AoD manga awards

Posted on February 13, 2006 by Brigid Alverson

Anime on DVD has posted its Best Manga Awards, and I predict that the blogosphere will be pleased. Fruits Basket picks up the laurels for best overall release and best shoujo, while Sexy Voice and Robo gets the nod for best one-shot book, Death Note for best series, and Yotsuba&! wins the prize for best youth/all ages title. Bleach wins the Best Shonen award, although a lot of women seem to read it, and XXXHolic is voted the best mature manga. Shojo Beat wins the Best Periodical, a category in which the competition is, admittedly, rather thin. Note that, this being AoD, there was no OEL manga category. However, I think the titles listed are a very good representation of what the bloggers liked this year, especially Death Note, Yotsuba&! and Sexy Voice and Robo. No Planetes, though.

My prediction: Look for Cantarella somewhere on that list next year.

About Brigid Alverson

Brigid Alverson has been reading comics since she was 4. After earning an MFA in printmaking, she headed to New York to become a famous artist but ended up working with words instead of pictures, first as a book editor and later as a newspaper reporter. She started MangaBlog to keep track of her daughters’ reading habits and now covers manga, comics and graphic novels as a freelancer for School Library Journal, Publishers Weekly Comics Week, Comic Book Resources, the Barnes & Noble Sci-Fi & Fantasy Blog, and Robot 6. She also edits the Good Comics for Kids blog at School Library Journal. Now settled in the outskirts of Boston, Brigid is married to a physicist and has two daughters.
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