Eisner Award for Best U.S. Edition of International Material—Asia
# Eisner Award for Best U.S. Edition of International Material—Asia

The Eisner Award for Best U.S. Edition of International Material—Asia is an award for given to a comic book originally published in Asia and reprinted for sale in the United States of America. Comics by creators from Japan, South Korea, China, and Singapore have been nominated.

## History and name change

Material from Asia was eligible for the Eisner award for Best U.S. Edition of Foreign Material from that award's inception in 1998 to 2006 (winning it in 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2004, & 2005). In 2007 that award was split into Best U.S. Edition of International Material and Best U.S. Edition of International Material–Japan. Starting in 2010 the current name of Best U.S. Edition of International Material—Asia was adopted.

## Winners and nominees

| Year | Title | Authors | Translators |
| - | - | - | - |
| 2000s |||||
| 2007 | Old Boy (Dark Horse Manga) | Garon Tsuchiya and Nobuaki Minegishi | |
| 2007 | After School Nightmare (Go! Comi) | Setona Mizushiro | |
| 2007 | Antique Bakery (Digital Manga) | Fumi Yoshinaga | |
| 2007 | Naoki Urasawa's Monster (Viz Media) | Naoki Urasawa | |
| 2007 | The Walking Man (Fanfare/Ponent Mon) | Jiro Taniguchi | |
| 2008 | Tekkonkinkreet: Black & White (Viz Media) | Taiyō Matsumoto | |
| 2008 | The Ice Wanderer and Other Stories (Fanfare/Ponent Mon) | Jiro Taniguchi | |
| 2008 | MW (Vertical) | Osamu Tezuka | |
| 2008 | Naoki Urasawa's Monster (Viz Media) | Naoki Urasawa | |
| 2008 | New Engineering (PictureBox) | Yuichi Yokoyama | |
| 2008 | Town of Evening Calm, Country of Cherry Blossoms (Last Gasp) | Fumiyo Kōno | |
| 2009 | Dororo (Vertical) | Osamu Tezuka | |
| 2009 | Cat Eyed Boy (Viz Media) | Kazuo Umezu | |
| 2009 | Naoki Urasawa's Monster (Viz Media) | Naoki Urasawa | |
| 2009 | The Quest for the Missing Girl (Fanfare/Ponent Mon) | Jiro Taniguchi | |
| 2009 | Solanin (Viz Media) | Inio Asano | |
| 2010s |||||
| 2010 | A Drifting Life (Drawn & Quarterly) | Yoshihiro Tatsumi | |
| 2010 | The Color Trilogy (First Second Books) | Kim Dong Hwa | |
| 2010 | A Distant Neighborhood (2 vols.) (Fanfare/Ponent Mon) | Jiro Taniguchi | |
| 2010 | Oishinbo a la Carte (Viz Media) | Tetsu Kariya and Akira Hanasaki | |
| 2010 | Pluto: Urasawa X Tezuka (Viz Media) | Naoki Urasawa and Takashi Nagasaki | Jared Cook and Frederik L. Schodt |
| 2010 | Naoki Urasawa's 20th Century Boys (Viz Media) | Naoki Urasawa | |
| 2011 | Naoki Urasawa's 20th Century Boys (Viz Media) | Naoki Urasawa | |
| 2011 | Ayako (Vertical) | Osamu Tezuka | |
| 2011 | Bunny Drop (Yen Press) | Yumi Unita | |
| 2011 | A Drunken Dream and Other Stories (Fantagraphics) | Moto Hagio | Rachel Thorn |
