Tokyo's Nerima Ward Sponsors Contest for Aspiring Anime Creators

The winner gets their idea made into anime short and the contest is open to all!

Patrick Macias
August 08, 2011 11:37pm PDT (8/8/11)

Tokyo’s Nerima ward is the home of Toei Doga, the studio that brought forth such legendary works of anime such as Sailor Moon, Dragon Ball, One Piece, and many others. What’s more, the area is populated with smaller anime studios and animation staff members. No wonder then, that Nermia now claims to be "the birthplace of Japanimation" at the English language website for Nerima Animation.

 

Four years ago, the Nerima Anime Association began a contest to find and cultivate new talent in the anime industry. And they’ve just announced that they’re now accepting short anime scripts for the 2011 incarnation of the talent search.

 

Participation is open to everyone, regardless of age, gender, and (this is important) nationality. The catch is that the submitted stories must be in Japanese and within 2,500 characters.

 

The winner will have their story adapted into a five minute anime short by a well-known anime director and will be submitted to the Annecy International Animated Film Festival. 

 

The theme for this year’s contest is “time”, and entries must be sent to Nerima Anime Association by September 30th.

 

Break out the translation software and visit the Nerima Animation Site for full contest info.

 

If you’ve ever dreamed of having your own anime produced in Japan (and let’s be honest, who hasn’t) then now’s your chance! 

 

Via Asahi.com

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8/9/11 by wings231
This sounded extremely tempting until I read "the catch" part.

Good luck to all those who know enough Japanese in order to participate! And don't forget to have fun!! XD
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8/9/11 by PatrickCRNews
You can always hire a translator to change your text from E-J, though!
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8/9/11 by LoveKiba
It's funny how they say all nationalities, and then they say must be in japanese, well! got rid of a lot of nationalities now didn't we? >_>
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8/9/11 by mkmcartor
It's no different from a contest held in any country open to anyone. Writing contests in the US are always in English even if they are open to the entire world.
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8/10/11 by bunnychii
Obviously it needs to be in Japanese :P
Isn't it like that with all world wide contests? I mean you can't expect them to know every language out there and translate, that's more work for them :P
Too bad my Japanese is limited, hehe >_>;
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