Application Opens: 1 November 2024; Deadline: 2 February 2025 (23:59 in your Time zone)
LOCATION: Japan
The SILENT MANGA AUDITION® (SMA22) is the world’s biggest manga audition, exclusively for manga without dialogue. By drawing silent manga, talented international creators can also get the opportunity to join the Japanese manga world. Draw your characters’ expressions full of emotion and heart to work towards your dream debut!
ELIGIBILITY:
The competition is free to enter.
The competition is open to anyone.
The theme of this edition is “Seized with rage”. Tell your story through images alone.
The page count for a single SMA entry is 17 pages or less. Multiple entries are welcome.
Pages MUST BE uploaded as “1 page / 1 image”. For “double page spreads,” please upload each page as “2 separate image files.”
Please prepare the image data of your work according to the format below. (One image file for each page / two-page spread divided into two image files).
Image format: JPG or PNG format
File size: 1 file 2 MB or less
Image file name: Your image files should be labeled with a two digit number in sequential order based on the page number of the image file (Example: page_01.jpg, page_02.jpg, etc.)
Resolution: 300 dpi
BENEFIT:
Grand Prix: 500,000 JPY
Grand Prix Runner-Up: 300,000 JPY
Excellence Award: 100,000 JPY
Excellence Runner-Up: 30,000 JPY
Honourable Mention: 10,000 JPY
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