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Presented by	Agency for Cultural Affairs of Japan
Country	Japan
First awarded	1997

The Japan Media Arts Festival is an annual festival held since 1997 by Japan's Agency for Cultural Affairs. The festival begins with an open competition and culminates with the awarding of several prizes and an exhibition.

Based on judging by a jury of artistic peers, awards are given in four categories: Art (formerly called Non-Interactive Digital Art), Entertainment (formerly called Interactive Art; including video games and websites), animation, and manga. Within each category, one Grand Prize, four Excellence Prizes, and (since 2002) one Encouragement Prize are awarded. Other outstanding works, are selected by the Jury as Jury Selections.

The winning works of the four categories will receive a certificate, a trophy and a cash prize.

Digital Art (Non-Interactive Art) awards
Digital Art (Interactive Art) awards
Art awards
Entertainment awards
Animation awards
Manga awards
See also

Digital Art (Non-Interactive Art) awards

Year	Grand Prize	Excellence Prizes	Encouragement Prize
1997 (1st)	"Soul Blade" Opening Movie	Scene#97 -Generated After- Daisuki Me SMAP×SMAP Special Effects in the Tribute Songs hana	n/a
1998 (2nd)	Tokitama Hustle (CG moving picture)	REMtv (CG moving picture) Garahina (CG moving picture) Silent Hill (CG moving picture) Within the Cry of the Red Night (CG moving picture)	n/a
1999 (3rd)	The Diverting History of Mechanical Fellows (CG still picture, solid)	Tall Small Stories (CG moving picture) Revelation Lugia (CG moving picture) Tekkon Kinkreet (CG moving picture) Tatsumi HIYAMA3EXHIBITION (CG still image)	n/a
2000 (4th)	1 (CG moving picture)	Csoda Pok (wonder spider) (CG moving picture) Garden of the metal (CG moving picture) Avalon (movie/CG moving picture) The nostalgic 21st century (CG moving picture)	n/a
2001 (5th)	Anjyu (CG moving picture)	Insanity (CG still picture) After Image (CG still picture) FADE into WHITE #3 (CG moving picture) Beauty Kit (CG moving picture)	n/a
2002 (6th)	TextArc print:Alice's Adventure in Wonderland (CG still picture)	I AGAINST I (CG still picture) Prize Re-typo “E”“A”“R”“N” (CG still picture) Justice Runners(CG moving picture) Mustafrog and NINJA bunny (CG moving picture)	FISHER MAN (CG moving picture)

Digital Art (Interactive Art) awards

Year	Grand Prize	Excellence Prizes	Encouragement Prize
1997 (1st)	Kage	Final Fantasy VII Intelligent Qube Wanna be a Ruby melting in the sky (movie) image dive Site	n/a
1998 (2nd)	The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time	Metal Gear Solid One-line.com Project Cluster Works Net Rezonator	n/a
1999 (3rd)	AIBO, model ERS-110	Maywa Denki Live Performance motion dive2 Seaman Earth from Above	n/a
2000 (4th)	Dragon Warrior VII	Shenmue Stand-up Comedy Simulation Vectrial Elevation, Relational Architectecture Forest of Thoughts	n/a
2001 (5th)	Protrude, Flow	Pikmin Floating Eye Contact Water J-PHONE Sky Pavilion	n/a
2002 (6th)	Social Mobiles	CamCamtime Course type R His Master's Voice	Youkai Yamiwarashi

