 "GoGo Monster" won the Special Award at the 30th Japan Cartoonists Association Award in 2001.In 2006, the manga earned a nomination for Angoulême International Comics Festival Prize for Artwork, which it lost to "Le vol du corbeau" by Jean-Pierre Gibrat.It was nominated to the 2009 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Best Graphic Novel but David Mazzucchelli's "Asterios Polyp" won it.