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Shueisha Reveals Details for 2025 Seinen Manga Newcomer Award
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Shueisha announced on Thursday details for this year's Shueisha Seinen Manga Newcomer Award. The award aims to find the best newcomer for Seinen (young adult males) from Shueisha's Weekly Young Jump, Ultra Jump, and Grand Jump magazines, as well as its web manga site Tonari no Young Jump.
There are 10 categories: Battle/Action, Sports, Romance/Romantic Comedy, Gag/Comedy, Character, No Genre, Storyboard, Tonari no Young Jump, Grand Jump, and Ultra Jump. The top entries in these categories will move on to the final selection round, and the grand prize winner will be awarded a cash prize of 5 million yen (about US$34,000). The runner-up will win 2.5 million yen (about US$17,000), and the special jury award winner will earn 1 million yen (about US$6,800). Per category, the top entrant earns 500,000 yen (about US$3,400), second prize gets 300,000 yen (about US$2,000), and the special award winner earns 100,000 yen (about US$680).
Judges include Aka Akasaka (Oshi no Ko, Kaguya-sama: Love is War), Toshio Sako (Usogui), Satoru Noda (Golden Kamuy), Yasuhisa Hara (Kingdom), and ONE (One-Punch Man).
Applicants can sign up until September 30. There is no limit for number of pages nor are there specific requirements for eligibility beyond the entry work being written in Japanese. Shueisha will reveal the results in January 2026.
The publisher launched the Shueisha Seinen Newcomer Manga Award in March 2024 to commemorate the 45th anniversary of the Weekly Young Jump magazine. Unlike this year, there were 45 categories, and Hiroya Oku (Gantz) was also a judge. The contest is based on the 100 Million Yen 40 Manga Award, which the company ran in 2019 to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the magazine.
The 100 Million Yen 40 manga award contained common categories such as "Battle Manga," "Historical Manga," and "Science Fiction Manga." The new contest also expands the categories to include new categories like "Mascot Character Manga," "Vertical Manga," and "VTuber / eSports Manga."
Shueisha's Shonen Jump+ manga website launched the "Kimi no Tsuyomi dake Shinsa! Itten Hyōka Mangashō" (Judging You Purely on Your Strength! A Manga Award Evaluating Just One Thing) manga award in February 2024. For this award, judges evaluate manga only on their strong points, even the work it only has one strength, and even if other elements of it are dissatisfactory.
Sources: Shueisha Seinen Manga Newcomer Award's website, Comic Natalie
