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Witch Hat Atelier Wins Best Manga at Harvey Awards for 2nd Time
posted on by Crystalyn Hodgkins
The manga competed against:
- The Guy She Was Interested In Wasn't a Guy at All by Sumiko Arai (Yen Press)
- The Summer Hikaru Died by Mokumokuren (Yen Press)
- Tokyo These Days by Taiyo Matsumoto (Viz Media)
- Wind Breaker by Satoru Nii (Kodansha USA Publishing)
This is the second time the manga has won the award, as it previously won in 2020.
Additionally, WEBTOON Originals The Mafia Nanny, Morgana and Oz, and Castle Swimmer were nominated for the Digital Book of the Year category, alongside "Resenter," a U.S. comic by Gigi Murakami as part of Viz Media's one-shot program. However, Sarah's Scribbles by Sarah Anderson (Go Comics) won the award.
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. Ryōko Kui's Delicious in Dungeon won the award in 2024.
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.
Sources: Harvey Awards' X/Twitter account (link 2), The Beat (Samantha Puc)
