The Gaiman Award (
Japanese: ガイマン賞,
Hepburn: Gaiman-shō) is a Japanese award given since 2011 to comic books created outside Japan and translated to Japanese.[1] The word "gaiman" is a shortening of gaikoku no manga (foreign
manga), encompassing styles like
American comics, French
bande dessinée and Korean
manhwa. The award is sponsored by
Kyoto International Manga Museum,
Kitakyushu Manga Museum and
Meiji University's Yonezawa Memorial Library of Manga and Subculture and was created to raise awareness of non-Japanese comics in Japan.[2]
The Gaiman Award (
Japanese: ガイマン賞,
Hepburn: Gaiman-shō) is a Japanese award given since 2011 to comic books created outside Japan and translated to Japanese.[1] The word "gaiman" is a shortening of gaikoku no manga (foreign
manga), encompassing styles like
American comics, French
bande dessinée and Korean
manhwa. The award is sponsored by
Kyoto International Manga Museum,
Kitakyushu Manga Museum and
Meiji University's Yonezawa Memorial Library of Manga and Subculture and was created to raise awareness of non-Japanese comics in Japan.[2]