Adnazeer Macalangcom(bluesky)
- Dedicated Retouching of Character Handwriting for Wash It All Away
Aidan Clarke
- Dream Team for Billy Bat
- Masterpiece-class lettering for Billy Bat
- Billiest Bats for Billy Bat
- BILLY BAT!!!! BILLY BAT for BILLY BAT
Aila Nagamine(bluesky)
- The Minister of Shojo Lettering for Don't Call it Mystery, A Witch's Life in Mongol, Kageki Shojo!!, LOVE BULLET, Rainy Day Serenade
- Insightful lettering advice
Alexandra Owen-Burns
- Wee Scottish Lad for Earl and Fairy (Exemplary Scottish Accents!)
Amanda Haley
- Always best character voices in a translation for Thanks for being the translator of my first ever print book!
Andres Oliver(bluesky)
- Best Editor I've Ever Worked With
- Seamless translation and editing for Mushishi Collector's Edition
Andrew Schubauer(bluesky)
Andria McKnight
- Most meticulous translator for For juggling all those series glossaries and term sheets
Arbash Mughal(bluesky)
- Letterer Who Finds Time for That Complicated Project and Does Amazing Work
- Action SFX lettering idol for Sakamoto Days, The Demons Are Planning Something Good, Nezumi's First Love
Ayoub Bensidi(bluesky)
- Ultimate FX Vibe Matcher for Ultimate Exorcist Kiyoshi
Brandon Bovia(bluesky)
- Plainface Isekai and Green Yuri's Strongest Soldier for My Isekai Life: I Gained a Second Character Class and Became the Strongest Sage in the World! & The Guy I Was Interested in Wasn't A Guy At All
- Beyblade Maxing
Brendon Hull(bluesky)
- Dream Team for Billy Bat
- Masterpiece-class lettering for Billy Bat
- Billiest Bats for Billy Bat
- BILLY BAT!!!! BILLY BAT for BILLY BAT
- Sleepiest Letterer (with the cutest bunny) for Dark Gathering, Billy Bat, DRCL
- Champion of Proper Text Placement for Ultimate Exorcist Kiyoshi, #DRCL, Ultraman: Along Came a Spider-man
Carly Smith(bluesky)
Cassiel Merricat(bluesky)
- Reigning Champion of Romance for For giving readers all the doki-dokis
Cayley Last
Charles Marshall
Charm(bluesky)
- Lifetime Screensneezy Award for For sneezing on the most manga workers
- Fluffy Frog Bed Lover Extraordinaire for borf, woof, bworf n snnrk
David Evelyn
- Most Likely to Be Awake Award for He's on EST, PST, JST, and all the other STs all the time!
- Maid to Translate
- King of lines that fit the speech bubble perfectly for BAKI
- King of Context and References for Pretty much anything he works on, but especially Destroy All Humans. They Can’t Be Regenerated. A Magic: The Gathering Manga
- Translating Two Manga at the Same Time for I saw his screen
- Punniest Translator with Incredibly Niche Knowledge, for da punz for Someone Hertz, Undead Unluck, City Hunter
- Fun SFX translations for Maid to Skate
Dawn Davis(bluesky)
Dawson Chen
- Fun and dynamic translations for DIG IT
Emma Hanashiro(bluesky)
Finn K.(bluesky)
- The Asides Award for Every Bug Ego aside that needed to be retouched on a super-speedy simulpub schedule The peas! The PEAS!
- Handlettering idol for Magical Girl Dandelion, Bug Ego, Otaku x Gal
Giuseppe Antonio Fusco
- Lord of thin and tiny bubbles for Dekin no Mogura The Fledgling Demon Lord's Starter Shop
Jack Carrillo Concordia(bluesky)
- Maid to Edit for Jack Carrillo Concordia
- GokurakuGOAT editor for Gokurakugai
- SECOND-HAND HAUNTING for So that he is not lonely without any nice ghosts
- Friendliest editor and best lettering feedback for Thanks especially for all the SFX and font feedback!
