Final Best Mangaka of 2020

[revo]

Final Round Rules

• You can vote for one (1) nominee​
• You are allowed to change your vote​
• In case of a tie, a staff vote will break it.​
• This round will last for 5 days (ends on 07.02.2021)​

Final Nominees

Post questions and comments to the Mangahelpers Awards 2021 - Rules and Info Thread.

Spoiler: Round 1 Results

Eiichiro Oda (10)
Hiro Mashima (6)
Hajime Isayama (5)
Furudate Haruichi (4)
Oshimi Shuuzou (4)
Shirahama Kamome (3)
Tatsuki Fujimoto (3)
Yukimura Makoto (3)
Souchirou Yamamoto (1)
Yamada Kanehito Votes (1)
Yoshiki Nakamura (1)
Fukui Takumi & Umemura Shinya & Ajichik (2)
Horikoshi Kohei (2)
Yuki Tabata (2)

Spoiler: Round 1 Rules

Round 1 Rules

• You can vote for three (3) nominees​
• You are allowed to change your vote​
• The three entries with the most votes will advance into the next round.​
• In case of a tie, a staff vote will break it.​
• This round will last for 5 days (ends on 31.01.2021)​

Spoiler: Nominees

Nominees

Spoiler: Nomination Rules

Nomination Rules

Only Mangakas who published in 2020 are eligible.

If you want to change your nominations, please quote your original nomination post and clearly state which nominations you want to change along with your new nominations.

• You are allowed up to three nominations.
• Please clearly state the competitor you are nominating as well as any further specifics (e.g. characters) if required.
• Please bold all your nominations.
• Supporting does count as nominating!
• The six entries with the most nominations per entry will proceed to the next round.
• If there will be more than 6 in this pool, the staff will break the ties that might occur.
• Please refer to Myanimelist to see if a potential nominee is eligible.

The nomination round will end Friday, January 22nd, 2021. Please choose up to 3 options.

 

[Brandish μ]

Eichiro Oda for continued succes with One Piece
Souchirou Yamamoto for Takagi-san, Takagi-san (moto), and Soredemo Ayumu wa Yosetekuru. I've only read bits of Soredemo and Takagi-san (moto).
Yoshiki Nakamura for Skip Beat! because of the big romance moments in the story after years of waiting!

 

[Erinyes]

Support Oda

adding Shirahama, Kamome (Tongari boushi no atelier)
and Oshimi Shuuzou (Chi no Wadachi, Okaeri Alice)

 

[Riku]

Support for continued success and reaching that 1000th chapter mark for Oda

Adding Furudate Haruichi for completing Haikyu! Which imho rankg among the the best sport series of all time.

Also nominating Yukimura Makoto for nice support of the Vinland Saga anime post-marketing, for finally making the to sail to Vinland and for a including a trans-character as a main plot feature past year.

 

[Organizized]

Support for continued success and reaching that 1000th chapter mark for Oda

Adding Furudate Haruichi for completing Haikyu! Which imho rankg among the the best sport series of all time.

Also nominating Yukimura Makoto for nice support of the Vinland Saga anime post-marketing, for finally making the to sail to Vinland and for a including a trans-character as a main plot feature past year.

Gonna be a good dupe account and just support all these (as they were gonna be my noms anyway).

 

[Valhalla]

Yeah Eiichiro Oda (One Piece)
Hajime Isayama (Attack on Titan)
Hiro Mashima (Everything he does lol, while not the greatest quality, his work policy is crazy and with no break)

 

[Farfalla]

Adding Yamada Kanehito for Frieren (told you guys I'd spam).

 

[Orion]

Tatsuki Fujimoto (Chainsaw Man)
Fukui Takumi, Umemura Shinya, and Ajichika (Shuumatsu no Valkyrie)

Support
Hajime Isayama (Attack on Titan)

Edit: Saw the Shuumatsu clarification, fixed to include all three authors/illustrator.

 

[Demonspeed]

Horikoshi Kohei (BNHA).

The authors of Shuumatsu are a trio according to MAL (Fukui Takumi, Umemura Shinya, Ajichika). Can we nominate them as such or will it take three slots?

Adding Yamada Kanehito for Frieren (told you guys I'd spam).

I support this.

 

[Marmalade]

Horikoshi Kohei (BNHA).

The authors of Shuumatsu are a trio according to MAL (Fukui Takumi, Umemura Shinya, Ajichika). Can we nominate them as such or will it take three slots?



I support this.

How I understand the rules, they will count as 1 nomination (@Sky can you shed the light on this?)

 

[Sky]

They count as one, yes.

Nominations:
Hiro Mashima
Yuki Tabata
Eichiro Oda

 

[Marmalade]

Supporting Hiro Mashima, Oshimi Shuuzo

Adding Oono Kousuke (The way of the househusband)

 

[Erinyes]

Oda's here, he really deserves to win this one, the manga has reached more than 1000 chapters and is one of the best shonen,

 

[Riku]

Had to go with gOda.

Never been a huge fan of Mashima, he seems to just repeat the same thing with slight variation from year to year. (Kinda hypocritical I know, considering I voted for Oda).

Isayama has refreshed the shonen scene greatly with SnK's style and themes causing nice stirring reactions in the grandpa figures of the industry. Considering though that the finale of SnK will happen in 2021, maybe next year is more for him.

While yes, techincally the 1000th chapter of OP dropped out in 2021, 2020 is the year he really finally reached that milestone (if it wasn't for corona, there might have been less breaks thorough the year). It's the king of all shones series for a reason. Long live gOda.