Silent Manga Audition SMA25 'A Kind Heart' — Prizes from ¥10,000 to Grand Prix, Editorial Feedback for Every Entry, Submissions 15 November 2026 to 15 January 2027
The annual no-dialogue manga audition of a Tokyo manga publisher, judged by Tsukasa Hojo, Tetsuo Hara, Ryuji Tsugihara and the Zenon editors.
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The page lists an Excellence Award of ¥100,000, an Excellence Award Runner-Up of ¥30,000 and an Honorable Mention of ¥10,000 (the Grand Prix and Grand Prix Runner-Up amounts are not in the page text; a listing gives ¥500,000 and ¥300,000). Excellence Award and above are published on Zenon Plus and featured in Monthly Comic ZENON, top winners are offered the MasterClass and a place at the Artists Village Aso 096k project, every entry gets professional editorial feedback, and entrants can get a three-month free trial of Clip Studio Paint EX.
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Manga creators from anywhere in the world, individually or in partners and groups; multiple entries are allowed. A silent manga of 5 to 17 pages with no dialogue (sound effects in any language, traffic signs and book titles are allowed), read right to left, preferably monochrome, on the theme 'A Kind Heart' (omoiyari, consideration for others); pages as JPG or PNG files of at most 2 MB each in a zip file. A Gmail account is needed for the Google Form.
Dates & details
- Deadline
- Submissions 15 November 2026 to 15 January 2027 by Google Form; judging 16 January to 31 March 2027; results 30 April 2027
- Programme dates
- Judging 16 January to 31 March 2027
- Results
- 30 April 2027
- Language
- English