©SUGIMOTO Ami / Kodansha

14th Manga Division Jury Selections

Fantasium

Story manga [Japan]

SUGIMOTO Ami

Outline

A boy takes his own independent path in life, unnerved by nothing. NAGAMI Ryo is an excellent magician with his superb capabilities in magic and suffers from dyslexia, a disability in reading. He goes through bullying in middle school, tackles with the despotic president of an entertainment agency, and deals with a magician trying to kick him out of business. A miraculous story of a boy who faces a lot of hardships in life but deals with his destiny head-on.