#Witch Hat Atelier Takes Home Best Manga Honors at Harvey Awards
“#Witch Hat Atelier Takes Home Best Manga Honors at Harvey Awards”
Last month kicked off with the announcement of a bunch of manga titles in the running for the Best Manga category in this year's Harvey Awards. The official awards ceremony is set for later this week, but the winners have been announced ahead of the event, and Kamome Shirahama's Witch Hat Atelier took home the award for Best Manga.
Other manga that were in the running include H.P. Lovecraft’s At Mountains of Madness by Gou Tanabe, The Man Without Talent by Yoshiharu Tsuge, The Poe Clan by Moto Hagio, and The Way of the Househusband by Kousuke Oono.
Kodansha Comics publishes Witch Hat Atelier in English and describes it like so:
In a world where everyone takes wonders like magic spells and dragons for granted, Coco is a girl with a simple dream: she wants to be a witch. But everybody knows magicians are born, not made, and Coco was not born with a gift for magic. Resigned to her un-magical life, Coco is about to give up on her dream to become a witch … until the day she meets Qifrey, a mysterious, traveling magician. After secretly seeing Qifrey perform magic in a way she’s never seen before, Coco soon learns what everybody “knows” might not be the truth, and discovers that her magical dream may not be as far away as it may seem …
Dragon Hoops by Gene Luen Yang took home Book of the Year, and the Matt Bors-edited The Nib won Digital Book of the Year. Other winners include Gene Luen Yang and Gurihiru's Superman Smashes the Klan for Best Children or Young Adult Book, Keum Suk Gendry-Kim's Grass for Best International Book, and HBO's Watchmen for Best Adaptation from a Comic Book/Graphic Novel.
Prior to this year, manga nominations were presented in the now defunct category of Best American Edition of Foreign Material. Previous winners of the Best Manga category include Kabi Nagata's My Lesbian Experience with Loneliness in 2018 and Kohei Horikoshi's My Hero Academia in 2019.
Source: The Hollywood Reporter
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