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Marco Kohinata's Akari Wins Prix Ouest-France At Quai Des Bulles
A French regional daily's readers committee, not an anime-industry body, picked a quiet one-volume manga, which puts Kohinata's book in front of a general French readership rather than the usual specialist circuit.
Reporting from 1 source: Anime News Network.
Quai des Bulles awarded the Prix Ouest-France to the French edition of Marco Kohinata's Akari, a one-volume manga that Hero's Inc. released in Japan in 2022. A committee of festival organizers and Ouest-France reporters chose the title by vote. It is the first Japanese work to take the award. The Saint-Malo festival ran October 9 to 11, and ABCD Asia Award 2026 also went to Akari in July.
Glacier Bay Books publishes Akari in English, and the Toronto Comic Arts Festival hosted Kohinata as a guest this year from June 6 to 7. The manga is one volume, released in Japan by Hero's Inc. in 2022, and the French edition is what the Quai des Bulles committee voted on.
The award sits outside the usual anime and manga prize circuit. Ouest-France is the country's most circulated daily, and its reporters sat on the same committee as festival organizers.
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