ARTISTICANIMANGA is not an open membership group, which means that no one is automatically approved as a new member.  While we wish we could have open membership, we've had too many issues where members did not read the group rules and thus have their submissions declined.  So, here are the quick and easy steps on how to join our group:

• You must read all the rules for this group.  We understand that it's quite a bit of information.  But knowing our rules is only beneficial to you.


• Click here to read the rules.


• Once you have read the rules and are ready to join, click the JOIN THIS GROUP button.


• In your join request, please make sure you have typed this into it:

  "I have read, understood, and agree to follow ArtisticAnimanga's rules."

  You and you alone are responsible for reading and following these rules.  Failure to follow these rules will result in only one warning.  The second infraction will lead to a block from ARTISTICANIMANGA.


• Please be patient and wait for a staff member to review your join request.

UPDATE
We still desperately need prize donations!  If we do not have enough prizes for this contest, it will end up either being cancelled on delayed!
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It is getting closer to our next contest for this year!  We need your help with prizes to give to our winners for when the contest concludes.  While we will be offering our own contest prizes, we cannot offer as many as we would like.  Contest donations are what make our contests so great because we can offer so much stuff to our winners.

What kinda of prizes could you donate?
Points
Journal Features
Art Requests
Premium Memberships
Prints

*Please, no llamas.

If you are able to help us out with a donation, please post a comment here on this journal.  We will be accepting donations until the planned contest start date.

The poll is now officially closed for voting for who you would like to be our 2013 Group Mascot!  We would like to thank everyone for their participation for this year's contest.  If your mascot design was not selected this year, there is always next year's mascot contest.  Congratulations to our winners!