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{{short description|Japanese manga awards}}
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| year           = 1960</br>1977 (current version)
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{{nihongo|The '''Kodansha Manga Award'''|講談社漫画賞|Kōdansha Manga Shō}} is one of Japan's major [[manga]] awards. The event is sponsored by publisher [[Kodansha]]. It has been awarded annually for serialized manga in its third iteration since 1977.

==Categories==
The award was originally called the {{Nihongo|Kodansha Children's Manga Award|講談社児童まんが賞|Kōdansha Jidō Manga Shō}} until 1968. In 1970, it was named {{Nihongo|Kodansha Cultural Award: Children's manga category|講談社出版文化賞   児童まんが部門|Kōdansha Shuppan Bunka Shō: Jidō Manga Bumon}}. The second version lasted until 1976. The company decided to create multiple categories thereafter.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Kodansha Manga Award
|url=https://www.hahnlibrary.net/comics/awards/kodansha.php|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180329165654/http://www.hahnlibrary.net/comics/awards/kodansha.php|archive-date=2018-03-29}}</ref>

The award once was given out in four categories: {{Transliteration|ja|[[Shōnen manga|shōnen]]}}, {{Transliteration|ja|[[Shōjo manga|shōjo]]}}, [[Children's manga|children]], and general. The award was formalized into the present ceremony with initially offering categories only for {{Transliteration|ja|shōnen}} and {{Transliteration|ja|shōjo}} in 1977. The first award for the general category was in 1982, and the first children's category award was in 2003. The children's category was merged into the {{Transliteration|ja|shōnen}} and {{Transliteration|ja|shōjo}} categories starting in 2015.<ref>{{cite web|last=Nelkin|first=Sarah|title=Yowamushi Pedal, The Seven Deadly Sins Win 39th Kodansha Manga Awards|url=https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2015-05-12/yowamushi-pedal-the-seven-deadly-sins-win-39th-kodansha-manga-awards/.88088|website=[[Anime News Network]]|date=May 12, 2015|access-date=May 16, 2016}}</ref>

Each winning work will be honored with a bronze statuette, a certificate, and a prize of 1 million yen (about US$7,500).<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2018-05-10/42nd-annual-kodansha-manga-awards-winners-announced/.131402|title=42nd Annual Kodansha Manga Awards' Winners Announced|last=Sherman|first=Jennifer|date=May 10, 2018|website=[[Anime News Network]]|access-date=May 12, 2018|archive-date=May 13, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180513082412/https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2018-05-10/42nd-annual-kodansha-manga-awards-winners-announced/.131402|url-status=live}}</ref>