Art awards

Year	Grand Prize	Excellence Prizes	Encouragement Prize (2003–2010) / New Face Award (since 2011)	Social Impact Award (since 2020)
2003 (7th)	Digital Gadgets #6,8,9 (interactive art)	Panorama Ball & Zerograph -Another story of media evolution (still image) three (web) E-BABY (moving picture CG) Venus Villosa (installation)	Tracks of Blue	n/a
2004 (8th)	3 minutes2 (installation)	Sky Ear (interactive art) GLOBAL BEARING (interactive art) OÏO (visual image) z reactor (visual image)	life-size (still image)	n/a
2005 (9th)	Khronos Projector (Interactive)	Six String Sonics, The (interactive) Spyglass (installation) Gate vision (visual image) Anima (visual image)	Conspiratio (interactive)	n/a
2006 (10th)	Imaginary・Numbers 2006 (installation)	×man vibration (interactive art) OLE Coordinate System (interactive art) front (installation) MediaFlies (installation)	Sagrada Familia Project (still image)	n/a
2007 (11th)	nijuman no borei (200000 phantoms) (visual image)	Se Mi Sei Vicino (If you are close to me) (interactive art) BYU-BYU-View (interactive art) "Camera Lucida: Sonochemical Observatory" (installation) ISSEY MIYAKE A-POC INSIDE. (visual image)	Super Smile (visual image)	n/a
2008 (12th)	Oups! (installation)	Touched Echo (interactive) Touch the Invisibles (interactive) Moment-performative wandering (visual image) OUTSIDE (still image)	insider''\|\|outsider (installation)	n/a
2009 (13th)	Growth Modeling Device (Installation)	Mr. Lee Experiment (Interactive) Nemo Observatorium (Installation) SEKILALA (Visual Image) Braun Tube Jazz Band (Performance)	F - Void Sample (Installation)	n/a
2010 (14th)	Cycloïd-E (Sound sculpture)	The Tenth Sentiment The EyeWriter NIGHT LESS The Men In Grey	Succubus	n/a
2011 (15th)	plain voices, Yoshihiro Yamamoto	particles, Daito Manabe, Motoi Ishibashi The Saddest Day of My Youth, Brian Alfred Tsunagaru-TENKI, Yoshiyuki Katayama BLA BLA, Vincent Morisset	Monkey Business, Ralph Kistler, Jan Sieber Senseless Drawing Bot, So Kanno, Takahiro Yamaguchi Himatsubushi, Hideharu Ueki	n/a
2012 (16th)	Pendulum Choir, Cod.Act (Michel Décosterd, André Décosterd)	Desire of Codes, Seiko Mikami Between Yesterday & Tomorrow, SOL CHORD (Shinjiro Maeda, Rina Okazawa) Bye Buy, Neil Bryant On Pause, Mikhail Zheleznikov	Outback and Beyond, Grayson Cooke, Mike Cooper Species series, Wonbin Yang Strata #4, Quayola	n/a
2013 (17th)	crt mgn, Carsten Nicolai	the blank to overcome, Soichiro Mihara Dronestagram, James Bridle Situation Rooms, Rimini Protokoll The Big Atlas of LA Pools, Benedikt Gross	Learn to be a Machine \| DistantObject #1, Lau Hochi Maquila Region 4, Amor Munoz The SKOR Codex, La Societe Anonyme	n/a
2014 (18th)	(no award)	This may not be a movie, Kazuhiro Goshima Sensing streams – invisible, inaudible, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Daito Manabe Drone Survival Guide, Ruben Peter Nyloïd, Cod.Act (Michel Décosterd, André Décosterd) "patrinia yellow" for Clarinet and Computer, Satoshi Fukushima	The Tale of Tehrangeles, Anahita Razmi Symbiotic Machine, Ivan Henriques Temps mort / Idle times – dinner scene, Alex Verhaest	n/a
