Week Ten: Anime and Manga

Watching Assignment: Rachel is this week's guest curator. She has the following list of suggestions for Anime series and anime feature films that you should watch.

Here's the list: 

Personal Favorites:

-Revolutionary Girl Utena

-Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood

-Space Dandy

-Akame ga Kill

-Zetman

-Samurai Champloo

-The Eccentric Family

-Tiger and Bunny

-Cute High Earth Defense Club Love!

-Mushi-Shi

-Monster

-Trinity Blood

-Steins’ Gate

-Welcome to the N.H.K.

-Sword Art Online

-Junjo Romantica (BE WARNED--IT’S YAOI)

-Loveless (MORE YAOI)

Most Important Movies to Watch:

-Perfect Blue

-Paprika

-Wolf Children

-Summer Wars

-HAL

-Whisper of the Heart

-Tokyo Magnitude 8

-The Princess and the Pilot

-Evangelion 1.0: You Are Not Alone

Other Movies worth watching

 -In the Forest of the Fireflies (or known as To The Forest of Firefly Lights)

-Children Who Chase Lost Voices

-A Letter to Momo

-Akira

-Pokemon: The First Movie

-Sword of the Stranger

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Episodes we’ll be watching in class (My most recent watches):

Psycho Pass Ep.1

Parasyte the Maxim Ep. 1

Beyond the Boundary Ep. 1

Cute High Earth Defense Club Love! Ep. 1

To watch these you can go to 

Crunchy Roll 

where you can join on the basis of trial membership

or some are available on HULU or if you want to enter the gray zone you can try

Watch Cartoon Online

You should look at WatchCartoonOnline anyway just to look at what it is offering which is an interesting mix that conflates anime and american animation.

Writing Assignment: After this week's class session write a blog post in which you discuss the importance or lack of importance for young artists to know and understand manga/anime style and representation. What do you think and why? Can you cite specific examples to support your position? You man choose to advance an appreciation of a specific anime or manga series or work as the main part of your argument.