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mayamada is a manga brand and mission-driven creative agency that equips aspiring professionals and practitioners to thrive on their creative journey. Co-founded by Nigel Twumasi, the brand works across manga comics, video games, and youth engagement. Built around an original universe of anthropomorphic characters within a television network setting with a distinct British-Japanese fusion, mayamada uses storytelling as a tool for creative development.
The brand specialises in three core areas: creative development (workshops and work experience programmes), creative event delivery, and promotional content creation. Through seven brand pillars - Universe, Studios, Studio77, "Do I Look Like A Gamer?", Labs, Productions, and Showrunners - mayamada delivers inclusive skills development, community-building events, and strategic consultancy that foster diversity in creative industries.
Guided by the tagline "Imagine More," mayamada challenges people to expand creative thinking to see greater possibilities. The Showrunners Work Experience programme creates structured pathways to engage with creative industries for young people from diverse backgrounds. This initiative allows aspiring creative professionals to gain valuable, meaningful work experience with the mayamada team whilst developing skills and building connections within the creative community.
Showrunners is the mayamada early-careers initiative — a practical bridge between education and real-world creative work. Young creatives face real barriers to entering creative industries, not because of talent, but because of access. Showrunners was built to help close that gap.
This page is about Showrunners Projects — short-term, project-based work experience at mayamada events throughout the year. It's free, open to join, and a great starting point for anyone wanting to get involved.
Participation gives students and young people real benefits: building confidence, developing skills, networking with industry professionals, and gaining hands-on experience to take their first steps in the creative industries.
Looking for something more structured? Showrunners also runs a 10–12 week programme (application required) and a bespoke training track for partner organisations. Contact [email protected] to find out more.
For further information or to put forward a young person for a Showrunners Projects opportunity, contact us at [email protected].
To equip aspiring professionals and practitioners to thrive on their creative journey
We cultivate the development of creativity in young people, particularly those from under-represented backgrounds We want to be the global destination for anyone to discover and develop their creativity.
We are making opportunities available for young people with a positive and proactive approach to their work. An interest in anime, manga, comics, video games or Japanese culture is nice to have, but not a requirement.
We have a strong brand culture that values using talent and imagination to create new solutions that help our team and community. As a small company, being able to contribute to a team is vital, as well as pursuing learning to gain skills that help the brand in addition to you as an individual.
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Creative Problem Solving
Use your creativity and imagination as a means to problem solving and putting positive, impactful works into the world.
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Take Responsibility
Recognise that you have responsibility for the outcome and your own continued self development.
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Serving Our Community
Through the work that we do, we want to push the world to create better products and services.
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Attention To Detail
Uphold a high attention to detail and set the standard for everything we produce as a brand.
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Be Open To Learning
Be open to ideas and learning new concepts, particularly those outside of your existing area of interest.
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Optimism
Approach tasks and problems with an optimistic view.
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