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Winner of Kodansha Manga Award (Shōnen)

  • George MorikawaBoxing manga Hajime no Ippo began in 1989, and its creator George Morikawa still has not finished it.
  • Attack on TitanAttack on Titan's giants began with a drunk customer at an internet cafe.
  • Hajime IsayamaHajime Isayama refused to change Attack on Titan for Shueisha. He took the manga to Kodansha instead.
  • Fairy TailFairy Tail, a Japanese manga written and illustrated by Hiro Mashima, had 72 million copies in print by February 2020. That figure places it among the best-selling manga series of all time. Its hero is Natsu Dragneel, a wizard who roams a…
  • Osamu TezukaOsamu Tezuka was a licensed physician who never practiced medicine. He is the manga artist behind Astro Boy.
  • Tokyo RevengersIn Tokyo Revengers, a part-timer shoved from a subway platform lands twelve years in the past.
  • Go NagaiGo Nagai started drawing manga because he thought he was dying. The illness was catarrh of the colon.
  • FrierenFrieren is an elven mage who makes a promise to her friends that, for her, is almost no promise at all. Under a meteor shower called the Era Meteors, which appears once every fifty years, she agrees to gather with her old companions again…
  • The Seven Deadly Sins (manga)The Seven Deadly Sins, the Japanese manga by Nakaba Suzuki, began with a pilot chapter that its author drew more than twenty times. One discarded manuscript, titled Chapter X, reached English readers in 2015 on the website of Kodansha USA.…
  • Hajime no IppoHajime no Ippo opens its hero's boxing life with a test involving falling leaves. A professional boxer named Mamoru Takamura sets a bruised high school boy a task. Catch ten leaves from a tree at the same moment, with a single week to…
  • BeastarsBeastars is a Japanese manga by Paru Itagaki, and its story begins with a body. At Cherryton Academy, a student named Tem, an alpaca, is murdered and devoured. The world around Tem is modern and orderly. Animals walk upright, attend…
  • Blue LockThe Japanese manga series Blue Lock opens with a humbling result. At the 2018 FIFA World Cup, the Japan national team finished 16th. In the story, that placing sets off a drastic response. Officials create a program with one harsh rule:…

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