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Winners of the Shogakukan Manga Award for shōnen manga

  • InuyashaIn the manga Inuyasha, a dying priestess orders her own body burned along with a sacred jewel.
  • Case ClosedCase Closed, a Japanese manga series by Gosho Aoyama, had more than 270 million copies in circulation worldwide by January 2023. That makes it one of the best-selling manga series of all time. It runs in Weekly Shōnen Sunday, a magazine…
  • Kaze to Ki no UtaEditors spent nearly seven years keeping the manga Kaze to Ki no Uta's first page from print.
  • Fullmetal AlchemistTwo brothers try to bring their mother back in Fullmetal Alchemist, and lose a leg and a whole body.
  • Bleach (manga)The manga Bleach began with a drawing of a kimono. Its artist had just had his previous series canceled.
  • Mob Psycho 100Mob Psycho 100 follows a middle school boy named Shigeo Kageyama, nicknamed Mob, who carries immense psychic power and works constantly to keep his feelings down. The two facts are linked. His power threatens to break past its limits as…
  • YuYu HakushoYuYu Hakusho begins with a 14-year-old street brawler named Yusuke Urameshi shoving a young boy out of the path of a car. The boy lives. Yusuke does not. It is an uncharacteristic act of kindness from a teenage delinquent, and it kills him…
  • Slam Dunk (manga)Slam Dunk, the Japanese sports manga by Takehiko Inoue, had over 185 million copies in circulation by 2024. That figure places it among the best-selling manga series in history. Its hero is neither a prodigy nor a champion. He is a…
  • Urusei YatsuraUrusei Yatsura was supposed to last five chapters. That was the plan in 1978, when a young artist named Rumiko Takahashi began a comedy about an unlucky schoolboy named Ataru Moroboshi. Each chapter would throw him together with a…
  • Haikyu!!Haikyu!!, a Japanese manga written and drawn by Haruichi Furudate, had more than 75 million copies in circulation by December 2025. That total places it among the best-selling manga series of all time. Its subject is a high school…
  • Chainsaw ManChainsaw Man is a Japanese manga by Tatsuki Fujimoto, and its world contains a creature that can erase an idea from human memory. When the Chainsaw Devil devours another devil, the thing that devil stood for vanishes from existence and…

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