The Manga Critic’s Best Of 2009



Katherine Dacey of The Manga Critic has posted the site's best of 2009, broken down into a top ten and categorized honorable mentions. A lot of commentary including how A Drifting Life and Ooku: The Inner Chambers were left off of the list available through that link.

1. Children Of The Sea, Daisuke Igarashi (VIZ Media)
2. Red Snow, Susumu Katsumata (Drawn & Quarterly)
3. Little Fluffy Gigolo Pelu, Junko Mizuno (Last Gasp)
4. Pluto: Urasawa X Tezuka, Naoki Urasawa (VIZ Media)
5. A Distant Neighborhood, Jiro Taniguchi (Fanfare/Ponent Mon)
6. The Name Of The Flower, Ken Saito (CMX)
7. Gogo Monster, Taiyo Matsumoto (VIZ Media)
8. Itazura Na Kiss, Kaoru Tada (Digital Manga Publishing)
9. Detroit Metal City, Kiminori Wakasugi (VIZ Media)
10. Oishinbo A La Carte, Tetsu Kariya and Akira Hanasaki (VIZ Media)

* Best Continuing Series: Black Jack (Vertical, Inc.) and Real (VIZ Media)
* Best Dressed Characters: The History of the West Wing (Yen Press)
* Best Finale: Emma (CMX) and Parasyte (Del Rey)
* Best Guilty Pleasure: Cat Paradise (Yen Press)
* Best Kid-Friendly Title: Dinosaur Hour (VIZ) and Leave it to PET! The Misadventures of a Recycled Super-Robot (VIZ)
* Best License Rescue: Yotsuba&! (Yen Press)
* Best Manhwa: Small-Minded Schoolgirls (NETCOMICS)
* Best New Manga That's Already on Hiatus: The Manzai Comics (Aurora)
* Best Prose Novel Released by a Manga Publisher: The Cat in the Coffin (Vertical, Inc.)
* Best Reprint Edition: Clover (Dark Horse)
* Best Substitute for Television: Fire Investigator Nanase (CMX)
* Best Translation of a Dense, Culturally-Specific Text: Sayonara, Zetsubou-Sensei: The Power of Negative Thinking (Del Rey)
* Best Use of Wagner in a Manga: Ludwig II (DMP)
* Best Yaoi: Future Lovers (Aurora/Deux)
 
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