Titles like Billy Bat, Land, and Miss Ruki have been nominated in the Best Manga category.
The Harvey Awards 2026 have announced the nominees for this year, which includes some manga and anime. The award aims to honour the outstanding works in comics and sequential art. The award is named after famed writer-artist Harvey Kurtzman and started including the Best Manga category in 2018.
Which manga and anime titles have been selected for this year’s Harvey Awards?
The 2026 Best Manga nominees for Harvey Awards include:
- Billy Bat by Naoki Urasawa and Takashi Nagasaki (Kana/Abrams)
- He Rolled Me Up Like a Grilled Squid by Yoshiharu Tsuge (Drawn & Quarterly)
- Land by Kazumi Yamashita (Yen Press)
- Miss Ruki by Fumiko Takano (NYR Comics)
- My Gorilla Family by Iijima Ichiro (Living the Line)
- My Life in 24 Frames per Second by Rintarō (Kana/Abrams ComicArts)
Best Adaptation from Comic Book/Graphic Novel category also include some anime worlds including:
- Chainsaw Man - The Movie: Reze Arc
- Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Infinity Castle - Akaza Sairai
- My Hero Academia — Final Season
The second season of the One Piece live-action series and the Korean animated film Your Letter have also been nominated in this category. Other nominations include The Boys Season 5, Invincible Season 4, EGO Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight, Peacemaker Season 2, and Spider-Noir.
The Harvey Awards will announce all the winners on 9 October, 2026 at the New York Comic Con. All the nominees in this award are selected by comic book professionals.
Who were the winners in the Best Manga Category at the Harvey Awards last year?
Kamome Shirahama’s masterpiece manga Witch Hat Atelier took the award for the Best Manga last year at the Harvey Awards. Other nominees included:
- The Guy She Was Interested In Wasn't a Guy at All by Sumiko Arai
- The Summer Hikaru Died by Mokumokuren
- Tokyo These Days by Taiyo Matsumoto
- Wind Breaker by Satoru Nii
Since the conception of the Best Manga category at the Harvey Awards in 2018, the winners have been My Lesbian Experience with Loneliness by Kabi Nagata (2018), My Hero Academia by Kōhei Horikoshi (2019), Witch Hat Atelier by Kamome Shirahama (2020), Chainsaw Man by Tatsuki Fujimoto (2021, 2022, 2023), and Delicious in Dungeon by Ryōko Kui (2024).