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Blade of the Immortal Wins British Fans' Eagle Award
Date: 5/16/2007
Hiroaki Samura's Blade of the Immortal has won the 2006 Eagle Award for Best Manga, as nominated by website submissions and voted by attendees of the 2007 Bristol International Comic Expo in the United Kingdom. The awards ceremony was on May 12, and the other nominees were Death Note, Naruto, Priest, and Battle Royale. The Eagle Awards organizers describe their awards as "the comic industry's longest established awards." (The Kirby, Eisner, and Harvey Awards began in the middle of the 1980s, after the first Eagle Awards in 1976.) Source: Comic Book Resources via MangaBlog
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