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Ao Kojima’s Hon Nara Uru Hodo Manga Wins Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize – News

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The Asahi Shimbun paper announced the winners for the 30th Annual Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize awards on Monday. The awards commemorate the contributions of the manga pioneer Osamu Tezuka (Astro Boy/Mighty Atom, Kimba the White Lion/Jungle Emperor, Phoenix, Black Jack) by recognizing the manga that best follow his tradition.

Grand Prize

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Hon Nara Uru Hodo

Ao Kojima

Kadokawa

The anthology story manga centers on the second-hand bookstore Jūgatsudō, its easygoing young owner, and the variety of people who come to the bookstore.

New Creator Prize

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Kaijū o Kaibō Suru

Mado Saitō

Kadokawa

The manga centers on kaiju specialist Akira Honda, who is called to oversee the dissection and research of the corpse of a 210-meter-long, nearly 85,000 ton kaiju nicknamed “Tokyo.” Akira begins to suspect that while Tokyo is immobile, it is not really dead.

Short Work Prize

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Atarashii Tomodachi: Kawajirō Tanpenshū

Kawajirō

Magazine House

A collection of 10 short manga by Kawajirō depicting everyday life.

Special Prize

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Peleliu: Guernica of Paradise

Kazuyoshi Takeda

Hakusensha

The manga takes place during the Battle of Peleliu, a months-long battle that took place during World War II between the U.S. and Japan on the island of Peleliu in Palau. The manga takes place in the summer of 1944. Peleliu is a paradise with coral reefs and beautiful forests. Tamaru is a soldier who wants to become a manga creator. The manga depicts Tamaru’s daily life during a drawn-out battle between Japan’s approximately 10,000 troops and the U.S.’s 50,000 troops, exploring themes such as what the soldiers fight for when so far from home on a small island.

Asahi Shimbun scheduled an awards ceremony in Tokyo on June 11. The Grand Prize winner will receive a bronze statue and 2 million yen (about US$13,300), while the other winners will each receive a bronze statue and 1 million yen (about US$6,600).

Last year, seven titles were nominated, and anime director Rintarō‘s 1-byō 24-koma no Boku no Jinsei (Ma Vie en 24 Images par Second, or My Life at 24 Frames per Second) autobiographical manga won the Grand Prize. Shiho Kido‘s When the Chameleon Flowers Bloom (Dokudami no Hana Saku Koro) won the New Creator prize, and Shunji Enomoto‘s The Kinks won the Short Work Prize.

Hon Nara Uru Hodo also won the 19th Manga Taisho award this year. It topped the list for male readers in Takarajimasha‘s Kono Manga ga Sugoi! (This Manga Is Amazing!) guidebook for this year, and the manga in Kadokawa Media Factory‘s literary news magazine Da Vinci’s 25th annual “Book of the Year” list.

Sources: Asahi Shimbun, Comic Natalie

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Everyone’s Darling Has a Secret Manga Gets TV Anime in April – News

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An X (formerly Twitter) account opened on Monday to announce that a television anime of Kashiko Amane‘s Everyone’s Darling Has a Secret (Hōkago no Idol ni wa Himitsu ga Aru) manga will premiere next April.

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The main cast members are:

Hikaru Sato (The 100 Girlfriends Who Really, Really, Really, Really, Really Love You, Dropkick on My Devil!) is directing the anime at Gekkō, and Fumihiko Shimo is overseeing and writing the series scripts. Kibidango 14-gō (Azuma Tozawa) is designing the characters. Satoru Kōsaki and monaca are composing the music. Ryō Aizawa (Starry Cube) is producing.

Yen Press publishes the manga in English, and it describes the story:

Hizashi Hiruno, a freshman at a super-elite high school, has just finished his first academic proficiency test of the year. He anxiously awaits the results, which will set the tone for his next three years at school. But due to a mistake on his answer sheet, he receives an abysmal score and gets sent to remedial lessons! If there’s one silver lining, he’s not the only one—and his comrade could be the girl of his dreams?!

