Manga Pilots
Manga Pilot News: The New, Improved Pilot Site
Pilots are now prominently featured in the Manga + Comics top navigation on every page. Getting there is not only easier, the result is more rewarding. We now can display all the text information on each Pilot's detail page -- where it belongs. The creator's credits and their own words about their characters, concept and worlds are no longer hidden in tabs on a SHOP page that was hard to find. The new embeddable widget-sized viewer has an improved reading experience -- a full screen mode that shows the manga elegantly on black with no surrounding clutter.
You Read, Review and Help Decide What's Next!
In May of 2008, TOKYOPOP launched an exciting new stage in our manga development program. Here's how it works:
Our editorial team reviews submissions, and offers contracts to promising manga creators to create a 24-to-36-page short-form Manga Pilot story. The Pilot is published online for TOKYOPOP community members to review, rate, and discuss. TOKYOPOP will select which Manga Pilot properties continue their creative evolution based on a combination of your feedback, our editorial judgment, interest from producing partners in film and other media and the market in general.
A successful Manga Pilot may find its first major incarnation in one or more different media. The nature of the property will indicate what it should become—an Online Manga, a print graphic novel, a movie, a TV show, a game, a mobile manga, a panel-by-panel animation or any combination of these.
Your participation is a crucial part of this process. Positive reviews may help catapult a pilot into the stratosphere!
The Manga Pilot program is not a competition. It's a proving ground that will give manga creators exposure to an enormous audience and help TOKYOPOP develop the next generation of manga superstars.
Manga Pilot FAQ
Click this link to find out everything you want to know about Manga Pilots.
Manga Pilot Submission Guidelines
Click this link to find out how to submit a Manga Pilot
Click HERE to read and review the Manga Pilots!
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