Also written: Kodansha Award
The publisher Kodansha's annual manga prize, given since 1977 in shonen, shojo and general categories. Filed under 3, the telling.
3Term sums to 66 and reduces to 3 — The Telling, where the reference files an act of telling.
The Kodansha Manga Award (講談社漫画賞) is presented each year by the publisher Kodansha. It was established in 1977 and is one of the major publisher-run awards in Japan.
Its main categories are shonen, shojo and general, and a children's category has also been awarded. Like the Shogakukan award, it is not restricted to its own publisher's titles.
Winners include Akira, Honey and Clover, Mushishi and Attack on Titan, among many others.
Together with the Shogakukan award, it is a long-running record of what the industry itself considered its best work each year.
Set against the Pythagorean table, the term totals 66. Reduced, that is 3. The weight sits in “Kodansha”, which carries 28 on its own and reduces to 1.
The reference files it as an act of telling. The number's contribution is communication, creativity, and the public stage — and with it the 3's instinct to turn everything into a story worth telling, which is the thread the reference follows here.
Beneath the 3 sit two smaller figures: 3 in the vowels, 9 in the consonants. The presentation folds back into the want: reckoning in service of expression.
Read on the 3's terms, this entry asks you to watch the technique rather than the plot it is carrying. The 3 talks past the point. Where an entry here runs long, it is usually because the technique was more fun to describe than it was important. The other entries that reduce to 3 are collected on The Telling.