The Jump Manga Award is starting soon, and My Hero Academia mangaka Kohei Horikoshi drew the poster for it. The poster features Deku, Ichigo, Asta, and Yuji making battle poses.
The reason why it’s those four is that the mangaka for their respective series are the judges this time. Tite Kubo (Bleach), Kohei Horikoshi (My Hero Academia), Gege Akutami (Jujutsu Kaisen), and Yuki Tabata (Black Clover) will personally look at and critique all of the final candidates for the award. The winner and runner-ups can also get prize money from this competition, and they have a guaranteed future at Weekly Shonen Jump.
This year, you can submit any manga so long as it focuses on battle action and is under 47 pages long. You’ll have until January 20, 2025 to hand it in, and you can be either an amateur or a professional. For professionals, you can submit something for this competition even if you already have an ongoing series with another manga magazine. Shueisha will announce the winner in late March 2025.
As for Kohei Horikoshi, the artist of the poster, his most famous manga series My Hero Academia recently ended on August 5, 2024. It ran for a little over ten years, as it started on July 7, 2014. It has been a critical and commercial success, with many adaptations such as an anime and several movies. Though he didn’t work on the poster, fellow Jump mangaka Gege Akutami will also be ending his series Jujutsu Kaisen in about five more chapters.
The Jump Manga Award is open until January 20, 2025.
Published: Aug 19, 2024 08:00 pm