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Yomiuri Shimbun's Sugoi Japan Awards' Intermediate Results Announced
posted on by Lynzee Loveridge
Yomiuri Shimbun's 2016 Sugoi Japan Awards opened voting last month to promote pop cultural works that fans feel are most deserving of foreign attention. The awards have four categories—anime, manga, light novels, and "entertainment novels." Voting is still open until January 3, but the official website announced the intermediary results ahead of the official winners announcement on March 22.
TOP 5 MANGA
- My Love Story!! by Kazune Kawahara
- Twittering Birds Never Fly by Kou Yoneda
- Tokyo Ghoul by Sui Ishida
- Haikyu!! by Haruichi Furudate
- One-Punch Man by ONE and Yūsuke Murata
TOP 5 ANIME
TOP 5 LIGHT NOVELS
- Amagi Brilliant Park by Shoji Gatoh
- Overlord by Kugane Maruyama
- Saenai Heroine no Sodate-kata (How to Raise a Boring Girlfriend) by Fumiaki Maruto
- SHIMONETA: A Boring World Where the Concept of Dirty Jokes Doesn’t Exist by Hirotaka Akagi
- Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon? by Fujino Ōmori
TOP 5 ENTERTAINMENT NOVELS
- Alice Koroshi ("Killing Alice") by Yasumi Kobayashi
- Kaidantō ("Step Island") by Yutaka Kōno
- The Empire of Corpses by Project Itoh and Toh Enjoe
- Beatless by Satoshi Hase
- Man-Gan ("Fulfilled Vow") by Honobu Yonezawa
The awards promote the works that have the "universality," "originality" and "potential" to be big international hits. The time frame is the last 3.5 years, except for anime, which is only from the past year. A total of 92 works were originally selected by fans and "experts" in July.
[Via Yara-on!]
