With 2 weeks left until the SILENT MANGA AUDITION® Round 10 deadline, you still have time to create an amazing Silent Manga that will astound the judges! The themes for SMA-10 are “Friendship”, “Effort” and “Victory”. These three themes not only embody the ethos of Japan’s longest running Manga magazine, “Weekly Shonen JUMP”, they […]
The year is 1983! The world of boys manga needs a hero. A hero legendary enough to kickstart an era that will be forever defined as “the golden age of manga…”. That hero is called Kenshiro, and today his story is 35 years old… A LEGEND THAT BEGAN IN THE 80’s On September 13th […]
Come one, come all for we are now only 24 HOURS away from the moment you are all waiting for; the announcement of the SMA EX3 RESULTS!! We have enjoyed reading your amazing entries for our Kumamoto round, and were really impressed by everyone’s interpretation of WASAMON! However, the time is almost upon us […]
Ken “Dene” Yoshii From Tokyo, Japan My first encounter with anime/manga was Mobile Suit Gundam and Galaxy Express 999, which I ritually watched every morning before leaving for kindergarten! It wasn’t long before I came across Urusei Yatsura, where I first fell in love with Lum, not to mention Hokuto no Ken, Dragon Ball, and […]
Hailing from the beautiful Japanese island of Okinawa, SMA9 Excellence Award winner Shu Ashimine, joins us as one of our first ever homegrown awardees to talk about his entry, his creative influences, and how years of persistence really do pay off… MAKING MANGA “I want to create stories that send a message to […]
Currently based in the tropical Indonesian city of Surabaya, SMA9 Excellence Award winner, Leuriee, captured the hearts of both the SMAC! editorial team and the panel of judges alike with ‘2 Dollars’, her story of kindness, compassion, and hot dogs. Armed with a bucketload of enthusiasm, coupled with her own unique approach to creating, we […]
Exam and Trial, two words that strike equal measures of fear and determination in any school student! With the encouraging Japanese phrase キットカット (kitto katto), meaning “sure to win”, friends and family can rally around those about to embark on examinations, a life changing event in Japan, by gifting the student a “Kit Kat” chocolate […]
Hailing from the sunny city of Quito in Ecuador, Paco Puente has once again brought a smile to the faces of the SMAC! editorial team, along with the judging panel! This week we join the zany creator to talk about his SMA9 Grand Prix Runner up award winning entry ‘Sleepy Rock Z’, his inability to […]
For as long as he can remember, our spotlight creator this week has been passionately drawing comic after comic. Armed with his tried and tested ‘old school’ approach to manga creating, ‘SMA9 Grand Prix Runner Up’ and ‘SMAC! Editor’s Award’ winner João Eddie, spoke with us all the way from his native Brazil, (his first […]
Just a few days ago we unveiled the new theme for SMA-EX4. We at SILENT MANGA AUDITION® have teamed up with Nestlé Japan to host a very special round, with the themes “EXAM” and “TRIAL”! As cool as that may sound, no doubt many of you will be scratching your heads and asking yourselves, “Why […]
