ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE MAGIC INTERNATIONAL MANGA CONTEST 2020 GREAT WINNER!

On January 31, we announced the 4 MAGIC International Manga Contest finalists who were supposed to present their work in front of the exceptional jury on March 7 during MAGIC:

Mr. Tadatoshi Fujimaki, Mangaka and author of Kuroko’s Basket
Mr. Hiroyuki Nakano, editor-in-chief of the weekly prepublication magazine Shûkan Shônen Jump
Mr. Shûhei Hosono, Editor-in-chief of Shônen Jump Plus
Ms. Sahé Cibot, Managing Director of Shibuya International
Mr. Hervé Trouillet, Artistic Director of Shibuya Productions

Unfortunately, on March 3, we had to make the decision to postpone the 6th edition of MAGIC, following the recommendations of the Government, due to the Coronavirus pandemic.

In this context, and as we are still lucky enough to have the networks to stay connected, we asked to the 4 finalists to send us videos of their projects, viewed by every jury members.

Today we have the honor to announce that the winner of the Magic International Manga Contest 2020 is the young 25 year-old Frenchman Charles Compain, with his work Dreamers.

Beyond his imagination and his drawing, Charles knew how to seduce the jury by his perseverance, his originality and his state of mind. Values which are dear to MAGIC and which deserve to be highlighted.

Indeed, Charles had already participated in the competition in 2019 and finished favorite of this edition. He was able to integrate all the precious pieces of advice of the Exceptional Jury chaired by Kazuki Takahashi, the author of Yu-Gi-Oh!, which allowed him, this year, to reach the first place!

Congratulations for his success and his great motivation!

We remind you that he won a trip to Japan at Shonen Jump / Shueisha, in order to meet tanto and mangaka, including Tadatoshi Fujimaki.
He also won a publication on Shonen Jump Plus!

Here is a short summary of this work :
Hundreds of handicapped children have the chance to lose their handicap during lucid dream. In those worlds created for them, they do not have any limits, running on clouds or swimming under the oceans is now possible. However, everything has a cost, and our young heroes are going to discover the price of this liberty… Anyone who dies during the dream, will never wake up.

We also want to congratulate Kine Guiot, the runner-up of our contest with her work Truffle Pig which will also be published on Shonen Jump Plus in Japanese and in its original language!

Here is a short summary of this work:
Following a series of suicides in his own high school, Lou Greene decides to investigate. Endowed with a gift of clairvoyance, she perceives things that others do not see. Her research will lead her to discover an emotional dimension of which she was previously unaware.