{"id":34469,"date":"2026-07-08T18:52:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T22:52:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/design-providers.com\/rise\/infinity-castle-more-nominations-for-2026-edition\/"},"modified":"2026-07-08T18:52:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T22:52:11","slug":"infinity-castle-more-nominations-for-2026-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/design-providers.com\/rise\/infinity-castle-more-nominations-for-2026-edition\/","title":{"rendered":"Infinity Castle &#038; More Nominations for 2026 Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 16px\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Harvey Awards<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> have announced its full list of nominees for 2026, which include the <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Billy Bat<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> manga series and <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Infinity Castle<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> anime film, among others. Voting for the awards is now open to comic industry professionals from July 7, 2026 through August 28, 2026.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 16px\">The nominees for Best Manga include:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 16px;color: #000000\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u2022 Billy Bat <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">by <strong>Naoki Urasawa<\/strong> (co-writer\/artist) and <\/span>Takashi Nagasaki<span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> (co-writer)\u2014 Kana\/Abrams ComicArts<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 16px;color: #000000\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u2022 He Rolled Me Up Like a Grilled Squid<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> by <\/span>Yoshiharu Tsuge<span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> (story and art) \u2014 Drawn &amp; Quarterly<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 16px;color: #000000\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u2022 Land <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">by <\/span>Kazumi Yamashita <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">(story and art) \u2014 Yen Press<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 16px;color: #000000\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u2022 Miss Ruki <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">by <\/span>Fumiko Takano<span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> (story and art) \u2014 NYR Comics<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 16px;color: #000000\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u2022 My Gorilla Family<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> by <\/span>Iijima Ichiro<span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> (story and art) \u2014 Living the Line<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 16px;color: #000000\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u2022 My Life in 24 Frames Per Second<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> by <\/span>Rintaro<span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \u2014 Kana\/Abrams ComicArts<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 16px\">Ten nominees were listed for the Best Adaptation from Comic Book\/Graphic Novel category, with the adaptations based on Japanese and Korean media consisting of:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 16px;color: #000000\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u2022 Chainsaw Man \u2013 The Movie: Reze Arc\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 16px;color: #000000\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u2022 Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Infinity Castle<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 16px;color: #000000\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u2022 My Hero Academia Final Season<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 16px;color: #000000\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u2022 One Piece<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Live-Action Series Season 2\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 16px;color: #000000\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u2022 Your Letter<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 16px\">Kamome Shirahama<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u2018s <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Witch Hat Atelier<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> was <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">voted as the Best Manga<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> at the 2025 Harvey Awards. It competed against <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Guy She Was Interested in Wasn\u2019t a Guy at All <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">(<\/span>Sumiko Arai<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, translated by <\/span>Ajani Oloye<span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> for Yen Press), <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Summer Hikaru Died<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> (<\/span>Mokumokuren<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, translated by Ajani Oloye for Yen Press), <\/span>Tokyo These Days<span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> (<\/span>Taiyo Matsumoto<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, translated by <\/span>Michael Arias<span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> for VIZ Media), and <\/span>Wind Breaker<span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> (<\/span>Satoru Nii<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, translated by <\/span>Jacqueline Fung<span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> for Kodansha Comics).\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 16px\">Source<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">: press release<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Harvey Awards have announced its full list of nominees for 2026, which include the Billy Bat manga series and Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Infinity Castle anime film, among others. Voting for the awards is now open to comic industry professionals from July 7, 2026 through August 28, 2026.\u00a0 The nominees for Best Manga [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":34470,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/billy-bat-manga-volume-one-cover-English-e1783550763828.jpg?fit=1000%2C562&ssl=1","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11622],"tags":[282,2317,5815,2918],"class_list":["post-34469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-animeplug","tag-castle","tag-edition","tag-infinity","tag-nominations"],"rttpg_featured_image_url":{"full":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/billy-bat-manga-volume-one-cover-English-e1783550763828.jpg?fit=1000%2C562&ssl=1",0,0,false],"landscape":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/billy-bat-manga-volume-one-cover-English-e1783550763828.jpg?fit=1000%2C562&ssl=1",0,0,false],"portraits":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/billy-bat-manga-volume-one-cover-English-e1783550763828.jpg?fit=1000%2C562&ssl=1",0,0,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/billy-bat-manga-volume-one-cover-English-e1783550763828.jpg?fit=1000%2C562&ssl=1",150,150,false],"medium":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/billy-bat-manga-volume-one-cover-English-e1783550763828.jpg?fit=1000%2C562&ssl=1",300,300,false],"large":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/billy-bat-manga-volume-one-cover-English-e1783550763828.jpg?fit=1000%2C562&ssl=1",1024,1024,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/billy-bat-manga-volume-one-cover-English-e1783550763828.jpg?fit=1000%2C562&ssl=1",1536,1536,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/billy-bat-manga-volume-one-cover-English-e1783550763828.jpg?fit=1000%2C562&ssl=1",2048,2048,false],"post-thumbnail":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/billy-bat-manga-volume-one-cover-English-e1783550763828.jpg?fit=1000%2C562&ssl=1",370,265,false],"kava-thumb-s":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/billy-bat-manga-volume-one-cover-English-e1783550763828.jpg?fit=1000%2C562&ssl=1",150,85,false],"kava-thumb-s-2":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/billy-bat-manga-volume-one-cover-English-e1783550763828.jpg?fit=1000%2C562&ssl=1",230,230,false],"kava-thumb-m":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/billy-bat-manga-volume-one-cover-English-e1783550763828.jpg?fit=1000%2C562&ssl=1",400,400,false],"kava-thumb-m-vertical":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/billy-bat-manga-volume-one-cover-English-e1783550763828.jpg?fit=1000%2C562&ssl=1",370,500,false],"kava-thumb-m-2":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/billy-bat-manga-volume-one-cover-English-e1783550763828.jpg?fit=1000%2C562&ssl=1",570,450,false],"kava-thumb-l":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/billy-bat-manga-volume-one-cover-English-e1783550763828.jpg?fit=1000%2C562&ssl=1",1170,650,false],"kava-thumb-xl":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/billy-bat-manga-volume-one-cover-English-e1783550763828.jpg?fit=1000%2C562&ssl=1",1920,1080,false],"kava-thumb-masonry":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/billy-bat-manga-volume-one-cover-English-e1783550763828.jpg?fit=1000%2C562&ssl=1",600,999,false],"kava-thumb-justify":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/billy-bat-manga-volume-one-cover-English-e1783550763828.jpg?fit=1000%2C562&ssl=1",640,640,false],"kava-thumb-justify-2":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/billy-bat-manga-volume-one-cover-English-e1783550763828.jpg?fit=1000%2C562&ssl=1",1280,640,false]},"rttpg_author":{"display_name":"#RiseCelestialStudios","author_link":"https:\/\/design-providers.com\/rise\/author\/ralph-c\/"},"rttpg_comment":0,"rttpg_category":"<a href=\"https:\/\/design-providers.com\/rise\/category\/animeplug\/\" rel=\"category tag\">ANIME PLUG<\/a>","rttpg_excerpt":"The Harvey Awards have announced its full list of nominees for 2026, which include the Billy Bat manga series and Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Infinity Castle anime film, among others. 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