JAPANESE
Thank you for a lot of applications
[Hida Miyagawa International Manga Festa] has been held once every three years and this is the 6th time. The reason we decided the theme as “Healthy Aging” is that we wish the young generations to have the positive image for the future, since the image for the future is becoming so negative these days.
Simply because we tend to bring the dark image up front rather than the happy ones, the rich experiment and the knowledge of old ages are becoming the very important matters to us.
With the power to blow out the heaviness, we received numerous numbers of energetic and happy works from all over the world.
On August 9th , Sunday, with professor Keiichi Makino, five public participations from Hida-city and eight members from Manga Festival society narrowed down to 198 works as the finalists.
On August 23rd, Sunday, the awarded winners were finalized at Hida Manga Kingdom (Manga Library).
All the awarded and the finalists’ works are displayed at 2nd floor of Hida-Manga Kingdom.
The next festival will be held on 2012.
If you wish to receive the information on Manga-Festa 2012, please fill in below information (name, country, e-mail address) by December 31, 2009.
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This web site will be closed on January 31st, 2010.
Kazuaki Kato (Japan)
Hida Miyagawa International Manga Carnival 2009 Executive committee / The cosponsorship: City of Hida, Gifu