Goirai Adds Illustration Contests to Its Commission Service
KOARC Inc.'s Goirai, a service that connects clients in Japan and overseas with Japanese creators for paid commissions, now runs illustration competitions, fan art contests, and open calls for character design for companies, brands, and VTuber agencies.
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Why it matters
Goirai is selling contests as a lower-risk alternative to single commissions: finished entries can be compared before adoption, and the entrants' own hashtag posts carry the promotion, which shifts the organizer's job to picking a winner.
Key Facts
- KOARC Inc. operates Goirai, a commission service for clients in Japan and overseas to hire Japanese creators.
- Goirai now runs illustration competitions, fan art contests, and character design open calls for companies, brands, and VTuber agencies.
- Goirai handles planning, accepting entries, announcing results, and paying prize money.
- Entries are posted with a hashtag on X or Bluesky, or from a Goirai portfolio.
- Organizers confirm the theme and select the winning works; Goirai handles the rest.
Goirai handles planning, entries, results announcements, and prize payment. Organizers confirm the theme and pick the winners; the rest is handled by the service.
Entries are posted with a hashtag on X or Bluesky, or uploaded from a Goirai portfolio, so each creator's submission also reaches that creator's followers. Competition pages, entry guidelines, critiques, and entrant comments are translated into the viewer's language, which removes the need for an overseas contact point. Rights, including copyright assignment, are set in the guidelines, and entrants accept them at the time of entry with the record kept by Goirai. After a contest, organizers can commission winning creators through Goirai for additional work. Goirai lists the organizer's remaining tasks as confirming the theme and selecting the winning works.
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