Tezuka Award

Not to be confused with Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize.

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The Tezuka Award (手塚賞, Tezuka Shō) is a semi-annual manga award offered by the Japanese publisher Shueisha since 1971, under the auspices of its Weekly Shonen Jump magazine.[1] It awarded new manga artists in the Story Manga category. Its counterpart award, Akatsuka Award, awards new manga artists in the Comedic Manga category. The award is named after the manga pioneer Osamu Tezuka and is designed to cultivate new artists. The prize for a top Selected Work is two million Japanese yen and for a lesser but still worthy work, a million yen. The award also has third place honorable mentions for contestants deemed worthy, that includes half a million yen. These cash prizes may not be awarded (as is often the case) if the judges deem none of the candidates worthy.

Historically the recipients have been in their early twenties, although two notable winners were over 90 years of age.

## Selection committee

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### Committee chair

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* Osamu Tezuka (1971–1988)
* Fujio Akatsuka (1989–2008). Due to his failing health, this title was merely a formality during the years leading up to his death on August 2, 2008, with his duties handled by Akira Toriyama in his absence.

### Major committee members

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These are the most prominent members of the committee only. Other adjudicators are also present in the committee.

Former members

* Akira Toriyama
* Kazuki Takahashi
* Masanori Morita
* Masashi Kishimoto
* Hiroyuki Asada
* Takehiko Inoue

Current members

* Tezuka Productions [2]
* Eiichiro Oda [2]
* Kazue Kato [2]
* Kohei Horikoshi [2]
* Nobuhiro Watsuki [2]
* Gege Akutami [2]

## Recipients

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No. | Year  | Winner  | Runner up  | Honorable mention

