The primary quantity of Taiyo Matsumoto’s Tokyo These Days manga sequence was awarded the Los Angeles Instances E-book Prize within the Graphic Novel/Comics class final weekend. The forty fifth annual awards ceremony was held on the College of Southern California’s Bovard Auditorium.
Tokyo These Days was certainly one of 5 titles nominated within the Graphic Novel/Comics class. Matsumoto’s 2000 manga GoGo Monster was additionally nominated for a similar award in 2009.
Right here we go! The E-book Prize for Graphic Novel/Comics is awarded to… 📓🏆
“Tokyo These Days, Vol. 1” by Taiyo Matsumoto!
Congratulations @VIZMedia! #bookprizes pic.twitter.com/6P2Ki9dwH2
— LA Instances Competition of Books (@latimesfob) April 26, 2025
VIZ Media posted a celebratory message and drawing from Matsumoto himself on its Twitter/X account this week. Matsumoto expressed his shock at profitable the award and thanked readers exterior Japan for having fun with his work. He went on to say that creating the manga was an “pleasing and great expertise” and thanked the LA Instances E-book Prize, VIZ, Shogakukan, his editors, and the manga’s English translator, director Michael Arias.
VIZ congratulates Matsumoto Sensei on receiving the @latimes E-book Prizes award for Tokyo These Days, Vol. 1 in Graphic Novel/Comics!
Sensei shared a drawing and brief notice to simply accept the consideration which we’re completely satisfied to share with you. pic.twitter.com/dykisSvUts
— VIZ Media (@VIZMedia) April 29, 2025
Different manga titles to be nominated as finalists for the award embody Rokudenashiko’s What Is Obscenity: The Story of a Good for Nothing Artist and Her Pussy in 2016, Kaito’s Blue Flag (Volumes 1-4) in 2020, and Yamada Murasaki’s Speak to My Again in 2022.
Matsumoto serialized Tokyo These Days in Shogakukan’s Massive Comedian Authentic Zokan from June 12, 2019 to June 12, 2023. A complete of three tankobon volumes had been launched.
The manga was additionally nominated for the twenty seventh Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize in 2023 and once more in 2024 for the twenty eighth version of the prize.
VIZ launched Tokyo These Days in English below its VIZ Signature line, describing the principle synopsis of the primary quantity as:
On his ultimate day as an editor, Shiozawa takes a practice he’s ridden a whole lot of occasions to impart some final recommendation to a manga creator whose work he used to edit. Later, he’s drawn to return to a bookshop on the request of a junior editor who needs his assist coping with an incorrigible manga creator who was once edited by Shiozawa and now refuses to work with anybody else. For Shiozawa, Tokyo nowadays is filled with reminiscence and is cocooned within the inescapable bonds amongst manga creators, their editors, artwork, and life itself.
The LA Instances E-book Prizes are a part of the LA Instances Competition of Books occasion that ran from April 26-27, 2025. The awards acknowledge excellent literary achievements from authors in any respect phases of their careers. Winners had been introduced in 13 classes for works revealed in 2024.
Supply: LA Instances Competition of Books Official Twitter, Official Web site, press launch
