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Kawaii Hito, La La La Win 2018 Electronic Manga Award

posted on by Rafael Antonio Pineda
Eikyū Shimei Onegai Shimasu!, Watashi wa Tensai o Katteiru., Kōtarō wa Hitori Gurashi also awarded

The official website for the Electronic Manga Award announced the winning works for the 2018 awards on Tuesday.

Grand Prize

Kawaii Hito (Cute Person)
Ken Saitō
Previously serialized in Ane LaLa (Hakusensha), now in LaLa DX
The story centers on Hanazono, a florist with a scary smile. When college student Hiyori suddenly confesses her feelings to him, he accepts, and they become a couple. While Hanazone is flustered and disoriented by his new relationship, only Hiyori sees his "true face."

CMX Manga published Saito's Oh! My Brother and The Name of the Flower manga in North America.

Girls' Category

Eikyū Shimei Onegai Shimasu! (A Permanent Assignment Please!)
Sato Kanae
Serialized in Koisuru Soware (Julian Publishing)
The story centers on Towako, a girl who lives with her brother, but rarely leaves her room. One day, her brother brings home a friend, a handsome man who works as a host, whom Towako gets to know. As it turns out, her brother's friend will start living with them.

Watashi wa Tensai o Katteiru. (I'm Raising a Genius)
Mio Nanao
Serialized in Cheese! (Shogakukan)
The story centers on Konoka, a girl who has just been tasked with taking care of Kairi, a genius. They share an unmentionable promise to each other.

Boys' Category

Kōtarō wa Hitori Gurashi (Kōtarō Lives Alone)
Mami Tsumura
Serialized in Big Comic Superior (Shogakukan)
The story centers on the titular Kōtarō, a four-year old boy who moves into an apartment to live alone. Not only does he seem to earn a living, he actually seems more put together than his own strange neighbors.

La La La
Renjuro Kindaichi
Serialized in Young Gangan (Square Enix)
The story centers on a man named Shirō Kirishima, and a woman named Ai Ishimura. Shirō, having recently lost a job and enduring a heartbreak, gets drunk at a bar, where he meets Ai. While drunk, Ai proposes that he work for her, and offers a contract that he signs without good judgement. The next day, he finds out that what he signed was instead a marriage contract.

Kindaichi launched the manga Jungle wa Itsumo Hare Nochi Guu in 1996, and the manga inspired the Haré+Guu television series, as well as the Haré+Guu Deluxe and Jungle Wa Itsumo Hale Nochi Guu Final original video anime. Kindaichi ended her Liar x Liar manga last year. She launched the N to S (N & S) manga on Wednesday.

NTT Solmare, Infocom, bbmf, and Bitway launched the Electronic Manga Award in 2010. Currently, a total of 17 companies run polls on their manga distribution sites to determine winners for the awards.

Source: Comic Natalie


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