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1  | 1971  | No award given  | No award given  | Scrap, Takashi Iwashige
Shihatsu, Tsuneki Sagara
Frozen Youth, Rikuo Kasa
Easy Rider, Furuya Tsuguharu
2  | No award given  | Gakisuteyama, Bontarō Takaoka
Holy Things, Hisao Saitō  | Girl Who Sings Blues, Takashi Iwashige
Dream Kamen, Shigeru Nakamoto
3  | 1972  | Garagara Umauma, Shigeru Nakamoto  | No award given  | Kūsō Buraku, Masao Takaoka
Our Sunset, Pochi Nohara
What You Dropped, Tadashi Kaga
4  | No award given  | Run! Shooting Star, Kazuto Kurosaki  | Father's Flag, Akira Mimori
The Circus Guy Fell in Love, Tetsu Kuroba
Sukiyaki, Hiroshi Saitō
Tokio's Time Travel, Toshio Ban
Don't Lose, Kisaburo, Kimio Yanagisawa
5  | 1973  | No award given  | Shoot and Stop, Akira Mimori
Night Smothered in Fog, Hiroshi Masumura | My Alps, Yoshihiro Takahashi
Clouds and Tank Soldiers, Pochi Nohara
Can't Become an Angel, Katsumi Sugawara
Dad's Safe Passage, Shizuo Shiga
The Remaining One, Toshio Ban
6  | No award given  | Inquisition, Seiji Tanaka
Once Upon a Time in Kobikiyama, Pochi Nohara  | Ora wa Ametarō, Ikki Matsuda
Kaminarimon Flourishing, Shizuo Shiga
The Last Youth Baseball, Yasuhiro Kunitomo
The Wandering Box Is, Mitsuru Miura
7  | 1974  | Creature City, Daijirō Morohoshi | No award given  | Teacher Gami, Toshio Mitani
Wandering Yamanba, Pochi Nohara
Browsing Banned, Saburō Ishikawa
Twin Banzai, Mio Murao
8  | No award given  | No award given  | Strange Picture Diary, Yukio Otsuka
Idiot, Tadashi Fugu
Vagabond, Kazuo Hattori
My First Love, Yasuhiko Hachino
9  | 1975  | Harukanaru Asa, Yukinobu Hoshino | No award given  | Hey! Newspaper, Yasuyuki Kunitomo
Yamada-kun's Story, Anmei Yamada
The Great Incident of Mt. Ikazuchi, Toshi Noma
I Won't Go Crazy, Mitsuru Miura
10  | No award given  | Ancestors From the Future, Toshi Noma  | At the End of the Smoking Pitch..., Ippei Minami
Red Umbrella, Yasuki Kitahara
Hang in There, Deserter, Sadamu Aiki
11  | 1976  | No award given  | No award given  | The Great Duel at the Kanedōkan, Toshi Noma
23 Years Later, Kōhei Mikuni
Kaguyahime War, Tomō Kimura
Tipser Sense Tarō, Toshio Ban
Standing in the Heavens, Masa Kojima
Mīnya's Wish, Mitsuo Hashimoto
Magic Eye, Masayuki Kawachi
Pit Viper, Shuku Eishō
From the Beast Village, Yoshinori Kobayashi
12  | Urashima, Keiichi Koike | Invasion of the Underground People!, Tomō Kimura
The Rebellion of Just Two, Toshi Noma  | Smash Ken, Salami Nakayama
The Legend of the One-Eyed Bear, Tarō Kamiyoshi
13  | 1977  | No award given  | Midnight Visitor, Kazuo Miyasaki
However, the Sun Is Shining, Toshiki Miyazaki
Afterglow and Marbles, Matsujirō Kawano
Sakakibara-kun Land Mine, Yukio Ōtsuka  | Hang in There, Mr. Bear, Hidekazu Tanaka
Kansei Strange Tale, Kunihiko Takayoshi
Mother Earth, Turn Green Again, Buichi Terasawa
14  | No award given  | No award given  | Island Nine, Sadamu Aiki
Useless Courage, Tochi Ueyama
Hiroshi, Shinichirō Mori
15  | 1978  | No award given  | Consent, Ministry of Recovering Broken Hearts, Masaki Sanboku
Marathon Hacchan, Takeshi Miya  | Satisfaction, Ryō Ōasa
Silent Testimony, Akiko Hashima
Jockey, Shōgo Kurosawa
Contaminated Safe, Umezō Hiramatsu
16  | No award given  | Oh, Ichirō, Kōji Koseki  | Big Surfer, Motoki Monma
The Age of Love, Yōichi Izumi
Insect Clearing, Akira Ishiyama
Legend of Rain, Masaki Sanboku
Wild Mark, Little Takeshi
Melody of the Reincarnated, Isamu Mikuni
17  | 1979  | No award given  | Last Waltz, Kazuhisa Hotta  | Junichi-kun and OB, Yukio Otsuka
Cedar Pole, Hiroshi Takahashi
Tears, Rokusuke Band of Tears, Katsuyuki Edamatsu
You Smell Like a Punk, Big Brother, Seiichi Ishii
Drifting Legend, Hitoshi Tanimura
Stop Nami-chan, Kabutomushi Tarō
Flying Thunder Map, Ryūji Tsugihara
18  | No award given  | Space Angel, Tsukasa Hojo | Triple One, Masami Okada
Elegy for a Beloved Dog, Mosaku Annaka
On an Ordinary Morning, Ryōichi Fujiwara
Flowers and Storms Go!, Toshio Nobe
19  | 1980  | No award given  | Star, Katsumi Shinbo
Idaten Hawk, Umezō Hiramatsu  | Tsubasa, Masakazu Katsura
Rain Car Wash, Chinatsu Tomisawa
Go! Bantman, Keiji Tanaka
Yarō Keeps Smiling!!, Tatsuto Uchida
20  | No award given  | Poker Under Arms, Toshiyuki Araki | Youth 120%, Mitsuo Suzuki
Dosukoi Tank, Uryū Minō
Maria, Isao Enomoto
Fighting Spirit, Keiji Tanaka
Cosmo Frontier, Eita Kuri
21  | 1981  | No award given  | Run Away to the Lucky Route, Shūhō Itahashi and Argonauts
Devil's Temptation and Targeted Idol, Shinji Watanabe
Shot!, Tetsuya Tanawatari
Tenkōsei wa Hensōsei!?, Masakazu Katsura | Battlenoid, Eita Kuri
Toast with Queen Mary..., Yukihiko Nozuki (writer) and Ryō Watanabe (illustrator)
22  | Last Spurt, Shigehiro Nomura  | Samson, Masatoshi Usune | Guidepost to the Blue Sky, Iroen Pitsu
My Landing, Akio Adachi
Woman in the Bijin-ga, Tarō Sumitomo
Panicked Time Travel, Yoshihiro Takaiwa
23  | 1982  | No award given  | Spacetime Scoundrel, Imuro Yumura
Bd to, Takedaken  | Outsider No. 1, Masaru Tanahashi
Space Treasure Island, Eita Kuri
Silver Queen, Hiroko Suzuki
Dear Tomica, Shishin Ōnishi
Charge! One Soldier, Makoto Tamura
Natural Disaster Next Door, Yūji Shinnyū
Hundred Eyes Banquet, Shingo Hirasawa
Break a Rodo, Iku Sakaguchi
24  | No award given  | Shadow of a Distant Day, Ryūsei Doi
Program, Hisataka Miyoshi  | Kohaku Biyori, Toshimitsu Tamada
Burning Purity, Shōichi Yagihashi
25  | 1983  | No award given  | No award given  | Psychic Sayo, Tadashi Satō
Space-Time Police-2009, Hiroko Suzuki
On the Stage of Men and Women..., Shūichi Takano
Moonlight Stone, Seiju Natsuyama
Battle of V, Shōichi Yagihashi
26  | No award given  | 21st Century Shooting Star, Daimurō Kishi
Heian Yin-Yang Emaki, Hiroshi Suzuki  | Maji?, Takehiko Yamada
Beauty Beast, Yoshihiro Kuroiwa
27  | 1984  | No award given  | Octopus Teacher, Naoko Sekine
Gallery Key, Yoshiharu Ikeda  | S.O. Love Boiling!, Naohiro Nakatani
Can Still Run, Takehiko Yamada
It,s Late!, Masanori Morita
School Trouble!!, Hiroyuki Kawashima
28  | No award given  | Devil's Sword, Shōichi Yagihashi
Biography of Dr. Momohiko Sakurada, Jirō Uda  | Teku no Rojii, Takahashi Kurisu
Hirosi..., Ryūsei Doi
Torio, Ryōji Satō
29  | 1985  | Until I Reach the Horizon, Daimurō Kishi  | Little Shooter, Kaoru Satō  | Tōshō Private High School Soccer Club, Yūichi Oshiyama
Hōjo, Yū Tomizawa
As Long as There Is Spirit, Watabōshi
Mysterious Kid, Shinpō Morita
30  | No award given  | The Myth of 500 Light Years, Shigeru Hijikata
Equation of Extinction, Takashi Kurisu  | Win! Don Quixote, Junji Mizuno
Coral Flowing..., Tsukko
Star Thief, Kōichi Kagiya
Iron Ingot and Music, Tadamichi Kawamura
Enormous Boy, Makuru Nitaku
31  | 1986  | No award given  | Weekend Adventure, Noriko Ishihara
900 Years Great Battle, Hiromitsu Itō  | Goki Gaburi, Ryōji Satō
Boy's Universe From "Star Person", Takumi Shimoura
Spirit, Kazuto Raō
Hurricane General, Hideo Hiroi
Faraway Runaway, Kōji Ōki
32  | No award given  | To the North: Your Case, Kei Honjō
Private Lesson Is 1:00 AM, Haruki Matsunaga
Marionette of Time, Shū Hoshikawa  | Fly of Shō, Harumi Matsuzaki
Mai Never Give Up, Ami Kyōmoto
Chance, Shin Itō

