is a private university in Iwakura, Kyoto, Japan. The school's predecessor was founded in 1968, and it was chartered as a university in 1979. The school is noted for its faculties of manga and

anime is hand-drawn and computer-generated animation originating from Japan. Outside of Japan and in English, ''anime'' refers specifically to animation produced in Japan. However, in Japan and in Japanese, (a term derived from a shortening o ...

, and being involved in the teaching and training of future

manga artists A is a comic artist who writes and/or illustrates manga. As of 2006, about 3,000 professional manga artists were working in Japan. Most manga artists study at an art college or manga school or take on an apprenticeship with another artist be ...

. The dean of the manga faculty is

Keiko Takemiya is a Japanese manga artist and the former president of Kyoto Seika University. Career Keiko Takemiya (or Takemiya Keiko) is included in the Year 24 Group, a term coined by academics and critics to refer to a group of female authors in the ea ...

, and noted American anthropologist and translator

Rachel Matt Thorn Rachel Thorn (formerly Matt Thorn; born May 12, 1965) is a cultural anthropologist and an associate professor in the Department of Manga Production at Kyoto Seika University's Faculty of Manga in Japan. She is best known in North America for h ...

is also an associate professor at the school's faculty of manga. Graduates of the university have forged successful careers in the manga, anime, and media industries. In 2006, Kyoto Seika University and the city of Kyoto established the

Kyoto International Manga Museum The Kyoto International Manga Museum (京都国際マンガミュージアム, Kyōto Kokusai Manga Myūjiamu) is located in Nakagyō-ku, Kyoto, Japan. The museum's collection includes approximately 300,000 items as of 2016, with 50,000 volumes o ...

. Located in a converted elementary school building in downtown Kyoto, it has the world's largest manga collection.

Faculty

(former president, manga) * Kiyokazu Arai (architecture) * Tsutomu Hayama (architecture) *

(manga) *

Gisaburō Sugii is a Japanese anime director and Nihonga artist. He is best known for his work as director of the ''Touch'' series, the movie adaptation of the '' Arashi no Yoru ni'' children's book series, and the movie '' Night on the Galactic Railroad''. He ...

(animation) * Yasumitsu Ikoma (oil painting) * Genzo Kawamura (

nihonga ''Nihonga'' (, "Japanese-style paintings") are Japanese paintings from about 1900 onwards that have been made in accordance with traditional Japanese artistic conventions, techniques and materials. While based on traditions over a thousand years ...

) * Haruyuki Uchida (sculpture)

Notable alumni

Naoto Ohshima (born February 26, 1964) is a Japanese artist and video game designer, best known for designing Sonic the Hedgehog and Dr. Eggman characters from Sega's ''Sonic the Hedgehog'' franchise. Although Yuji Naka created the original tech demo around wh ...

, artist and video game designer *

Chiharu Shiota (born 1972) is a Japanese performance and installation artist. Educated in Japan, Australia, and Germany, Shiota interweaves materiality and the psychic perception of the space to explore ideas around the body and flesh, personal narratives ...

, installation artist *

Yoji Shinkawa is a Japanese artist. He is best known as the lead character and mecha designer for the ''Metal Gear'' franchise. He has collaborated with Hideo Kojima on each of his games. Biography Shinkawa was born in Hiroshima on 25 December 1971. He bega ...

, artist and video game designer *

Falcoon , better known by his pen name is a Japanese artist. He works for SNK. He has been involved in several iterations of ''The King of Fighters'' franchise. Career After graduating from Kyoto Seika University, Falcoon started as a fan-artist doing r ...

, artist * Stefana McClure, visual artist *

Albert Yonathan Setyawan Albert Yonathan Setyawan (born in Bandung, Indonesia, 1983) is an Indonesian contemporary ceramic artist, living in Japan. Early life and education Setyawan studied ceramics at Bandung Institute of Technology (ITB) and Kyoto Seika University. W ...

, contemporary ceramic artist *

Est Em is the pen name of Maki Satoh, a Japanese manga artist. Career She made her debut as a professional manga artist with three yaoi collections after being scouted in art school. She was a student of Rachel Thorn, who provided translations for s ...

, manga artist *

Hiro Fujiwara is a Japanese Mangaka, manga artist. The manga artist was once active under her previous pen name, at the end of the 1990s, but has abandoned the name after she won the Best Rookie award in the LMS for ''Kaeri Michi, Yuki no Netsu''. Her firs ...

, manga artist *

Muneyuki Kaneshiro is a Japanese manga artist. He debuted in 2011 with '' As the Gods Will'', which was adapted into a live-action film. After serializing several other works, he launched ''Blue Lock'' with Yusuke Nomura in 2018, which won the 45th Kodansha Manga A ...

, manga artist * Jun Nishida, ceramicist

References

External links

Official website

Official website

International Manga Research Center
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