Kodansha’s official social media accounts have announced the winners for the 48th Kodansha Manga Awards, and the results are as follows:
Shonen Division: Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End written by Kanehito Yamada, illustrated by Tsukasa Abe, and published in Shogakukan’s Weekly Shonen Sunday
Shojo Division: I See Your Face, Turned Away written and illustrated by Rumi Ichinohe, published in Kodansha’s Bessatsu Friend
General Division: Medalist written and illustrated by TSURUMAIKADA, published in Kodansha’s Monthly Afternoon
The winners of the 48th Kodansha Manga Awards receive a certificate, a bronze statue, and cash prize of 1 million yen (about $6392 US). The jury for the awards was made up of manga authors Natsumi Ando, TSUNAMI UMINO, Etsushi Ogawa, Koji Kumeta, Norifusa Mita, Makoto Yukimura and novelist Kaoru Hayamine.
Crunchyroll streams the anime adaptation of Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End, and describes the story as follows:
After the party of heroes defeated the Demon King, they restored peace to the land and returned to lives of solitude. Generations pass, and the elven mage Frieren comes face to face with humanity’s mortality. She takes on a new apprentice and promises to fulfill old friends’ dying wishes. Can an elven mind make peace with the nature of life and death? Frieren embarks on her quest to find out.
Source: Comic Natalie
