Show Manager Lance Fensterman has announced the winner of this year’s design a mascot” contest for the New York Anime Festival. “We received 200 entries in this year’s mascot contest earlier this month, and we spent the past weekend at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden’s Sakura Matsuri where fans voted and voted and voted for the winner. (It was a long weekend.) But, now, we have a victor: Melissa Wilson.”
Wilson wins ten Weekend Passes to NYAF, 50 manga from Del Rey Manga, and “a metric ton of praise from fellow artists at theOtaku.com.”
The other nine finalists were: Jessie Cooke, Johan Faulstich, Joanna Happ, Lindsey Henninger, Jayleen Jackson, Jessie Loo, Juu-Yuki Luu, April Osborne, and Nicholas Samarripa.
Updates on the Festival—which will be 25-27 September in the Jacob Javits Convention Center—appear on the NYAF’s web site and blog.