Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize

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Named after Osamu Tezuka, the Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize (手塚治虫文化賞 Tezuka Osamu Bunkashō?) is a yearly comic book prize awarded to manga artists or their works that follow the Osamu Tezuka manga approach founded and sponsored by Asahi Shimbun. The prize has been awarded since 1997, in Tokyo, Japan.

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[edit] Current prizes categories

  • Grand Prize - for the excellent work during the year
  • Creative Award - for the creator with innovative or epoch-making expression and fresh talent
  • Short story Award - for the excellent work or creator of the short story
  • Special Award - for the person or group who contributed to extend the culture of manga

[edit] Prizes winners

[edit] 1997

  • Grand Prize: Fujiko Fujio for Doraemon
  • Award for Excellence: Moto Hagio for Zankokuna kami ga shihai suru (A cruel God rules in heaven)
  • Special Award: Toshio Naiki for the foundation and management of Modern Manga Library

[edit] 1998

  • Grand Prize: Jiro Taniguchi and Natsuo Sekikawa for the trilogy Bocchan No Jidai (Times of "Botchan")
  • Award for Excellence: Yūji Aoki for Naniwa Kin'yūdō (The way of the Ōsaka loan shark)
  • Special Award: Shotaro Ishinomori for the long years of contribution to manga

[edit] 1999

[edit] 2000

  • Grand Prize: Daijiro Morohoshi for Saiyū Yōenden (The Monkey King and other Chinese Legends)
  • Award for Excellence: Minetarō Mochizuki for Dragon Head
  • Special Award: Frederik L. Schodt for the distinguished service to introduce Japanese manga round the world

[edit] 2001

  • Grand Prize: Reiko Okano for Onmyōji (The Master of Shade and Light)
  • Award for Excellence: Kotobuki Shiriagari for Yajikita in deep
  • Special Award: Akira Maruyuma for the valuable service to support comic artists at Tokiwa house

[edit] 2002

[edit] 2003

  • Grand Prize: Fumiko Takano for The Yellow Book: A friend Named Jacques Thibault
  • Creative Award: Yumi Hotta and Takeshi Obata for Hikaru no Go
  • Short story Award: Hisaichi Ishii for Gendai shisō no sōnanshātachi (Victims of modern ideas)
  • Special Award: Shigeru Mizuki for the creative pictures and the long years of activities

[edit] 2004

  • Grand Prize: Kyōko Okazaki for Helter Skelter
  • Creative Award: Takashi Morimoto for Naniwadora ihon (Variant edition of the Naniwa wastrel)
  • Short story Award: Risu Akizuki for OL shinkaron (OL Evolution) and other works
    • Special Award: Tarō Minamoto for the pioneer works of historical manga and contribution to manga culture

[edit] 2005

[edit] 2006

  • Grand Prize: Hideo Azuma for Shissou Nikki (A diary of disappearance)
  • Creative Award: Asa Higuchi for Ōkiku Furikabutte (Pitch a ball in dynamic moves)
  • Short story Award: Risa Itō for One Woman, Two Cats, Oi Piitan!! (Hey Pitan!), Onna no mado (A Woman's Window) and other works
  • Special Award: Kousei Ono for the long years of the introduction of comics from abroad to Japan as a commentator for manga

[edit] 2007

  • Grand Prize: Ryoko Yamagishi for Maihime Τερψιχόρα (The Dancing Girl; Terpsichore)
  • Creative Award: Nobuhisa Nozoe, Kazuhisa Iwata and Kyojin Ōnishi for Shinsei Kigeki (La Divina Commedia)
  • Short story Award: Hiromi Morishita for Ōsaka Hamlet

[edit] 2008

  • Grand Prize: Masayuki Ishikawa for Moyashimon (Moyashimon: Tales of Agriculture)
  • Creative Award: Toranosuke Shimada for Träumerei
  • Short story Award: Yumiko Ōshima for GūGū Datte Neko De Aru(Cher Gou-Gou...mon petit chat, mon petit ami.)
  • Special Award: International Institute for Children's Literature, Osaka Prefecture (English Official site)

[edit] See also