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Presenting The 68th Grammy Award Winners for Rock and Metal

February 1, 2026 Ken Pierce Leave a comment

As most of you know by now, the “Rock” and “Metal” categories for the Grammy Awards is no longer something that is a part of the lengthy broadcast that will be “officially beginning” at 8PM, EST this evening. These categories are instead celebrated and awarded earlier in pre-show festivities which essentially frees up any of the Metalheads who were hoping to catch these genres during the broadcast. Having monitored their assorted feeds, I’ve managed to compile a list of the winners and now present those categories alone for you to quickly peruse and then forget about the Grammy Awards until next year. Presenting the Grammy Awards for the Rock, Metal and Alternative categories.

Best Rock Performance
WINNER – “Changes (Live From Villa Park) Back to the Beginning” – Yungblud featuring Nuno Bettencourt, Frank Bello, Adam Wakeman and II of Sleep Token
“U Should Not Be Doing That” – Amyl and the Sniffers
“The Emptiness Machine” – Linkin Park
“Never Enough” – Turnstile
“Mirtazapine” – Hayley Williams
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Anime NYC and Japan Society Announce Winners of the Second Annual American Manga Awards

August 22, 2025 Ken Pierce Leave a comment

The Press Release:
Anime NYC and Japan Society are excited to announce the winners of the 2nd annual American Manga Awards. The awards ceremony was held on August 21, 2025 at the historic Japan Society in New York City and honored outstanding achievements in the world of Japanese comics, celebrating the best manga published in North America in the past year. Voted on by professionals in the American manga publishing world, it recognized manga creators, translators, letterers, and publication designers who have made significant contributions to manga’s popularity in North America.

This prestigious event took place on Japan Society’s stage, a stage which has previously welcomed US Presidents and Japanese Prime Ministers, and it was positioned on the eve of Anime NYC, the largest Japanese pop culture convention on the East Coast, which will welcome over 100,000 fans from around the globe to the Jacob K. Javits Center in New York City from August 21-24, 2025.

The 2025 American Manga Awards was hosted by Matt Alt, translator and author of Pure Invention: How Japan’s Pop Culture Conquered the World (Crown Books – Penguin Random House).
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Anime NYC and Japan Society Announce Nominees for the Second Annual American Manga Awards

June 16, 2025 Ken Pierce Leave a comment

The Press Release:
Anime NYC and Japan Society announced today the 35 nominees for the 2nd annual American Manga Awards, set to take place on August 21, 2025, at the historic Japan Society in New York City. The ceremony includes major manga publishers and retailers, including Kinokuniya, Kodansha USA Publishing, Seven Seas Entertainment, VIZ Media, Yen Press, and more participating.

This event is held in conjunction with this year’s Anime NYC convention, the largest Japanese pop culture event on the East Coast, which expects to draw over 100,000 fans of anime and manga from all over the world to the Jacob K. Javits Center in midtown Manhattan from August 21 – 24, 2025.

The American Manga Awards celebrate outstanding achievements in the world of Japanese comics, honoring professionals who have significantly contributed to manga’s popularity in both North America and Japan. These awards aim to elevate outstanding manga creators, great manga stories, and the publishing professionals who make these stories accessible to readers in the US and Canada.
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Crunchyroll Announces 2025 Crunchyroll Anime Awards Winners

May 25, 2025 Ken Pierce Leave a comment

The Press Release:
Crunchyroll, the global brand fueling anime fandom, revealed the winners of the 2025 Crunchyroll Anime Awards during a star-studded live ceremony honoring the creators, musicians, and performers powering the global love of anime. The full list of honorees that can be found on the Anime Awards Official Website and below.

The 9th annual Anime Awards was again hosted by renowned voice actress Sally Amaki and popular entertainer Jon Kabira, who returned for their third year in a row to celebrate anime’s biggest night. The winners were revealed by a global slate of celebrity anime fan presenters including GRAMMYⓇ award winning singer Kacey Musgraves; Canadian director, musician, and actor Finn Wolfhard and American actor Gaten Matarazzo, both from the hit series Stranger Things; global superstar and anime collaborator J Balvin; Italian singer-songwriter Damiano David; Musician and actor Rina Sawayama; Award winning Brazilian pop icon Pabllo Vittar; American snowboarder Chloe Kim; screenwriter Zak Penn; the comedy duo made up of Shohei Osada and Shun Matsuo Chocolate Planet; Japanese actor, musician and talent Dean Fujioka; the Japanese actor known for live-action adaptations of anime, Kanata Hongo; Japanese Academy Award winning actress Mayu Matsuoka; and Japanese model and talent Saya Ichikawa.
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Nominees Announced For 2025 Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards

May 17, 2025 Ken Pierce Leave a comment

The Press Release:
Comic-Con is proud to announce the nominees for the 2025 Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards. The nominations are for works published between January 1 and December 31, 2024 and were chosen by a blue-ribbon panel of judges.

Once again, this year’s nominees in 32 categories reflect the wide range of material being published in the U.S. in comics and graphic novels, representing over 150 print and online titles from some 70 publishers, produced by creators from all over the world.

Fantagraphics received the most nominations: 24 (plus 1 shared), including 3 each for Emil Ferris’s My Favorite Thing Is Monsters Book Two, Olivier Schrauwen’s Sunday, and the anthology Now. DC Comics has 10 nominations (plus 9 shared), led by Mariko Tamaki and Javier Rodriguez’s Zatanna: Bring Down the House with 3. Other DC titles with multiple nominations include Absolute Batman and Absolute Wonder Woman.

First Second/Macmillan scored 7 nominations, including 4 for Lunar New Year Love Story by Gene Luen Yang and LeUyen Pham. Abrams imprints brought 7 nominations (plus 2 shared), highlighted by 2 for Manu Larcenet’s adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s The Road. Pantheon’s 6 nominations (plus 1 shared) are led by 3 for Leela Corman’s Victory Parade.
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