## Notable Recipients

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* Yoshihiro Takahashi
* Buichi Terasawa (1977, for Daichi yo Aoku Nare)
* Masakazu Katsura (1980, for Tsubasa and 1981, for Tenkousei wa Hensousei!?)
* Masanori Morita
* Takeshi Obata (1985, for 500 Kōnen no Shinwa)
* Yoshihiro Togashi (1986, for Buttobi Straight)
* Nobuhiro Watsuki (1987, for Teacher Pon)
* Takehiko Inoue (1988, for Kaede Purple)
* Hiroyuki Takei
* Yuuziro Sakamoto (2003)

## See also

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* List of manga awards
* List of comics awards
* Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize
* Akatsuka Award
* List of awards named after people

## References

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1. ^ "Osamu Tezuka Awards". Retrieved 18 February 2015.
2. ^ a b c d e f "Tezuka Award & Akatsuka Award". Retrieved 28 August 2024.

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Manga industry awards

* Akatsuka Awards
* Bungeishunjū Manga Awards
* Dengeki Comic Grand Prix
* Japan Cartoonists Association Awards
* Kodansha Manga Awards
* Manga Taishō
* Next Manga Awards
* Seiun Awards
* Shogakukan Manga Awards
* Tezuka Awards
* Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize
* Tsutaya Comic Award

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Osamu Tezuka

Manga

1940s|

* Diary of Ma-chan (1946)
* Shin Takarajima (1947)
* Lost World (1948)
* Angel Gunfighter (1949)
* Metropolis (1949)

1950s|

* Faust (1950)
* Kimba the White Lion (1950–1954)
* Nextworld (1951)
* Age of Adventure (1951–1953)
* Ambassador Atom (1951–1952)
* The Fossil Island (1951)
* The Adventure of Rock (1952–1954)
* Astro Boy (1952–1968)
* Crime and Punishment (1953)
* Princess Knight (1953–1956)
* Chief Detective Kenichi (1954–1956)
* The Devil of the Earth (1954)
* Lion Books (1956–1957)
* Biiko-chan (1957)
* The Curtain is Still Blue Tonight (1958)
* The Film Lives On (1958–1959)
* Peacock Shell (1958)
* The Twin Knights (1958)
* Dr. Thrill (1959)
* The Merchant of Venice (1959)
* Song of the White Peacock (1959)

