2025 AMERICAN MANGA AWARD WINNERS

The 2025 recipients of the Manga Publishing Hall of Fame Award are Studio Proteus, the pioneering manga translation and publishing company that helped introduce legendary manga series like Blade of the Immortal, Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind, Ghost in the Shell, Oh! My Goddess, What’s Michael? and so much more to English language readers in N. America and around the world.

Founded in San Francisco, California in 1986 by visionary editor, author, and entrepreneur Toren Smith, Studio Proteus included an all-star cast of manga translators, editors, artists, and lettering professionals who set the standards for manga localization and publishing. Translators Dana Lewis, Alan Gleason, and Frederik Schodt, along with manga artist/lettering pro Tomoko Saito, comics creator Adam Warren, comics lettering masters Tom Orzechowski and L. Lois Buhalis were all part of the Studio Proteus collective. Together, they created the blueprint and the foundation for the English language manga publishing industry as we know it today.