From Surf Wiki (app.surf) — the open knowledge base
Tezuka Award
Japanese semi-annual manga award
Summary
Japanese semi-annual manga award
The Tezuka Award is a semi-annual manga award offered by the Japanese publisher Shueisha since 1971, under the auspices of its Weekly Shonen Jump magazine. 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 decide that none of the candidates are worthy.
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.
Former members
- Akira Toriyama
- Kazuki Takahashi
- Masanori Morita
- Masashi Kishimoto
- Hiroyuki Asada
- Takehiko Inoue
Current members
- Tezuka Productions
- Eiichiro Oda
- Kazue Kato
- Kohei Horikoshi
- Nobuhiro Watsuki
- Gege Akutami
Recipients
| No. | Year | Winner | Runner up | Honorable mention |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1971 | No award given | No award given | Scrap, Takashi Iwashige |
| Shihatsu, Tsuneki Sagara | ||||
| Frozen Youth, Rikuo Kasa | ||||
| Easy Rider, Furuya Tsuguharu | ||||
| 2 | No award given | Gakisuteyama, Bontarō Takaoka | ||
| Holy Things, Hisao Saitō | Girl Who Sings Blues, Takashi Iwashige | |||
| Dream Kamen, Shigeru Nakamoto | ||||
| 3 | 1972 | Garagara Umauma, Shigeru Nakamoto | No award given | Kūsō Buraku, Masao Takaoka |
| Our Sunset, Pochi Nohara | ||||
| What You Dropped, Tadashi Kaga | ||||
| 4 | No award given | Run! Shooting Star, Kazuto Kurosaki | Father's Flag, Akira Mimori | |
| The Circus Guy Fell in Love, Tetsu Kuroba | ||||
| Sukiyaki, Hiroshi Saitō | ||||
| Tokio's Time Travel, Toshio Ban | ||||
| Don't Lose, Kisaburo, Kimio Yanagisawa | ||||
| 5 | 1973 | No award given | Shoot and Stop, Akira Mimori | |
| Night Smothered in Fog, Hiroshi Masumura | My Alps, Yoshihiro Takahashi | |||
| Clouds and Tank Soldiers, Pochi Nohara | ||||
| Can't Become an Angel, Katsumi Sugawara | ||||
| Dad's Safe Passage, Shizuo Shiga | ||||
| The Remaining One, Toshio Ban | ||||
| 6 | No award given | Inquisition, Seiji Tanaka | ||
| Once Upon a Time in Kobikiyama, Pochi Nohara | Ora wa Ametarō, Ikki Matsuda | |||
| Kaminarimon Flourishing, Shizuo Shiga | ||||
| The Last Youth Baseball, Yasuhiro Kunitomo | ||||
| The Wandering Box Is, Mitsuru Miura | ||||
| 7 | 1974 | Creature City, Daijirō Morohoshi | No award given | Teacher Gami, Toshio Mitani |
| Wandering Yamanba, Pochi Nohara | ||||
| Browsing Banned, Saburō Ishikawa | ||||
| Twin Banzai, Mio Murao | ||||
| 8 | No award given | No award given | Strange Picture Diary, Yukio Otsuka | |
| Idiot, Tadashi Fugu | ||||
| Vagabond, Kazuo Hattori | ||||
| My First Love, Yasuhiko Hachino | ||||
| 9 | 1975 | Harukanaru Asa, Yukinobu Hoshino | No award given | Hey! Newspaper, Yasuyuki Kunitomo |
| Yamada-kun's Story, Anmei Yamada | ||||
| The Great Incident of Mt. Ikazuchi, Toshi Noma | ||||
| I Won't Go Crazy, Mitsuru Miura | ||||
| 10 | No award given | Ancestors From the Future, Toshi Noma | At the End of the Smoking Pitch..., Ippei Minami | |
| Red Umbrella, Yasuki Kitahara | ||||
| Hang in There, Deserter, Sadamu Aiki | ||||
| 11 | 1976 | No award given | No award given | The Great Duel at the Kanedōkan, Toshi Noma |
| 23 Years Later, Kōhei Mikuni | ||||
| Kaguyahime War, Tomō Kimura | ||||
| Tipser Sense Tarō, Toshio Ban | ||||
