Kodansha Manga Award
Awarded for	Manga
Country	Japan
First award	1960 1977 (current version)
Website	Official website

TheKodansha Manga Award (講談社漫画賞,Kōdansha Manga Shō) is one of Japan's majormanga awards. The event is sponsored by publisherKodansha. It has been awarded annually for serialized manga in its third iteration since 1977.

The award was originally called the 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 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.^[1]

The award once was given out in four categories:shōnen,shōjo,children, and general. The award was formalized into the present ceremony with initially offering categories only forshōnen andshōjo 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 theshōnen andshōjo categories starting in 2015.^[2]

Each winning work will be honored with a bronze statuette, a certificate, and a prize of 1 million yen (about US$7,500).^[3]

• List of manga awards

• Joel Hahn."Kodansha Manga Awards".Comic Book Awards Almanac. RetrievedMarch 19, 2008.
• 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 (in Japanese). Kodansha. Archived fromthe original on July 25, 2010. RetrievedAugust 21, 2007.

• Official website(in Japanese)

• Kodansha Manga Award
• Awards established in 1977
• Manga awards
• Comics awards in Japan
• 1977 establishments in Japan
• Annual events in Japan

• Articles with short description
• Short description matches Wikidata
• Use mdy dates from November 2022
• Articles containing Japanese-language text
• CS1 uses Japanese-language script (ja)
• CS1 Japanese-language sources (ja)
• Articles with Japanese-language sources (ja)