==Recipients==
{| class="wikitable"
! #
!Year
!Children
!Shōnen
!Shōjo
!General
|-
|1 || 1977 || {{n/a}} || ''[[Black Jack (manga)|Black Jack]]'', [[Osamu Tezuka]] <br>''[[The Three-Eyed One]]'', Osamu Tezuka (tie) || ''[[Haikara-san ga Tōru]]'', [[Waki Yamato]] <br>''[[Candy Candy]]'', [[Kyoko Mizuki]] and [[Yumiko Igarashi]] (tie) || {{n/a}}
|-
|2 || 1978 || {{n/a}} || ''[[Football Hawk]]'', [[Noboru Kawasaki]] || ''[[Seito Shokun!]]'', [[Yōko Shōji]] || {{n/a}}
|-
|3 || 1979 || {{n/a}} || ''[[Tonda Couple]]'', [[Kimio Yanagisawa]] || ''[[The Star of Cottonland]]'', [[Yumiko Ōshima]] ||{{n/a}} 
|-
|4 || 1980 || {{n/a}} || ''[[Susano Oh]]'', [[Gō Nagai]] || ''[[Lemon Report]]'', [[Mayumi Yoshida (manga artist)|Mayumi Yoshida]]   ||{{n/a}} 
|-
|5 || 1981 || {{n/a}} || ''[[Sanshirō of 1, 2]]'', [[Makoto Kobayashi (artist)|Makoto Kobayashi]] || ''[[Ohayō! Spank]]'', [[Shun'ichi Yukimuro]] and [[Shizue Takanashi]] ||{{n/a}} 
|-
|6 || 1982 || {{n/a}} || ''[[Gakuto Retsuden]]'', [[Motoka Murakami]] || ''[[Yōkihi-den]]'', [[Suzue Miuchi]] || ''[[Karyūdo no Seiza]]'', [[Machiko Satonaka]]
|-
|7 || 1983 || {{n/a}} || ''[[The Kabocha Wine]]'', [[Mitsuru Miura]] || ''[[Hi Izuru Tokoro no Tenshi]]'', [[Ryoko Yamagishi]] || ''[[P.S. Genki Desu, Shunpei]]'', [[Fumi Saimon]]
|-
|8 || 1984 || {{n/a}} || ''[[Bats & Terry]]'', [[Yasuichi Ōshima]] || ''[[Lady Love (manga)|Lady Love]]'', [[Hiromu Ono]] || ''[[Akira (manga)|Akira]]'', [[Katsuhiro Otomo]] 
|-
|9 || 1985 || {{n/a}} || ''[[Bari Bari Densetsu]]'', [[Shuichi Shigeno]] || ''[[Mahiro Taiken]]'', [[Naomi Nishi]] || ''[[Okashina Futari]]'', [[Jūzō Yamasaki]] and [[Kei Sadayasu]]
|-
|10 || 1986 || {{n/a}} || ''[[Kotaro Makaritoru]]'', [[Tatsuya Hiruta]] || ''[[Yūkan Club]]'', [[Yukari Ichijō]] || ''[[Adolf (manga)|Adolf]]'', [[Osamu Tezuka]]<br/> ''[[What's Michael?]]'', [[Makoto Kobayashi (artist)|Makoto Kobayashi]] (tie)
|-
|11 || 1987 || {{n/a}} || ''[[Ironfist Chinmi]]'', [[Takeshi Maekawa]] || ''[[Nana Iro Majikku]]'', [[Yū Asagiri]] || ''[[Actor (manga)|Actor]]'', [[Kaiji Kawaguchi]]
|-
|12 || 1988 || {{n/a}} || ''[[Mister Ajikko]]'', [[Daisuke Terasawa]] || ''[[Junjō Crazy Fruits]]'', [[Akemi Matsunae]] || ''[[Bonobono]]'', [[Mikio Igarashi]]<br/>''[[Be-Bop High School]]'', [[Kazuhiro Kiuchi]] (tie)
|-
|13 || 1989 || {{n/a}} || ''[[Meimon! Daisan Yakyūbu]]'', [[Toshiyuki Mutsu]] || ''[[Chibi Maruko-chan]]'', [[Momoko Sakura]]<br/>''[[Shiratori Reiko de Gozaimasu!]]'', [[Yumiko Suzuki (mangaka)|Yumiko Suzuki]]<!--鈴木由美子--> (tie) || ''[[Komikku Shōwa-Shi]]'', [[Shigeru Mizuki]]
|-
|14 || 1990 || {{n/a}} || ''[[Shura no Mon]]'', [[Masatoshi Kawahara]] || ''Pride'', Naka Marimura || ''[[The Silent Service]]'', [[Kaiji Kawaguchi]]<br/>''[[Gorillaman]]'', [[Harold Sakuishi]] (tie)