| Standing in the Heavens, Masa Kojima | ||||
| Mīnya's Wish, Mitsuo Hashimoto | ||||
| Magic Eye, Masayuki Kawachi | ||||
| Pit Viper, Shuku Eishō | ||||
| From the Beast Village, Yoshinori Kobayashi | ||||
| 12 | Urashima, Keiichi Koike | Invasion of the Underground People!, Tomō Kimura | ||
| The Rebellion of Just Two, Toshi Noma | Smash Ken, Salami Nakayama | |||
| The Legend of the One-Eyed Bear, Tarō Kamiyoshi | ||||
| 13 | 1977 | No award given | Midnight Visitor, Kazuo Miyasaki | |
| However, the Sun Is Shining, Toshiki Miyazaki | ||||
| Afterglow and Marbles, Matsujirō Kawano | ||||
| Sakakibara-kun Land Mine, Yukio Ōtsuka | Hang in There, Mr. Bear, Hidekazu Tanaka | |||
| Kansei Strange Tale, Kunihiko Takayoshi | ||||
| Mother Earth, Turn Green Again, Buichi Terasawa | ||||
| 14 | No award given | No award given | Island Nine, Sadamu Aiki | |
| Useless Courage, Tochi Ueyama | ||||
| Hiroshi, Shinichirō Mori | ||||
| 15 | 1978 | No award given | Consent, Ministry of Recovering Broken Hearts, Masaki Sanboku | |
| Marathon Hacchan, Takeshi Miya | Satisfaction, Ryō Ōasa | |||
| Silent Testimony, Akiko Hashima | ||||
| Jockey, Shōgo Kurosawa | ||||
| Contaminated Safe, Umezō Hiramatsu | ||||
| 16 | No award given | Oh, Ichirō, Kōji Koseki | Big Surfer, Motoki Monma | |
| The Age of Love, Yōichi Izumi | ||||
| Insect Clearing, Akira Ishiyama | ||||
| Legend of Rain, Masaki Sanboku | ||||
| Wild Mark, Little Takeshi | ||||
| Melody of the Reincarnated, Isamu Mikuni | ||||
| 17 | 1979 | No award given | Last Waltz, Kazuhisa Hotta | Junichi-kun and OB, Yukio Otsuka |
| Cedar Pole, Hiroshi Takahashi | ||||
| Tears, Rokusuke Band of Tears, Katsuyuki Edamatsu | ||||
| You Smell Like a Punk, Big Brother, Seiichi Ishii | ||||
| Drifting Legend, Hitoshi Tanimura | ||||
| Stop Nami-chan, Kabutomushi Tarō | ||||
| Flying Thunder Map, Ryūji Tsugihara | ||||
| 18 | No award given | Space Angel, Tsukasa Hojo | Triple One, Masami Okada | |
| Elegy for a Beloved Dog, Mosaku Annaka | ||||
| On an Ordinary Morning, Ryōichi Fujiwara | ||||
| Flowers and Storms Go!, Toshio Nobe | ||||
| 19 | 1980 | No award given | Star, Katsumi Shinbo | |
| Idaten Hawk, Umezō Hiramatsu | Tsubasa, Masakazu Katsura | |||
| Rain Car Wash, Chinatsu Tomisawa | ||||
| Go! Bantman, Keiji Tanaka | ||||
| Yarō Keeps Smiling!!, Tatsuto Uchida | ||||
| 20 | No award given | Poker Under Arms, Hirohiko Araki | Youth 120%, Mitsuo Suzuki | |
| Dosukoi Tank, Uryū Minō | ||||
| Maria, Isao Enomoto | ||||
| Fighting Spirit, Keiji Tanaka | ||||
| Cosmo Frontier, Eita Kuri | ||||
| 21 | 1981 | No award given | Run Away to the Lucky Route, Shūhō Itahashi and Argonauts | |
| Devil's Temptation and Targeted Idol, Shinji Watanabe | ||||
| Shot!, Tetsuya Tanawatari | ||||
| Tenkōsei wa Hensōsei!?, Masakazu Katsura | Battlenoid, Eita Kuri | |||
| Toast with Queen Mary..., Yukihiko Nozuki (writer) and Ryō Watanabe (illustrator) | ||||
| 22 | Last Spurt, Shigehiro Nomura | Samson, Masatoshi Usune | Guidepost to the Blue Sky, Iroen Pitsu | |
| My Landing, Akio Adachi | ||||
| Woman in the Bijin-ga, Tarō Sumitomo | ||||
| Panicked Time Travel, Yoshihiro Takaiwa | ||||
| 23 | 1982 | No award given | Spacetime Scoundrel, Imuro Yumura | |
