Now in its 18th year of honoring manga with fewer than eight collected volumes published, the annual Manga Taisho Award today announced its 2025 batch of nominees that were narrowed down from 238 titles by a panel of 97 judges. The successor to last year’s first-place winner, Spacewalking With You by Inuhiko Doronoda, will be revealed on March 27, 2025.
This year’s nominees are as follows:
Alice, Doko made mo by Kiko Urino
Onna no Sono no Hoshi by Yama Wayama
COSMOS by Ryuhei Tamura
Kono Yo wa Tatakau Kachi ga Aru by Hatsumi Kodama
Re-Living My Life with a Boyfriend Who Doesn’t Remember Me by Eiko Mutsuhana, Gin Shirakawa, Yugiri Aika
Magus of the Library by Mitsu Izumi
Dokakui Daisuki! Mochizuki-san by Kamome Maruyono
Dokudami no Hana Saku Koro by Shiho Kido
Girl meets Rock! by Kuwahali, Tetsuo Ideuchi
Robou no Fujii by Kurao Nabe
Source: Comic Natalie
