Contest one: Third annual Halloween Drawing Contest!

It's here! Akadot's Halloween Drawing Contest is back! And this time it's a little bit different. With the recent boom in the manga industry, Akadot has tweaked our art contest just a bit and now have two ways to enter.

Submission details:

Option 1: Draw your favorite anime or manga character(s) in costume celebrating Halloween. You can draw original as well.

Option 2: We will also be taking short manga entries as well. Manga submissions are also allowed but take note that only the artwork will be judged.

Trick or Treat! - The PRIZES!

Sponsors from all over have gotten together to put these terrific prize packages together!

The winners of the Halloween Drawing Contest will receive...

(1) Grand Winner
Let's Draw Manga: Monsters
Let's Draw Manga: Tokyo Urban-hip Hop Culture
Digital Manga Publishing Maxi Manga Pack: will include an assortment of 9 of Digital Manga's favorite hits! (may include yaoi titles ^__^)
Resident Evil Figure Box
Yokai Series 1 & 2 Trading Figures: 2 Boxes at random
Pumpkin Pals (sorry folks! Not a veggie playmate but a bag full of candy)

(2) Runner Up
Digital Manga Publishing Trick or Treat Manga 2-Pack: Includes 1 yaoi manga. Which one's the trick… you decide!
Yokai Series 1 & 2 Trading Figures: 1 Box at random
Pumpkin Pals

Deadline:

All entries for the Drawing Contest will be due on October 27th, 11:59:59 pm Pacific Standard Time.

Winners will be announced October 29th!

Submission Info

You can send your artwork via e-mail or snail mail. Please remember to include your name, mailing address, age and email address along with your entry. Although Manga Academy membership is not necessary, you may also include your nom de plume. And remember, don't forget your age!

E-mail Address for Drawing Contest:

halloween@akadot.com

Snail Mail Address for Drawing Contest:

Akadot Halloween Drawing Contest
c/o Digital Manga, Inc.
1123 Dominguez St. Suite K
Carson, California 90746

Contest two: 1st annual Halloween Cosplay Contest!

Can't draw? Here's another way to win! Cosplay just doesn't have to be for the conventions! From Rikku to Goku to the billions of Naruto submissions we expect, show what skill you have in the Halloween fashion!

Submission details:

Just send us a picture of yourself in your Halloween costume! Although not preferred, we will accept photos of your cosplay at past conventions.

Trick or Treat! - The PRIZES!

We have a different prize package for the winners of the Cosplay Contest!

The winners* of the Halloween Cosplay Contest will receive...

(1) Grand Winner
Let's Draw Manga: Monsters
Let's Draw Manga: Tokyo Urban-hip Hop Culture
Digital Manga Publishing Maxi Manga Pack: will include an assortment of 9 of Digital Manga's favorite hits! (may include yaoi titles ^__^)
How to Draw Manga: Costume Encyclopedia
Resident Evil Figure Box
Yokai Series 1 & 2 Trading Figures: 2 Boxes at random
Utada Hikaru's Exodus (Special Edition Japanese Version)
Pumpkin Pals

(2) Runner Up
Utada Hikaru's Exodus (English Version)
Digital Manga Publishing Trick or Treat Manga 2-Pack: Includes 1 yaoi manga. Which one's the trick… you decide!
How to Draw Manga: Costume Encyclopedia
Yokai Series 1 & 2 Trading Figures: 1 Box at random
Pumpkin Pals

* In order to verify your costume submission, a fax or scan of your id must be sent in to receive your prize package.

Deadline:

All entries for the Halloween Cosplay Contest! will be due October 31st, 11:59:59 pm Pacific Standard Time.

The finalists will be announced, Monday, November 1st. The finalist will be placed in a Manga Academy election on Super Tuesday. To celebrate the national elections, Manga Academy students will place their votes for their favorite cosplay! Manga Academy students will be able to vote from 12:00:00 am to 11:59:59 pm Pacific Standard Time on November 2nd. The winners will be announced on November 3rd.

Submission Info:

You can send your artwork via e-mail or snail mail. Please remember to include your name, mailing address, age* and email address along with your entry. Although Manga Academy membership is not necessary, you may also include your nom de plume. And remember, don't forget your age!

E-mail Address for Cosplay Contest:

halloween@akadot.com

Snail Mail Address for Cosplay Contest:
c/o Digital Manga, Inc.
1123 Dominguez St. Suite K
Carson, California 90746

Legal Mumbo-Jumbo in text too small to read with the naked eye.

1. You must be a legal resident of the U.S. at the time of entry for the Art Contest. International entries may enter the Cosplay Contest. Void where prohibited by law. Employees and agents of Akadot, Digital Manga, Inc., their affiliates, subsidiaries, advertising and promotional agencies and any other prize sponsors (all of the foregoing collectively referred to as "Sponsors and Administrators"), and persons living in the same household are not eligible to participate or win.

2. Odds of winning depend upon the number of eligible entries received. No substitutions, cash equivalents or redemptions will be made, except that Sponsor reserves the right to substitute any prize package with another prize of equal or greater value in the event that the advertised prize(s) are not available, including cancellation of a scheduled event. Prize winners are solely responsible for any expenses incurred related to the prizes, including but not limited to travel expenses. Any unclaimed prizes may not be awarded. Restrictions, conditions, and limitations apply. Sponsors will not replace any lost or stolen prize items. Prizes may not be redeemed or exchanged.

3. General Conditions: This contest is governed by the laws of the U.S. By entering and accepting and using the prizes, participants release and hold harmless Sponsors and Administrators and their respective parents, subsidiaries, affiliates, directors, officers, employees, and agents from any and all liability. Except where prohibited by law, a winner's acceptance of a prize constitutes permission for Sponsors to use such winner's name, address (city and province only), statements, photograph, voice and/or likeness for any advertising and promotional purposes relating to the contest without further compensation, consideration, review or consent.

4. Limitations of Liability: Sponsors and Administrators assume no responsibility for lost, late, misdirected, incomplete, inaccurate or scrambled entries or for any computer, online, network, telephone or technical malfunctions that may occur. If, for any reason, the Contest is not capable of running as planned, including infection by computer virus, bugs, tampering, unauthorized intervention, fraud, technical failures, or any other causes beyond the control of Sponsors and Administrators which corrupt or affect the administration, security, fairness, integrity or proper conduct of this Contest, Akadot reserves the right at its sole discretion to cancel, terminate, modify or suspend the Contest and select winners from among all eligible entries received prior to the cancellation.

5. Privacy: By entering the Contest, participants agree to Sponsors' and Administrators' use of their personal information to administer this Contest and fulfill the prizes.

6. All artwork will not be returned and becomes property of Akadot. Akadot is not responsible for any lost or stolen artwork.

7. Sponsors: Akadot, 1123 Dominguez Street Unit L, Carson, Ca. 90746

All images copyright to their respective owners.