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The Shogakukan Manga Award (小学館漫画賞, Shōgakukan Mangashō) is one of Japan's major manga awards, sponsored by Shogakukan Publishing. It has been awarded annually for serialized manga since 1955 and features candidates from a number of publishers. Each winning work will be honored with a bronze statuette and a prize of 1 million yen (about US$9,000). Special awards are also occasionally given out for outstanding work, lifetime achievement, and so forth.

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Series featuring zombies as a major concept, such as characters surviving in a zombie apocalypse or series where a character is a zombie themselves. Almost everything in this list is fully/actively translated in English by licensors or fans.

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List of SOME mangas that has winning awards in the past.



Adv: The list it isn't, by any means, perfect and can have discrepancies

Survival list that includes manga and manwha. No military drama or mafia flicks.

Enjoy:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQTuzUYD58I

Scamboli Reviews is an anime and gaming YouTuber. Scamboli reviews anime, manga and answers common questions about popular anime with his own perspective.
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naoki urasawa's wonderful documentary program manben shows mangaka at work while they discuss their form and process with urasawa-sensei. this list includes one noteworthy series by each mangaka featured on the show.

an english fansub of the series can be found here (this is NOT urasawa-sensei's official website):

https://www.naokiurasawa.com/

i will do my best to choose series' that can be read in their entirety in english, either officially or via scanlations. information can be found in the descriptions for each entry.

format:
mangaka ([season][episode])
common english title(s)
magazine

This stack also includes manga that are not listed as "Psychological" in mal database but they still have psychological elements in them E.g. Shoujo Fujuubun.

- I would have added all of Junji Ito's work but it would fill the entire stack so I only added a few~
- Includes a variety of: gore, blood, torture, body horror, monster, zombie, ghost/spirit, dementia, demon/devil, survival, survival games, & shock factor

As the title says, sometimes the story behind the making of a manga can be more exciting than the manga itself. The manga in this article show us what is going on in the creator’s head when they make these stories for us.

Manga with exceptionally good artwork, not something that's the same boring black and white generic faces/body types. But instead manga that takes its artwork seriously, the artist knows how to create a scene, give each character unique appearances.

~ a fun time capsule with a glimpse into what was deemed award-worthy during that time period

Gintama? Ichi the Killer? Gantz? Bleach? GTO? Not today, ma'am

Some of my personal favorite manga that are underrated/underappreciated or are regarded highly but nobody seems to mention. Some manga lack an audience in the west while others struggled with translations during the times of publishing, however every manga listed is amazing and truly works of art that need more attention.

Below are similar manga I've strung together if you enjoy any manga in a category check out the other works as they are similar.

Manga that take power systems to new levels: world trigger, ajin, dorohedoro, kamisama no iutoori 1&2, psyren, karakuri circus

Psychological manga that will rock your brain: usogui, bokutachi ga yarimashita, kokou no hito, billy bat, blame!, freesia, i am a hero, imawa no kuni alice, ikigama

Supernatural graphic seinen: hellsing, drifters, priest, gannibal, Kouya ni Kemono Doukokusu, dorohedoro, ajin, Souboutei Kowasubeshi, Keyman

message me on instagram @omartin.22 if you have any recommendations

Must-read manga mostly demographed as Seinen but also contains other good mangas that are not published in any Seinen magazine but are definitely suited for an older/adult audience.

All these mangas are a good read in my opinion, ofcourse this includes ones that I consider top-tier and personal favorites but the others - if not amazing, are definitely worth reading at least once.

Part 2 : https://myanimelist.net/stacks/15200