Kodansha has revealed the winners for the 50th Annual Manga Awards. The awards in question include Best Shōnen Manga, Best Shōjo Manga, and Best General Manga.
Gachiakuta won Best Shōnen Manga, with the runner-ups being Utsuranain desu, The Fragrant Flower Blooms With Dignity, and Ichi the Witch. Re-Living My Life with a Boyfriend Who Doesn’t Remember Me won Best Shōjo Manga. The runner-ups were In the Clear Moonlit Dusk, A Star Brighter Than the Sun, and Gazing at the Star Next Door. Finally, The Darwin Incident won Best General Manga. The other nominees included Spacewalking With You, Nezumi’s First Love, Heisei Haizan-hei Sumire-chan, and Mii-chan and Yamada-san.
Kodansha’s Weekly Shōnen Magazine has serialized Gachiakuta as an ongoing series since February 2022. Fans can catch up with the series in English on Kodansha’s K MANGA service. The first season of the Gachiakuta anime is streaming on Crunchyroll. Gachiakuta Season 2 and GACHIAKUTA: The Game will release in 2026.
Lastly, here’s an overview of the anime, via Crunchyroll:
Crawl back from the abyss of Hell to change this lousy world!
Rudo lives in the slums of a floating town, where the poor scrape by under the shadow of the rich who live a sumptuous life, simply casting their garbage off the side, into the abyss.
Then one day, he’s falsely accused of murder, and his wrongful conviction leads to an unimaginable punishment—exile off the edge, with the rest of the trash.
Down on the surface, the cast-off waste of humanity has bred vicious monsters, and if Rudo wants to have any hope of discovering the truth and seeking vengeance against those who cast him into Hell, he will have to master a new power and join a group known as the Cleaners who battle the hulking trash beasts of the Pit!
