Kodansha Manga Award

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The Kodansha Manga Award (講談社漫画賞, Kōdansha Manga Shō^?) is an annual award for serialized manga published in the previous year, sponsored by publishers Kodansha. It is currently awarded in four categories: children's, shōnen, shōjo, and general.

[edit] Recipients

Year	Children	Shōnen	Shōjo	General
1977	n/a	Black Jack, Osamu Tezuka The Three-Eyed One, Osamu Tezuka (tie)	Haikara-san ga Tōru, Waki Yamato Candy Candy, Kyoko Mizuki and Yumiko Igarashi (tie)	n/a
1978	n/a	Football Hawk, Noboru Kawasaki	Attention Students!, Yōko Shōji	n/a
1979	n/a	Tonda Couple, Kimio Yanagisawa	Wata no Kuni Hoshi, Yumiko Ōshima	n/a
1980	n/a	Susa-no-o, Gō Nagai	Lemon Report, Mayumi Yoshida	n/a
1981	n/a	Sanshiro of 1, 2, Makoto Kobayashi	Good morning! Spank, Shunichi Yukimuro and Shizue Takanashi	n/a
1982	n/a	Gakuto Retsuden, Motoka Murakami	Yōkihi-den, Suzue Miuchi	Karyūdo no Seiza, Machiko Satonaka
1983	n/a
1984	n/a
1985	n/a
1986	n/a
1987	n/a
1988	n/a
1989	n/a
1990	n/a
1991	n/a
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1999	n/a	Chameleon, Atsushi Kase	Peach Girl, Miwa Ueda	Wangan Midnight, Michiharu Kusunoki
2000	n/a	Tetsuya, the Legendary Gambler, Fūmei Sai and Yasushi Hoshino	Guru Guru Pon-chan, Satomi Ikezawa	Vagabond, Eiji Yoshikawa and Takehiko Inoue
2001	n/a	Love Hina, Ken Akamatsu	Fruits Basket, Natsuki Takaya	20th Century Boys, Naoki Urasawa
2002	n/a	Cromartie High School, Eiji Nonaka Beck, Harold Sakuishi (tie)	Antique Bakery, Fumi Yoshinaga	Zipang, Kaiji Kawaguchi
2003	Mirmo!, Hiromu Shinozuka	Kunimitsu no Matsuri, Yūma Andō and Masashi Asaki	Honey and Clover, Chika Umino Tramps Like Us, Yayoi Ogawa (tie)	The Life of the Genius Professor Yanagizawa, Kazumi Yamashita
2004	Ultra Ninja Scrolls, Kazuhiko	Intercept What? King Gikei, Hirofumi Sawada	Nodame Cantabile, Tomoko Ninomiya	Basilisk: The Kouga Ninja Scrolls, Fūtarō Yamada and Masaki Segawa
2005	Sugar Sugar Rune, Moyoco Anno	Capeta, Masahito Soda	Oi Piitan!!, Risa Itō A Perfect Day for Love Letters, Jōji Asakura(tie)	Dragon Zakura, Mita Norifusa
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