|-
|15 || 1991 || {{n/a}} || ''[[Hajime no Ippo (manga)|Hajime no Ippo]]'', [[George Morikawa]] || ''Eien no Nohara'', [[Mieko Ōsaka]] || ''[[Kachō Kōsaku Shima]]'', [[Kenshi Hirokane]]<br/>''[[Waru (manga)|Waru]]'', [[Jun Fukami]] (tie)
|-
|16 || 1992 || {{n/a}} || ''Kaze Hikaru: Koshien'', Sanbachi Kawa and [[Tarō Nami]] || ''Uchi no Mama ga iu Koto ni wa'', [[Mariko Iwadate]] || ''[[Naniwa Kin'yūdō]]'', [[Yūji Aoki]]
|-
|17 || 1993 || {{n/a}} || ''[[3×3 Eyes]]'', [[Yuzo Takada]] || ''[[Sailor Moon]]'', [[Naoko Takeuchi]] || ''[[Parasyte]]'', [[Hitoshi Iwaaki]]
|-
|18 || 1994 || {{n/a}} || ''[[Aoki Densetsu Shoot!]]'', [[Tsukasa Ōshima]] || ''[[Kimi no Te ga Sasayaite iru]]'', [[Junko Karube]] || ''[[Tetsujin Ganma]]'', [[Yasuhito Yamamoto]]
|-
|19 || 1995 || {{n/a}} || ''[[The Kindaichi Case Files]]'', [[Yōsaburō Kanari]] and [[Fumiya Sato]] || ''[[Sekai de Ichiban Yasashii Ongaku]]'', [[Mari Ozawa]] || ''[[Hanada Shōnen-shi]]'', [[Makoto Isshiki]]
|-
|20 || 1996 || {{n/a}} || ''[[Shōta no Sushi]]'', [[Daisuke Terasawa]] || ''[[Tennen Kokekkō]]'', [[Fusako Kuramochi]] || ''[[The Ping Pong Club]]'', [[Minoru Furuya]]
|-
|21 || 1997 || {{n/a}} || ''[[Ryūrōden]]'', [[Yoshito Yamahara]]  || ''[[Eight Clouds Rising]]'', [[Natsumi Itsuki]] || ''[[Dragon Head]]'', [[Minetaro Mochizuki]]
|-
|22 || 1998 || {{n/a}} || ''[[Great Teacher Onizuka]]'', [[Tooru Fujisawa]] || ''[[Kodocha]]'', [[Miho Obana]] || ''[[Kaiji (manga)|Gambling Apocalypse: Kaiji]]'', [[Nobuyuki Fukumoto]]<br/>''[[Sōten Kōro]]'', [[King Gonta]] (tie)
|-
|23 || 1999 || {{n/a}} || ''[[Chameleon (manga)|Chameleon]]'', [[Atsushi Kase]] || ''[[Peach Girl]]'', [[Miwa Ueda]] || ''[[Wangan Midnight]]'', [[Michiharu Kusunoki]]
|-
|24 || 2000 || {{n/a}} || ''[[Legendary Gambler Tetsuya]]'', [[Fūmei Sai]] and [[Yasushi Hoshino]] || ''[[Guru Guru Pon-chan]]'', [[Satomi Ikezawa]] || ''[[Vagabond (manga)|Vagabond]]'', [[Takehiko Inoue]]
|-
|25 || 2001 || {{n/a}} || ''[[Love Hina]]'', [[Ken Akamatsu]] || ''[[Fruits Basket]]'', [[Natsuki Takaya]] || ''[[20th Century Boys]]'', [[Naoki Urasawa]]
|-
|26 || 2002 || {{n/a}} || ''[[Cromartie High School]]'', [[Eiji Nonaka]]<br>''[[Beck (manga)|Beck]]'', [[Harold Sakuishi]] (tie) || ''[[Antique Bakery]]'', [[Fumi Yoshinaga]] || ''[[Zipang (manga)|Zipang]]'', [[Kaiji Kawaguchi]]
|-
|27 || 2003 || ''[[Mirmo!]]'', [[Hiromu Shinozuka]] || ''[[Kunimitsu no Matsuri]]'', [[Tadashi Agi|Yūma Andō]] and [[Masashi Asaki]] || ''[[Honey and Clover]]'', [[Chika Umino]] <br>''[[Tramps Like Us]]'', [[Yayoi Ogawa]] (tie)|| ''[[Tensai Yanagisawa Kyōju no Seikatsu]]'', [[Kazumi Yamashita (manga artist)|Kazumi Yamashita]]
|-