- Best Notes In Scripts for Rainbows After Storms, Helck
- Beating the Crap Outta Those Schedules for Most Organized Editor in the Wild, Wild West, BABYYYYY
Jacquelyn Li(bluesky)
- Always helpful feedback for Thanks for all the feedback and for being the editors of the sequel of my first print book!
Jan Mitsuko Cash(bluesky)
- Inheritor of the Simulpubs for Cannon Master, Hima-Ten, Shinobi Undercover, Etc
- SMASSY ERA for Self-Care Intensifies!!!
- Best dog photos as email attachments
- Best at Translating Egotistical Bug Manga for Bug Ego, Shinobi Undercover, Hima-ten
Jeannie Lee
- Lettering genie for Pillar of UDON Entertainment
- Best SFX that make you go Whoa! for Tamon's B-Side, Otaku Vampire's Love Bite, Rose of Versailles, Fullmetal Alchemist: The Complete Four-Panel Comics
- Lettering Jeanius for Choujin X, Kirby: Manga Mania
- Best Mentor for Infini-T Force, Kirby: Manga Mania
Jeanthrix Andres
- Like Fucking Leonardo da Vinci with a Tablet Pen for All those hot hot SFX
- You Ain't Seen Real Handlettered SFX Till You See This for Magica, Smile
Jennifer Sherman(bluesky)
- Excellence in Reliability and Communication for The Girl I Like Forgot Her Glasses, Wash It All Away
- Cateditor for A Cat Is a Cat in Any Life
Jezael Manhan(bluesky)
- Coolest FX Letter Shapes for Rai Rai Rai, Albus Changes the World
John Neal(bluesky)
- Most detailed insight into terminologies and best taste in manga for The Color of the End: Mission in the Apocalypse
Julia Murphy
- Outstanding cover designs for Fall in Love, You False Angels, Stella Must Die, Luca the Dragon Vet
Julie Philips
- Best translation of a single series in three different timelines at once for Albus Changes the World
Kat Skarbinec(bluesky)
- Wrangler of Wordy Worldbuilding Info for The Barbarian's Bride
Kevin Steinbach(bluesky)
- Takumi Fujiwara Pole Position Award Presented by Gazoo Racing for Initial D
- Translations that reincarnate you to the manga world for Omega Megaera, You Can’t Bluff the Sharp-Eyed Sister, Moscow 2160
Kristi Iwashiro
- BILLY BAT!!!! BILLY BAT for BILLY BAT
Kristian Naylor
Kristiina Korpus(bluesky)
- Billiest Bats for Billy Bat
- BILLY BAT!!!! BILLY BAT for BILLY BAT
- Bat Wrangling Expert for BILLY BAT
- Billy'd the Bat for Billy Bat
Kyla Smith(bluesky)
- Probably (Still) Secretly a Penguin Award for It's been a year and no one's proven otherwise 🐧
Liz Marbach
- Most Supportive Editor for Your #1 Cheerleader
Lys Blakeslee
- The Most Handmade Business Cards for Her individually watercolored and handwritten cards, wow!
- Queen of the Emails for EMAILS
- Most Knowledgeable Nature-Loving Senpai
- Cutest Cats
- Lettering senpai oomfie
- Most Likely to Be Interrupted from Work by a Kitten (or Two)
Madelaine Jose(bluesky)
- That's a font?! That you MADE?! for All those cool SFX fonts she makes on her own
Madeleine Jose(bluesky)
- Maid to Letter
- Most Amazing Super Manga Proofreader Who's Also a Letterer (Or Vice Versa?)
- Most Uplifting Team Player for Drawing From Your Memory, That's Not Love
- Calender Queen for All the 83439483 titles across pubs.
