19th Manga Taisho Awards Nominate 12 Titles

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posted on 2026-01-20 08:45 IST by Rafael Antonio Pineda

The executive committee for the 19th Manga Taisho awards listed this year's 12 nominated works on Tuesday. (The official English name of the awards is the "Cartoon Grand Prize.")

Manga Taisho 2026 Nominees

Imōto wa Shitteiru
Mari Gangi

Home at the Horizon
Taiyō Watabe

Kaijū o Kaibō Suru
Mado Saitō

Strikeout Pitch
Kyu Sumiyoshi

The Devil's in the Lunch Deals
Ishiko

Danmitsu
Tooru Seino

Tomodachi Datta Hito: Kinuta Miya Sakuhinshū
Miya Kinuta

Maison and the Man-Eating Apartment
Kuu Tanaka, Akima

Hon Nara Uru Hodo
Ao Kojima

Ichi the Witch
Osamu Nishi, Shiro Usazaki

RIOT
Yūta Tsukada

Robō no Fujii (also nominated in 2025)
Nabekurao

The nominating committee is composed mainly of bookstore staffers who are in charge of their respective stores' manga. This year's nominating committee consisted of 94 individuals, who selected from 249 titles. Any manga title that was released in 2025 and has eight volumes or less is eligible. The volume cap is intentionally added so that the prize winners would be relatively new works that have not already earned their popularity through sheer longevity.

The second round of voting will determine the winner of Manga Taisho 2026, which will be announced at an awards ceremony to be held in late March.

Previous winners include:

2025 - Alice, Dokomademo by Kiko Urino
2024 - Kimi to Uchū o Aruku Tame ni by Inuhiko Doronoda
2023 - Kore Kaite Shine by Minoru Toyoda
2022 - Darwin Jihen by Shun Umezawa
2021 - Frieren: Beyond Journey's End by Kanehito Yamada and Tsukasa Abe
2020 - The Blue Period. by Tsubasa Yamaguchi
2019 - Astra Lost in Space by Kenta Shinohara
2018 - BEASTARS by Paru Itagaki
2017 - Hibiki: Shōsetsuka ni Naru Hōhō by Mitsuharu Yanamoto
2016 - Golden Kamuy by Satoru Noda
2015 - Kakukaku Shikajika by Akiko Higashimura
2014 - A Bride's Story by Kaoru Mori
2013 - Umimachi Diary by Akimi Yoshida
2012 - Silver Spoon by Hiromu Arakawa
2011 - March comes in like a lion by Chika Umino
2010 - Thermae Romae by Mari Yamazaki
2009 - Chihayafuru by Yuki Suetsugu
2008 - Gaku - Minna no Yama by Shinichi Ishizuka

Sources: Manga Taisho, Comic Natalie

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