2025 has, thus far, been an exceptional 12 months for anime and manga. Followers acquired to take pleasure in some completely large anime releases, reminiscent of Solo Leveling Season 2 at the start, and extra thrilling hits like Gachiakuta later down the road. The manga aspect of issues was additionally nice, with the standard collection persevering with their serialization. As all the time, there have been winners and losers on the subject of numerous awards ceremonies that happen all year long.
Earlier this 12 months, Solo Leveling Season 1 gained the title of anime of the 12 months. However, within the manga division, a surprising winner took the title of 2025’s greatest manga on the Harvey Awards, and it’s none aside from Witch Hat Atelier, a collection that may solely develop in recognition, particularly because it’s lastly getting its long-awaited anime adaptation in 2026. Followers had been positively stunned to see a small manga win over collection like One Piece, which is the world’s largest manga collection.
Witch Hat Atelier Is 2025’s Finest Manga
- Awarded by the Harvey Awards
- Different Nominees Included The Summer time Hikaru Died and Wind Breaker, However Not One Piece
Anime and manga followers are all the time excited to see which collection will get awarded what title annually, and this 12 months isn’t any completely different, particularly as the subsequent technology of manga is constant sturdy in 2025. With Solo Leveling’s crushing victory at the 2025 Crunchyroll Anime Awards, followers have turned to the manga awards now, and the outcomes are actually thrilling.
Most just lately, the outcomes of the Harvey Awards had been lastly introduced, and the winner stunned many. The winner of the 2025 Harvey Award for the title of greatest manga was none aside from Witch Hat Atelier. Witch Hat Atelier is a recognized manga collection, nevertheless it isn’t but mainstream as a result of lack of an anime adaptation.
With that stated, the truth that One Piece, the world’s largest manga, didn’t win such a title perplexed many. One Piece, however, wasn’t even nominated—and never as a result of it doesn’t qualify. The Harvey Awards aren’t sophisticated, and any collection that launched a quantity the 12 months earlier than is eligible for nomination, which incorporates One Piece and just about all ongoing manga collection.
One Piece was simply not chosen by the nomination committee, and it might be as a result of it might make the competitors unfair for others. In any case, One Piece could be very mainstream, with a really huge and devoted fanbase.
The Harvey Awards appear to go for extra humble collection, because the nominees this 12 months, other than Witch Hat Atelier, are additionally somewhat low-key, and never humongous collection. This contains the likes of The Summer time Hikaru Died and Wind Breaker. If series like One Piece had been nominated yearly, the competitors can be decimated.
Once I was a child, I believed to myself: man I’d love to attract a manga with probably the most hyped ultimate stage! I ponder if I am as much as it! Now, we’ve got solely a tiny little bit of Wano arc left, the preparations are virtually carried out. Took me 25 years lol. That stated, it is positive for those who begin studying from this level on. As a result of from this level on…it will be… The ONE PIECE!! The mysteries of this world, I will be drawing all of them! It’s going to be tremendous attention-grabbing! Fasten your seatbelt! And please stick with me for a bit longer! — Eiichiro Oda, Writer of One Piece, 2022
Witch Hat Atelier’s Anime Might Make It A Mainstream Collection On The Stage of Solo Leveling or Frieren
Witch Hat Atelier winning the title of best manga of 2025 on the Harvey Awards goes to point out how a lot potential this collection has. The collection began all the way in which again in 2016, nevertheless it nonetheless has no anime adaptation. Its first anime season was alleged to air this 12 months however was postponed to 2026.
Followers are positively hopeful but in addition nervous concerning the ultimate high quality of the animated collection. If the studio does the collection justice, it might turn out to be a brand new mainstream collection on the extent of the likes of Solo Leveling or Frieren: Past Journey’s Finish. Followers will simply have to attend and see the way it unfolds subsequent 12 months.
- Launch Date
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October 20, 1999
- Community
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Fuji TV
- Administrators
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Hiroaki Miyamoto, Konosuke Uda, Junji Shimizu, Satoshi Itō, Munehisa Sakai, Katsumi Tokoro, Yutaka Nakajima, Yoshihiro Ueda, Kenichi Takeshita, Yoko Ikeda, Ryota Nakamura, Hiroyuki Kakudou, Takahiro Imamura, Toshihiro Maeya, Yûji Endô, Nozomu Shishido, Hidehiko Kadota, Sumio Watanabe, Harume Kosaka, Yasuhiro Tanabe, Yukihiko Nakao, Keisuke Onishi, Junichi Fujise, Hiroyuki Satou
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Mayumi Tanaka
Monkey D. Luffy (voice)
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Kazuya Nakai
Roronoa Zoro (voice)
