When we began our Christmas Card Design Competition, we were looking forward to seeing other people get creative with the mayamada characters. Luckily you didn’t let us down as we had several fantastic entries using different characters in all sorts of Christmas settings.

Thank you to everyone that took part. Not only did we get creative for the festive period, but we also helped to raise awareness of a worthy charitable cause.

The winning design will be turned into an official mayamada Christmas card and sold to raise money for Aid For Japan. This organisation continues to provide long-term support for children orphaned by the Great East Japan Earthquake and subsequent Tsunami in 2011.

We can now reveal the design that will be available for sale at Hyper Japan this weekend and through our online shop later this month.

Congratulations again to Hannah for her entry and everyone that took part. We look forward to running this competition again next year too!

Drum roll please…

After reviewing all the entries, we can reveal the winner of the Christmas Card Design Competition is…Hannah Ffytche, aged 12.

We were impressed with Hannah’s entry and have chosen her design as the winner of this year’s Christmas card competition. She picked the Samurai Chef and had him chopping Christmas dinner with an arrangement of decorations around his hat which made us laugh. The chef hat Christmas tree ornament was a nice touch too.

Well done Hannah!

We’ll now turn the winning design into an official printed Christmas card in time for Hyper Japan to raise money for Aid for Japan.

And we’ll also be giving a copy of the new Samurai Chef manga book to the winner and runner up design too. That honour goes to Luana Venuti who picked multiple characters in a very festive setting.

Congratulations to both Hannah and Luana!

The entries are in!

Our Christmas card design competition has come to a close and there have been some great entries. We’ve enjoyed seeing how you have used the mayamada cast of characters in your designs.

Remember, we are collaborating with Aid For Japan and the winning design will be turned into an official mayamada Christmas card made available for sale at Hyper Japan Christmas Market event.

All profits fro sales of the card will go to the charity and we’ll be revealing the winning design from the entries below this Friday, November 7th.

Stay tuned!

Luana

Jess Witor

Jade

May Linh

Nawaal

Hannah

Becci

Berdan