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Subject | Humanities & Social Sciences

  • Learning

Techniques for creating engaging characters that will stay in the reader's mind

  • manga
  • characters
  • stories
  • episodes
  • relationships

The decisive difference between manga and novels, movies, and games is that it has characters at the center of its appeal. In this course, we will explain basic training on how to create appealing characters and develop them in the author's mind before handing them off to be cherished by readers. Building off character theory, which has been described in terms of establishing characters in manga technique books since the 1980s, a new technique independently researched by Kyoto Seika University called "Mental Cultivation" will be presented

  • Target
    Bachelor, Master, Doctor, General, High school
  • Language
    Japanese
  • Caption
    English
  • Lecture time
    45-60min.
  • Start month
    Anytime
  • Length
    Short
  • Delivery method
    Ondemand
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©Kyoto Seika University.  Last Update 2024-01-31
  • Content
    学習内容
  • Staff
    スタッフ
  • Competency
    コンピテンシー
  • Contact
    お問合せ
  • Related Contents
    関連コンテンツ

Content／学習内容

  • 1. Why characters are important in manga

    2. How should characters be set up

  • 1. Misleading direction to sway the reader's mind

    2. Character with gaps 


  • 1. How to make characters come alive

    2. Short ne-mu by situation


Staff／スタッフ

    • Teacher
    Tanaka Keiichi
    Kyoto Seika University Faculty of Manga
    New Generation Manga Course

Competency／コンピテンシー

Learning Goal

  • Be able to logically explain the components that make a character appealing within a manga
  • Become familiar with the creative technique which will make it believable to readers that a character could exist in this world and have their own feelings
  • Be able to give characters consistency through their backgrounds, activity patterns, principles, etc., that will make them come to life within the work

Contact／お問合せ先

JV-Campus Secretariat

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