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Harvey Awards Nominate Frieren, Delicious in Dungeon, The Summer Hikaru Died, More Manga
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The Harvey Awards, which honors outstanding work in comics and sequential art, announced the nominees for this year's awards on Wednesday. The nominees for the Best Manga category are:
- Mokumokuren's The Summer Hikaru Died (Yen Press)
- Kamome Shirahama's Witch Hat Atelier (Kodansha USA)
- Ryōko Kui's Delicious in Dungeon (Yen Press)
- Kanehito Yamada and Tsukasa Abe's Frieren: Beyond Journey's End (Viz Media)
- Junji Ito's Soichi: Junji Ito Story Collection (Viz Media)
- Gou Tanabe's The Shadow Over Innsmouth (based on H.P. Lovecraft's novella) (Dark Horse)
- Kentarō Miura's Berserk Deluxe Edition Vol. 14 (Dark Horse)
- Yamada Murasaki's Second Hand Love (Drawn & Quarterly)
- Maki Fujiwara's My Picture Diary (Drawn & Quarterly)
- Susumu Higa's Okinawa (Fantagraphics)
Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba The Hinokami Chronicles — Sega's game based on Koyoharu Gotouge's Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba manga — and Attack on Titan: The Musical — Gō Ueki's stage musical based on Hajime Isayama's Attack on Titan manga — each received a nomination in the Best Adaptation from Comic Book/Graphic Novel category.
The Harvey Awards added the Best Manga category in 2018. Kabi Nagata's My Lesbian Experience with Loneliness manga won the first award in this category. Kōhei Horikoshi's My Hero Academia won the award in 2019, and Kamome Shirahama's Witch Hat Atelier won the award in 2020. Tatsuki Fujimoto's Chainsaw Man won the award in 2021, 2022, and 2023.
In previous years, manga were nominated alongside other comics in the "Best American Edition of Foreign Material" category. The last manga to win the category was Hajime Isayama's Attack on Titan in 2014. One-Punch Man and Showa: A History of Japan (1953-1989) were nominated in 2016 but did not win. "Best American Edition of Foreign Material" is no longer a category.
Unlike the Eisner Awards and other awards in the North American comic book industry, the Harvey Awards are nominated and selected by the comic book professionals themselves.
The Harvey Awards will announce the winners at New York Comic Con on October 18.
Source: Graphic Policy
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