One Punch Man, Your Lie in April, and DanMachi win big in Sugoi Japan 2016 Awards

Yomiuri Shimbun has announced the winners for the 2016 edition of their annual Sugoi Japan Awards. The winners of these awards are works which fans feel that need foreign attention, and should be used to promote Japan. The categories are divided into*anime, manga, light novels, and entertainment novels, and here are the winners:

Manga Category:5 – Monster Musume by Okayado4 –*Twittering Birds Never Fly by Kou Yoneda3 –*Haikyuu!! by Haruichi Furudate2 –*Tokyo Ghoul by Sui Ishida1-*One-Punch Man by ONE and Yuusuke MurataAnime Category:5 –*Psycho-Pass movie4 –*Monthly Girls’ Nozaki-kun3 –*My Teen Romantic Comedy SNAFU TOO!2 – Shirobako1 – Your Lie in AprilLight Novel Category5 – SHIMONETA: A Boring World Where the Concept of Dirty Jokes Doesn’t Exist by Hirotaka Akagi4 – Overlord by Kugane Maruyama3 –*Amagi Brilliant Park by Shoji Gatoh2 – Saekano: How to Raise a Boring Girlfriend*by Fumiaki Maruto1 –*Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon? by Fujino OomoriEntertainment Novel Category5 –*BEATLESS by Satoshi Hase4 – Man-Gan by Honobu Yonezawa3 –*Alice Koroshi by Yasumi Kobayashi2 –*Kaidantou by Yutaka Kouno1 –*The Empire of Corpses by Project Itoh and Toh Enjoe

These works were selceted out of 92 entries, which were then voted on by both fans and industry experts alike. Thye works nominated must have potential to become international hits in order to be considered. Last year, Attack on Titan won for the manga category, Madoka Magica won for the anime category, and My Teen Romantic Comedy SNAFU won for the LN category.

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