The Forger family is competing against Chainsaw Man and other great works for the best manga of 2023 award.
The manga starring Denji and Anya Forger are the most popular on the list of nominees
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Los Harvey Awards They are one of the many awards that are held in the United States to give great recognition to those who consider under their criteria The best comics and comic book adaptations most important and best valued annually. A few years ago, these awards extended the number of their categories to give recognition and merit the importance and quality of the manga published in Japan.
The Harvey Awards recognize these Japanese works with its own section dedicated to naming the best manga of the year according to his criteria, and among the 5 nominees are 2 of the most popular works of the moment for many manga fans: Spy x Family and Chainsaw Man.
Spy x Family, a great candidate to get this award
Aunque Chainsaw Man He has plenty of qualities to win this award The competition that Fujimoto’s best-known work must face is not exactly average, and it is that Spy x Family by Tatsuya Endo, one of the most beloved manga of recent yearspart as one of the most relevant names this 2023, with a movie and a second season on the way for the next few months.
Chainsaw Man is also one of the best-selling manga of 2023 in the Japanese country
Accompanying nominees for Spy x Family and Chainsaw Man include Cat + Gamer de Wataru Nadatani y Shuna’s Journey by the master of Japanese animation Hayao Miyazaki, visible head of the veteran studio Ghibli.
The list of nominees closes surprisingly with Goodbye, Eri, the work of the same author of Chainsaw Man. It is a one-shot (self-conclusive manga of a single volume) that follows in the footsteps of Eri, a mysterious young woman full of secrets and a protagonist who recorded the last days of her life. mother. Fujimoto’s hallmark is present on every page, leading the reader to unpredictable situations that play excellently with pauses and genre jumps during the course of its history. Thanks to this work, Fujimoto is positioned as a favorite by being nominated twice in this section.
These awards began in 1988 while the “Best Manga” section was created from 2018. Chainsaw Man was the most recent winner by winning in this category in the years 2021 and 2022, the triumph of My Hero Academia and its author Kohei Horikoshi in 2019 also deserves mention. Will this 2023 be the year that the Forger family breaks the streak and snatches the Chainsaw award?
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