Akimi Yoshida’s Umimachi Diary Wins 2013’s Manga Taisho Award

03.22.2013 14:01

This year’s Manga Taisho (Cartoon Grand Prize) results were announced at a ceremony in Tokyo yesterday. Akimi Yoshida’s Umimachi Diary took the prize. Yoshida launched the manga in Shogakukan’s Monthly Flowers magazine in 2006. The manga follows three sisters who live in the seaside city of Kamakura. They learn of the death of their father, years after he divorced their mother and left the family. At their father's funeral, they meet their half-sister for the first time.

Yoshida thanked everyone for the award this year. She drew the following illustration upon receiving the award:

Manga Taisho is a yearly event held by a special committee formed by the managers of bookstores’manga sectors. The criteria is that the manga must be released during the course of the year and have run less than eight volumes. Last year, Hiromu Arakawa received the honor for her Silver Spoon manga. The committee nominated 11 works this year.

Manga Taisho 2013 final results:

Umimachi Diary by Akimi Yoshida (89 points)

The Bride’s Stories by Kaoru Mori (78 points)

Ballroom e Yōkoso by Tomo Takeuchi (78 points)

Hi Score Girl by Rensuke Oshikiri (62 points)

Ore Monogatari!! by Kazune Kawahara (story) & Aruko (art) (58 points)

Assassination Classroom by Yusei Matsui (40 points)

Kui Ryōko Sakuhin-shū: Seven Little Sons of the Dragon by Ryōko Kui (36 points)

Ningen Karimen-chū by Taeko Uzugi (35 points)

Terra Formars by Yū Sasuga (story) & Kenichi Tachibana (art) (30 points)

Sanzoku Diary by Kentarō Okamoto (29 points)

Bokura no Funka-sai by Keigo Shinzō (29 points)