The winner of the second Marvel Manga Awards competition has been announced, with this year’s prize going to Yusuke Osawa for his story, “Spider-Man: I’m Not A Hero.”
The Marvel Manga Awards competition is run in Japan by the Weekly Shonen magazine, which encourages creators, whether they are professionals or amateurs, to draw a story with one of Marvel’s many characters, including Captain America and Iron Man. The prize for the winner is the sum of 3 million yen (which is roughly $26,343 in U.S. Dollars), as well as a contract to write and draw their story for Weekly Shonen‘s sister magazine, Magazine Pocket.
The judges of the awards were Marvel chief creative officer Joe Quesada, Marvel Editor-in-Chief C.B. Cebulski, and manga artist/writer Hiro Mashima (“Fairy Tale”).
In congratulating Osawa on winning the award, Cebulski described the the work as brilliantly representing “the balance between superhero and humanity of Spider-Man,” praising the story as encapsulating the Marvel philosophy that its “heroes are doubtful about their own actions and motives,” and Osawa’s presentation of “the confusion and moral conflict that Spider-Man sometimes faces.”
There isn’t currently a scheduled release date for the project, or a suggestion of any plans for an English translation of the story.
