The postponement of our Magic event to 2022 literally broke our hearts! However, the adventure of the International Manga Contest 2021 edition continues!

After the selection of the 10 favorite stories, it’s time to announce the finalists of the contest!

The 5 finalists are :

Watch out ! Magicaa !

Artichoke, Pinapple and her Hip Hop Heart

Fruit of Minds

Dead Olympic

Imago

Hello everyone,

This is normally a period in which we should be communicating about MAGIC 2021.
The 2020 experience has taught us to be very cautious, we gave ourselves until Monday, November 23rd to make a final decision regarding this new edition

You know how important it is for us, for our guests as well as for you, to have an anticipated and precise organization.
Our experience has taught us, that it is only under these conditions that the magic of this event can be achieved.

COVID 19 is a challenge for our entire company and despite our ability to anticipate, international flights and the possibilities of welcoming our prestigious guests remain uncertain.

Our event is being prepared many months in advance and we were preparing for the 2021 edition until now. The uncertainty is still well beyond our control, making it difficult to plan ahead for February, giving the serenity and professionalism that a MAGIC requires.

Many people opt for virtual events, and while we can understand this, we can’t solve it.

MAGIC is a unique moment, deliberately chosen on a human scale, where our audience can meet their mentors/idols, and our stars can count on their fans.
A place where our precious partners as well as the public, have the right to expect the quality and ambition that a MAGIC represents.

The Shibuya Productions team has therefore decided to focus on anticipation, more than ever in this particular unclear context, in order to keep its values. This is why we announce that the next edition of MAGIC Monaco will be held on February 26th and 27th, 2022, as usual at the Grimaldi Forum.

Our guests have already let us know that they will be among us throughout this new edition. We would like to thank them for their great reactivity and their unfailing support.

We will be adding new guests so that we can prepare a great celebration all together.

This second postponement of the MAGIC does not mean that we will not see each other again until then, we are working on a still top-secret concept, which should make quite a lot of noise!

We will probably organize a live FB in the next few weeks in order to inform you.

It’s been two half-times that Captain Tsubasa has been waiting on this poster, so for the first time in soccer, we’re actually going to play a third half.

See you soon!

MAGIC Team

First, we would like to thank you all for participating this year!

We received many applications and we loved reading and exploring the worlds of your artworks!

The moment you’ve all been waiting for is here!

We are thrilled to announce the 10 selected stories!

They come from France, England, Australia, Indonesia and Russia!

Our selection is:

Watch out ! Magicaa !

Akimbo

Artichoke, Pinapple and her Hop Hop Heart

Fruit of Minds

Elysium Rhapsody

Dead Olympic

Mono

Imago

Curieux, Adventure de Neandertal

Atlas

Since 2017, Shibuya Productions and Shueisha / Shônen Jump have organized a major international manga contest within the Monaco Anime Game International Conferences (MAGIC).

This year, due to the health crisis, the event had to be postponed. Despite everything, the final of the MAGIC International Manga Contest was able to take place, thanks to videos presentation sent by each of the four finalists!

In these particular circumstances, the jury chaired by Tadatoshi Fujimaki (Kuruko no Basket) chose the following two works:

Grand Prize: DREAMERS by Charles Compain (France)

DREAMERS is online since the 9th of June, HERE
The original version is after the Japanese version

Heir Apparent: TRUFFLE PIG by Kine Guiot (France)

TRUFFLE PIG is online since the 10th of June, HERE
The original version is after the Japanese version

You can download the french Press Release HERE

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.