Registration and voting opens: Tuesday, June 16
Voter registration closes: Monday, July 20 (5:00 pm ET)
Manga publishing professionals are invited to help select the winners of the 2026 American Manga Awards.
The nominees have been selected by our judges in these categories:
- Best New Manga
- Best Continuing Manga Series
- Best One-Shot Manga
- Best New Edition of Classic Manga
- Best Translation
- Best Lettering
- Best Publication Design
Learn more about the American Manga Awards and the award categories.
VOTING ELIGIBILITY
Winners of the Manga, Translation, Lettering, and Publication Design Awards will be determined by votes received from professionals working in an editorial capacity as employees or freelancers with English-language manga publishers. US/Canada residency is not required. We invite professionals from all over the world to register to vote.
This includes:
- Editors
- Publishers
- Translation professionals
- Localization professionals
- Lettering professionals
- Design and production professionals (print and digital)
- All nominees in each category
- All judges in each category
- Other qualified publishing professionals, by invitation
