Week Thirteen: Manga, Anime and Japanese Cultural Values

By: Dr. David Steiling on April 20, 2020

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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 like everyone to do is Oishinbo a la Carte which is a sort of digest from the regular manga feature Oishinbo and reprints just some chapters but with footnotes and separate instructions for how to cook some of the dishes explained in the story.  There are characters and a plot which skips around a bit since these are only selected chapters.  Try to read as much as you can, feel free to pick some chapters you might find interesting such as the one on Sake or Ramen or vegetables.  Here is the link:

https://mangaraw.club/read-manga/oishinbo-chapter-0#1

Presentations from Jennifer Crotts on Your Name and Brittany Ruiz On Attack on Titan are expected to be available.

Here is the link to Brittany's presentation on Attack on Titan.

Here is the link to Jennifer's presentation on Your Name dir. by Makoto Shinkai

You can read Attack on Titan Here...it is currently up to 128 Chapters.

Next Week:  Everyone will read Annarasumanara 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 compleat the final grade conference by Friday of next week, which is the last day work can be submitted.