The most outstanding winning series were:
Best Shonen Manga: Tokyo Revengers
Author: Ken Wakui
Synopsis: Takemichi is a 26-year-old unemployed who finds out that the girl he was dating in high school has died. Soon after, he is involved in an accident and goes back in time to his high school years. He swears that he will change the future and manage to save the girl who was his girlfriend, to achieve this his goal is to reach the top of the most violent region of criminal gangs.
Best Shoujo Manga: Boku to Kimi no Taisetsu na Hanashi
Author: Robico
Synopsis: Nozomi Aizawa has kept her feelings for her schoolmate Azuma-kun a secret for quite some time, but has finally made the decision to confess. Although the response you receive is not at all ordinary. Circling their hilarious tangents in circles, the two awkward teenagers find themselves closer and closer while at the same time mistaken for misunderstandings and tirades that get off topic. When silly stalker Aizawa-san finally manages to connect with the smug know-it-all Azuma-kun, the result is a romantic comedy worth talking about.
Best Overall Manga: Blue Period
Author: Tsubasa Yamaguchi
Synopsis:
He is a savvy, popular high school student who scores very well and has pragmatic ideas about his future. He also drinks, smokes and goes out on the night. And one day, suddenly, he discovers the joy of drawing. This is the story of overcoming Yatora Yaguchi, full of vicissitudes on her way to pass the entrance exam to an art university, in a version of sports tenacity applied to fine arts!
The prizes awarded to each of the winning authors include a certificate, a bronze statuette, and 1 million yen ($ 9,000). The selection committee was made up of very important members of the anime and manga industry such as Ken Akamatsu, Tochi Ueyama, Oh! great, Atsushi Kase, Akiko Higashimura, Yūji Moritaka and Waki Yamato.
Last year, authors Negi Haruba and Yoshitoki Oima, authors of the Gotoubun no Hanayome and To Your Eternity series, respectively, were the winners of the Best Shonen Manga category. Author Rie Agura won the award for Best Shoujo Manga for the title Perfect World. The Best Overall Manga category was won by author Fumi Yoshinaga and her series Hepburn: Kinō Nani Tabeta ?.
Source: Kodansha
