
Monday, April 7, 2025 noticed forty ninth annual Kodansha Manga Awards announce its nominees, which included mangaka Takeru Hokazono’s Kagurabachi and Satoru Nii’s Wind Breaker. In whole, there are 16 completely different nominees throughout three separate classes, with the winners for every class set to be introduced on Monday, Could 12, 2025 in Japan.
Notably, the 2 standout nominees in Hokazono’s Kagurabachi and Nii’s Wind Breaker are each within the Greatest Shonen Manga class, which means one of many two will go house empty handed. The opposite two classes listed are Greatest Shojo Manga, with 5 whole entries, and Greatest Normal Manga, additionally with 5 whole entries.
Kagurabachi and Wind Breaker conflict in Greatest Shonen Class of forty ninth annual Kodansha Manga Awards
Alongside Hokazono’s Kagurabachi and Nii’s Wind Breaker sequence within the Greatest Shonen Manga class are 4 extra works. These are Saka Mikami’s The Aromatic Flowers Bloom With Dignity, which was additionally nominated to the class in 2023 and 2024, ONE, Kyotaro Azuma, and BOSE’s Versus, Naoshi Arakawa’s Orion’s Board, and Yugo Kobayashi’s Fermat no Ryori. Hokazono’s manga from Shueisha is notably the one non-Kodansha revealed nominee.
The Greatest Shojo Manga nominees embody Anashin’s How I Met My Soulmate, Midori Yuma and Mamenosuke Fujimaru’s The Ayakashi Hunter’s Tainted Bride, Coco Uzuki’s Fall in Love, You False Angels, Eiko Mutsuhana, Yugiri Aika, and Gin Shirakawa’s Re-Residing My Life with a Boyfriend Who Doesn’t Bear in mind Me, and Ammitsu’s Gazing on the Star Subsequent Door. All are revealed by Kodansha save for Mutsuhana and co’s Re-Residing My Life manga sequence.
Lastly, the Greatest Normal Manga nominees embody Kengo Hanazawa’s Below Ninja, Yama Wayama’s Onna no Sono no Hoshi, which was additionally nominated in 2023, Inuhiko Doronoda’s Spacewalking With You, Riku Oseto’s Nezumi no Hatsukoi, and Hitoshi Iwaaki’s Historie. All are revealed by Kodansha save for Wayama’s Onna no Sono no Hoshi manga sequence, revealed by Shodensha.
Nii’s Wind Breaker manga started serialization on Kodansha’s Journal Pocket web site in January 2021, the place it’s nonetheless ongoing with common serialization at the moment. The manga was tailored right into a tv anime sequence in April 2024, with the second season having not too long ago premiered in April 2025. The manga volumes have been additionally not too long ago introduced for an accelerated English launch beginning in July 2025 with the English launch of the manga’s tenth compilation quantity.
Hokazono’s Kagurabachi manga sequence started serialization in Shueisha’s Weekly Shonen Leap in September 2023, and has since change into one in every of its hottest sequence total. Whereas the manga has but to be formally introduced for an anime, it’s rumored that Cygames Footage has already begun producing one. Most notably, Shueisha executives have been allegedly quoted as saying that Hokazono’s manga can “carry the subsequent technology of Leap” in June 2024.
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