Manga Jiman competition winners revealed

The judging panel for this year's Manga Jiman competition has selected the manga below as the winning entries for this year - and manga fans have a chance to be at the invitation-only awards ceremony at the Embassy of Japan in London next month.

This year, the Embassy is holding a competition for a limited number of its web site visitors to attend this exclusive event. For a chance to win, e-mail your full name, the name of the organisation you represent and your position to manga@ld.mofa.go.jp with "Webmagazine" as the subject.

Winnerss will be notified by e-mail no later than 31 January 2013.

Entries are listed in alphabetical order by title and the exact position of each entrant will be announced at the ceremony.

Title	Entrant(s)
A Comic Book	Joshua Green
Bon Appetite	Tammy Taylor
Ganbare, My Son	Wei Tran
I Love You	Sara Ferreira and Gisela Martins
Invidia	Katja Hammond
Kumakop	Zuhaib Dalvi
Moving House	Susan and Steven Cook
Saying and Doing	Dean McKnight and Jade Sarson
Sky Riders	Rhiannon Tate
The Boy Who Flew	Kieran Blue Walton
The Lady In White	Dounia Chanchorle

All of the above entries will be displayed at a special exhibition at the Embassy of Japan in the spring of 2013 and the website will be updated with the final positions once the announcement has been made.

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Japanese Embassy launches UK manga competition

The British Embassy of Japan is once again launching the major manga-writing competition, MANGA JIMAN 2012, with fantastic prizes and open to anyone fourteen (14)* years of age or over.


The manga should in some way make reference to ‘GANBARE!’, Japanese for ‘good luck!’, ‘do your best!’ or ‘come on!’.


The amazing First Prize is two (2) return air tickets to Japan, courtesy of All Nippon Airways.** The Second Prize is a fabulous TOSHIBA laptop computer. Third Prize is a superb digital camera from RICOH UK Ltd


Runners-up will receive and a selection of manga publications, available in the UK from various UK manga publishers amongst others prizes.

The winners’ works will also be displayed in a special MANGA JIMAN EXHIBITION at the Embassy of Japan.

This competition is open to all UK residents. All creations should be original and between six (6) to eight (8) A4-sized pages in length and drawn so that it reads from left to right.

The closing date for the submission of entries is Thursday, 1st November 2012.

Should you wish to enter, please read the full MANGA JIMAN COMPETITION 2012 RULES & REGULATIONS (pdf) and then carefully fill out and submit the official 2012 APPLICATION FORM (Word doc) along with your entry by post or in person to:

Manga Jiman 2012 Competition
JICC
Embassy of Japan
101-104 Piccadilly
London
W1J 7JT

Please contact manga@LD.mofa.go.jp with any queries about the competition.

* The competition is open to all legal residents of the United Kingdom who are, or will be, over the age of fourteen (14) by 1st January 2013.

**Terms and conditions apply.