Shogakukan Opens Rumiko Takahashi Fantasy Manga Awards
Shogakukan is attaching Takahashi's name and a seven-figure yen prize pool to its ongoing search for fantasy manga, with the top two entries routed into Weekly Shonen Sunday or Sunday Webry rather than left as award-only recognition.
Reporting from 1 source: Anime News Network.
Shogakukan's Weekly Shonen Sunday announced the Rumiko Takahashi Fantasy Manga Awards in its combined 42nd and 43rd issue, with entries open to professional and amateur creators until January 11, 2027. Works must run 42 pages or fewer and include at least one fantasy element. Takahashi heads the judging panel alongside editor-in-chief Kazunori Oshima and other Shonen Sunday editors. Results will be announced in the magazine and on the awards website on March 24.
Takahashi will lead the judging panel, which includes Weekly Shonen Sunday editor-in-chief Kazunori Oshima and other editors from the magazine. The grand prize is 1 million yen, about US$6,000, and the winning manga will be published in Weekly Shonen Sunday or a spinoff publication and on Shogakukan's Sunday Webry site. Second prize is 500,000 yen with the same publication route, honorable mention is 300,000 yen with a Sunday Webry appearance, and the effort and encouragement prizes pay 100,000 yen and 30,000 yen.
- Grand prize: 1 million yen, about US$6,000; published in Weekly Shonen Sunday or a spinoff and on Sunday Webry
- Second prize: 500,000 yen, about US$3,000; published in Weekly Shonen Sunday or a spinoff and on Sunday Webry
- Honorable mention: 300,000 yen, about US$2,000; work appears on Sunday Webry
- Effort prize: 100,000 yen, about US$600
- Encouragement prize: 30,000 yen, about US$200
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