1960s|

* Angel's Hill (1960–1961)
* Captain Ken (1960–1961)
* Brave Dan (1962)
* Big X (1963–1966)
* Princess Knight (1963–1966)
* The Amazing 3 (1965–1966)
* Ambassador Magma (1965–1967)
* The Vampires (1966–1967)
* Dororo (1967–1969)
* Gum Gum Punch (1967–1969)
* Phoenix (1967–1988)
* Princess Knight (1967–1968)
* Activist Student (1968)
* Grand Dolls (1968)
* Swallowing the Earth (1968–1969)
* The Crater (1969–1970)
* Triton of the Sea (1969–1971)

1970s|

* Alabaster (1970–1971)
* Apollo's Song (1970)
* Bomba! (1970)
* The Book of Human Insects (1970–1971)
* Marvelous Melmo (1970–1972)
* Ode to Kirihito (1970–1971)
* Birdman Anthology (1971–1975)
* Lion Books II (1971–1973)
* Little Wansa (1971–1972)
* Serenade of a Pig's Navel (1971)
* Ayako (1972–1973)
* Buddha (1972–1983)
* Lay of the Rhine (1972)
* Lord Iechika Mogami (1972)
* The Moon and Wolves (1972)
* Old Folk's Home (1972)
* Black Jack (1973–1983)
* Microid S (1973)
* The Record of Peter Kürten (1973)
* Sensual Nights (1973)
* Son of Godfather (1973)
* The Three-Eyed One (1974–1978)
* Boy Detective Zumbera (1975)
* Rainbow Prelude (1975)
* MW (1976–1978)
* Unico (1976–1979)
* Don Dracula (1979)
* Insect Collector (1979)
* Insect Collector – The Butterfly Road Smells of Death (1979)
* The Thief Akikazu Inoue (1979)

1980s|

* Hidamari no Ki (1981–1986)
* Rainbow Parakeet (1981–1983)
* Spaceship Ringel Rock (1982)
* Suspicion (1982)
* Volcanic Eruption (1982)
* Message to Adolf (1983–1985)
* Peace Concert (1984)
* Duke Goblin (1985–1986)
* Gringo (1987–1989)
* Ludwig B (1987–1989)

Anime

1960s|

* Alakazam the Great (1960)
* Astro Boy (1963–1966)
* Big X (1964–1965)
* The Amazing 3 (1965–1966)
* Kimba the White Lion (1965–2009)
* Leo the Lion (1966–1967)
* Gokū no Daibōken (1967)
* Princess Knight (1967–1999)
* Dororo (1969)
* A Thousand and One Nights (1969)

1970s|

* Cleopatra (1970)
* Marvelous Melmo (1971–1972)
* Triton of the Sea (1972–1979)
* Belladonna of Sadness (1973)
* Little Wansa (1973)
* Microid S (1973)
* Jetter Mars (1977)
* Undersea Super Train: Marine Express (1979)
* Unico (1979–1983)

1980s|

* Astro Boy (1980–1981)
* Fumoon (1980)
* Phoenix 2772 (1980)
* Don Dracula (1982)
* The Green Cat (1983)
* Bagi, the Monster of Mighty Nature (1984)
* Lunn Flies into the Wind (1985)
* The Three-Eyed One (1985–1991)
* Phoenix (1986–2004)
* Yamataro Comes Back (1986)
* Blue Blink (1989–1990)
* The New Adventures of Kimba The White Lion (1989–1990)
* Rain Boy (1989)

1990s|

* Adachi-ga Hara (1991)
* Akuemon (1993)
* Ambassador Magma (1993)
* Black Jack (1993–2011)
* In the Beginning: The Bible Stories (1997)
* Jungle Emperor Leo (1997)

2000s|

* Hidamari no Ki (2000)
* Metropolis (2001)
* Astro Boy (2003–2004)
* Phoenix (2004)
* Astro Boy (2009)
* Ravex in Tezuka World (2009)

2010s|

* Buddha (2011–2014)
* Dororo (2019)

2020s|

* Phoenix: Eden17 (2023)

Characters

* Astro Boy
* Black Jack
* Hosuke Sharaku
* Rock
* Robita
* List of Astro Boy characters

Related

* Animerama
* Galaxy Boy Troop
* Mushi Production
* Star System
* Tezuka Award
* Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize
* Tezuka Productions
* The Osamu Tezuka Story: A Life in Manga and Anime
* Tokiwa-sō

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