In 2014, one of Japan's largest newspapers, the Yomiuri Shimbun, organized Sugoi Japan, a program to promote Japanese popular media by compiling lists of the best examples. Following its 2015 inaugural year, which crowned Madoka Magica and Attack on Titan as the top anime and manga, respectively, it returned to pick the 2016 Cool Japan champions.
The open vote in the second year was held on the official website of SUGOI JAPAN from November 16, 2015 to January 3, 2016, attracting 65,294 votes.
The results of SUGOI JAPAN, the Japan’s nationwide vote for Manga, Anime, Ranobe (light novel) and entertaining novel works, were announced on March 22, and One Punch-Man, "a story of a hero who beats any enemy with a single punch," won the Manga genre while the first prize of Anime genre went to Your Lie in April, described as a boy-meets-girl story with great classical music. The Ranobe winner is 2 million selling adventure/fantasy Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon? and the Japan SF Award winner The Empire of Corpses, which fictionalized 19 century world in which the technology to resurrect corpses has been put to practical use, grasped the entertaining novel genre.
Top picks included...
Manga:
1) One Punch Man
2) Tokyo Ghoul
3) Haikyuu!
4) Twittering birds never fly (aka Saezuru Tori wa Habatakanai by Kou Yoneda)
Anime
1) Your Lie In April
2) Shirobako
5) Psycho-Pass
Light Novel
1) Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon?
4) Overlord
5) SHIMONETA: A Boring World Where the Concept of Dirty
Novels
1) The Empire of Corprses
2) Kaidantou series
3) The Murder of Alice
4) A Vow Fulfilled
5) BEATLESS
Short lists
Entame shosetsu http://sugoi-japan.jp/en/nominees/entame.html
Italian cosplayer Yuriko Tiger was selected to represent the Sugoi Japan Award 2016 as the official ambassador / chief executive cosplayer. Pop idol group AOP ("Anime Oen Project") are also on board as official supporters of the awards.
For more information, please check out the official home page for the Sugoi Japan 2016 Award here.
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Scott Green is editor and reporter for anime and manga at geek entertainment site Ain't It Cool News. Follow him on Twitter at @aicnanime.
Scott Green is editor and reporter for anime and manga at geek entertainment site Ain't It Cool News. Follow him on Twitter at @aicnanime.
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