It's a "no" for me if we're talking about manga... I'm guessing many of us are in the same boat and devour whatever scanlations we can get ahold of, so awards wouldn't be the first thing to usually tip us off to a new series (haha).

I don't suppose novels were included in this poll, though? I'm sure we've all had to read books in high school and earlier that won Caldecott medals and such!

I have found a few good one because I was searching through award lists, especially older series. Sometimes I check the lists just because I ' m curious about what won recently.

I like checking out Manga Taisho award winners and nominees yearly. I wished Delicious in Dungeon won atleast once.

Whoops, missed out on voting on this one, but I have done this once, for one series.

I remember reading Blue Giant because it won an award (actually, it was the reason I pitched it to the scanlation group I was working with at the time).
Of course, that wasn't the only reason, but it was a contributing factor, and it was also how I initially discovered it.

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