The Ministry of Foreign Affairs founded the International MANGA Award in 2007 for the purpose of expanding international exchange and mutual understanding through the MANGA culture which is widely accepted around the world.This award honors the MANGA artists who are contributing to the development of MANGA culture in the world.

Eligibiliies

• The competition is open to non-Japanese manga artists.
• Eligible MANGA works need to be composed of more than 16 pages. Both published and unpublished works are eligible to apply, excluding the past winning works of Japan International Manga Awards.
• Eligible MANGA works should be the ones which have been produced within the past three years (2015-2018) from the date of application.
• Eligible MANGA works must be submitted in printed form. (Submission of data might be required later on.)
• Overseas publishing companies can apply to the Japan International MANGA Award, upon confirmation from the MANGA artists of submitting their work.
• Either the comic artist or story writer of the submitted work has to be a foreign national. Also the representative who will participate in the invitation program given to the Gold / Silver Award winners must be a foreign national.
• Only one work may be submitted per applicant.Only one work may be accepted under one title (or series).In case that a collection of short stories is to be applied, only one story will be accepted for examination. Duplicate entries will be invalid.
• For the purpose of publicity, the MANGA Award Executive Committee may upload the winner’s MANGA works (partially) on its website upon obtaining approval from the artists.

Benefits

• The Gold Award of the Japan International MANGA Award will be given to the best MANGA work and the Silver Award to three other excellent works.
• The Gold Award and the Silver Award winners will be invited to Japan on the occasion of the award ceremony for around 10 days as a supplementary prize (the fine work winners are not entitled). During their stay in Japan, they will also have the opportunity to exchange ideas with Japanese cartoonists, visit publishing companies and make an excursion to local sites.

Application

• Application Period：April 2nd 2018 – June 15th 2018 (entries must arrive by this date)
• Applications should be sent to either i) or ii) below.
  • i) Japanese Embassies or Consulates General (Check online for each address.)
  • ii) P.O.Box　MBE193 The Twelveth Japan International MANGA Award Executive Committee, Shinjuku Oak Tower 2F,  6-8-1 Nishi-Shinjuku, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, JAPAN, Postcode: 163-6002
• Two copies of your work must be submitted.(Additional copies may be requested for works being considered for an award.)
• An entry form, filled in either English or Japanese, must be attached to the work. Page numbers must be indicated on every page of the work.If the work is not in the form of a book, it needs to be indicated clearly if there is any specific two-page spread in the work.

Application Deadline: June 15, 2018.

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