68 - Next Manga Award Winners 2026 (Someone Hertz + Home at the Horizon)

The latest episode focuses on the winners of the Next Manga Award for 2026: Someone Hertz by Ei Yamano and Home at the Horizon by Taiyou Watabe, along with our additional recommendations in the print and digital categories. We go over the history of the award, the trend towards Jump titles in the past few years, and go into whether we think the two winners are deserving and worth checking out, Timecodes: 0:00 Introduction - another award-centric episode 2:01 Historical winners in print category 5:36 Historical winners in the web category 6:42 Is ‘Next Manga Awards’ launching successes or were they already hits? 7:54 Is it predictable that winners come from Weekly Shonen Jump and Jump+? 15:36 Someone Hertz by Ei Yamano 32:29 Print shoutouts: Bus for Two, Silver Mountain, Register, Dig It!, Roku’s House of Oddities 37:26 Samu’s Recommendation: Show-ha Shoten! by Akinari Asakura, Obata Takeshi 39:36 Enzo’s Recommendation: Futari Bus by Sakane Toyobayashi 41:06 Home at the Horizon by Taiyou Watabe 1:03:22 Digital shouts: Hitoner, WITCHRIV 1:04:45 Enzo’s Recommendation: Hirayasumi by Keigo Shinzou 1:06:35 Samu’s Recommendation: Skip and Loafer by Misaki Takamatsu 1:08:42 Final overview + ratings