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GamePad: Gaming + Froyo Event

mayamada June 1, 2015 No Comments

We’re back!

On Saturday 20th June, we’re hosting the second GamePad! event at West 12 Shopping Centre in Sheperd’s Bush. This will also be the official pre-party of the London Anime & Gaming Convention in July so grab your free tickets now!

You can look forward to another great day calling gamers, sweet tooths and everyone in between to join us for some fun with gaming and froyo.

Missed the first GamePad! event? DOn’t worry because captured the best moment on film so you know what to expect this time around.

Frozen yogurt at GamePad

Just in time for the summer, frozen yogurt will be available and we also have a tasty surprise for you. Find one of the three frozen yogurt cups with the mayamada logo inside and you’ll win a prize from us.

Cosplayers and competitions

The cosplay competiton will be back on June 20th. Come well dressed because the best cosplayer will get tickets to the London Anime & Gaming Convention, July 4th and 5th.

We will also be running a gaming competition for a chance to become a character in a future mayamada comic! Get your game on and get yourself (or a pet) featured in one our comics in 2015.

On top of all that you will also be able to get your hands on our range of anime inspired clothings and comics. Stay tuned for more details on that and everything else going down on Saturday June 20th!

mayamada @ StreetFest 2015

mayamada May 31, 2015 No Comments

Earlier this month we made our third appearance at StreetFest at their new Tobacco Dock home. After our first appearance in a while last year, we couldn’t wait to collaborate with the StreetFest team and have some fun (and more food).

We set up in the market area with our range of anime inspired clothing and comics. We also introduced our Selfie Competition where you had to be the first to take a selfie with six of our characters to win a t-shirt or snapback…which is just what our winner Tegan did. Congratulations!

Along with us were a bunch of great brands including High Spirit Bags, 4649 Clothing, Flye Clothing, See:Saw Clothing and our neighbours for the day Kam Creates and Kelleys Deli.

We also got a chance to discover new brands on the day including Ricalyce, a brand making quality snapback caps.

The best thing about StreetFest is al the creativity that goes on through out the day. From musicians to skateboarders to the graffiti artists working on brilliant pieces over the day.

And food..did we mentioned the food?

We’re already excited to return to Tobacco Dock for next year’s event. Stay tuned…

StreetFest 2015

mayamada April 21, 2015 No Comments

We had such a great time at StreetFest last year we’re coming back in 2015! This bank holiday Sunday we’ll be collaborating with the StreetFest team at their new home at Tobacco Dock.

Our stall will be packed full of our original anime inspired clothing, comics and hats. That includes our Samurai Beanies and Snapbacks too.

We’re also bringing something new to StreetFest this year, Samurai Chef chocolate bars available in three flavours: Crunchy Noodle, Cherry Blossom and Green Tea. These bars were a sell out at London Anime & Gaming Con and they will be restocked for Sunday May 3rd.

As well as the StreetFest market, we’ll also be running two competitions for prizes throughout the day. You can win your choice of t-shirt, snapback or beanie hat by taking selfies with our cast of characters.

The first person to tag @mayamadatees and @streetfest on selfies with all six of our characters by 7pm will get the prize and a comic too! Don’t forget to use the hashtag #sfselfie so we can keep track of all your entries.

We’re also bringing some artist fun to StreetFest with our colouring wall. You can get creative and colour in our characters for a chance to win one of our new notebooks when they’re released in the summer.

It’s all happening on Bank Holiday, Sunday May 3rd so make sure you’ve got your tickets. We can’t wait, see you there!

GamePad! Gaming + Music Event Recap

mayamada April 17, 2015 No Comments

It’s been a long while since the last mayamada event so we couldn’t wait to get our latest event, GamePad!, up and running.

Things got off to a great start as the crowd rolled into the Petit Miracle Hub in West 12 Shopping Centre…free cupcakes might have had something to do with that!

It was a cosplay takeover as Animeleague made a big showing at GamePad! and the building was packed full of amazing characters.

There were enough cosplayers to hold our own cosplay contest, and we did just that with tickets to London Anime & Gaming Con up for grabs.

We had cosplayers from Marvel, Pokemon and Dragonball universes. After the voting was done, Tabitha (aka Demorafairy Cosplay) was crowned the winner with her Espeon cosplay.

A big part of GamePad! is the games and we had three screens running Mario Kart, House of the Dead and Super Smash Bros throughout the day.

Special guest Shaodow came, saw and conquered as he took out the competition and team mayamada to win the Super Smash Bros tournament. As well as Samurai Chef chocolate and a logo snapback cap, he also won tickets to StreetFest 2015!

It wasn’t just video games, no-tech gaming was just as fun with things getting very competitive on giant Jenga.

It was a great day and this was just the start…GamePad! will be back in June so stay tuned to find out the date of the next mayamada gaming and music event.

MCM Expo Birmingham

mayamada April 7, 2015 No Comments

Last month we took a trip up north (well, north-ish) for our first visit to the MCM Expo at the NEC Exhibition Centre in Birmingham. After a great time at London Anime & Gaming Con, we were excited to get our second convention of the year off and running.

We set up in the Comic Village and manage to cover our table with regular and limited edition of the Samurai Chef manga as well as our new Samurai Chef chocolate bars.