- Subtitled SFX Whisperer for Omega Megaera, Lonely Deaths Lie Thick as Snow, GAEA-TIMA the Gigantis, Wicked Spot, and more~
- Otter This World Lettering
- Would Clone Her So I Can Assign Her to Every One of my Projects, Definitely
- Font Master for Maid to Skate, Midnight Heart, Married Couple, Fragrant Flower
- Master Problem Solver for Maid to Skate, Midnight Heart, Married Couple, Fragrant Flower
- Harem Enjoyer for Maid to Skate, Midnight Heart, Married Couple, Fragrant Flower
Maggie Le(bluesky)
- Seamless translation and editing for Mushishi Collector's Edition
Matt Akuginow
- Most stunning cover designs for The Fragrant Flower Blooms with Dignity, The Ayakashi Hunter's Tainted Bride, Omega Megaera
Matt Treyvaud
- Excellence in comedy writing for J⇔M, Kirio Fan Club
Mei Amaki(bluesky)
- Best Ice Breaker
- The #GalsEqualHouse Award for Heckin' Awesome Girlfie Dialogue for #Gal x Gal Yuri
- Most versatile translator and fellow variety lover oomfie for Wicked Spot, A Curtain Call for You, Stella Must Die, Magical Girl Dandelion, #Gal x Gal Yuri, Tsumiki Ogami's Not-So-Ordinary Life, Twilight Blade
Minna Lin
- Exceptional character voice range in translations for The Hitman Stans, KRAKEN MARE
Miranda Gort(bluesky)
- Most Unforgettable Lettering Coordinator for For her time with Yen Press
- Another year of best lettering coordinator
- Most memorable lettering coordinator for For everything... Miss you!
Natashi Fujii
- List Goddess for All those sweet, sweet lists and templates
Nephry
- Worst Assistant for Land of Monsters, mostly
Nicole Frasik(bluesky)
- Modern slang translation expert for Perfectly Fine on My Own, So My Fiancé Can Twist in the Wind, Tiger and Dragon, A Love Too Captivating
Nivethitaa D.(bluesky)
- UDON lettering oomfie for Mac FRONTIER
- Best Lettering Oomfie Omggg for Udon Ent.
- Mec(c)ha tsuyoi action SFXs
ODISO(bluesky)
- Starke Soundeffekte und Logo for Animal Signal
Oliva Osanz(bluesky)
- Yen lettering oomfie for The Small-Animallike Lady Is Adored by the Ice Prince, A Timid Lady was Turned into an Ugly Cat, but on the Verge of Fainting Is Picked Up by the Most Fearsome Military Duke, Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon? On the Side: Sword Oratoria, and others
- Most excited for cute manga and spokon
Paul Starr(bluesky)
- 20th Anniversary Aging Millennial Lifetime Achievement Award in Translation for The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya, Spice & Wolf
Pei Ann Yeap
Phil Christie(bluesky)
- Most Versatile Goat for Mushishi, Search & Destroy, Kagurabachi, Cat-Life Balance
- Analogue SFX idol for Mushishi Collector's Edition
Rafael Zaiats(bluesky)
- The Underground Arena's Young Hope for Baki the Grappler
Rajarshi Gupta(bluesky)
- Sick-A** Logo Design for Animal Signal
Rebecca Sze
- Too good at handlettering
- Juiciest Handwriting for Cat Man, Snow Angel, Gal x Gal Yuri, Finding Camelia, I Love Amy
Richmond Torrefranca(bluesky)
- Redraw King, Hard Working Bread for Shinobi Undercover (GNs), Destroy All Humans, Minecraft: The Manga
- Card Game Manga's Strongest Soldier for Destroy All Humans, They Can't Be Regenerated
Robert Harkins(bluesky)
- Most Interesting Video Archivist for Parker Edmondson / Dr. Don / Paris Hiltons Bff
- Incredible Travel Guide for Aidan's Trip to Japan
- Delightfulness
Rui
Rute Sousa(bluesky)
- BL Enthusiast
- The BL connoisseur for For bringing the most passion for BL titles
Sabrina Heep
- Inspirational lettering and SFXs for Chainsaw Man
- Letterer Most Likely To Be Burning the Midnight Oil for Natsume's Book of Friends, Seraph of the End, Chainsaw Man, Skip Beat
Sandra Deguer