|28 || 2004 || ''[[Ultra Ninja Scrolls]]'', [[Kazuhiko Midō]] || ''[[Shana ou Yoshitsune]]'', {{ill|Hirofumi Sawada|ja|沢田ひろふみ}} || ''[[Nodame Cantabile]]'', [[Tomoko Ninomiya]] || ''[[Basilisk: The Kouga Ninja Scrolls]]'', [[Masaki Segawa]]
|-
|29 || 2005 || ''[[Sugar Sugar Rune]]'', [[Moyoco Anno]] || ''[[Capeta]]'', [[Masahito Soda]] || ''[[Oi Pītan!!]]'', [[Risa Itō]]<br>''[[A Perfect Day for Love Letters]]'', [[George Asakura]] (tie) || ''[[Dragon Zakura]]'', [[Mita Norifusa]]
|-
|30 || 2006 || ''[[Kitchen Princess]]'', [[Miyuki Kobayashi (writer)|Miyuki Kobayashi]] and [[Natsumi Andō]] || ''[[Air Gear]]'', [[Oh! Great]] || ''[[Life (manga)|Life]]'', [[Keiko Suenobu]] || ''[[Mushishi]]'', [[Yuki Urushibara]]
|-
|31 || 2007 || ''[[Tenshi no Frypan]]'', [[Etsushi Ogawa]] || ''[[Sayonara Zetsubō Sensei]]'', [[Kōji Kumeta]]<br>''[[Dear Boys|Dear Boys Act II]]'', [[Hiroki Yagami]] (tie) || ''[[I.S. (manga)|I.S.]]'', [[Chiyo Rokuhana]] || ''[[Ōkiku Furikabutte]]'', [[Asa Higuchi]]
|-
|32 || 2008 || ''[[Shugo Chara!]]'', [[Peach-Pit (manga artist duo)|Peach-Pit]] || ''[[Saikyō! Toritsu Aoizaka Kōkō Yakyūbu]]'', [[Motoyuki Tanaka]] || ''[[Kimi ni Todoke]]'', [[Karuho Shiina]] || ''[[Moyashimon]]'', [[Masayuki Ishikawa]]
|-
|33 || 2009 || ''[[Meitantei Yumemizu Kiyoshirō Jiken Note]]'', [[Kaoru Hayamine]] and [[Kei Enue]] || ''[[Q.E.D. (manga)|Q.E.D.]]'', [[Motohiro Katou]]<br>''[[Fairy Tail]]'', [[Hiro Mashima]] (tie) || ''[[Kiyoku Yawaku]]'', [[Ryo Ikuemi]] || ''[[Ah! My Goddess]]'', [[Kōsuke Fujishima]]
|-
|34 || 2010 || ''[[Inazuma Eleven (manga)|Inazuma Eleven]]'', [[Ten'ya Yabuno]] || ''[[Ace of Diamond]]'', [[Yūji Terajima]] || ''[[Kuragehime]]'', [[Akiko Higashimura]] || ''[[Giant Killing]]'', [[Masaya Tsunamoto]]
|-
|35 || 2011 || ''[[Honto Ni Atta! Reibai Sensei]]'', [[Hidekichi Matsumoto]] || ''[[Attack on Titan]]'', [[Hajime Isayama]] || ''[[Chihayafuru]]'', [[Yuki Suetsugu]] || ''[[March Comes in Like a Lion]]'', [[Chika Umino]]<br>''[[Space Brothers (manga)|Space Brothers]]'', [[Chūya Koyama]] (tie)
|-
|36 || 2012 || ''[[Missions of Love|Watashi ni xx Shinasai!]]'', [[Ema Toyama]] || ''[[Those Snow White Notes]]'', [[Marimo Ragawa]] || ''[[Shitsuren Chocolatier]]'', [[Setona Mizushiro]] || ''[[Vinland Saga (manga)|Vinland Saga]]'', [[Makoto Yukimura]]
|-
|37 || 2013 || ''[[Animal Land]]'', [[Makoto Raiku]] || ''[[Your Lie in April]]'', [[Naoshi Arakawa]] || ''[[My Love Story!!]]'', [[Kazune Kawahara]] and [[Aruko]]|| ''[[Gurazeni]]'', [[Yūji Moritaka]] and [[Keiji Adachi]]<br /> ''[[Prison School]]'', [[Akira Hiramoto]] (tie)
|-
|38 || 2014 || ''[[Yo-kai Watch (manga)|Yo-kai Watch]]'', [[Noriyuki Konishi]] || ''[[Baby Steps]]'', [[Hikaru Katsuki]] || ''[[Taiyō no Ie]]'', [[Ta'amo]]|| ''[[Showa Genroku Rakugo Shinju]]'', [[Haruko Kumota]]
|-
