Please don’t laugh

The Osamu Tezuka Cultural Award Nominees will be announced in a couple months and I’m calling it now. Titles are ranked in order of how sure I am they’ll be nominated.

1. Yotsuba&! (Kiyohiko Azuma, Media Works)
2. Saint Oniisan (Hikaru Nakamura, Kodansha)
3. March Comes in Like a Lion (Chika Umino, Hakusensha)
4. Billy Bat (Naoki Urasawa, Kodansha)
5. Children of the Sea (Daisuke Igarashi, Shogakukan)
6. Nana (Ai Yazawa, Shueisha)
7. Ushijima the Loan Shark (Shohei Manabe, Shogakukan)
8. Ooku (Fumi Yoshinaga, Hakusensha)
9. The Drops of God (Shu Okimoto, Kodansha)
10. Toriko (Mitsutoshi Shimabukuro, Shueisha)

I don’t even think Billy Bat is qualified but I think they’ll make an exception any ways.

Beyond Twilight?

This is, Selected Pandemonium by Ichiko Ima, or so it seems. See this amazon page. If the description is correct, then it definitely is.

Either way, I’d like to be the first to congratulate Aurora Publishing on their fine licensing decision. I’m sure they’ll do a great job.

What do these manga all have in common?

Hopefully by next update I’ll have actually finished reading some series.

Reading List

-Added After School Nightmare

-Added The Key to the Kingdom

-Added Moon Child

-Added Swan

-Added With the Light

Incomplete List

-Added Tenma no Ketsuzoku