| Bd to, Takedaken | Outsider No. 1, Masaru Tanahashi | |||
| Space Treasure Island, Eita Kuri | ||||
| Silver Queen, Hiroko Suzuki | ||||
| Dear Tomica, Shishin Ōnishi | ||||
| Charge! One Soldier, Makoto Tamura | ||||
| Natural Disaster Next Door, Yūji Shinnyū | ||||
| Hundred Eyes Banquet, Shingo Hirasawa | ||||
| Break a Rodo, Iku Sakaguchi | ||||
| 24 | No award given | Shadow of a Distant Day, Ryūsei Doi | ||
| Program, Hisataka Miyoshi | Kohaku Biyori, Toshimitsu Tamada | |||
| Burning Purity, Shōichi Yagihashi | ||||
| 25 | 1983 | No award given | No award given | Psychic Sayo, Tadashi Satō |
| Space-Time Police-2009, Hiroko Suzuki | ||||
| On the Stage of Men and Women..., Shūichi Takano | ||||
| Moonlight Stone, Seiju Natsuyama | ||||
| Battle of V, Shōichi Yagihashi | ||||
| 26 | No award given | 21st Century Shooting Star, Daimurō Kishi | ||
| Heian Yin-Yang Emaki, Hiroshi Suzuki | Maji?, Takehiko Yamada | |||
| Beauty Beast, Yoshihiro Kuroiwa | ||||
| 27 | 1984 | No award given | Octopus Teacher, Naoko Sekine | |
| Gallery Key, Yoshiharu Ikeda | S.O. Love Boiling!, Naohiro Nakatani | |||
| Can Still Run, Takehiko Yamada | ||||
| It's Late!, Masanori Morita | ||||
| School Trouble!!, Hiroyuki Kawashima | ||||
| 28 | No award given | Devil's Sword, Shōichi Yagihashi | ||
| Biography of Dr. Momohiko Sakurada, Jirō Uda | Teku no Rojii, Takahashi Kurisu | |||
| Hirosi..., Ryūsei Doi | ||||
| Torio, Ryōji Satō | ||||
| 29 | 1985 | Until I Reach the Horizon, Daimurō Kishi | Little Shooter, Kaoru Satō | Tōshō Private High School Soccer Club, Yūichi Oshiyama |
| Hōjo, Yū Tomizawa | ||||
| As Long as There Is Spirit, Watabōshi | ||||
| Mysterious Kid, Shinpō Morita | ||||
| 30 | No award given | The Myth of 500 Light Years, Takeshi Obata | ||
| Equation of Extinction, Takashi Kurisu | Win! Don Quixote, Junji Mizuno | |||
| Coral Flowing..., Tsukko | ||||
| Star Thief, Kōichi Kagiya | ||||
| Iron Ingot and Music, Tadamichi Kawamura | ||||
| Enormous Boy, Makuru Nitaku | ||||
| 31 | 1986 | No award given | Weekend Adventure, Noriko Ishihara | |
| 900 Years Great Battle, Hiromitsu Itō | Goki Gaburi, Ryōji Satō | |||
| Boy's Universe From "Star Person", Takumi Shimoura | ||||
| Spirit, Kazuto Raō | ||||
| Hurricane General, Hideo Hiroi | ||||
| Faraway Runaway, Kōji Ōki | ||||
| 32 | No award given | To the North: Your Case, Kei Honjō | ||
| Private Lesson Is 1:00 AM, Haruki Matsunaga | ||||
| Marionette of Time, Shū Hoshikawa | Fly of Shō, Harumi Matsuzaki | |||
| Mai Never Give Up, Ami Kyōmoto | ||||
| Chance, Shin Itō | ||||
| 33 | 1987 | No award given | ||
| 34 | No award given | |||
| 35 | 1988 | |||
| 36 | No award given | No award given | ||
| 37 | 1989 | No award given | ||
| 38 | ||||
| 39 | 1990 | No award given | ||
| 40 | No award given | |||
| 41 | 1991 | No award given | ||
| 42 | No award given | |||
| 43 | 1992 | |||
| 44 | No award given | |||
| 45 | 1993 | No award given | ||
| 46 | No award given | |||
| 47 | 1994 | No award given | ||
| 48 | No award given | |||
| 49 | 1995 | No award given | ||
| 50 | ||||
| 51 | 1996 | |||
| 52 | No award given | |||
| 53 | 1997 | No award given | No award given | |
| 54 | No award given | |||
| 55 | 1998 | No award given | ||
| 56 | No award given | |||