|39 || 2015 || {{n/a}} || ''[[The Seven Deadly Sins (manga)|The Seven Deadly Sins]]'', [[Nakaba Suzuki]]<br />''[[Yowamushi Pedal]]'', Wataru Watanabe (tie) || ''[[Nigeru wa Haji da ga Yaku ni Tatsu]]'', [[Tsunami Umino]]|| ''[[Knights of Sidonia]]'', [[Tsutomu Nihei]]
|-
|40 || 2016 || {{n/a}} || ''[[Days (manga)|Days]]'', [[Tsuyoshi Yasuda]] || ''[[Kiss Him, Not Me]]'', [[Junko (manga artist)|Junko]]|| ''[[Kōnodori]]'', [[Yū Suzunoki]]
|-
|41 || 2017 || {{n/a}} || ''[[Altair: A Record of Battles]]'', Kotono Katō || ''[[P and JK]]'', [[Maki Miyoshi]]|| ''[[The Fable]]'', Katsuhisa Minami
|-
|42 || 2018 || {{n/a}} || ''[[Beastars]]'', [[Paru Itagaki]] || ''[[Tōmei na Yurikago]]'', Bakka Okita || ''[[Sanju Mariko]]'', Yuki Ozawa<br/>''[[Fragile (manga)|Fragile]]'', Saburō Megumi and Bin Kusamizu (tie)
|-
|43 || 2019 || {{n/a}} || ''[[The Quintessential Quintuplets]]'', [[Negi Haruba]]<br />''[[To Your Eternity]]'', [[Yoshitoki Ōima]] (tie) || ''[[Perfect World (manga)|Perfect World]]'', [[Rie Aruga]]|| ''[[What Did You Eat Yesterday?]]'', [[Fumi Yoshinaga]]
|-
|44 ||2020 || {{n/a}} || ''[[Tokyo Revengers]]'', [[Ken Wakui]] || ''[[Our Precious Conversations]]'', [[Robico]] || ''[[Blue Period (manga)|Blue Period]]'', [[Tsubasa Yamaguchi]]
|-
|45 ||2021 || {{n/a}} || ''[[Blue Lock]]'', [[Muneyuki Kaneshiro]] and Yūsuke Nomura || ''[[A Condition Called Love]]'', [[Megumi Morino]]|| ''[[Yuria-sensei no Akai Ito]]'', Kiwa Irie
|-
|46 ||2022 || {{n/a}} || ''[[That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime]]'', Fuse and Taiki Kawakami || ''[[Nina the Starry Bride]]'', [[Rikachi]]|| ''[[Police in a Pod]]'', [[Miko Yasu]]
|-
|47 ||2023 || {{n/a}} || ''[[Shangri-La Frontier]]'', Katarina and Ryosuke Fuji || ''[[My Girlfriend's Child]]'', Mamoru Aoi || ''[[Skip and Loafer]]'', Misaki Takamatsu
|-
|48 ||2024 || {{n/a}} || ''[[Frieren|Frieren: Beyond Journey's End]]'', Kanehito Yamada and Tsukasa Abe || ''[[I See Your Face, Turned Away]]'', Rumi Ichinohe || ''[[Medalist (manga)|Medalist]]'', Tsurumaikada
|-
|}

==See also==
* [[List of manga awards]]

==References==
{{reflist}}
*{{cite web | url=http://www.hahnlibrary.net/comics/awards/kodansha.php | author=Joel Hahn | title=Kodansha Manga Awards | work=Comic Book Awards Almanac | access-date=March 19, 2008}}
*{{cite web | url=http://www.kodansha.co.jp/award/archive/manga.html | script-title=ja:過去の受賞者一覧 : 講談社漫画賞 : 講談社「おもしろくて、ためになる」出版を | publisher=Kodansha | language=ja | access-date=August 21, 2007 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100725091036/http://www.kodansha.co.jp/award/archive/manga.html | archive-date=July 25, 2010 | url-status=dead }}

==External links==
* {{Official website|http://www.kodansha.co.jp/award/|Official website}} {{in lang|ja}}

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