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A Chef of Nobunaga, Sunny, Inferno In Bottles Nominated for Angoulême's Top Prize
posted on by Lynzee Loveridge
The 42nd annual Angoulême International Comics Festival, which will take place from January 29 to February 1 in , announced that Sunny are nominated for Best Comic.
Nishimura and Kajikawa launched A Chef of Nobunaga in inspired two live-action television series.
Binzume no Jigoku is a collection of short stories by Suehiro Maruo featuring different versions of "Hell." The manga adapts the short story collection by novelist Yumeno Kyūsaku.
won the "New Artist Prize" of the 13th Annual Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prizes in 2009, although he has been drawing manga professionally since 1980.
nominated for the 2014 Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards.
Matsumoto's Sunny manga was Viz Media released the fourth volume last April.
Matsumoto's slice-of-life story focuses on children at Star Kids Home orphanage. An abandoned yellow car, Sunny, takes them anywhere they want to go. With Sunny, the children can escape their circumstances and go on imaginary adventures around the world and beyond.
The festival also revealed its nominees for Best Youth Comic, Best Heritage Comic, and Best Crime Comic. Angoulême nominated the following manga in these categories:
Best Youth Comic
Nakaba Suzuki Best Heritage Comic
Leiji Matsumoto 
Sex & Fury
Tarō Bonten
Best Crime Comic
Atsushi Kaneko Kaneko's nominated in the same category in 2011. Florent Chavout's Petites coupures à Shioguni comic about a Japanese man named Kenji who borrows money to open a restaurant was also nominated for Best Crime Comic.
The festival launches on January 29, just weeks after 17 people, including five Charlie Hebdo cartoonists, were killed in terrorist attacks in . More than three million people have filled the streets of this weekend to march in unity against the attacks.
The festival launched in 1974 as an event celebrating comics from countries throughout the world. won the Prix Intergénérations (Intergenerational Award) and Prix Regards sur le monde (World Outlook Award), respectively, in 2012.
Sources: animeanime.jp, BBC
Update: Sunny's volume number corrected. Thanks, Cardbo
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