The Guy She Was Interested In Wasn’t a Guy At All, The Apothecary Diaries Win 2nd American Manga Awards – Interest

Japanese society and Anime New York The winners were announced second American Comics Awards Ceremony at the New York City Japan Association’s ceremony on Thursday (the night before this year Anime New York The event begins). The American Comics Award celebrates comic creators and publishers who have made significant contributions to the popularity of comics in North America and Japan. Category and its respective winners include:
The person she is interested in is not a man at all roll. 1 by Sumiko Arai

Publisher: Yen Publishing House

edit: Shalini Arimilli,,,,, Carl Lee

translate: Ajan Real

Lettering: Brandon Bovia
Pharmacist’s Diary roll. 12-13 by NatsuHyūga,,,,, Nekokurgeand Itsuki Nanao

Publisher: Square Enix Comics and Books

edit: Tania Biswas

translate: Julie Goniwich

Lettering: Lys Blakeslee

Cover design: Andrea Miller
Tamaki & Amane go through Fumi Yoshinaga

Publisher: Yen Publishing House

edit: Anna McClain-Sims,,,,, Juyoun Lee

translate: Taylor Engel

Lettering: Adnazeer Macalangcom

design: Liz Parlett
Ashita no Joe: Fight for tomorrow roll. 1-2 by asao takamori and Tetsuya Chiba

Publisher: Kodansha, USA

edit: Daniel Joseph

Production: Risa,,,,, PEI ANN ANN YEAP

Lettering: Evan Hayden

Translation of Minami Chu Amairo‘ The love connection of the otaku roll. 1
Publisher: Square Enix Comics and Books

edit: Sarah Tangney

letter: Brandon Bovia,,,,, Prime Minister Dietrich

Cover Designer: Yang Jin
Evan Haydenengraved asao takamori and Tetsuya Chiba‘ Ashita no Joe: Fight for tomorrow roll. 1-2
Publisher: Kodansha, USA

edit: Daniel Joseph

Production: Risa,,,,, PEI ANN ANN YEAP
Riley Vandyke,,,,, Carl Gustav Horn,design Makoto Yukimura‘ planet Deluxe Edition Book 1
Publisher: Dark horse

edit: Carl Gustav Horn

Print Director: Jessica Clark

Professionals edited with North American comic publishers voted to determine the winners. San Francisco-based comic translation and publishing team Studio Proteus Received the Comics Publishing Hall of Fame Award. Recipients include founder and editor Torun Smith;Translator Dana Lewis,,,,, Alan Gleasonand Frederik Schodt;Comic artists and letters TomokoSaitō;Comic creator Adam Warren; and comic letters Tom Orzechowski and Buhalis Law.

AI ((Publisher weekly,,,,, Comic rhythm,,,,, mangasplaning Podcast) leads the American Comic Awards Program Committee.

Last year’s inauguration ceremony was held in New York City in August 2024. Winner include #DRCL Midnight Children go through Shin’ichi Sakamoto,,,,, Delicious in the dungeon go through ryōko instead For the best sustained comic series, Neighborhood stories go through Ai Yazawa The best new version of the classic comic series, Stephen Kohler and Lys Blakeslee for Witch hat circle Best translation and best letters, and Adam Grano for My name is Shingo Best publication design.

Disclosure: Ann’s executive editor Lynzee Loveridge serves as a judge in the United States Comic Awards.

Source: American Comic Awards X/Twitter account

Ann’s report on anime New York City 2025 is sponsored by Yen Press!