2015 (19th)	50 Shades of Grey, Bryan Chung Wai Ching	The sound of empty space, Adam Basanta Ultraorbism, Marcel·lí Antúnez Roca Wutbürger, KASUGA (Andreas Lutz / Christoph Grünberger) (Im)possible Baby, Case 01: Asako & Moriga, Ai Hasegawa	Sando, Takaaki Yamamoto Communication with the Future – The Petroglyphomat, Lorenz Potthast Gill & Gill, Louis-Jack Horton-Stephens	n/a
2017 (20th)	Interface I, Ralf Baecker	COLONY, Yukihiro Yoshihara Alter, "Alter" Production Team (Hiroshi Ishiguro / Takashi Ikegami, Representatives) Jller, Benjamin Maus / Prokop Bartoníček The Living Language Project, Ori Elisar	You would come back there to see me again the following day., Michiko Tsuda DCT: SYPHONING. The 1000000th interval., Rosa Menkman The Wall, Nina Kurtela	n/a
2018 (21st)	Interstices / Opus I - Opus II, Haythem Zakaria	Avatars, So Kanno / yang02 Rapid biography in a society of evolutionary lovers, Unemi Tatsuo / Daniel Bisig Datum Point, Orikasa Ryo Language Producing Factory, Dai Furen	I'm In The Computer Memory!, Aida Torajiro Panderer (Seventeen Seconds), Gary Setzer The Dither is Naked, Yano	n/a
2019 (22nd)	Pulses/Grains/Phase/Moiré, Ken Furudate	Culturing 'Paper'cut, Hideo Iwasaki datum, Norimichi Hirakawa discrete figures, Daito Manabe, Motoi Ishibashi, MIKIKO, Elevenplay Lasermice, So Kanno	SPARE (not mine), Jonathan Fletcher Moore Total Tolstoy, Andrey Chugunov watage, (euglena)	n/a
2020 (23nd)	[ir]reverent: Miracles on Demand, Adam W. Brown	between #4 Black Aura, Hideo Iwasaki Ferriscope, Bull.Miletic Soundform No.1, Natura Machina Two Hundred and Seventy, Nils Volker	drawhearts, Sebastian Wolf (web) Latent Space, Marian Essl alias MONOCOLOR Lenna, Hosoi Miyu	SOMEONE, Lauren Lee McCarthy
2021(24th)	Prometheus Bound, Meiro Koizumi	Acqua Alta – Crossing the mirror, Adrien M & Claire B Bricolage, Nathan THOMPSON / Guy BEN-ARY / Sebastian DIECKE Sea, See, She – To you, who is yet to come, See by Your Ears (evala, Representative) TH-42PH10EK x 5, Stefan TIEFENGRABER	The reluming apparatus, Hayate Kobayashi Ether – liquid mirror, Kaito Sakuma VOX-AUTOPOIESIS V -Mutual-, Chiku Komiya	Google Maps Hacks, Simon WECKERT
2022(25th)	Sun and Moon Room, "Sun and Moon Room" Production Team	Yamahyo Crossing, Shota Yamauchi The Square Makes It Through, Masaya Ishikawa / Hiroshi Sugihara / Hiroaki Nakaji / Campbell Aregenzio / Shohei Takei Augmented Shadow – Inside, Joon Yong Moon mEat me, Theresa Schubert	Projection for the next three thousand years, Miki Hirase The Transparency of Randomness, Mathias Gartner / Vera Tolazzi Uber Existence, Shin Hanagata	Bio Sculpture, Keio SFC Hiroya Tanaka Lab. + METACITY (Ryuta Aoki, Representative)

