18th Manga Taisho Awards Nominate 10 Titles

The executive committee for the 18th Manga Taisho awards listed this year’s 10 nominated works on Tuesday. (The official English name of the awards is the “Cartoon Grand Prize.”)

Manga Taisho 2025 Nominees

Alice, Doko Made mo
Kiko Urino

Onna no Sono no Hoshi (also nominated in 2021, 2022 and 2023)

Yama Wayama

Cosmos

Ryūhei Tamura

Kono Yo wa Tatakau Kachi ga Aru
Hatsumi Kodama

Re-Living My Life with a Boyfriend Who Doesn’t Remember Me
Gin Shirakawa, Eiko Mutsuhana, Yugiri Aika

Magus of the Library

Mitsu Izumi

Dokagui Daisuki! Mochizuki-san
Kamome Maruyono

Dokudami no Hana Saku Koro

Shiho Kido

Girl Meets Rock!

Tetsuo Ideuchi、Kuwahali

Robō no Fujii

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 97 individuals, who selected from 238 titles. Any manga title that was released in 2024 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 2025, which will be announced at an awards ceremony to be held on March 27.

Previous winners include:

• 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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