The producers told Kern he could pick only undergraduates who had never been to Japan and who spoke little or no Japanese. Manga also can boast being the oldest, most widespread, most profitable, and arguably most influential comic book tradition in the world, he said.įor the show, Kern would be filmed lecturing on manga while introducing the students to various manga artifacts not available in the U.S. Studying manga provides a fun window onto one of the world’s great civilizations that happens to offer the major alternative to American pop culture, Kern said. Kern, an expert on the topic, is the author of Manga from the Floating World: Comicbook Culture and the Kibyōshi of Edo Japan. Kern describes them as resembling “comics on acid” - denser, more action-packed, more visually stimulating, though with fewer words, than their Western counterparts. Kernĭuring the trip, the students would get a rare, behind-the-scenes look at the world of manga (pronounced mahn-ga), Japanese comics with centuries-old roots. Criticizes the Japanese government for standing by, hoping for a “windfall” from the Chinese situation, while the Europeans and Americans are more actively pursuing their goals in China. One of Kitazawa Rakuten’s political cartoons from 1899.
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