Apocalypse Hotel Anime and Spinoff Manga Win 57th Seiun Awards
Apocalypse Hotel, a 2025 original anime about a robot maintaining a hotel in a collapsed society, swept two major Seiun categories and its spinoff manga won a third, marking a rare clean sweep for a single franchise across media and comic awards.
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The 57th Seiun Awards winners were announced on Monday. CyberAgent and Cygames Pictures' Apocalypse Hotel original TV anime won Best Media, and its spinoff manga Apocalypse Hotel Pusupusu won Best Comic. Mecha designer Ikuto Yamashita won Best Artist. Other winners included Rokudo Ningen's Labeled Human for Best Japanese Long Story and Iori Miyazawa's "Tokitoki Channel: How to Make Nonexistent Weather" for Best Japanese Short Story.
The Japan Science Fiction Convention revealed the winners of the 57th Seiun Awards on Monday. CyberAgent and Cygames Pictures' original television anime Apocalypse Hotel won the Best Media award. The anime's spinoff manga Apocalypse Hotel Pusupusu by Izumi Takemoto won the Best Comic Award. Anime mechanical designer Ikuto Yamashita won the Best Artist Award. The Apocalypse Hotel anime debuted in April 2025 and streams on Crunchyroll. It is set in a solitary hotel in Tokyo's Ginza district after society has collapsed and humanity has disappeared. The story follows Yachiyo, a hotel management robot who continues to run the Ginzarō hotel alongside other robots while awaiting the return of its owners and guests. Kana Shundo directed the anime at Cygames Pictures. The spinoff manga launched on Takeshobo's Storia Dash website in April 2025, and a sequel volume titled Apocalypse Hotel Karikari is due July 7.
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