At mayamada, we passionately believe in the power of creativity to make the world a more productive, engaging, and fun place to be. That belief was the motivation behind our #BeCreative campaign that launched this month.
Kickstarter Characters
As part of our Samurai Chef Kickstarter campaign, we rewarded our top three backers with the opportunity to be included in their own personalised Samurai Chef comic.
Each backer would be able to describe their own chef characters that will make a meal to face off against the Samurai Chef in a one-off story called “Ambush”.
We’re happy to say we’re making good progress on the comic and can reveal the three characters (and their teams) that will be in the comic:
“Mr Samuels’ Steak Shack”
Mr Samuels is the Steak Shack’s head chef. A tall and proud lion with very fashionable twin puma assistants.
Highly idolised and well-respected, failure is not an option for Mr Samuels so you can expect him to put up a fight against the Samurai Chef.
“Sharvan’s Okonomiyaki Stop”
Head chef Sharvan is an Asian Black Bear and is backed by very confident looking bulldog and alligator chefs. Watch out for the dish that gets cooked up at the Okonomiyaki Stop.
“Twice the Spice”
The inspiration for head chef Eeson came from the photo of a backer’s husband. We hope she’s happy with the look!
We’ll be sending the comic out to our top three backers later this month. The comic will then be available for a limited time in 2015 also so stay tuned!
Charity Christmas Card Competition
Aid For Japan are a charity that provides long-term support for children orphaned by the Great East Japan Earthquake and subsequent Tsunami in 2011.
To provide support for the cause, we are holding a Christmas card design competition and calling on you to create your own mayamada inspired Christmas card.
The winning design will be turned into an official mayamada Christmas card and made available for sale at November’s Hyper Japan event where 100% of the profits will be donated to Aid For Japan.
That lucky winner will also receive 25 copies of their original design to send to family and friends this Christmas.
Plus, the top 3 designs will also receive a copy of the brand new combined volume 1 & 2 Samurai Chef manga book!
Check out the competition page for more details, we can’t wait to see what you create!