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NEWS - 2006

Soya sits in jury of Mangatalagen 2007

Date: 07 December 2006
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Soya, with her contribution "highvision", was awarded the grand prize winner in Mangatalangen 2006, the biggest Swedish manga contest so far. Now it's time for Mangatalangen 2007 and Soya will be in the jury together with representatives from publishers and more. Read more about the contest here(Swedish only).

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SuperPlay's article about Spelfest

Date: 29 November 2006
Place: SuperPlay#129

In the November issue of SuperPlay there's an article about Swedish game festival Spelfest 2006, where they have mentioned our game Sumo. This is the second time this year SuperPlay has mentioned us in their articles! Read the most recent article here. Read the older article here (Swedish only articles).

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Yosh will be signing her book soon!

Date: 11 November 2006
Place: Västerlånggatan 48, Gamla Stan, Stockholm

Science Fiction bookstore will be celebrating 10 years anniversary during this weekend. Yosh will be there on Saturday to sign her book "Yosh! Teckna Manga!" and to hold manga lessons. If you have already bought the book, or want to buy this book, you can go there and get it signed by Yosh. She will also draw a potrait of you!

12:00 - Manga lesson with Yosh
13 :00 - Yosh's signing session
16:00 - Manga lesson with Yosh
17:00 - Yosh's signing session

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Photoes and videos from Spelfest 2006!

Date: 22 October 2006
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Yokaj Studio has been demonstrating our awarded game Sumo at the Sweden Game Festival Spelfest 2006. The Swedish morning paper DN wrote an artikel where they recommended the festival visitors to not miss our game Sumo! Check out the new photoes and videos in our GAME section.

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Sumo at computer game festival!

Date: 20 October 2006
Place: STREET at Honrstulls Strand 4.

The Swedish computer game institute is opening up their new event Spelfest 2006, the first Swedish game festival, for everyone who like games! Come to STREET 20-21 Ocktober and you can listen to seminars and try out different games. Bring your friends to STREET and play our awarded game Sumo! We will of course be there! We will also be selling Yosh's book "Yosh! Teckna Manga!".

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Read our new comic Beneath the Surface!

Date: 16 October 2006
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We proudly present our new comic Beneath the Surface by Yosh. We will run during a couple of weeks and update it every Sunday and Wednesday! Check our PORTFOLIO section and then click for MANGA to read the comic!

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Sawa is the winner of Sumo tournament!

Date: 05 October 2006
Place: –

The Sumo tournament is over and the winner is Sawa! He received prizes from Swedish game developers and also from Yokaj Studio. The while event was arranged by Swedish Game Awards (SGA) and their goal was to promote themselves and also the previous winners of SGA, among those is our game Sumo. Read more about the while event in our blog.

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Interview with Soya at Gecko.nu

Date: 05 October 2006
Place: Gecko.nu

Soya got interviewed at the Mangatalangen2006 award ceremony. The interview is now released on the website Gecko.nu. Read it here (Swedish only)!

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Sumo tournament at Zkillz!

Date: 04 October 2006
Place: Zkillz gaming café at 18, Saltmätargatan 19

Bring your friends to Zkillz and play our awarded game Sumo 'til your fingers bleed! The tournament will start at 19:00. You can sign up to the tournament from 18:00 at Zkillz the same day. All visitors will receive a "goodie bag" from Hjemmet Mortensen! The event is being arranged by Swedish Game Awards.
More about the event and the prizes!

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Anthology Mangatlangen released!

Date: 26 September 2006
Place: –

The anthology gathers the contest contributions of the best manga talents in today's Sweden. The book is free and can be found in for example Science Fiction-bookstore in Sweden. Get on to read Soya's grand prize winning contribution "highvision" and Yosh's finalist contribution "Panda In Sakura Garden"!

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More book fair!

Date: 24 September 2006
Place: Göteborg Book Fair, in Göteborg. Sweden.

This is our Sunday schedule:

11:00 Yosh signs her book at the Science Fiction book store display area.

12:00 Yosh will be holding a manga workshop at "Barnens Torg". There will be a drawing contest!

13:00 Yosh signs her book at publisher Wahlströms display area.

14:30 Yosh takes part in Seriesöndag together with comic expert Fredrik Strömberg and manga artist Kwok Hei Mak. They will discuss about manga at a stage.

Note: Changes in schedule might occur.

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See us at Göteborg Book Fair!

Date: 23 September 2006
Place: Göteborg Book Fair, in Göteborg. Sweden.

Here's our schedule for Saturday.

12:30 Yosh will be signing her book at the publisher Wahlström's display area.

14:00 Yosh will be signing her book at Science Fiction book store's display area.

16:00 Soya will be awarded for her first prize winning comic "highvision" at Mangatalangen's display case.

Note: There might be changes in the schedule.

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"highvision" in Manga Mania #8

Date: 20 September 2006
Place: –

Soya's winning contribution manga "highvision" is now avalible in the newest issue of Manga Mania.

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Exhibition at Matton

Date: 27 July 2006
Place: Matton shop in Stockholm

The exhibition of the Swedish manga talent competition moves on to the Swedish art supply shop Matton. The exhibition ends 7 August. Here you will find Soya's awarded contribution and Yosh's finalist contribution as well.

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Yosh goes national TV!

Date: 10 July 2006
Place: SVT, "Gomorron Sverige", around 07:00

Yosh and Manga Mania's editor Johan C.B. will chat a little bit about manga in "Gomorron Sverige" on the national television channel SVT1. Yosh will start drawing around 07:00, and later there will be some chatting around 07:45.

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Exhibition!

Date: 29 June 2006
Place: Science Fiction Bokhandeln, Gamla Stan

Award ceremony for the junioer winners and exhibition of contributions will be held for the Swedish manga talent contest winners. Come and see our contributions We will of course also be there! The exhibition will be going on til 17 July. The award ceremony for the senior winners, in which Soya is one of them, will be held in autumn.

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Yosh's book availible

Date: 21 June 2006
Place: –

Yosh! Teckna manga! is now availible at most of the common Swedish bookstores!

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Sumo at DreamHack

Date: 17 June 2006
Place: Elmia i Jönköping

XOVER.TV has borrowed our price winning game Sumo to let players at the world's biggest LAN party DreamHack play our game this weekend!

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Sumo in SuperPLAY

Date: 16 June 2006
Place: SuperPlay #124

This month's issue of Swedish game magazine SuperPLAY has an article about SGA and our game Sumo!

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Article - Yosh! Teckna manga!

Date: 11 June 2006
Place: Helagotland.se

A Swedish Internet news paper has interviewed Yosh about her new book. Read article(Swedish only)

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Yosh's book

Date: 06 June 2006
Place: –

Yosh and Yokaj Studio's first book "Yosh! Teckna Manga!" has now been sent to the Swedish bookstores. They should be on the bookshelves sometime next week.

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Mangatalangen 2006

Date: 22 May 2006
Place: –

Soya's comic "highvision" won the Swedish manga talent competition. Yosh was one of the ten finalists.

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Best game idea!

Date: 04 May 2006
Place: Royal Institute of Technology, student's union

Yokaj Studio GD's first game Sumo was awarded for "Best game idea 2006" at the Swedish Game Awards.

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YS 2nd birthday!

Date: 03 April 2006
Place: –

Today Yokaj Studio turns 2 years old! To celebrate this occasion we've created a new homepage design.

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Storyboarding

Date: 03 April 2006
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Yosh, one of our artists, has begun making storyboards.

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Latest update: 29 July 2010