TOKYO, Feb 15 (News On Japan) –
BookLive, the digital e-book service, has introduced the nominees for its third “Magademy Awards 2023,” a manga award that honors manga characters. This 12 months’s nominees embody Hiroshi Tanaka from the twenty third 12 months of the favored sequence “My Home Afro Tanaka,” Maomao from the autumn 2023 anime hit “The Apothecary Diaries,” Rin Itoshi and Reo Mikage from the favored soccer manga “Blue Lock,” and Kirika Kokuryu from the drama-adapted “Trillion Game,” amongst others.
The nominations embody 16 characters and 5 works chosen from suggestions made by manga followers in the course of the nomination interval.
The “Magademy Awards” had been established in 2021 to rejoice the characters that carry braveness, emotion, and richness to our every day lives. This 12 months, for the primary time, followers might nominate not solely characters but additionally particular person works.
During the advice interval from October 5 to October 29, 2023, followers submitted their favourite characters and works via a particular web site and through X (previously Twitter), with the consenting nominees being chosen for numerous classes. Notably, characters from the trending “villainess” style have been nominated for the primary time, with Remilia Rose Glaupner from “The Inner Palaces of the Villainess” and Saphia Dianthus from “I’ve Entered the Villainess Route of Overwhelming Love!?” (Comic) making the listing.
The winners for the six classes—Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor, Best Supporting Actress, Best Work, and Special Jury Prize—might be determined by a panel of judges together with the manga-loving comedy trio Hanako and introduced on March 13.
Nominees for the “Magademy Awards 2023” embody 16 characters and 5 works, listed in alphabetical order inside their respective classes. Eligible works are manga volumes launched or scheduled for launch in 2023, with a most of 10 volumes.
Source: Dengeki