Category: Manga festival

About:

The silent manga audition organises a manga drawing contest with a theme tears. The silent manga audition open application to international artists to show their talent. This opportunity opens the road to start a career in Japanese manga series. Tell your story through images alone and take part in the contest.

Theme: Tears

People are brought to TEARS for a variety of reasons: happiness, sadness, frustration, and even more! Try to clearly express through your drawings the emotions that bring your characters to tears

Deadline: 3^rd  April 2023

Prizes:

Grand Prix ¥500,000,

Grand Prix Runner-Up ¥300,000

Excellence Award ¥100,000

Excellence Award Runner-Up ¥30,000

Honorable Mention ¥10,000

Selection criterias:

Emotions,

Originality

Composition.

Deadline: 8 April 2022, 09:00 GMT

Status: Applications are open.

See also: Anime contests.

Prizes: up to 3300 dollars in prizes.

Country: Japan

Who may enter
The competition is open to students worldwide.

Students should submit their work individually using their school’s ID (issued when a school is registered). School registration must be completed by a teacher or member of school staff until 15 March 2022.

Short description
The competition is organized by Japanese graphics software company CELSYS.

This year’s theme is JOURNEY.

Entries will be accepted for the following six categories:

• Comic
• Manga
• Bande Dessinée
• Webtoon
• Storyboard
• Illustration

Submissions may be created using any drawing tools or software. If you create your submission using traditional tools, you should submit a digital scan of the artwork. 

Entry fee
The competition is free to enter.

Prizes

• Categories: Comic, Manga, Bande Dessinée, Webtoon

Overall Grand Prize (1 winner)
・ Cash prize: US$3,300
・The new Wacom Cintiq Pro 16
・Three years of Clip Studio Paint EX (graphic software)

Category Awards (1 winner each)
・ Cash prize: US$1,700
・13.3” Wacom One Creative Pen Display
・Three years of Clip Studio Paint EX  (graphic software)

• Storyboard Category 

Grand Prize (1 winner)
・Cash prize: US$2,200
・Wacom One Creative Pen Display
・Three years of Clip Studio Paint EX (graphic software)

• Illustration Category

 Grand Prize (1 winner)
・Cash prize US$550
・Wacom One Creative Pen Display
・Three years of Clip Studio Paint PRO  (graphic software)

Competition website
For further information visit the official competition website.

Deadline
31 January 2022

Status: closed

See also:

Manga and anime drawing contest 2022 by COAMIX JAPAN

Country: Japan

Who may enter
The competition is open to anyone.

Short description
The SILENT MANGA AUDITION® is an international competition organized by COAMIX Inc., a Japanese manga and anime production company.

Silent Manga is a story told entirely through illustration, without the use of dialogue. 

The theme of this edition is “Moments of HASTE, RAGE, or SMILES”. Tell your story through images alone.

“ We want to see a short, dialogue-free manga that encompasses ONE of these key emotional representations. Let your imagination run wild with stories of any genre that utilizes HASTE, RAGE, or SMILES as their core.

Number of pages: 5 – 17

Manuscript: Reading order from the right to left, monochrome only.

SMA 15 Winners 

Theme: Moments of CRYING, SMILING or LOVE

Entry fee
The competition is free to enter.

Prizes
• Grand Prix: ¥500,000
• Grand Prix Runner-Up: ¥300,000
• Excellence Award: ¥100,000
• Exellence Runner-Up: ¥30,000
• Honourable Mention: ¥10,000

Competition website
For further information visit the official competition website