American Manga Awards Submission Application
Deadline for submissions is June 15th
ELIGIBILITY GUIDELINES
The following are the guidelines for submission.
Manga published in English (in print or ebooks) between August 1, 2023 – July 30, 2024
- Best New Manga must have first volume published (print or digital) within these eligibility dates
- Best Continuing Manga Series must have at least one volume published (print or digital) within the eligibility dates
- Best New Edition of Classic Manga must be a new English edition of manga (one-shot story or multi-volume series) that was originally published in Japan at least 20 years ago (for 2024, the cutoff date is December 31, 2004.)
Manga must be available for purchase from bookstores, comic shops, and other retailers, or for purchase as digital books from ebook platforms (Kindle, Nook, Apple iBooks, Google Play, BookWalker) or direct download-to-own purchase from publishers’ websites.
Not eligible for consideration:
- Limited edition, self-published, or crowdfunded publications that are not readily available for purchase from retail or online bookstores or book distributors
- Digital titles that are only available as per-chapter purchases or can only be accessed by subscriptions on apps/websites
- Digital-only titles are eligible once their graphic novel (tankobon) editions are available for sale as print or ebook editions, whichever release date comes first.
Publishers can only submit 3 titles per category.