Amane has been serializing the manga on Hakusensha‘s Young Anime Web site. Yen Press published the fourth manga volume in June.

Source: Everyone’s Darling Has a Secret anime’s X/Twitter account, Comic Natalie


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4 of Dragon Ball Z’s Goku Voice Actors Perform Kamehameha Together – Interest

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If you thought a Kamehameha from one Son Goku from Dragon Ball Z was powerful, what about four? That very moment was captured by Mexican voice actor Georgina Sanchez last week. As four of the voices behind Son Goku, Masako Nozawa (Japanese, front and center), Mario Castañeda (Spanish, left), Sean Schemmel (English, center back), and Ankur Javeri (Hindi, right) performed the move before the Tokyo X convention in Houston.

Nozawa, Castaneda, Schemmel, and Javeri appeared at the Tokyo X convention at the Reliant Center in Houston, Texas between September 26 and 27.

Dragon Ball Z was the second anime series to adapt Akira Toriyama‘s Dragon Ball manga. The anime series premiered in April 1989 and continued until January 1996. It spawned several feature-length films and the truncated Dragon Ball Kai anime series in 2009.

Nozawa holds the Guinness World Record for “voice actor who voiced the same character in a video game for the longest period” and “longest video game voice acting career,” for her work as Son Goku. She won one of the 71st Kan Kikuchi Prizes “as a traiblazing representative of Japanese voice actors” in 2023. In her acceptance speech, she confidently stated she will continue voice acting until she is 182 years old. The Japanese government honored her as a Person of Cultural Merit in 2025. She released a new line of merchandise in late August 2026 in celebration of her 90th birthday.

Sources: Georgina Sánchez’s Instagram account, Tokyo X’s website (link 2, link 3)


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Web Manga ‘Houkago no Idol ni wa Himitsu ga Aru’ Gets TV Anime in Spring 2027

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Production company Starry Cube opened an official website for a television anime adaptation of Kashiko Amane‘s Houkago no Idol ni wa Himitsu ga Aru (Everyone’s Darling Has a Secret) web manga on Monday, revealing the main cast, staff, and a teaser visual (pictured). The anime series will premiere in April 2027.

Cast

Hiruno Hizashi: Reiji Kawashima (Fumetsu no Anata e)

Rei Kuromiya: Hikaru Tono (Make Heroine ga Oosugiru)

Sakura Akai: Iori Noguchi (=LOVE) (Hashiri Tsuzukete Yokatta tte.)

Sora Konno: Ami Maeshima (BanG Dream! 2nd Season)

Staff

Director: Hikaru Satou (Lycoris Recoil animation director)

Series Composition, Script: Fumihiko Shimo (Clannad)

Character Design: Azuma Tozawa (Kirei ni Shitemoraemasu ka.)

Music: Satoru Kousaki (Kusuriya no Hitorigoto), MONACA (Summertime Render)

Studio: Gekkou

Producer: Ryou Aizawa (Starry Cube) (Yuusha Party ni Kawaii Ko ga Ita node, Kokuhaku shitemita.)

Amane originally launched a preview serialization of the comedy romance manga in Young Animal magazine from July to August 2022. The series later began regular serialization on the Manga Park and Young Animal web service in September 2022. Hakusensha published the ninth volume on July 29.

Yen Press licensed the manga in English in August 2024. The fourth volume went on sale on June 9.

Synopsis

Hiruno Hizashi, a freshman at a super-elite high school, has just finished his first academic proficiency test of the year. He anxiously awaits the results, which will set the tone for his next three years at school. But due to a mistake on his answer sheet, he receives an abysmal score and gets sent to remedial lessons! If there’s one silver lining, he’s not the only one—and his comrade could be the girl of his dreams?! (Source: Yen Press)

Official site: https://idol-afterschool.com/

Official X: @idolafterschool

Source: animate Times

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