12-3-11 Japanese Pop Culture P.D

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  • January 17, 2012 at 12:26 pm #20887
    Anonymous
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    I agree Manga is a great way to teach our students the history of Japan in an engaging manner. Do you have any websites you recommend that have good historically based manga? I have been searching online for manga on Japanese Samurai and I am not able to find anything helpful or complete?

    January 17, 2012 at 2:17 pm #20888
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    [font=Times]This is going to be one of my summer projects. I want to find good historically based manga to use with my students. What I gathered from our PD was that there is manga for everything so I hope my search is not too difficult. I will definitely share anything I come across. Maybe I should start by asking some of my students who are into anime. Lets see where this leads me. [/font]

    January 18, 2012 at 6:06 am #20889
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    There are tons of different kinds of manga, but it's hard to find "official" English translations. You might try going to one of the Japanese bookstores & looking through their (untranslated) selection. For translations, your best bet may be to find a title and then see if there are fan-made translations available online.

    January 20, 2012 at 12:28 pm #20890
    Anonymous
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    I love manga! I remember reading it when I was a high school student and having to go to the hole in the wall comic book stores just to wait for the next book. It was so much fun reading them. It's like romance and action novels in cartoon form. I also remember drawing manga as a young child. The big bubbly eyes and tiny lips. It was something special that I was able to get them as a young child. I made some friends thanks to my artistic ability to draw manga cartoon characters =) Fond memories!

    January 20, 2012 at 12:30 pm #20891
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    I also remember watching Akira when it was just newly subtitled. It was a pretty gruesome cartoon incorporating a lot of violence with mystery and intrigue. Even in the 90's the Japanese pop culture was on the rise, except it was considered more underground at the time.

    January 20, 2012 at 12:32 pm #20892
    Anonymous
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    Nowadays you see Japanese animation everywhere. I remember watching Voltron when I was a child, renting Ranma 1/2 cartoons from the video shop in the 90s, and waiting for saturday morning cartoons for Robotech, now they have the cartoon network, which shows many manga cartoons.

    January 20, 2012 at 12:32 pm #3563
    Rob_Hugo@PortNW
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    Bill M. Tsutsui, Lynne K. Miyake, and the presentation on Contemporary Japanese Cinema were all phenomenal and great fodder for lesson planning. I’ll be spending a good part of my summer break looking up many of the recommendations made by all three presenters. More immediately (besides trying to catch some of the film recommendations) I’ll be looking into Japanese Manga of a historical nature to try to use with my students. I think these will provide our students with a new and interesting way at looking at the past. I also want to use parts of Dr. Tsutsui lecture on Godzilla to discuss collective/popular Japanese feeling towards the atomic age (but I’ll definitely read more up on this subject before making any such presentations).

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