- Superb Spooky Scary Sexy Skeleton SFX for The Hero, the Sage, and the Former Dark Lord
Sara Linsley(bluesky)
- Supercool Lettering Senpai
- Pillar of the Lettering Community
- Screentoney for hosting Screentoneys for This Screentoney that is granted as a Screentoney for hosting Screentoneys
- Greatest Lesbian Font Creator of Lesbian Fonts of All Time Forever and Ever for Trinketry, Spicy Noodles 2, Girl Kisser, Pretzel
Sarah Tangney(bluesky)
- Living Her Best Otaku Life Straight Out of Manga for The Otaku Love Connection, My Ex-Boyfriend Loves Boys' Love
- Most thorough and constructive feedback for Couldn't have made it this far without your input
Sawa Matsueda Savage(bluesky)
- Best Research in Translation
- Most thoughtful translations for complex topics for That's Not Love, Drawing From Your Memory, Roar: A Star in the Abyss
- Loveliest Translator
Sesame :3(bluesky)
- Most Void, So Fluff, Much Loaf for mrow n loafing
Shirley Chen(bluesky)
- Lettering buddy oomfie for Parallel
- Most versatile letterer for Battle Royale Deluxe Edition, Marriage of Convenience, Horror, cute merch
- Master Asset Finder for On The Way To Meet Mom, The World After the Fall, Unholy Blood
- CSP Queen for On The Way To Meet Mom, The World After the Fall, Unholy Blood
- THE Manhwa Letterer for On The Way To Meet Mom, The World After the Fall, Unholy Blood
Shirley Fang
Skylar Rutan(bluesky)
- Elegant logo design for Proud to Be the Villainess
Stephen Kohler
- Fantastical translations for Witch Hat Atelier, Magus of the Library, Luca, the Dragon Vet
Steve Dutro
Taylor Drew(bluesky)
Taylor Engel
Thomas McAlister(bluesky)
- Always helpful feedback for Thanks for all the feedback and for being the editors of the sequel of my first print book!
- Still the best taste in fonts for For the font guidance
TJ Ferentini(bluesky)
Tomoe Tsutsumi
Tomoko Nagano(bluesky)
Vanessa Satone(bluesky)
- Lifetime Achievement Award: 20 Years of Lettering One Piece for One Piece, Skip and Loafer, Zom 100, Akane-Banashi
Vanessa Tenazas
Victoria Esnard(bluesky)
- You Can't Spell Project Management Without PASSION
- Convention Queen for Always befriending artists and gettin' 'em translated
Won Young Seo
- Manhwa Connoisseur for Ize Press
Youssef Mohamed(bluesky)
- Rising Rookie for Saint seiya dark wing, scavengers another sky, The one... Later on. , 3-minute bodygaurd yoko-chan and corps blade vol.3
NEW YORK, NY — July 1, 2026 — The Screentoney awards committee announces the winners of the fifth annual Screentoney Awards. Founded on the belief that manga localization professionals are as talented as they are under-appreciated, the Screentoneys honor folks for doing great work.
For the fifth year in a row, the Screentoneys celebrate the creative and editorial staff of manga localized outside of Japan. Any professional can be nominated, and the winners this year include letterers, translators, editors, retouch artists, designers, and proofreaders.
Once again breaking records, the Screentoneys is proud to present 161 awards this year, up from 135 in 2025. All awards are submitted anonymously in advance by industry professionals, and submissions are encouraged to be uplifting, silly, or heart-warming.
- Awards this year include:
- “Lifetime Achievement Award: 20 Years of Lettering One Piece” (Vanessa Satone)
- “Most Likely to Be Awake Award” (David Evelyn)
- “Reigning Champion of Romance” (Cassiel Merricat)
- “Handlettering idol” (Finn K.)
- “Most supportive editor” (TJ Ferentini)
- “Most Unforgettable Lettering Coordinator” (Miranda Gort)
The complete list of winners can be found at http://screentoneys.com/2026
The Screentoneys are fully volunteer-led and community-driven.