Kyoto Seika University
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Private university
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, located in Seika
Seika, Kyoto
is a town located in Sōraku District, Kyoto, Japan.As of 2008, the town has a population which exceeds 35,797. The total area is 25.66 km². Seika, although largely agriculturally based, has in recent years become the center of a national project of the Kansai Science City and has been referred to...
, Kyoto, Japan. The predecessor of the school was founded in 1968, and it was chartered as a university
University
A university is an institution of higher education and research, which grants academic degrees in a variety of subjects. A university is an organisation that provides both undergraduate education and postgraduate education...
in 1979.
The school is noted for its faculties of manga
Manga
Manga is the Japanese word for "comics" and consists of comics and print cartoons . In the West, the term "manga" has been appropriated to refer specifically to comics created in Japan, or by Japanese authors, in the Japanese language and conforming to the style developed in Japan in the late 19th...
and anime
Anime
is the Japanese abbreviated pronunciation of "animation". The definition sometimes changes depending on the context. In English-speaking countries, the term most commonly refers to Japanese animated cartoons....
, and being involved in the teaching and training of future manga artists
Mangaka
is the Japanese word for a comic artist or cartoonist. Outside of Japan, manga usually refers to a Japanese comic book and mangaka refers to the author of the manga, who is usually Japanese...
. The dean of the manga faculty is Keiko Takemiya
Keiko Takemiya
is a Japanese manga artist. She is included in the Year 24 Group. She resides in Kamukura, Kanagawa Prefecture. Takemiya was one of the female authors who in the early 1970s pioneered a genre of girls' comics about love between young men; in December 1970 she published a short story, "In the...
, and noted American anthropologist and translator Matt Thorn
Matt Thorn
Matt Thorn is a cultural anthropologist and an Associate Professor in the Department of Manga Production at Kyoto Seika University's Faculty of Manga in Japan. He is most well known in North America for his work dealing with shōjo manga. He has appeared at multiple anime conventions, including...
is also an associate professor at the school's faculty of manga. Graduates of the university have gone on to forge successful careers in the manga, anime, and media industries. In 2005, Kyoto Seika University established the Kyoto International Manga Museum
Kyoto International Manga Museum
The is located in Nakagyō-ku, Kyoto, Japan. The building housing the museum is the former Tatsuike Elementary School. The museum opened on November 25, 2006. Its collection of 200,000 items includes such rarities as Meiji period magazines and postwar rental books....
. Located in a converted elementary school building in downtown Kyoto, it contains the world's largest manga
Manga
Manga is the Japanese word for "comics" and consists of comics and print cartoons . In the West, the term "manga" has been appropriated to refer specifically to comics created in Japan, or by Japanese authors, in the Japanese language and conforming to the style developed in Japan in the late 19th...
collection.
Faculty
- Kan Shimamoto (president)
- Naoya HatakeyamaNaoya Hatakeyamais a renowned Japanese photographer.Hatakeyama was born in Iwate, Japan in 1958. He graduated from the University of Tsukuba, School of Art and Design in 1981 and completed postgraduate studies at the University of Tsukuba in 1984.-Books:...
(photography) - Katsumi AsabaKatsumi Asabais a Japanese art director known for producing several acclaimed commercials and posters.- References :...
(art) - Takayuki Suzuki (architecture)
- Kiyokazu Arai (architecture)
- Tsutomu Hayama (architecture)
- Atsuko Tanaka (architecture)
- Keiko TakemiyaKeiko Takemiyais a Japanese manga artist. She is included in the Year 24 Group. She resides in Kamukura, Kanagawa Prefecture. Takemiya was one of the female authors who in the early 1970s pioneered a genre of girls' comics about love between young men; in December 1970 she published a short story, "In the...
(dean of manga) - Motoka MurakamiMotoka Murakamiis a Japanese manga artist who writes primarily shōnen manga. He won the Kodansha Manga Award for shōnen for Gakuto Retsuden in 1982 and the Shogakukan Manga Award twice, for shōnen for Musashi no Ken in 1984 and for general manga in 1996 for Ron, serialized in Big Comic Original from 1991 to 2006...
(manga) - Noboru RokudaNoboru Rokudais a Japanese manga artist. He made his professional debut in 1978 with Saigo Test, for which he won the Shogakukan New Artist Award. He won the 1991 Shogakukan Manga Award for general manga for F.- Works :...
(manga) - Kentaro TakekumaKentaro Takekumais a manga artist.He is one of the authors of Even a Monkey Can Draw Manga. He is also the story writer of Super Mario Adventures.-External links:*...
(manga) - Matt ThornMatt ThornMatt Thorn is a cultural anthropologist and an Associate Professor in the Department of Manga Production at Kyoto Seika University's Faculty of Manga in Japan. He is most well known in North America for his work dealing with shōjo manga. He has appeared at multiple anime conventions, including...
(manga) - Gisaburō SugiiGisaburo Sugiiis an anime director and Nihonga artist. He is currently a member of the anime studio Group TAC, and is most well known for his work as director of the Touch series and the movie Night on the Galactic Railroad...
(animation) - Hiroshi Ogawa (animation)
- Yoshiyuki TominoYoshiyuki Tominois a Japanese mecha anime creator, director, screenwriter and novelist. He was born in Odawara, Kanagawa Prefecture, and studied at Nihon University's College of Art...
(animation) - RintaroRintarois the pseudonym of , a well-known director of anime. He works frequently with the animation studio Madhouse , though he is a freelance director not employed directly by any one studio. He began working in the animation industry—at age 17—as an in-between animator on the 1958 film Hakujaden...
(animation) - Yasumitsu Ikoma (oil painting)
- Genzo Kawamura (nihongaNihongaor literally "Japanese-style paintings" is a term used to describe paintings that have been made in accordance with traditional Japanese artistic conventions, techniques and materials...
) - Haruyuki Uchida (sculpture)