Entertainment awards

Year	Grand Prize	Excellence Prizes	Encouragement Prize (2003–2010) / New Face Award (since 2011)
2003 (7th)	Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles	EyeToy: Play Ski Jumping Pair Official DVD Pokemotion THEgarden	atMOS: Self-Packaging Movie
2004 (8th)	WarioWare: Twisted!	Alice in Vivaldi's Four Seasons Onimusha 3 Opening Cinematics YKK AP Evolution	Cherry-Clouds
2005 (9th)	Flipbook!, Khronos Projector	Nintendogs "Wamono" by Hifana (music video) Mitsui Fudosan Shibaura Island 3LDK Image Movie Vodafone Design File	Incompatible Block
2006 (10th)	Ōkami	Rhythm Tengoku Shaberu! DS Oryouri Navi "Fit Song" by Cornelius (music video) Rediscovery Map Nippon	Amagatana
2007 (11th)	Wii Sports	Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots Monster Hunter Freedom 2 Have You Seen It? (short movie) Daydream	The moon princess being smelled by ~ Japanese old tales remix ~ (picture book)
2008 (12th)	Tenori-On (electronic musical instrument)	Wii Fit Exhibition Transform Yourself (exhibition) Carbon Footprint (visual image) FONTPARK 2.0	Gyorol (web)
2009 (13th)	Hibi No Neiro (Tone of Everyday)	Naruto: Ultimate Ninja Storm "Fake It!" / Denki Groove (music video) Love Distance ScoreLight	Asahi Art Festival
2010 (14th)	IS Parade	echochrome ii "Aruku Around" by Sakanaction (music video) "Natsu o Matteimashita" by Amazarashi (music video) Tabio Slide Show	iPad magic
2011 (15th)	Space Balloon Project, Tsubasa Oyagi, Kempei Baba, Takeshi Nozoe, John Powell	Berobero, Hideyuki Tanaka Phase Transition-ish Apparatus, Yuichiro Katsumoto The Museum of Me, Koichiro Tanaka, Eiji Tanigawa, Seiichi Saito, Masanori Sakamoto, Ken Murayama Song of Anagura Missing Researchers & their Remaining Devices, Hiroshi Inukai, Ryosuke Shibasaki, Kazutoshi Iida, Ichiro Ariyama, Kenji Sasajima, Shinya Kamuro	Digital Warrior Sanjigen, Kaito Nakamura Hietsuki Bushi, Omodaka Rhythmushi, Tsubasa Naruse
2012 (16th)	Perfume "Global Site Project", Daito Manabe, Mikiko, Yasutaka Nakata, Satoshi Horii, Hiroyasu Kimura	The Warped Forest, Shunichiro Miki Smart Trashbox, Minoru Kurata Suidobashi Heavy Industry "KURATAS", Kogoro Kurata, Wataru Yoshizaki Gravity Daze, Keiichiro Toyama (Gravity Daze Team)	Whatever Button, IDPW NAGANO Ryo "HAJIMEYOU", Fuyu Arai Haisuinonasa "Dynamics of the Subway", Keita Onishi
2013 (17th)	Sound of Honda / Ayrton Senna 1989, Kaoru Sugano, Sotaro Yasumochi, Yu Orai, Nadya Kirillova, Kyoko Yonezawa, Kosai Sekine, Taeji Sawai, Daito Manabe	Sports Time Machine, Hiroshi Inukai, Ryoko Ando Travis "Moving", Tom Wrigglesworth, Matt Robinson Fantasy Captured in Plastic Models: A Desk Diorama, Hiroto Ikeuchi The Burning Buddha Man, Ujicha	ZEZEHIHI, Daisuke Tsuda Yakenohara "RELAXIN", Saigo No Shudan (Ayumu Arisaka, Mai Oita, Ren Kohata) TorqueL prototype 2013.03 @ E3, Nanmo (Takayuki Yanagihara)
