When you are talking about publishing in Japan, then Kodansha is one of the biggest names in the business. Founded in 1910 as a spin-off of the Dai-Nippon Yūbenkai (大日本雄辯會, “Greater Japan Oratorical Society”) by Seiji Noma, this publishing company is now one of the biggest names in the manga industry. As of this writing, they publish a variety of manga magazines in Japan, which includes Nakayoshi, Afternoon, Evening, Weekly Shōnen Magazine, and Bessatsu Shōnen Magazine. They have even long since expanded overseas to NA markets. You can even check for yourself by looking at some of the biggest manga titles on the market. Attack on Titan, Akira, Ghost in the Shell, and Fairy Tail? All of those manga series bear Kodansha’s logo on them. You yourself might have noticed them as you were reading those manga volumes.
Thus, you can now understand why Kodansha sponsoring this year’s Script2Comic Contest is a big deal.
Kodansha x 2024 Script2Comic: Details
Kodansha is proud to announce that they now have a premiere sponsorship for the 2024 edition of the Script2Comic Contest. What does this mean, you might ask? Well, this means that not only will the winners of this contest be published in the USA by AMP Comics, but they also have the potential to be published as manga in Japan. Not only that, but the winning entries might even get an actual anime adaptation. If that doesn’t excite you, then you might be in the wrong business.
Fortunately, Kodansha has some choice words to say about this sponsorship just for the hype, courtesy of Yohei Takami, Director of the Rights Media Business Division of Kodansha. You can read his words below:
We at Kodansha are thrilled to be the premiere sponsor of the 2024 Script2Comic Contest. This partnership embodies our enduring commitment to discovering new talents in the world of manga and graphic novels. We believe that this contest offers a unique platform for storytellers to bring their visions to life and potentially reach a global audience. As a leading publisher in Japan, we are excited to see the innovative and inspiring works that will emerge from this collaboration and look forward to bringing the winning entries to readers around the world.
Want to enter the 2024 Script2Comic Contest to see if you can get your work made into a manga and anime? Then you can head on over to the contest’s official website right now to sign up for it through Coverfly.com. Early Bird Entries actually begins today on January 31, 2024; so don’t miss out on this opportunity.
Bonus: 2023 Script2Comic Winners
As a bonus, Motor Content and AMP Comics are also announcing the winners of the 2023 Script2Comic Contest for us today. You know, just in case this might interest you. And giving you a bunch of new reading material to boot. You can check them out below:
- Grand Prize – BearBatFrankenstein by Shaun K Radecki
- When a hapless mad scientist’s latest creation turns out to be another epic failure, the mellow monster-gone-wrong boldly sets out to prove him wrong.
- First Prize – Honour Bound – Omri Rose
- The true story of dishonoured knight Roger Godberd who leads a band of warriors on a quest to rescue the peasants he once swore to protect, his deeds inspiring the legend of Robin Hood.
- Second Prize – Ambergris by Jacobo Fe Gismera
- In WWII, after crashing in the Sahara Desert, an RAF pilot meets a Tuareg. Regardless of their cultural differences, the bold British and the cryptic Bedouin join forces to traverse a harsh land in search of the weirdest and most valuable substance on earth: whale poop.
- Third Prize – Faux by Graham Nelson
- When a murderous shape-shifting abomination infiltrates the alpine getaway of a hostile housewives reality show, the newest cast member must discover who is real and who is fake before it’s too late.
