Tezuka Award

The Tezuka Award (手塚賞, Tezuka Shō) is a semi-annual manga award offered by the Japanese publisher Shueisha since 1971, under the auspices of its Weekly Shonen Jump magazine.[1] It awarded new manga artists in the Story Manga category. Its counterpart award, Akatsuka Award, awards new manga artists in the Comedic Manga category. The award is named after the manga pioneer Osamu Tezuka and is designed to cultivate new artists. The prize for a top Selected Work is two million Japanese yen and for a lesser but still worthy work, a million yen. The award also has third place honorable mentions for contestants deemed worthy, that includes half a million yen. These cash prizes may not be awarded (as is often the case) if the judges deem none of the candidates worthy.

Not to be confused with Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize.

Historically the recipients have been in their early twenties, although two notable winners were over 90 years of age.

Selection committee

Committee chair
  • Osamu Tezuka (1971-1988)
  • Fujio Akatsuka (1989-2008). Due to his failing health, this title was merely a formality during the years leading up to his death on August 2, 2008, with his duties handled by Akira Toriyama in his absence.

Major committee members

These are the most prominent members of the committee only. Other adjudicators are also present in the committee.

Recipients
# YEAR WINNER RUNNER-UP HONORABLE MENTIONS
1 1971 No award given No award given Scrap, Takashi Iwashige

Shihatsu, Tsuneki Sagara

2 1971 No award given Gakisuteyama, Buntarō Takaoka Blues wo utau shōjo, Takashi Iwashige

Dream Kamen, Shigeru Nakamoto

3 1972 Garagara Umauma, Shigeru Nakamoto No award given
4 1972 No award given Hashire! Nagareboshi, Kazuto Kurosaki Circus yarō ga koi wo shita, Tetsu Kuroha

Tokio no jikanryokō, Toshio Ban

Makeruna Kisaburō, Kimio Yanagizawa

5 1973 No award given Kiri ni musebu yoru, Hiroshi Masumura Ore no Alps, Yoshihiro Takahashi
6 1973 No award given Ora wa Ametarō, Ikki Matsuda

Kaminarimon Hanjō, Shizuo Shiga

Saigo no Shōnen Yakyū, Yasuhiro Kunitomo

Samayou hako wa, Mitsuru Miura

7 1974 Seibutsutoshi, Daijirō Morohoshi No award given Tachiyomi genkin, Saburō Ishikawa

Futago banzai, Mio Murao

8 1974 No award given No award given Fūtarō, Kazuo Hattori

Boku no hatsukoi, Yasuhiko Hachino

9 1975 Harukanaru asa, Daijirō Morohoshi No award given Oi! Shinbun, Yasuyuki Kunitomo

Yamada-kun no hanashi, Anmei Yamada

10 1975 No award given Mirai kara kita osenzo-sama, Toshi Noma Nekkyū no hate ni..., Ippei Minami

Ganbare ochimusha, Sadamu Aiki

11 1976 No award given No award given Kaguya-sama sensō, Tomoo Kimura

Ōzora ni tatsu, Masaki Yamato

Mīnya no negai, Mitsuo Hashimoto

Mamushi, Eishō Shaku

Kemonomura yori, Yoshinori Kobayashi

12 1976

Notable Recipients

See also

References
  1. "Osamu Tezuka Awards". Retrieved 18 February 2015.
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