Kyoto Seika University
Coordinates: 35°04′23″N 135°46′15″E / 35.073058°N 135.770867°E
Kyoto Seika University (京都精華大学 Kyōto Seika Daigaku) is a private university, located in Iwakura, Kyoto, Japan. The predecessor of the school was founded in 1968, and it was chartered as a university in 1979.
The school is noted for its faculties of manga and anime, and being involved in the teaching and training of future manga artists.[1][2][3][4] The dean of the manga faculty is Keiko Takemiya, and noted American anthropologist and translator Matt Thorn is also an associate professor at the school's faculty of manga.[5][6] Graduates of the university have gone on to forge successful careers in the manga, anime, and media industries.[2][6] In 2005, Kyoto Seika University established the Kyoto International Manga Museum. Located in a converted elementary school building in downtown Kyoto, it contains the world's largest manga collection.
Faculty
- Kan Shimamoto (president)
- Naoya Hatakeyama (photography)
- Katsumi Asaba (art)
- Takayuki Suzuki (architecture)
- Kiyokazu Arai (architecture)
- Tsutomu Hayama (architecture)
- Atsuko Tanaka (architecture)
- Keiko Takemiya (manga)
- Motoka Murakami (manga)
- Noboru Rokuda (manga)
- Kentaro Takekuma (manga)
- Matt Thorn (manga)
- Gisaburō Sugii (animation)
- Hiroshi Ogawa (animation)
- Yoshiyuki Tomino (animation)
- Rintaro (animation)
- Yasumitsu Ikoma (oil painting)
- Genzo Kawamura (nihonga)
- Haruyuki Uchida (sculpture)
Alumni
References
- ↑ "MAJORING IN MANGA: University Teaches Students How to Produce Comics". Japan Information Network. 2002-08-14. Retrieved 2009-03-29.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "A Faculty of Manga". Cool Japan. 2009-02-04. NHK World, BS1, NHK BS-Hi Vision. http://www.nhk.or.jp/cooljapan/previous/index.html.
- ↑ Takemiya the teacher
- ↑ A Lifetime of Shojo Manga
- ↑ "KSU: Faculty of Manga - Dept. of Manga Production". Retrieved 2009-05-12.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 "Matt Thorn Returns to Translation". Publishers Weekly. 2009-02-17. Retrieved 2009-05-12.