Kodansha Manga Awards

Kodansha Manga Award 講談社漫画賞
Awarded for	Manga
Country	Japan
First awarded	1977
Website	www.kodansha.co.jp/award/

The Kodansha Manga Award (講談社漫画賞, Kōdansha Manga Shō) is an annual award for serialized manga published in the previous year, sponsored by the publisher Kodansha. It is currently awarded in three categories: shōnen, shōjo, and general. The awards began in 1977, initially with categories for shōnen and shōjo. The first award for the general category was in 1982, and the first children's category's award was in 2003. The children's category was merged into the shōnen and shōjo categories starting in 2015.

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