2014 (18th)	Ingress, Google's Niantic Labs (John Hanke, Founder)	Noramoji project, Rintaro Shimohama, Naoki Nishimura, Shinya Wakaoka handii, Genta Kondo, Hiroshi Yamaura, Tetsuya Konishi Kintsugi, APOTROPIA (Antonella Mignone, Cristiano Panepuccia) 3RD, Hedwig Heinsman, Niki Smit, Simon van der Linden	Auto-Complain, Florian Born Slime Synthesizer, Dorita / Airgarage lab (Naofumi Kawauchi, Yumi Sasaki) 5D ARCHIVE DEPT., Kohichi Katsuki
2015 (19th)	Best way for counting numbers, Yuichi Kishino	Dark Echo, Jesse Ringrose / Jason Ennis Drawing Operations Unit: Generation 1, Sougwen Chung Solar Pink Pong, Assocreation / Daylight Media Lab Thumper, Marc Flury / Brian Gibson	hottamaru days, Nao Yoshigai Black Death, Christian Werner / Isabelle Buckow '"EYE" by group inou (music video), Baku Hashimoto / Katsuki Nogami
2017 (20th)	Shin Godzilla, Hideaki Anno / Shinji Higuchi	Digital Shaman Project, Etsuko Ichihara NO SALT RESTAURANT, Kohei Kawasaki / Tomohiko Nakano/ Hiromi Nakamura/. Toshiyuki Hashimoto / Kazuki Utagawa / Wataru Amano Pokémon GO, "Pokémon Go" Production Team (Tatsuo Nomura, Representative) Unlimited Corridor, "Unlimited Corridor" Project Team (Keigo Matsumoto, Representative)	"MUSIC VIDEO" by okazakitaiiku (music video), okazakitaiiku / Sushi-kun ObOrO, Ryo Kishi RADIX \| ORGANISM/APPARATUS, Marcel Bückner / Tim Heinze / Richard Oeckel / Lorenz Potthast / Moritz Richartz
2018 (21st)	The Last Guardian, Fumito Ueda	Foresta Lumina Industrial JP PaintsChainer, Yonetsuji Taizan Pechat, Ono Naoki	The Blind Fish, Ishikawa Yasuaki / Mikaduki Hutatsu / Kondou Keishi Dust, Mária Júdová / Andrej Boleslavský MetaLimbs, Sasaki Tomoya / Mhd Yamen Saraiji
2019 (22nd)	Chico Will Scold You!, "Chico Will Scold You!" Production Team	Kabukicho Detective Seven, Team Detective7 (Takao Kato, Takumi Nishizawa, Masataka Hirai, Nobu Horita, Tatsuro Iwamoto) LINNÉ LENS, "LINNÉ LENS" Production team (Kenichi Sugimoto (representative)) Reframe, Perfume, Perfume＋Reframe Production Team (MIKIKO (representative), Daito Manabe, Ishibashi Motoi) TikTok, "Tik Tok" Japan team	The Bamboo Princess, Wednesday Campanella, Kento Yamada Spring, Ayumi Omori Pixel Ripped 1989, Ana Ribeiro, Carlo Caputo, Julia Lemos, Leonardo Batelli, William Rodriguez
2020 (23rd)	Shadows as Athletes, Masahiko Sato, Masashi Sato, Masaya Ishikawa, Tomoko Kaizuka	Ogiri AI and Chihara-Engineer, "Ogiri AI and Chihara-Engineer" Production Team (Daisuke Takenouchi (representative)) New Logos Order, "New Logos Order" Direction Team (Hiromu Akita, Amazarashi (representative)) CellMate, Solmaz Etemad Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice, Sekiro Development Team (Hidetaka Miyazaki (representative))	TON-TON VOICE SUMO, "TON-TON VOICE SUMO" Production Team (Atsushi Otaki (representative)) Buddience, Takuta Akamatsu, Takuya Tsuyuki, Kengo Tatsuzawa, Fuya Ozaki PickHits, Azumi Maekawa, Seito Matsubara

