The finalists for the American Anime Awards are up, and here are the nominations in the manga category:
Bleach
Death Note
Fruits Basket
Naruto
Neon Genesis Evangelion: Angelic Days
At Shuchaku East, Chloe comments on all the nominees, anime and manga. And Dirk Deppey calls it like he sees it (scroll down):
Further, nothing on the manga list strikes me as the “best” of anything except a sales chart — the nominated titles are all consistently high in craftsmanship and readability, but even if you restrict your choices to commercial entertainment, none of them comes anywhere close to the quality exhibited by work by such artists as Hiroki Endo, Ai Yazawa, Naoki Urasawa or Kaoru Mori. This isn’t a list of honorable works; it’s an exercise in public relations.