It’s been a while since we’ve been to an MCM event, but we were quickly up to speed once we got our bearings.

There is so much to see at MCM. We only got to see a fraction of it from our stall, but we were treated to Robot Wars matches going on just behind the Comic Village – we loved watching that show!

We also got to meet up with some great exhibitors including Canime, Helenasia and Choizilla, who had one of the best presented tables in the Comic Village and a cool outfit too.

As always it’s about the cosplay and we saw a tons of great outfits over the two days of MCM Expo.

Even the security guards were getting into it…

So that’s two events down and many more to go in 2015. Not only conventions like Hyper Japan and London Comic Con, but we’ll also have our very own mayamada events starting with GamePad! in April.

Stay tuned to find out where to catch us after that one…

GamePad! Gaming + Music Event

mayamada March 14, 2015 No Comments

It’s been a while since we had our last mayamada event. We still have great memories of our Frozen Yogurt Party at Tutti Frutti and the fantastic turnout on the day.

So we’re happy to announce that this year we’re bring back mayamada events! Our first one is called GamePad! and it’s coming on Saturday 11th of April.

Join us from 3pm at the Petit Miracle Hub for a day of gaming, music and our popup shop featuring the full range of mayamada anime clothing and comics. All this under one roof for a FREE one day event!

You can get free tickets now and keep up to date with the latest event news on the GamePad! Facebook event page.

Game on!

London Anime & Gaming Con Recap

mayamada February 14, 2015 No Comments

Our year of conventions got off to a great start with mayamada attending London Anime & Gaming Con earlier this month. LAGC is one of the more community focused conventions on the calendar and we joined some cool anime fans, gamers and exhibitors at the London Metropolitan University’s Rocket Complex.

We’ve been exhibiting at LAGC for a few years now and always enjoy the chance to spend more time speaking with the anime and gaming community. This time around was even better as we were given the chance to talk on stage about how we put together our manga books.

Of course we brought along our original anime inspired clothing, including a brand new kawaii t-shirt. The design features Hannah, one of the character from the 11th Hour story.

But the best treat was the thee flavours of Samurai Chef chocolate debuted at the convention! Green Tea, Cherry Blossom and Crunchy Noodles were a real hit at the convention with every bar gone by Sunday.

Cosplayers is a big part of any convention and LAGC is no exception. Check out our cosplay photos from the two days of LAGC and we’ll see you at our next convention, MCM Comic Con Birmingham.

London Anime & Gaming Con

mayamada January 4, 2015 No Comments

We will be attending London Anime & Gaming Con this February Saturday 7th to Sunday 8th and have loads in store for you.

Collector’s Edition Manga

Not only will the new and complete edition of Samurai Chef be available at our stall, so will the limited Collector’s Edition! This sealed manga book comes with a new cover, four extra pages of story, a pin badge set, and a download link to the colour edition of our digital comic Samurai Chef Origins.

Plus, 5 copies will be stamped with the mayamada logo on the inside cover. Whoever gets a stamped book will be made into a mayamada character in a future book. There will only be 20 copies available exclusively at the event, so be quick!

How To Create Manga Panel

Interested in making your own manga? Or just curious as to how we put ours together? See us on the downstairs stage on Saturday 7th Feb for a panel on create manga. We’ll go through the process of outlining a story, creating characters, working with artists and finally pulling everything together into you very own comic.

We’ve released two books and we’re working on more for 2015 so come and ask us about the process from 1:30pm.

Anime Inspired Clothing

Along with the new comic we will also have our range of t-shirts, hats and sweatshirts on offer at our stall, including a brand new design.

And that’s not all, join us at the event next month to find out what other surprises we have planned. London Anime & Gaming Con is looking bigger than ever and we can’t wait for our first convention of the year. See you there.

You can buy your tickets at www.londonanimecon.com

Popup Runway @ The White Lion

mayamada December 17, 2014 No Comments

Last month we took part in the first Popup Runway fashion event arranged by Catch Project. It was our first major runway event and something we’re looking forward to being part of in 2015.

We quickly found out how different photoshoots are from runway shows. It’s a little like comparing films to theatre productions. Both take a lot of preparation and can get hectic once things get started, but with a live runway show you only have one chance to get it right. Add a live audience waiting and watching and it’s a whole other experience.

Thankfully, we had a great team of people organising the event to make sure everything went according to plan…90% of the plan at least! From models to hair & make up artists to everyone at the White Lion, everyone played their part to put together a fantastic evening.

As well as mayamada, other brands involved – Ounce Clothing, Strip Clothing, All Thingz Nice and See:Saw Clothing especially – put on a great show and a successful Popup Runway.

Hyper Japan Christmas Recap

mayamada November 21, 2014 No Comments

It’s been a week since Hyper Japan Christmas and we’ve just about recovered from an intense weekend! It was a great three days and although we didn’t get to take in all of the show (downside of being an exhibitor), we did get to see a lot and meet a lot of great people.

A big THANK YOU to everyone that stopped by the mayamada stall and check out or line of original anime clothing & comics. Especially everyone that picked up a copy of the new Samurai Chef manga book. It was brand new for the show and got a fantastic reception.

Expect to see us at more expos in 2015, we can’t wait. And until the next Hyper Japan, you can always reminisce with our photos taken at the event.

See you next year!