Taiyo Matsumoto's Tokyo These Days & Yuna Hirasawa's Inspiring Manga Win at the Eisner Awards
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Comic-Con International Announces 2025 Will Eisner Award Winners
On Friday, Comic-Con International revealed this year's winners of the prestigious Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards. Among the highlights, Taiyo Matsumoto's Tokyo These Days, translated by Michael Arias, took home the award for Best U.S. Edition of International Material—Asia.
Other Nominees in the Category
- Ashita no Joe: Fighting for Tomorrow by Asao Takamori and Tetsuya Chiba (translated by Asa Yonola)
- Hereditary Triangle by Fumiya Hayashi (translated by Alethea and Athena Nibley)
- Kagurabachi by Takeru Hokazono (translated by Camellia Nieh)
- Last Quarter by Ai Yazawa (translated by Max Greenway)
- Search and Destroy by Atsushi Kaneko, based on Osamu Tezuka's Dororo (translated by Ben Applegate)
Additional Award Highlights
- IDW's Godzilla's 70th Anniversary won Best Anthology.
- Yūna Hirasawa's My Journey to Her from Kodansha took home the Best Digital Comic award.
Other Notable Nominations
- Seattle Samurai: A Cartoonist's Perspective of the Japanese American Experience by Kelly Goto and Sam Goto was nominated for Best Graphic Album—Reprint, but the award went to The One Hand and The Six Fingers by Ram V, Dan Watters, Laurence Campbell, and Sumit Kumar.
- Viz Media's X-Men: The Manga Remastered was nominated for Best Archival Collection/Project—Comic Books. The project involved notable creators like Hirofumi Ichikawa, Hiroshi Higuchi, Kōji Yasue, Miyako Cojima, Rei Nakahara, and Reiji Hagiwara, with David Brothers as editor and Fawn Lau as designer.
- The Batman Year One Artist's Edition by Frank Miller and David Mazzucchelli, edited by Scott Dunbier, won in its category.
Hall of Fame Inductions
Horror manga legend Junji Ito was inducted into the Eisner Hall of Fame. Ito has previously won awards for works like Lovesickness, Remina, Venus In The Blind Spot, and Frankenstein. Additionally, the organizers announced the posthumous induction of Shigeru Mizuki, the creator of Kitaro.
Past Winners and Recognitions
- Maki Fujiwara's My Picture Diary, translated by Ryan Holmberg, won last year's Best U.S. Edition of International Material—Asia.
Sources: Heidi MacDonald's Bluesky, The Beat (Samantha Puc)
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