an illustrator at Kirin Brewery Company. He maintained his regular day job along with...
for Yajikita in deep - Special Award: Akira Maruyuma for the valuable service to support comic artists at Tokiwa house
2002
- Grand Prize: Takehiko InoueTakehiko Inoueis a Japanese manga artist, best known for the basketball manga Slam Dunk, which has become a success both in Japan and overseas. Many of his works are about basketball, Inoue himself being a huge fan of the sport, and many Japanese children started to play basketball because they read the manga...
for VagabondVagabond (manga)is an ongoing manga by Takehiko Inoue, portraying a fictionalized account of Miyamoto Musashi's life, on a loose adaptation of Eiji Yoshikawa's novel Musashi.... - Award for Excellence: Kentarō MiuraKentaro Miurais a Japanese manga artist best known for his popular dark fantasy manga, Berserk.-Life and notable works:Kentarou Miura was born in Chiba City, Chiba Prefecture, Japan, in 1966. He is left-handed. In 1976, at the early age of 10, Miura made his first manga, entitled Miuranger, that was published...
for BerserkBerserk (manga)is a manga series written and illustrated by Kentaro Miura. Set in a medieval Europe-inspired world, the story centers around the characters of Guts, an orphaned mercenary, and Griffith, the leader of a mercenary band called the...
2003
- Grand Prize: Fumiko Takano for The Yellow Book: A friend Named Jacques Thibault
- Creative Award: Yumi HottaYumi Hottais a Japanese manga artist, born in Aichi Prefecture, Japan in 1957.Hotta is best known as the author of the best-selling manga and anime series Hikaru no Go, about the game of go that is widely credited for the recent boom of the game in Japan. The idea behind Hikaru no Go began when Yumi Hotta...
and Takeshi ObataTakeshi Obatais a Japanese manga artist. He works as the artist in collaboration with a writer. He has also mentored several manga artists, including Kentaro Yabuki of Black Cat fame, Nobuhiro Watsuki of Rurouni Kenshin and Busou Renkin, and Yusuke Murata of Eyeshield 21.He originally became noticed in 1985...
for Hikaru no GoHikaru no Gois a manga series, a coming of age story based on the board game Go written by Yumi Hotta and illustrated by Takeshi Obata with an anime adaptation. The production of the series' Go games was supervised by Go professional Yukari Umezawa... - Short story Award: Hisaichi IshiiHisaichi Ishiiis a Japanese manga artist born on 2 September 1951 in Tamano, Okayama Prefecture, Japan. He is best known outside of Japan for his manga series Nono-chan, which was made into the Studio Ghibli anime film My Neighbors the Yamadas. Topics covered by Ishii's manga include baseball , politics,...
for Gendai shisō no sōnanshātachi (Victims of modern ideas) - Special Award: Shigeru MizukiShigeru Mizukiis a Japanese manga author, most known for his Japanese horror manga GeGeGe no Kitaro . A specialist in stories of yōkai, he is considered a master of the genre...
for the creative pictures and the long years of activities
2004
- Grand Prize: Kyōko OkazakiKyoko Okazakiis a Japanese manga artist whose manga are popular for their unorthodox style and controversial topics, for instance sex, sadomasochism, drugs, homosexuality, rape, murder and prostitution. The Tokyo born Okazaki often focuses on urban Japanese life in the capital from the 1980s and 90s. Her...
for Helter Skelter - Creative Award: Takashi Morimoto for Naniwadora ihon (Variant edition of the Naniwa wastrel)
- Short story Award: Risu Akizuki for OL shinkaron (OL Evolution) and other works
- Special Award: Tarō Minamoto for the pioneer works of historical manga and contribution to manga culture
2005
- Grand Prize: Naoki UrasawaNaoki Urasawais a Japanese manga artist.-Early life:He graduated from Meisei University with a degree in economics. In 2008, Urasawa had a guest teaching post at Nagoya Zokei University, where he taught classes on manga.-Manga career:...
for PlutoPluto (manga)is a manga series by Naoki Urasawa published in Shogakukan's Big Comic Original from 2003 to 2009. It has been licensed for release in English by Viz Media, under the name Pluto: Urasawa x Tezuka. Takashi Nagasaki is credited as the series' co-author... - Creative Award: Fumiyo KōnoFumiyo Kōnois a Japanese manga artist from Nishi-ku, Hiroshima, known for her Town of Evening Calm, Country of Cherry Blossoms. She was born in Hiroshima in 1968 and began drawing manga when she was in junior high school. She states that she began drawing manga because her parents would not often buy her manga...
for Town of Evening Calm, Country of Cherry BlossomsTown of Evening Calm, Country of Cherry Blossomsis a one-volume manga written and illustrated by Fumiyo Kōno. The two connected stories were first published in Japan by Futabasha in Weekly Manga Action in 2003 and 2004, then collected in a single tankōbon volume in 2004. The stories about a family of survivors of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima... - Short story Award: Rieko Saibara for Jōkyō monogatari (A tale of going to the capital) and Mainichi Kasan (Everyday mom)
- Special Award: Kawasaki City Museum for the collection of manga works from Edo periodEdo periodThe , or , is a division of Japanese history which was ruled by the shoguns of the Tokugawa family, running from 1603 to 1868. The political entity of this period was the Tokugawa shogunate....
to the present day, and its exhibitions
2006
- Grand Prize: Hideo AzumaHideo Azumais a Japanese manga artist born on February 6, 1950 in Urahoro, Hokkaidō, Japan. Azuma made his professional debut in 1969 in the Akita Shoten manga magazine Manga Ō...
