Ichi the Witch, Strikeout Pitch Win Next Manga Awards 2025 – Interest

writer Osamu Nishi and artists Shiro UsazakiComics Ichi Witch and Kyu Sumiyoshi‘ Strike out He won the highest award at this year’s comic award (Tsugi ni kuru MangaTaishō). Ichi Witch Ranked first in the print comic category, Strike out Win in the web comic category.
Nishi celebrates Ichi Witch‘ Win the following illustration:
This story is Ichi, the only male witch in the world. Once a hunter, he was taken under the wings of the great witch Descaras.
Nishi and Usazaki are in Shueisha‘ Shonen Jump Magazine in September 2024. The comics have received praise from popular creators, including My Hero Academic‘ kōheihorikoshi and D.Gray-Man‘ Katsura Hoshino. Horikoshi Quote As the “Minimation of Shonen Manga” series. As of July, 700,000 copies of the first four volumes of the comic were in circulation.
Ichi Witchpublished in English mediumavailable in Shonen Jump and comics application. VIZ will release its first printed volume in February 2026.
The series marks the return of Usazaki as a comic artist arrest of Age of behavior writer Tatsuya Matsuki. Previous works by writer Nishi include Welcome to Devil School! iruma-kun comicslater adapted into an anime series Bandai Namco Pictures.
Sumiyoshi Celebrate Strike outWin the following illustrations:

This story follows the rumored “Baseball Club Machete” about the school baseball captain Heita Kobori. Heita witnessed the pitching skills of the mysterious Fusetsu Kiriyama and decided to recruit him to the team. Then, he learned that Kiriyama could only successfully invest three times a day.
Sumiyoshi launches Strike out exist Shueisha‘ Shonen Jump+ The platform was released in September 2024, and the Mangaplus platform was also released in English.
Sumiyoshi’s comic series, Overinflated,,,,, top Animejapan’s sixth “We Want to See Animation in 2023” poll Once was feature twice exist Takara Jimasha‘ Kono Manga GA Sugoi! (This comic is great!) Guide.
The next comic award will also award the special “Frozen Food is Nehill Award” Hōkagokitaku biyori (Good day to go home after school) Comic Mai Matsuda.
The comic focuses on the center of Shun, where new students are invited to participate in a part of the “Go-Home Club” (Japanese for those who do not attend after-school club events and instead go home), and are nicknamed “Go-Home” by a girl nicknamed “Go-Home.” At first he refused, the girl seemed to have no answer and he was forced to go with her.
Matsuda is futabasha‘ Comic Action Magazine in August 2023. There is a series Japanese cartoons In the work.
Japanese company Nichirei Foods sponsors the “Frozen Food IS Nichirei Award” to support comic artists and fans. The award debuted last year with the goal of awarding comic stories that readers can enjoy while eating Nicole frozen food.
this u-next The prize has gone Yuto Sano‘ Gokurakugai Comics in the Printed Comics category and Makoto MiyagiComics koeu rikiakakiki‘ Witches and mercenaries Light novel series in the web comic category.
The first 20 printing and web comics series are:
Printed comics
- Ichi Witch go through Osamu Nishi and Shiro Usazaki *publishing medium/comics
- universe go through Ryūheitamura *publishing medium
- Super Psychological Policeman Chojo go through Shun Numa *publishing medium/comics
- Utsura Nai Ndesu go through Ruka Konoshima
- Heisei Haizan-Hei Sumire-chan go through Satomi u
- akira failed go through Shinta Harekawa *publishing medium
- Gokurakugai go through Yuto Sano *publishing medium/comics
- Shinobi Secret go through Ippon Takegushi and Santa Claus *publishing medium/comics
- Fall in love, you fake angel go through Cocoa zauci *publishing Kodansha comics/k-manga
- dog go through Satori Noda *publishing medium/comics
- Alice, Duco made me go through Basic
- Kaiten No Albus go through Akihisa Maki and Miki Yatsubo
- imōtowa shitteiru go through Mary Walk
- Phantom Busters go through Neoshko *publishing medium
- Silver Mountain go through Kazuhiro Fujita
- Ultimate Exorcist Kiyoshi go through shoichi usui
- Learn to love my cat-like classmates go through akinous *publishing Square Enix Comics and Books/comics!
- Stray cats and wolves go through Mitsubishi miyuki *publishing Yen Publishing House
- Mane Mane Nichi Nichi go through SōichirōYamamoto
- Host Shachiko go through Mitsuru Kawajiri
Online comics
- Strike out go through Kyu Sumiyoshi *publishing comics
- century go through Tohru Kuramori *publishing medium/comics
- emotome itadaitabōkunheika no akujo desu go through Tenichi,,,,, Straight edge and Sorajima
- Shiba Inu Rooms go through Esu Omori *publishing medium/comics
- Zenbu Sukutte Yaru go through NetarōTsuneki
- dokagui daisuki! Mochizuki-san go through Kamome Maruyono
- Kami-sama Kitsune to Salaryman go through lightning
- Genkai Ol Kirigiri Giriko go through miitosupa tsuchimoto
- Welcome to the Ghost Building go through Nekuuro *publishing Titan Comics
- Ghost Repairer go through Tanaka Yasuki *publishing comics
- Crazy go through Otori Yusuke *publishing comics
- ryūokuri no isagi go through Makoto Hoshino
- Witches and mercenaries go through koeu rikiakakiki,,,,, Bench kanaseand Makoto Miyagi *publishing k comics
- Monochrome day go through Yosuke Matsumoto *publishing comics
- Mujikaku-chan to Otome na Otoko go through Rabbi
- Okaeri, Hatsukoi. go through Tora Kamemizu
- Queen of Drama go through Kuraku Ichikawa *publishing comics
- The suffering seen Published by MMK* medium
- Adult War go through Kappy and Masaaki Tsuzuki *publishing comics
- Heroes Organization go through Kei Saikawa and akira takahashi *publishing comics
Fan submitted 9,432 entries for this year’s nomination and then voted about 600,000 votes for the print and web comic categories.
Last year’s winners include Samurai Kita‘ Kagurabachi (Print) and but and Tetsuo iDeuchi‘ Girl meets rock! (Web). Past winners include seitokai ni mo ana wa aru!,,,,, The person she is interested in is not a man at all,,,,, medal,,,,, Smoke with you,,,,, Kaiju No. 8,,,,, Oshi no Ko,,,,, Unfortunate,,,,, Spy X Familyand Yakuza Fiancé: Improved WA Tanin GA II.
Source: Next Comic Award” website,,,,, Yes Vinci Web
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