Animation awards

Year	Grand Prize	Excellence Prizes	Encouragement Prize/New Face Award	Social Impact Award
1997 (1st)	Princess Mononoke	Mini Cartoon ~Knyacki~ Donguri's House The Bugs Neon Genesis Evangelion	n/a	n/a
1998 (2nd)	Glassy Ocean	Kaidohryoku REAL Serial Experiments Lain Believe in It Doraemon: Nobita's South Sea Adventure	n/a	n/a
1999 (3rd)	The Old Man and the Sea	Ojarumaru 2 Mother TYO Story My Neighbors the Yamadas	n/a	n/a
2000 (4th)	Blood: The Last Vampire	Luz Hidamari no Ki TarePanda S.O.S	n/a	n/a
2001 (5th)	Spirited Away and Millennium Actress (tie)	Nostalgia Cat Soup	n/a	n/a
2002 (6th)	Crayon Shin-chan: The Storm Called: The Battle of the Warring States	Mt. Head Magical Shopping Arcade Abenobashi Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex The Cat Returns	"The Evening Traveling"	n/a
2003 (7th)	Winter Days	Tokyo Godfathers Mr. Stain on Junk Alley Tsuneo Gōda's Komaneko Visions of Frank	Hoshi no Ko	n/a
2004 (8th)	Mind Game	Howl's Moving Castle Grrl Power! ACIDMAN short film "SAI (Part 1)/Mawaru, Meguru, Sono Kaku e" Birthday Boy	DREAM	n/a
2005 (9th)	Flow	The Book of the Dead Kamichu! flowery Kōji Yamamura's The Old Crocodile	seasons	n/a
2006 (10th)	The Girl Who Leapt Through Time	Bloomed Words A Country Between the World My Love PIKA PIKA	Vladimir Bellini's La grua y la jirafa	n/a
2007 (11th)	Summer Days with Coo	Ukkari Pénélope Gurren Lagann Dennō Coil Franz Kafka's A Country Doctor	ushi-nichi	n/a
2008 (12th)	La Maison en petits cubes	Kaiba Dreams KUDAN Kōji Yamamura's A Child's Metaphysics'	ALGOL	n/a
2009 (13th)	Summer Wars	Jiří Barta's In the Attic Tokyo Magnitude 8.0 The Cable Car ELEMI'	ANIMAL DANCE	n/a
2010 (14th)	The Tatami Galaxy	Colorful Mai Mai Miracle Fumiko's Confession In a pig's eye	The Wonder Hospital	n/a
2011 (15th)	Puella Magi Madoka Magica	Legend of the Millennium Dragon A Letter to Momo Muybridge's Strings Folksongs & Ballads	Rabenjunge	n/a
2012 (16th)	Combustible	Asura Wolf Children Ame and Yuki The Great Rabbit The Life of Budori Gusuko	Futon Lupin III: The Woman Called Fujiko Mine Oh Willy...	n/a
2013 (17th)	Approved for Adoption	The Eccentric Family Golden Time Patema Inverted Evangelion: 3.33 You Can (Not) Redo.	YOKOSOBOKUDESU Selection Airy Me While the Crow Weeps	n/a
2014 (18th)	The Wound	Crayon Shin-chan: Serious Battle! Robot Dad Strikes Back Giovanni's Island Padre The Sense of Touch	My Milk Cup Cow Tamako Love Story Man on the Chair	n/a
2015 (19th)	Rhizome	The Case of Hana & Alice Yùl and the Snake My Home Isand (The Master)	Deux Amis Chulyen, a Crow's tale Typhoon Noruda	n/a
2017 (20th)	Your Name	A Silent Voice Boy and the World A Love Story, Anushka Kishani Nanayakkara Among the black waves, Anna Budanova	Moom, Daisuke Tsutsumi / Robert Kondo Have Dreamed Of You So Much, Emma Vakarelova Rebellious, Arturo ‶Vonno" Ambriz / Roy Ambriz	n/a
2018 (21st)	In This Corner of the World, Katabuchi Sunao Lu over the Wall, Yuasa Masaaki	Harmonia feat. Makoto, Otani Tarafu Cocolors, Yokoshima Toshihisa Negative Space, Kuwahata Ru / Max Porter	The Great Passage, Kuroyanagi Toshimasa The First Thunder, Anastasia Melikhova Yin, Nicolas Fong	n/a
2019 (22nd)	La Chute, Boris Labbé	The Girl Without Hands, Sebastien Laudenbach Dragon Pilot: Hisone and Masotan, Shinji Higuchi Penguin Highway, Hiroyasu Ishida Okko's Inn, Kitaro Kosaka	Invisible, Akihiko Yamashita Am I a Wolf?, Amir Houshang Moein The Little Ship, Anastasia Makhlina	n/a
2020 (23rd)	Children of the Sea, Watanabe Ayumu	A Japanese Boy Who Draws, Kawajiri Masanao Gon, the Little Fox, Yashiro Takeshi Long Way North, Remi Chayé Nettle Head, Paul E. Cabon	Wandering Mouse, Tsukiji Nohara Daughter, Daria Kascheeva Elephant in the Bath House, Cheng Jialin	Weathering with You, Shinkai
2021 (24th)	Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken!, Yuasa Masaaki	Violet Evergarden: The Movie, Ishidate Taichi A Whisker Away, Sato Junichi, Shibayama Tomotaka Marona's Fantastic Tale, Anca Damian Grey to Green, Marcos Sánchez	The Man on the Shore, Osaza Daisuke, Morishige Hikaru The Mark of Emi, Furukawahara Momoka À la mer poussèire, Héloïse Ferlay	Haze Haseru Haterumade, Waboku
2022 (25th)	The Fourth Wall, Mahboobeh Kalaee	Dozens of Norths, Yamamura Kji Fortune Favors Lady Nikuko, Watanabe Ayumu, Akashiya Sanma Letter to a Pig, Tal Kantor Sonny Boy, Natsume Shingo	Odd Taxi, Konomoto Kazuya, Kinoshita Baku A Bite of Bone, Yano Honami Yallah!, Nayla Nassar, Edouard Pitula, Renaud de Saint Albin, Cécile Adant, Anaïs Sassatelli	Pui Pui Molcar, Misato

