Week Fourteen: The influence of Manga and Anime in the West

Everyone should read Annarasumanara a Korean manwha and answer some specific questions about it on their blog.  There will be presentations and this will be the final class of the semester.  You will be asked to complete the final grade conference by Friday of this week, which is the last day work can be submitted. Here...

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Week Thirteen: Manga, Anime and Japanese Cultural Values

Reading Assignment: The reading assignment this week was on view last week but no one chose to read it.  After I read deeper into it last week I thought it might be the perfect manga to make some points about the way manga from Japan is oftern rooted in strong values the Japanese have for cultural work.  So the reading I would...

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Week 11: Horror

This week's focused reading is manga by Junji Itou.  Here is a link to a substantial collection of his short work which gives you a good idea. Please read as many of these stories as you can before our next zoom-in. Here is the link to the Itou Junji Horror Comic Collection http://mangakakalot.xyz/manga/itou-junji-kyoufu-manga-collection Junji...

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Week 10: Isekai

Isekai is an increasingly popular genre of Manga in which the protagonist suffers a, usually, abrupt transfer from one world (reality) into another. Sometimes they are teleported; sometimes they are reincarnated.  My favorite Isekai film so far is The Boy and the Beast (2015) dir. by Mamoru Hosoda. I was wrong, it is currently off...

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Week 9 Cyberpunk

Scheduled Presentations for this Week Presenters should send me a link to a video of their presentation as soon as possible. Kenyon Bertelsen—Takashi Nakamura Here is Kenyon's Link to an ad ridden but free video of Tree of Palme Here is the link to Kenyon's Presentation:   kenyon_manga.mp4 James Harris—Ghost in the...

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Week 8: Diversity of gender and sexuality in Manga and Anime

From My Lesbian Experience with Loneliness This week we will discussing some representations of diverse gender and sexual orientation in manga and anime. I am asking you to read two recent works along these subject lines that are very well executed and have had attracted readership and critical notice. Read: Nagata Kaki--My Lesbian...

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Week Seven: Shonen

Readings and presentations on selected titles and artists. As a general background I suggest everyone should read , Bakuman https://mangapanda.vip/bakuman   As well please try to read as much as you can of the works below. Presentations: Hanlu Want—20th Century Boys by Naoki Urasawa D’Angelo Hernandez—Oyasumi...

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Shojou

Assignment:  Read some Shojo.  Come to class prepared to discuss what you have read.  Does what you read seem as if it were targeted to girls?  Why do you think this?  What are the ideals for girls embedded in the work? Why did you pick this work to read?  Please choose something to read with which you are...

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Week Four: Miyazaki and Studio Ghibli

This week's presenter will be  George Cwirko-Godycki who teaches in the animation department and is an acafan of auteur anime like the films produced by the legendary Japanese animation studio, Studio Ghibli.  George is going to talk about the rise of independent auteur animation in Japan, the specific ways that creative dynamics...

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Week Three: Gekiga

Elegiy in Red” by Seiichi Hayashi. This week we are considering Gegika and I am asking you to read Cigarette Girl, a very interesting slice of life manga you will find on the Course Resource Page, some of Lone Wolf and Cub and some Golgo 13 which you can read Chapter 1 and other chapters here.  It is still an ongoing feature, but...

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Week Two: Osamu Tezuka

This week we are focusing on the work of Osamu Tezuka, the central figure in the development of the manga/anime cultural industry after the second world war. Remember to post your four panel manga from our first class.  Please Read: Tezuka's story manga from the 1970s, Ayako before coming to class.  Here is a link to that...

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Week 1: Before Coming to the First Class

Hokusai Manga published 1814-1878 This is the course blog for the Seminar in Manga and Anime, Spring 2020 ,  LMST 264 F,  Ringling College of Art and Design.  Click on the links in the Course Links box to access the course information and policies, the weekly schedule and the online Course Resources. You can read the course...

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Final Reviews

This week we will meet in individual appointments for final reviews.  Please remember your appointment time and show up just for your appointment.  I will begin a final review of blogs on Wednesday, so please have your blog completed by Tuesday night. I look forward to discussing your experience of the course and reading your...

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Final Week of Presentations

This week we will have our final week of presentations.  We will also complete the online course evaluations in class, and prepare for the final evaluations next week. Please remember your time for next week's appointment and complete your blog by Tuesday evening of next week so it can be reviewed before your appointment. This week's...

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