Take Your Time, Go through it!
Please go through the following FAQs as they will help you prepare better
MEAI wants to encourage and support the Manga, Webtoons and Anime creator economy with the support of the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting. We want to enable the best talent to reach the global stage and hence this is being funded by the Ministry of I&B, MEAI and other partners to make the entries free for you.
All WAM! competitions are offline and you need to be present in person. Several constituents of the event such as mentorship, workshops, etc will be online.
Yes. You can participate in any of the listed cities.
All competitors need to validate their participation through a government id. This will help speed up the registration at the venue on the day of the event.
Yes – provided you can submit the requisite output for each category.
Only the MANGA category will accept hard copy submissions.
We expect all participants to bring their own hardware.
All state level contests will begin registration at 9am followed by debriefing at 9:30am. All contestants will have 6 hrs (10am – 4pm) to complete their works.
All state level CosPlay (ARC) and Voice Over competitions (VOX) will be between 4pm and 6pm on the day of the competition. The timing of these is kept after the competition ending time to ensure no disruption to the competitors. All events are subject to change and availability.
There is no age restriction. However, those who are currently studying in a school or undergrad college (upto 21 years of age) can participate in the Student Category. All others will need to register in the Professional Category.
The jury will comprise of 1 representative from MEAI, 1 representative from the state (either partner anime club or from the industry) and 1 representative from the industry. All jury will be announced closer to the actual date of each event.
All contestants are allowed to use their character / background banks. It is encouraged to come ready with turnarounds and rigged characters to save time
No. Any content generated from AI will stand disqualified.


WAM! 2.0 – 28 States, 28 Cities