Manga awards

Year	Grand Prize	Excellence Prizes	Encouragement Prize/New Face Award	Social Impact Award
1997 (1st)	The Manga Classics of Japan (22 artists)	Seirei Tsukai Erementarā, Takeshi Okazaki Blade of the Immortal, Hiroaki Samura Azumi, Yū Koyama Monster, Naoki Urasawa	n/a	n/a
1998 (2nd)	Sakamoto Ryōma, Hiroshi Kurogane	Shindō (The Prodigy), Akira Sasō Firefighter! Daigo of Fire Company M, Masahito Soda Gon, Masashi Tanaka Ron, Motoka Murakami	n/a	n/a
1999 (3rd)	I'm Home, Kei Ishizaka	All N**, Shinichi Sugimura Kokuritsu Hakubutsukan Monogatari, Jirō Okazaki Onaji Getsu o Miteiru, Seiki Tsuchida Harukana Machi e*, Jiro Taniguchi	n/a	n/a
2000 (4th)	Vagabond, Takehiko Inoue (art) and Eiji Yoshikawa (original story)	Ōdō no Inu, Yoshikazu Yasuhiko Massuguni-ikō, Kira Paji, Takashi Murakami Tasogare Ryūseigun, Kenshi Hirokane	n/a	n/a
2001 (5th)	F-shiteki nichijō, Yōji Fukuyama	Real, Takehiko Inoue Viva, Chef!, JAPUNCH Kamigami no Itadaki, Baku Yumemakura and Jiro Taniguchi Kurosawa / Blazing Movie Director: Akira Kurosawa biography, Masahiro Sonomura	n/a	n/a
2002 (6th)	... Voice and Robo, Iō Kuroda	Ōzukami Genji Monogatari Maro, n?, Yoshihiro Koizumi Taishi Kakka no Ryōrinin, Mitsuru Nishimura (story) and Hiroshi Kawasumi (art) 20th Century Boys, Naoki Urasawa Say Hello to Black Jack, Shūhō Satō	Naze Hakase wa Okotte Iru no ka, Isao Ikegaya	n/a
2003 (7th)	Kajimunugatai: Kaze ga kataru Okinawa-sen, Susumu Higa	Helter Skelter, Kyōko Okazaki Tenjin-san, Naomi Kimura Mushishi, Yuki Urushibara Baka-kyodai, Tetsu Adachi	Junkissa Nokoribi, Tai Itō	n/a
2004 (8th)	Town of Evening Calm, Country of Cherry Blossoms, Fumiyo Kōno	With the Light: Raising an Autistic Child, Keiko Tobe Mainichi Kaasan, Rieko Saibara Witches, Daisuke Igarashi Bande Sculptée: La Planète des Samouraïs, Shin'ichirō Natsusaka	Shōwa Nijūnen no Edekami, Shi no Hachigatsu Jūgojitsu, Watashi no Hachigatsu Jugonichi Association	n/a
2005 (9th)	Disappearance Diary, Hideo Azuma	Pluto, Naoki Urasawa Emma, Kaoru Mori Dragon Zakura, Norifusa Mita A Continuous Day, Yuki Sekine	E-Cartoon , Yoshio Nakae	n/a
2006 (10th)	A Spirit of the Sun, Kaiji Kawaguchi	Ōoku, Fumi Yoshinaga Osaka Hamlet, Hiromi Morishita Hyakkiyakō Shō, Ichiko Ima Yotsuba&!, Kiyohiko Azuma	Shiritori, Kazuko Chikuhama (story) and Kenichi Chikuhama (art)	n/a
2007 (11th)	Mori no Asagao, Mamora Gōda	Suzuki Sensei, Kenzi Taketomi Umimachi Diary, Akimi Yoshida Takemitu Zamurai, Issei Eifuku (story) and Taiyo Matsumoto (art) Pride, Yukari Ichijō	Tenken, Yumiko Shirai	n/a
2008 (12th)	Piano no Mori, Makoto Isshiki	Real Clothes, Satoru Makimura Shiori to Shimiko, Daijiro Morohoshi Maestro, Akira Sasō Munakata Kyouju Ikouroku, Yukinobu Hoshino	Cartoon 2008, Masafumi Kikuchi	n/a
2009 (13th)	Vinland Saga, Makoto Yukimura	Imuri, Ranjyo Miyake Children of the Sea, Daisuke Igarashi Konosekai no Katasumi ni, Fumiyo Kouno Hyouge Mono, Yoshihiro Yamada	Hesheit Aqua, Wisut Ponnimit	n/a
2010 (14th)	Historie, Hitoshi Iwaaki	Koko no Hito, Shinichi Sakamoto Fuuunji Tachi Bakumatsuhen, Tarou Minamoto Bokurano, Mohiro Kitoh RED, Naoki Yamamoto	Uchino Tsumatte Doudeshou?, Shigeyuki Fukumitsu	n/a
2011 (15th)	Saturn Apartments, Hisae Iwaoka	Ano Hi Kara no Manga, Kotobuki Shiriagari Arrugas, Paco Roca Himitsu - Top Secret, Reiko Shimizu Fun Home, Alison Bechdel	Nakayoshi-dan no Bōken, Tsuchika Nishimura	n/a
