what the competition was about
The second KUMAMOTO International Manga Festival is going to be held this year!
SILENT MANGA AUDITION® EXTRA ROUND ”Illustration Section” is now open for submissions!
The world’s biggest International Manga Award,
“SILENT MANGA AUDITION®” is once again holding another EXTRA ROUND in collaboration with the “KUMAMOTO International Manga Festival.”
Manga from 106 countries will be gathered in Kumamoto!
Why not send in your illustration with other people from around the world?
What is the KUMAMOTO International Manga Festival?
The KUMAMOTO International Manga Festival is a manga themed event held in the city of Kumamoto, Japan.
The festival was first held in April 2017 with the motto of “Send smiles to Kumamoto from around the world.” The event gathered over 800 manga and illustrations and drew around 4000 visitors from all over the world. The festival is back again this year due to the popularity that it had with visitors and will be held in September 2018! The theme this time is “WASAMON will connect the world to Kumamoto”. So please connect the world to Kumamoto with YOUR illustrations!
What is WASAMON?
“Wasamon (早生者 / わさもん)” is an unique concept in the Kumamoto dialect.
Literally speaking, it means ““a person with deep curiosity who is open-minded towards change and dares to challenge new things.”
It’s a concept that perfectly describes the people of Kumamoto! SMA-EX3 is eager for your illustrations which show characters with the spirit of fertile curiosity and an innate desire to experience new and exciting challenges.
We want you to submit an illustration to the SMA-EX3 that could even surprise the WASAMON people in Kumamoto. That is the truly spirit of “WASAMON”!
The rules for the contest were:
●Show the scenery of Kumamoto in your work
●Create positive images overflowing with smiles and curiosity
If you want to know more here you can find the contest’s details.
Instead at the following link you can see the official results.
As you can see in my illustration, that follows, I represented an happy family, but stranege visiting Kumamoto, in the foreground we can see the young sister who poses for the photo, the other sister who ends up enjoying the instant ramen all happy and enthusiastic, while behind his father a little ‘clumsy and not very convinced to be photographed holding on the shoulder the little brother (his son) the one who thinks to touch the tip of the castle of Kumamoto all happy and excited. In the background the castle square and the castle of Kumamoto (which was fundamental) .
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