Fusanosuke Natsume (夏目 房之介, Natsume Fusanosuke, born August 18, 1950) is a *anese columnist and cartoonist. Born in Tokyo to Jun'ichi Natsume, grandson of novelist Natsume Sōseki, he attended Aoyama Gakuin University, where he graduated in 1973.

He was awarded the Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize (Special Award) in 1999 for the excellence criticism of manga.

He has written the book Manga wa ima dō natte oru no ka? (マンガは今どうなっておるのか?) (2005), which was illustrated by Fumi Yoshinaga.

References

External links

• Official blog
• A 2004 interview with Fusanosuke Natsume

Special
AwardAward for
Excellence

• Moto Hagio for A Cruel God Reigns (1997)
• Yūji Aoki for Naniwa Kin'yūdō (1998)
• Akira Sasō for Shindō (1999)
• Minetarō Mochizuki for Dragon Head (2000)
• Kotobuki Shiriagari for Yajikita in Deep (2001)
• Kentaro Miura for Berserk (2002)

Creative
Award

• Yumi Hotta and Takeshi Obata for Hikaru no Go (2003)
• Takashi Morimoto for Naniwadora ihon (2004)
• Fumiyo Kōno for Town of Evening Calm, Country of Cherry Blossoms (2005)
• Asa Higuchi for Big Windup! (2006)
• Nobuhisa Nozoe, Kazuhisa Iwata and Kyojin Ōnishi for Shinsei Kigeki (2007)
• Toranosuke Shimada for Träumerei (2008)

New Artist
Prize

• Suehiro Maruo for The Strange Tale of Panorama Island (2009)
• Haruko Ichikawa for Mushi to Uta (2010)
• Hiromu Arakawa for Fullmetal Alchemist (2011)
• Yu Itō for Shut Hell (2012)
• Miki Yamamoto for Sunny Sunny Ann! (2013)
• Machiko Kyō for Mitsuami no Kamisama (2014)
• Yo*oki Ōima for A Silent Voice (2015)
• Yuki Andō for Machida-kun no Sekai (2016)
• Haruko *ota for Descending Stories: Showa Genroku Rakugo Shinju (2017)
• Paru Itagaki for Beastars (2018)
• Sansuke Yamada for Areyo Hoshikuzu (2019)
• Rettō Tajima for Mizu wa Umi ni Mukatte Nagareru (2020)
• Kanehito Yamada and Tsukasa Abe for Frieren (2021)
• Natsuko Taniguchi for Kyō*su no Katasumi de Seishun wa Hajimaru and Konya Sukiyaki da yo (2022)

Short Story
Award

• Hisaichi Ishii for Gendai Shisō no Sōnanshātachi (2003)
• Risu Akizuki for OL Shinkaron (2004)
• Rieko Saibara for Jōkyō Monogatari and Mainichi Kaasan (2005)
• Risa Itō for One Woman, Two Cats, Hey Pitan!, Onna no Mado (2006)
• Hiromi Mori*a for Ōsaka Hamlet (2007)
• Yumiko Ōshima for Cher Gou-Gou...mon pe* chat, mon pe* ami (2008)
• Hikaru Nakamura for Saint Young Men (2009)
• Mari Yamazaki for Thermae Romae (2010)
• Keisuke Yamashina for C-kyū Salaryman Kōza, Papa wa Nanda ka Wakaranai (2011)
• Roswell Hosoki for Sake no Hosomichi (2012)
• Yoshiie Gōda for Love of Machine (2013)
• Yuki Shikawa for Onnoji (2014)
• Sensha Yoshida (2015)
• Tatsuya Nakazaki for Jimihen (2016)
• Kahoru *aya for Yomawari Neko (2017)
• Taro Yabe for Oya-san to Boku (2018)
• Ken Koyama for Little Miss P (2019)
• Yama Wayama for Muchū sa, Kimi ni (2020)
• Hiroko Nobara for Kieta Mama Tomo and Tsuma wa Kuchi o Kiite Kuremasen (2021)
• Izumi Okaya for Ii Toshi o and Ha*okuren wa Kirei ni Chiranai (2022)