| 2011 | House of Five Leaves (Viz Media) | Natsume Ono | |
| 2012 | Onward Towards Our Noble Deaths (Drawn & Quarterly) | Shigeru Mizuki | |
| 2012 | A Bride's Story (Yen Press) | Kaoru Mori | |
| 2012 | Drops of God (Vertical) | Tadashi Agi (Shin Kibayashi and Yuko Kibayashi) | |
| 2012 | Saturn Apartments, vols. 3-4 (Viz Media) | Hisae Iwaoka | |
| 2012 | Stargazing Dog (NBM Publishing) | Takashi Murakami | |
| 2012 | Wandering Son, vol. 1 (Fantagraphics) | Takako Shimura | Rachel Thorn |
| 2013 | Naoki Urasawa's 20th Century Boys (Viz Media) | Naoki Urasawa | |
| 2013 | Barbara (Digital Manga) | Osamu Tezuka | |
| 2013 | A Chinese Life (SelfMadeHero) | Li Kunwu and Philippe Ôtié | Edward Gauvin |
| 2013 | Nonnonba (Drawn & Quarterly) | Shigeru Mizuki | |
| 2013 | Thermae Romae (Yen Press/Hachette) | Mari Yamazaki | |
| 2014 | The Mysterious Underground Men (PictureBox) | Osamu Tezuka | |
| 2014 | The Heart of Thomas (Fantagraphics) | Moto Hagio | Rachel Thorn |
| 2014 | Showa: A History of Japan, 1926–1939 (Drawn & Quarterly) | Shigeru Mizuki | |
| 2014 | The Summit of the Gods, vol. 4 (Fanfare/Ponent Mon) | Baku Yumemakura and Jiro Taniguchi | |
| 2014 | Utsubora: The Story of a Novelist (Vertical) | Asumiko Nakamura | |
| 2015 | Showa: A History of Japan, 1939–1955 and Showa: A History of Japan, 1944–1953 (Drawn & Quarterly) | Shigeru Mizuki | |
| 2015 | All You Need Is Kill (Viz Media) | Hiroshi Sakurazaka, Ryosuke Takeuchi, Takeshi Obata, and yoshitoshi ABe | |
| 2015 | In Clothes Called Fat (Vertical) | Moyoco Anno | |
| 2015 | Master Keaton, vol. 1 (Viz Media) | Naoki Urasawa, Hokusei Katsushika, and Takashi Nagasaki | Pookie Rolf |
| 2015 | One-Punch Man (Viz Media) | ONE and Yusuke Murata | |
| 2015 | Wolf Children: Ame & Yuki (Yen Press) | Mamoru Hosoda and Yū | |
| 2016 | Showa: A History of Japan, 1953–1989 (Drawn & Quarterly) | Shigeru Mizuki | |
| 2016 | Assassination Classroom, vols. 2–7 (Viz Media) | Yūsei Matsui | |
| 2016 | A Bride's Story (Yen Press) | Kaoru Mori | |
| 2016 | Master Keaton, vols. 2–4 (Viz Media) | Naoki Urasawa, Hokusei Katsushika, and Takashi Nagasaki | John Werry |
| 2016 | A Silent Voice (Kodansha USA) | Yoshitoki Ōima | |
| 2016 | Sunny (Viz Media) | Taiyō Matsumoto | |
| 2017 | The Art of Charlie Chan Hock Chye (Pantheon Books) | Sonny Liew | |
| 2017 | Goodnight Punpun, vols. 1–4 (Viz Media) | Inio Asano | JN Productions |
| 2017 | orange: The Complete Collection, vols. 1–2 (Seven Seas Entertainment) | Ichigo Takano | Amber Tamosaitis, adaptation by Shannon Fay |
| 2017 | The Osamu Tezuka Story: A Life in Manga and Anime (Stone Bridge Press) | Toshio Ban and Tezuka Productions | Frederik L. Schodt |
| 2017 | Princess Jellyfish, vols. 1–3 (Kodansha USA) | Akiko Higashimura | Sarah Alys Lindholm |
| 2017 | Wandering Island, vol. 1 (Dark Horse Comics) | Kenji Tsuruta | Dana Lewis |