| 57 | 1999 | No award given | ||
| 58 | No award given | |||
| 59 | 2000 | No award given | ||
| 60 | No award given | |||
| 61 | 2001 | No award given | ||
| 62 | No award given | |||
| 63 | 2002 | No award given | ||
| 64 | No award given | |||
| 65 | 2003 | No award given | ||
| 66 | No award given | |||
| 67 | 2004 | No award given | ||
| 68 | No award given | |||
| 69 | 2005 | |||
| 70 | No award given | |||
| 71 | 2006 | No award given | ||
| 72 | No award given | |||
| 73 | 2007 | |||
| 74 | No award given | |||
| 75 | 2008 | No award given | ||
| 76 | No award given | |||
| 77 | 2009 | No award given | ||
| 78 | No award given | No award given | ||
| 79 | 2010 | No award given | ||
| 80 | No award given | No award given | ||
| 81 | 2011 | No award given | ||
| 82 | No award given | |||
| 83 | 2012 | No award given | ||
| 84 | No award given | No award given | ||
| 85 | 2013 | No award given | ||
| 86 | No award given given | |||
| 87 | 2014 | No award given | ||
| 88 | No award given | |||
| 89 | 2015 | No award given | No award given | |
| 90 | No award given | |||
| 91 | 2016 | No award given | ||
| 92 | No award given | |||
| 93 | 2017 | No award given | ||
| 94 | No award given | |||
| 95 | 2018 | No award given | ||
| 96 | No award given | No award given | ||
| 97 | 2019 | No award given | ||
| 98 | No award given | |||
| 99 | 2020 | No award given | ||
| 100 | No award given | |||
| 101 | 2021 | No award given | ||
| 102 | No award given | |||
| 103 | 2022 | No award given | ||
| 104 | No award given | |||
| 105 | 2023 | No award given | ||
| 106 | No award given | |||
| 107 | 2024 | No award given |
Notable Recipients
- Yoshihiro Takahashi (1973, for My Alps )
- Buichi Terasawa (1977, for Daichi yo Aoku Nare)
- Tsukasa Hojo (1979, for Space Angel,)
- Masakazu Katsura (1980, for Tsubasa and 1981, for Tenkousei wa Hensousei!?)
- Hirohiko Araki (1980, for Poker Under Arms)
- Masanori Morita (1984, for It's Late! )
- Takeshi Obata (1985, for 500 Kōnen no Shinwa)
- Yoshihiro Togashi (1986, for Buttobi Straight)
- Nobuhiro Watsuki (1987, for Teacher Pon)
- Takehiko Inoue (1988, for Kaede Purple)
- Ryu Fujisaki (1990, for WORLDS)
- Kei Sanbe (1990, for Bird's Perspective)
- Shinobu Kaitani (1991, for Another Me)
- Eiichiro Oda (1992, for WANTED!)
- Hiroyuki Takei (1994, for ITAKO's ANNA)
- Yūki Tabata (2004, for XXX WITH NO NAME)
- Kōhei Horikoshi (2006, for Nukegara)
- Takeru Hokazono (2020, for Enten)
References
References
Wikipedia Source
This article was imported from Wikipedia and is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Content has been adapted to SurfDoc format. Original contributors can be found on the article history page.
Ask Mako anything about Tezuka Award — get instant answers, deeper analysis, and related topics.
Research with MakoFree with your Surf account
Create a free account to save articles, ask Mako questions, and organize your research.
Sign up free
Content sourced from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
This content may have been generated or modified by AI. CloudSurf Software LLC is not responsible for the accuracy, completeness, or reliability of AI-generated content. Always verify important information from primary sources.
Report