2012 (16th)	Les Cités Obscures, Benoît Peeters and François Schuiten	Muchacho, Emanuel LePage Gaku: Minna no Yama, Ishizuka Shinichi Mashiro no Oto, Marimo Ragawa Gunslinger Girl, Aida Yu	Our "Eruption" Festival, Shinzo Keigo	n/a
2013 (17th)	JoJolion, Hirohiko Araki	Shouwa Genroku Rakugo Shinju, Haruko Kumota Soredemo Machi wa Mawatteiru, Masakazu Ishiguro Chiisakobee, Minetaro Mochizuki, original author: Shūgorō Yamamoto Terrarium in Drawer, Ryoko Kui	Alice & Zoroku, Tetsuya Imai A Taste of Chlorine, Bastien Vivès Natsuyasumi no Machi, Matida You	n/a
2014 (18th)	Goshiki no Fune, Yōko Kondō (art) and Yasumi Tsuhara (original story)	Aoi Honō, Kazuhiko Shimamoto A Chinese Life, Li Kunwu and Philippe Ôtié Harukaze no Sunegurachika, Hiroaki Samura Hitsuji no Ki, Mikio Igarashi, original author: Tatsuhiko Yamagami	Ai o Kurae!!, Renaissance Yoshida Chi-chan wa Chotto Tarinai, Tomomi Abe Dobugawa, Aoi Ikebe	n/a
2015 (19th)	Kakukaku Shikajika, Akiko Higashimura	Awajima hyakkei, Takako Shimura Otouto no Otto, Gengoroh Tagame Kikaijikake no Ai, Yoshiie Gouda Non-working City, Ting Fung HO	esoragoto, nerunodaisuki Tamashii Ippai, Yuka Okuyama Machida-kun no Sekai, Yuki Ando	n/a
2017 (20th)	Blue Giant, Shin'ichi Ishizuka	Soumubu Soumuka Yamaguchi Roppeita, Kenichirō Takai / Original author: Norio Hayashi Incomplete Life, Yoon Tae-ho / Translation: Ayako Furukawa / Kim Seung-bok Yūgai Toshi, Tetsuya Tsutsui Sunny, Taiyō Matsumoto	Ōten no Mon, Yak Haibara Tsuki ni Hoeran nee, Yukiko Seike Jasmin, Yui Hata	n/a
2018 (21st)	Nee mama (My Dear, Mom), Ikebe Aoi	Ulna at the Emplacement, Izu Toru Nyx no Lantern, Kan Takahama Yorunome wa sendegozaimasu (The Night Has a Thousand Eyes), Ueno Kentaro AI no Idenshi (Gene of AI), Yamada Kyuri	AMAGI Yuiko no tsuno to ai (A Horn and Love of AMAGI Yuiko), Kuno Yoko BAKU-CHAN, Masumura Jushichi Beastars, Paru Itagaki	n/a
2019 (22nd)	Origin, Boichi	Space Battleship Tiramisu, Satoshi Miyakawa, Kei Ito Nagi no Oitoma, Misato Konari Momo & Manji, Sawa Sakura To dusk, Nazuna Saito	Kiiroi Enban (Yellow Disk), Tenshin Kijima The Invisible Difference, Mademoiselle Caroline, Julie Dachez BL Metamorphosis, Kaori Tsurutani	n/a
2020 (23rd)	A Brief History of Robo sapiens, Toranosuke Shimada	To Die Tomorrow, Sumako Kari Double, Ayako Noda Memoirs of Amarous Gentlemen, Moyoco Anno The Arab of the Future: A Childhood in the Middle East (1978-1984), Riad Sattouf	If You Become an Adult, Atsushi Ito Hana to Hoho, Kei Itoi There is no other., Yama Wayama	Ushijima the Loan Shark, Shohei Manabe
2021 (24th)	March Comes In Like a Lion, Chica Umino	Innocent Rouge, Shin-ichi Sakamoto Kashikokute Yukiaru Kodomo, Miki Yamamoto Hitori de Shintai, Kaoru Curryzawa Hei no Naka no Biyōshitsu, Marco Kohinata and Mina Sakurai	Swingin' Dragon Tiger Boogie, Koukou Haida Soratobu Kujira, Suzuhiro Suzuki My Broken Mariko, Waka Hirako	Golden Kamuy, Satoru Noda
2022 (25th)	Golden Raspberry, Aki Mochida	The Darwin Incident, Shun Umezawa Dead Dead Demon's Dededede Destruction, Inio Asano The Concierge at Hokkyoku Department Store, Tsuchika Nishimura The Best We Could Do, Thi Bui	Kitsune to Tanuki to Iinazuke, Seiichi Tokiwa Korogaru Kyōdai, Tsubumi Mori Lost Lad London, Shinya Shima	Onna no Sono no Hoshi, Yama Wayama