{"rewrite":{"id":"r_3b1526180d84e229c6c10891","clusterId":"c_a693e1176f144361f51eaca5","slug":"shintaro-kago-s-blood-harvest-short-story-manga-wins-eisner-award","model":"deepseek-v4-flash:free","headline":"Shintaro Kago's 'Blood Harvest' Short Story Manga Wins Eisner Award","summary":"Shintaro Kago's short story \"Blood Harvest\" from the Brain Damage collection won the Eisner Award for Best Short Story at the 2026 Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards. The same book's \"The Curse Room\" was also nominated. The awards were announced Friday evening during San Diego Comic-Con 2026.","whyItMatters":"Kago's win marks the first Eisner for the artist, whose surreal and grotesque short-form work has long been a cult favorite in translated manga.","webCardHtml":"\u003cp\u003eShintaro Kago\u0026#39;s \u0026#34;Blood Harvest\u0026#34; took the Eisner Award for Best Short Story at the 2026 Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards, announced Friday evening during San Diego Comic-Con. The story appears in the Brain Damage collection, published by an unnamed imprint and translated by Zack Davisson. Kago\u0026#39;s \u0026#34;The Curse Room,\u0026#34; from the same book, was also a nominee in the category.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the Best U.S. Edition of International Material-Asia category, Sanho\u0026#39;s Purgatory Funeral Cakes won. Dark Horse Comics published the work, with translation by Danny Lim. The category\u0026#39;s other nominees included Keigo Shinzo\u0026#39;s Hirayasumi, Kazumi Yamashita\u0026#39;s Land, Keigo Shinzo\u0026#39;s Tokyo Alien Bros., and Chang Sheng\u0026#39;s Yan comic.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKatsuhiro Otomo\u0026#39;s Akira, released by Kodansha USA as a hardcover collecting volumes 1-5, won Best Archival/Collection Project. Andrea Horbinski\u0026#39;s Manga\u0026#39;s First Century won Best Academic/Scholarly Work. Manga creator Go Nagai and Akira Toriyama were inducted into the Eisner Hall of Fame.\u003c/p\u003e","blueskyPost":"Shintaro Kago's \"Blood Harvest\" won Best Short Story at the 2026 Eisners. The same collection's \"The Curse Room\" was also nominated, putting two Kago stories in one category.","twitterPost":"Two Kago stories from one collection were nominated in the same Eisner category. \"Blood Harvest\" won.","threadsPost":"Shintaro Kago's \"Blood Harvest\" won the Eisner for Best Short Story. The same collection's \"The Curse Room\" was also a nominee. Two stories from one book in one category is unusual, and Kago took the award.","newsletterBlurb":"Shintaro Kago's \"Blood Harvest\" won the Eisner Award for Best Short Story at the 2026 Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards. The story was published in the Brain Damage collection. Sanho's Purgatory Funeral Cakes won Best U.S. Edition of International Material-Asia. Katsuhiro Otomo's Akira hardcover won Best Archival/Collection Project. Go Nagai and Akira Toriyama were inducted into the Hall of Fame.","attributionJson":"[{\"source\":\"Anime News Network\",\"url\":\"https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2026-07-25/shintaro-kago-blood-harvest-short-story-manga-wins-eisner-award/.239953\",\"title\":\"Shintaro Kago's 'Blood Harvest' Short Story Manga Wins Eisner Award\"}]","lintFlagsJson":null,"lintHits":0,"costUsd":0,"inputTokens":4099,"outputTokens":743,"status":"published","repairAttempts":0,"nextRepairAt":null,"factsAttemptedAt":1785172915,"createdAt":"2026-07-27T17:20:43.000Z","publishedAt":"2026-07-27T17:20:45.000Z","updatedAt":"2026-07-27T17:20:43.000Z"},"cluster":{"id":"c_a693e1176f144361f51eaca5","canonicalTitle":"News\nShintaro Kago's 'Blood Harvest' Short Story Manga Wins Eisner Award","representativeArticleId":"a_36e3450a8ed90004e6624a5a","sourceCount":1,"writtenSourceCount":1,"writeAttempts":0,"isSolo":true,"entitiesJson":"{\"anime_titles\":[],\"manga_titles\":[\"Blood Harvest\",\"Akira\"],\"work_titles\":[],\"studios\":[],\"people\":[\"Shintaro Kago\"],\"type\":\"news\",\"domain\":\"manga\",\"is_roundup\":false}","contentType":"news","status":"published","firstSeenAt":"2026-07-25T06:18:20.000Z","lastSeenAt":"2026-07-25T06:18:20.000Z","updatedAt":"2026-07-27T17:20:45.000Z"},"attribution":[{"source":"Anime News Network","url":"https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2026-07-25/shintaro-kago-blood-harvest-short-story-manga-wins-eisner-award/.239953","title":"News\nShintaro Kago's 'Blood Harvest' Short Story Manga Wins Eisner Award"}],"entities":{"anime_titles":[],"manga_titles":["Blood Harvest","Akira"],"work_titles":[],"studios":[],"people":["Shintaro Kago"],"type":"news","domain":"manga","is_roundup":false},"keyFacts":null}