Hajime Isayama wins special award at Angoulême International Comics Festival

On January 28th local time in Paris, France, the award ceremony of the Angoulême International Comics Festival, Europe's largest festival, was held. Japanese cartoonist Hajime Isayama won the 50th Special Award Commemorative Special Award.

·The Angoulême International Comics Festival is the largest and oldest comics exhibition in Europe. It started in January 1974 and is held annually in Angoulême, France. It is known as one of the two major international comics festivals along with the San Diego Comic-Con in the United States. After the first comics festival was successfully held in 1974, managers, comics enthusiasts, publishers, artists, painters, and writers all followed the tradition and met once a year on the last weekend of January.

After winning the award, Isayama Hajime will forever remember this honorary achievement at the "Attack on Titan" Museum in his hometown of Hita City, Oita Prefecture. In addition, the famous Japanese playwright Ikegami Ryoichi and the Japanese horror cartoonist Ito Junji both received special honorary awards.