2024 Next Manga Awards: Kagurabachi and Girl Meets Rock Win 1st Place!

WEB MANGA DIVISION:
1st place: Girl meets rock!
2nd place: Ruri Dragon
3rd place: Vtuber Kusamura Shigemi

Girl meets rock celebrates winning 1st place with a special illustration created by Kuwahali & Ideuchi Tetsuo:

Founded in 2014 by Da Vinci and Nico Nico, this manga award is a user-driven competition where readers nominate manga that they think has the potential to be the “next big thing.” From these nominations, the most popular works are selected as nominees, and users then vote to determine the grand prize winner.

Kagurabachi by author Takeru Hokazono, who won the 100th Tezuka Prize in 2020 for his author profile “Hoten”. MANGA plus publishes the manga in English and describes it as follows:

Young Chihiro spends his days training under his famous swordmaker father. One day, he hopes to become a great swordmaker himself. The crazy father and the serious son – they thought these days would last forever. But suddenly tragedy strikes. A dark day drenched in blood. Chihiro and his sword now live only for revenge. Epic sword fighting action!

The manga Girl meets rock! is currently serialized on Shueisha’s Shonen Jump+ website. While it was previously available in English on MANGA Plus, it has since been removed from the platform.

Sources: Comic Natalie, Japan Anime News

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