| 2018 | My Brother's Husband, vol. 1 (Pantheon Books) | Gengoroh Tagame | Anne Ishii |
| 2018 | Furari (Fanfare/Ponent Mon) | Jiro Taniguchi | Kumar Sivasubramanian |
| 2018 | Golden Kamuy (Viz Media) | Satoru Noda | Eiji Yasuda |
| 2018 | Otherworld Barbara, vol. 2 (Fantagraphics) | Moto Hagio | Rachel Thorn |
| 2018 | Shiver: Junji Ito Selected Stories (Viz Media) | Junji Ito | Jocelyne Allen |
| 2019 | Tokyo Tarareba Girls (Kodansha USA) | Akiko Higashimura | Steven LeCroy |
| 2019 | Abara: Complete Deluxe Edition (Viz Media) | Tsutomu Nihei | Sheldon Drzka |
| 2019 | Dead Dead Demon's Dededede Destruction (Viz Media) | Inio Asano | John Werry |
| 2019 | Laid-Back Camp (Yen Press) | Afro | Amber Tamosaitis |
| 2019 | My Beijing: Four Stories of Everyday Wonder (Graphic Universe/Lerner Publishing Group) | Nie Jun | Edward Gauvin |
| 2020s |||||
| 2020 | Cats of the Louvre (Viz Media) | Taiyō Matsumoto | Michael Arias |
| 2020 | Witch Hat Atelier (Kodansha USA) | Kamome Shirahama | Stephen Kohler |
| 2020 | Beastars (Viz Media) | Paru Itagaki | Tomo Kimura |
| 2020 | Grass (Drawn & Quarterly) | Keum Suk Gendry-Kim | Janet Hong |
| 2020 | Magic Knight Rayearth 25th Anniversary Edition (Kodansha USA) | Clamp | Melissa Tanaka |
| 2020 | The Poe Clan (Fantagraphics) | Moto Hagio | Rachel Thorn |
| 2021 | Remina (Viz Media) | Junji Ito | Jocelyne Allen |
| 2021 | I Had That Same Dream Again (Seven Seas Entertainment) | Idumi Kirihara and Yoru Sumino | Beni Axia Conrad |
| 2021 | I Wish I Could Say "Thank You" (Fanfare/Ponent Mon) | Yukari Takinami | Yukari Takeuchi |
| 2021 | A Journal of My Father (Fanfare/Ponent Mon) | Jiro Taniguchi | Kumar Sivasubramanian |
| 2021 | Ping Pong (Viz Media) | Taiyō Matsumoto | Michael Arias |
| 2021 | Spy × Family (Viz Media) | Tatsuya Endo | Casey Loe |
| 2022 | Lovesickness: Junji Ito Story Collection (Viz Media) | Junji Ito | Jocelyne Allen |
| 2022 | Chainsaw Man (Viz Media) | Tatsuki Fujimoto | Amanda Haley |
| 2022 | Kaiju No. 8 (Viz Media) | Naoya Matsumoto | David Evelyn |
| 2022 | Robo Sapiens (Seven Seas Entertainment) | Toranosuke Shimada | Adrienne Beck |
| 2022 | Spy × Family (Viz Media) | Tatsuya Endo | Casey Loe |
| 2022 | Zom 100: Bucket List of the Dead (Viz Media) | Haro Aso and Kotaro Takata | Nova Skipper |
| 2023 | Shuna's Journey (First Second Books) | Hayao Miyazaki | Alex Dudok de Wit |
| 2023 | Black Paradox (Viz Media) | Junji Ito | Jocelyne Allen |
| 2023 | The Hellbound, vols. 1-2 (Dark Horse Comics) | Yeon Sang-ho and Choi Gyu-seok | Danny Lim |
| 2023 | Look Back (Viz Media) | Tatsuki Fujimoto | Amanda Haley |
| 2023 | PTSD Radio, vol. 1 (Kodansha USA) | Masaaki Nakayama | Adam Hirsch |
| 2023 | Talk to My Back (Drawn & Quarterly) | Murasaki Yamada | Ryan Holmberg |
