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I couldn’t find anything interesting today so I’m posting about the wonderful Kodansha 32nd manga awards! So basically Kodansha’s panel of judges has decided on the winners and they will be holding the awards ceremony on the 20th of June where each of the winners get 1 million yen (US$10,000).

Best children’s manga
Shugochara by Peach Pit
Currently running in Nakayoshi (Kodansha)

Best shounen manga
Saikyou! Toritsu aoizaka koukou yakyuubu by Tanaka Motoyuki
Currently running in Shounen Sunday (Shogakukan)

Best shoujo manga
Kimi ni Todoke by Shiina Karuho
Currently running in Bessatsu Margaret (Shueisha)

Best general manga
Moyashimon by Ishikawa Masayuki
Currently running in Evening (Kodansha)

Here’s a quick history on the Kodansha manga awards though for those who aren’t familiar with what they do. The awards were created to award the best manga that was produced each year.

Which is why of all the awards given out in the past 32 years, over 80% of the awards have gone to manga published by Kodansha.

The other publisher that had received the most number of awards next to Kodansha is Shueisha, who got about 8% of all the awards in past 32 years. And none of the manga in Shueisha’s most popular magazine Shounen Jump has ever won a single award. (Shounen Jump manga doesn’t even get nominated anymore)

On the other hand, Shogakukan’s manga awards that has been going for 53 years usually gives awards for Shounen Sunday and Shounen Jump, but has never ever given an award for manga running in Shounen Magazine, Kodansha’s most popular magazine.

But for the first time in the history of the Shogakukan manga awards this year, Shogakukan gave a manga award to a manga from Kodansha’s Shounen Magazine, which is why a Shounen Sunday manga also received an award for the first time in the history of Kodansha’s manga awards. And the reason for this sudden change is because… Shounen Magazine and Shounen Sunday had a collaboration project.

Japanese blog 12 year old Tiyu has a more detailed analysis of all these awards stuff.

The Lucky Star OVA will start in the summer apparently. Still by Kyoani. Haruhi in 2009 sounds more real with each passing day!

The Wii Haruhi game will be a dance game.

Dengeki has revealed details on Akibablog about their upcoming magazine renewal that was announced last month. It involves a new logo and… increased number of pages and lower price. 900 pages and 580 yen is awesome, but I guess that means they’ll be back to using cheap paper.

Japanese site Takahiro no kenkyuukan had a write up on the readership data released by publisher Ichijinsha on their site for potential advertisers. So… yeah. Here’s a bunch of data for people who’s interested in knowing what kind of people read Comic ZERO-SUM or Comic REX.

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The usual Jump insider on 2ch has revealed that Mx0 will end soon in the coming issues. I don’t post about comics getting cut from Jump, but I liked Mx0 so I’m posting about it! Man I thought it would survive a little longer. Also getting cut from Jump are Poseidon and Hatsukoi gentei.

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Additional note: Just in case anybody misreads, Mx0 is going to end in the next 3-4 chapters or so, it’s not going to end immediately in the next issue of Jump.

Kami nomi zo shiru sekai - The world only god knows, is a manga that has recently started in Shounen Sunday by author Wakaki Tamiki (who has no money). The manga is about 17 year old student Katsuragi Keima who is apparently the god of galge and has already conquered 10,000 girls in galge.

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The June issue of Dengeki Daioh which will be released on the 21st of April contains a mysterious ad depicting a baby feeling up Shana and a message saying that a brand new Dengeki Daioh will be revealed in June. Nothing else is known at this point, more will probably be revealed in the July issue.

The Dengeki Moeoh blog also reveals that a Sharin no kuni manga by Usami Wataru will start in the July issue of Dengeki Daioh. About time!

Japanese blog Ninniki nikki reports that the bakery Boulangerie Ken at Akatsuka have started selling bread that is made to look like the stone mask from JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure. Pics are available on the blog.

Wakaki Tamiki, author of Sekesshou Albatross which ran on Shounen Sunday for a year and also has an upcoming new serialization to start in the next issue of Shounen Sunday. However, he writes on his blog that he’s extremely low on money now, with less than 10,000 yen (US$100) in his bank account.

He would have no money to pay the utilities bills, but he managed to get an advance from Shounen Sunday for the manga that’s starting serialization in the next issue.

He also mentions that they haven’t increased the amount he gets paid per page despite having been promised that he’ll get more, and that he has never gotten a raise in the amount he gets paid per page after having been around for 9 years.

He says that when he compares the amount that he gets per page as compared to his other friends that also draw manga in other magazines, they get several thousand more yen per page as compared to him.

Though, it should be noted that mangaka are seldomly able to live off the amount that they get from the magazine and they only really get a substantial amount from tankoubon sales. I always thought the guys that have had a reasonably long serialization in the top selling magazines don’t run into financial problems like this, I thought wrong.

Negima author Ken Akamatsu has announced on his blog that they’ll be releasing a Negima OVA with the limited edition versions of vol. 23 to 25 of the tankoubon. The anime will be by Shaft again and it’ll be based on the manga version of Negima this time.

Akamatsu has been dropping hints on his blog about this for like… six months now. They’re apparently leaving it to him to pick the portions of the story to animate and he has picked chapters 176 to 183 for the 3 episodes.

I was hoping they’d do the final parts of the mahora festival instead…

An anime version of the slice of life manga Hyakko was announced at the Tokyo International Anime Fair held today. Hyakko currently runs on the web magazine FlexComix Blood and is available for free reading on their site.

I liked the manga but I never expected Hyakko to get animated since it was such a… minor manga.

On the other hand the Yozakura Quartet anime was announced some days ago too but that wasn’t much of a surprise.