for Disappearance DiaryDisappearance Diaryis a manga by Hideo Azuma and published by East Press in Japan in March 2005. The manga is a somewhat-fictionalized autobiography of part of the author's life. It has received multiple awards inside and outside of Japan... - Creative Award: Asa HiguchiAsa Higuchiis a female Japanese manga artist, born in Urawa, Saitama Prefecture . She graduated from Saitama Prefecture's prestigious Urawanishi High School and Hosei University's department of psychology, with a major in sports psychology...
for Ōkiku FurikabutteOkiku Furikabutte, often shortened to just , is a baseball manga series by Asa Higuchi, serialized in the monthly seinen Afternoon magazine since 2003. It has been adapted into a TV anime series, animated by A-1 Pictures, which premiered in Japan on TBS...
(Big Windup!) - Short story Award: Risa ItōRisa Ito, also romanized as Risa Itou, is a Japanese manga artist. She won the 2005 Kodansha Manga Award for shōjo for Oi Pītan!! and the 2006 Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize Short Story Award for One Woman, Two Cats, Oi Piitan!!, and Onna no Mado. Her manga Oruchuban Ebichu was adapted by Gainax as an anime...
for One Woman, Two Cats, Oi Piitan!! (Hey Pitan!), Onna no mado (A Woman's Window) and other works - Special Award: Kousei Ono for the long years of the introduction of comics from abroad to Japan as a commentator for manga
2007
- Grand Prize: Ryoko YamagishiRyoko Yamagishiis a female Japanese manga artist. She is considered to be one of the Year 24 Group. She studied ballet as a child, which plays a part in many of her works. When she read the manga of Machiko Satonaka in 1964, she decided to pursue becoming a manga artist. Although her parents did not agree with...
for Maihime Τερψιχόρα (The Dancing Girl; Terpsichore) - Creative Award: Nobuhisa Nozoe, Kazuhisa Iwata and Kyojin Ōnishi for Shinsei Kigeki (La Divina Commedia)
- Short story Award: Hiromi Morishita for Ōsaka Hamlet
2008
- Grand Prize: Masayuki Ishikawa for MoyashimonMoyashimonMoyasimon: Tales of Agriculture, known in Japan as , is a manga series created by Masayuki Ishikawa. It has been serialized in Kodansha's seinen magazine Evening since August 2004. It won the 2008 Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize for Grand Prize and the 2008 Kodansha Manga Award for general manga...
(Moyashimon: Tales of Agriculture) - Creative Award: Toranosuke Shimada for Träumerei
- Short story Award: Yumiko ŌshimaYumiko Oshimais a female Japanese manga artist and a member of Year 24 group.She made her debut in 1968 with Paula's Tears in Weekly Margaret.She received the 1973 Japan Cartoonists Association Award for excellence for Mimoza Yashiki de Tsukamaete...
for GūGū Datte Neko De Aru (Cher Gou-Gou...mon petit chat, mon petit ami.) - Special Award: International Institute for Children's Literature, Osaka Prefecture (English Official site)
2009
- Grand Prize: Fumi YoshinagaFumi Yoshinagais a Japanese manga artist known for her shōjo and shōnen-ai works.-Personal:Fumi Yoshinaga was born in Tokyo, Japan in 1971. She attended the prestigious Keio University in Tokyo....
for Ōoku: The Inner ChambersŌoku: The Inner Chambersis an ongoing Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Fumi Yoshinaga. The plot follows an alternate history of medieval Japan in which an unknown disease kills most of the male population, leading to a matriarchal society in which the Ōoku becomes a harem of men serving the now female... - Grand Prize: Yoshihiro TatsumiYoshihiro Tatsumiis a Japanese manga artist who is widely credited with starting the gekiga style of alternative comics in Japan, having allegedly coined the term in 1957....
for Gekiga Hyōryū (A Drifting LifeA Drifting Lifeis a Japanese manga written and illustrated by Yoshihiro Tatsumi. It was released in Japan as two bound volumes on November 20, 2008. It is licensed in North America by Drawn and Quarterly and was released as a wide-ban volume in April 2009...
) - Short story Award: Hikaru Nakamura for Saint Oniisan (Saint Young MenSaint Young Menis a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Hikaru Nakamura. It has been serialized by Kodansha in the monthly seinen manga magazine Morning 2 since 2007, with chapters collected in seven tankōbon volumes .-Plot:...
) - New Artist Prize : Suehiro MaruoSuehiro Maruo, is a Japanese manga artist, illustrator, and painter.-Biography:Maruo graduated from junior high school in March 1972 but dropped out of senior high school. At the age of 15 he moved to Tokyo and began working for a bookbinder...
for Panorama-tō Kitan (Anecdote of the Panorama Island)
2010
- Grand Prize: Yoshihiro Yamada for Hyouge-mono
- Short story Award: Mari Yamazaki for THERMAE ROMAEThermae Romaeis a Japanese manga series by Mari Yamazaki. It won the 3rd Manga Taishō and the Short Story Award at the 14th Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize. Fuji TV has announced it is producing a live-action film adaptation of the manga. It will be released in 2012....
- New Artist Prize : Haruko Ichikawa for Mushi to Uta
- Special Award: Yoshihiro YonezawaYoshihiro Yonezawawas a Japanese manga critic and author. He is also known for being Comiket's co-founder and president. He died of lung cancer at 53...
to wide achievements of the collection and the commentary activity of basic material of the cartoon research.
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