🎨 Watch out, dear illustrators! 🖌✨

A fantastic drawing competition awaits you again this year! This time it’s all about the theme: Gijinka

🔹 What is Gijinka?

Gijinka refers to the personification of non-human beings or objects – be it an animal, an object or even an abstract concept. Give your motif a unique human form and show us your creative interpretation!
Design a creative Gijinka figure! Whether sweet, elegant or mystical – we look forward to your imaginative creations!

✨ Let your creativity run wild and bring your unique vision to life! We look forward to your works of art! 🎨

Prices

We award great prizes in the following categories:
✨ Most creative idea – For the most original concept and the most unusual implementation.
🎨 Best Design – For the most beautiful, harmonious or detailed design.
🔥 Best Presentation – For the most impressive pose, dynamics or expressiveness.

Conditions of participation

  • The drawing must be submitted in A4 format, min. 300 DPI, as a JPG file.
  • All media are permitted – digital and traditional.
  • Only one submission per person.
  • AI-generated works are excluded from the competition.
    If AI use is suspected, we reserve the right to request the raw file in .clip or .psd format for review.

  • If you are unable to attend the award ceremony, please report to the information stand and leave your contact details.
  • You can also provide the contact details of a representative (full name of the person; the person must be able to identify themselves)!
  • Prices are NEVER sent abroad!
  • The entry form must be COMPLETELY filled out. Incomplete forms will result in exclusion from the competition.
  • By submitting your drawing, you agree that it will be displayed on the Gallery Wall during AniNite and published on the AniNite social media channels and website.
    All rights to the work remain with you!
  • Your drawing may only be shared publicly after the winner has been announced.
  • Pay attention to the protection of minors: Pictures that obviously contain pornographic, violent, similar or criminally relevant topics will be disqualified. Please remember that minors also visit AniNite.

Registration

Click here to register.

  • The submission must be uploaded via a cloud platform (e.g. Google Drive, Dropbox, etc.). Make sure that the link is shared with everyone with the link.
  • Please enter only one social media link when registering.

The closing date for entries is 26.07.2025, 23:59 – no more entries can be accepted after this date.

Data protection

By participating in the competition, you agree that we may exhibit your picture(s) during the event. The data will be stored by us and may be used for advertising purposes (e.g. for a social media post for the fan art competition in the future). If you do not want us to use your entry for advertising purposes, please let us know. We will then delete your entry after the AniNite. We will NOT pass on your data to third parties.

Contact us

Do you have any questions?
Don’t hesitate to write to us using the contact form with the subject “Fanart”.

Data protection
We, AniManga Austria - Arbeitskreis japanische Jugendkultur (Club seat: Austria), process personal data for the operation of this website only to the extent technically necessary. All details in our privacy policy.
Data protection
We, AniManga Austria - Arbeitskreis japanische Jugendkultur (Club seat: Austria), process personal data for the operation of this website only to the extent technically necessary. All details in our privacy policy.