Your manga could become a movie

• ￥300,000
  Grand Prize
• Publication
• Chance to be made into
  Amazon Prime Video

*Japanese entries will not be accepted.

Yoshimoto Kogyo and Medibang are collaborating together to hold a contest
to gather talents all around the world.

Have your work chosen as the manuscript for a film that'll last throughout the ages!
The grand prize is 300,000 yen, publication, and the chance to have your entry made into
an Amazon Prime Video!

The winning entry will be shown
at the Kyoto International Film and Art Festival 2017!

Who are Yoshimoto Kogyo?

Yoshimoto Kogyo is a talent agency with many affiliated entertainers.
It was founded in 1912 and is said to be the oldest entertainment production company in Japan.

Yoshimoto Kogyo boasts a great selection of the country's best comedians, with names such as Katsura Bunshi, Sanma Akashiya, Downtown, London Boots Ichi-go Ni-go, and Oriental Radio.

Nowadays, Yoshimoto Kogyo is not only a talent agency, but they also produce television programs and are involved in the Okinawa International Movie Festival and online works. They plan shows like Sumimasu Geinin, where entertainers are sent out into the world or other regions to befriend the local community, to broaden their scope around Asia and the rest of the world.

What is the Kyoto International Film and Art Festival?

Have a look at the Kyoto International Film and Art Festival 2016!

Introducing the special guest judge!

Keiko Takemiya

[Famous Works]
Kaze to Ki no Uta (1976 - 1984)
Toward the Terra (1977 - 1980)
Izaron Densetsu (1982 - 1987)
Tenma no Ketsuzoku (1991 - 2000)

Born in Tokushima-shi, Tokushima Prefecture in 1950.

At age 17, she won honorable mention in the new rookie contest for Shueisha's Margaret and made her debut.
She also won the monthly new rookie contest for COM at around the same time.
While studying at the University of Tokushima, her manga - Mori no Ko Tohru - began serialization in Shogakukan's Weekly Shojo Comic.
Her work as a regular increased and she quit university in her second year. She moved to Tokyo and started her work as a full-fledged manga artist.

In 1980, she won Shogakukan's 25th Manga Award.
In the same year, one of her most famous works - Toward the Terra - was animated into a film.
In April 2000, she became a full-time professor of the Department of Manga at Kyoto Seika University's Faculty of Fine Art.
In 2006, it was promoted to the Faculty of Manga.
After working 4 years as the dean of the faculty, she held positions both as a professor in the Faculty of Manga and Graduate School of Manga Research.
In April 2014, she assumed the position of principal (for a four-year term).
Also, every year since the fall of 2000, she has held manuscript exhibitions in Kyoto and Tokyo for 13 years.
She presented her research at Kyoto Seika University under the title, "Manuscript", in 2003.
Each year, she calls upon many different manga artists to her Manuscript Exhibition.
She continues to work towards preserving and exhibiting important manuscripts as well.

In 2014, she was awarded the Medal of Honor with Purple Ribbon by the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications of Japan.

• 
• 
• 
• 

Enter in 3 easy steps

• 1Draw a manga!

  

• 2Add a tag!

  NipponMangaContest

  Required!

• 3Submit to MediBang

  Submit

Users outside of Japan can use MediBang translation