- Countries/Regions
- SingaporeSweden
- Category
- EducationResearch
- Academic Field
- Humanities
- Related goals of SDGs
| Keyword |
Anime, Anime Intermediate Materials, Archive, Media Ecology, Aesthetics |
Information on Niigata University
| Name of the professor/researcher |
(1)Kim Joon Yang (2)Minori Ishida (3)Kenichi Harada |
| Position/Faculty |
(1)Associate Professor, Faculty of Economic Sciences (2)Professor, Faculty of Economic Sciences (3)Professor, Faculty of Humanities |
Information on the Counterpart
| Countries/Regions |
(1)Singapore (2)Sweden |
| Faculty/Institution |
(1)Puttnam School of Film and Animation, LASALLE College of the Arts (2)Department of Asian, Middle Eastern and Turkish Studies, Stockholm University |
Detailed Information/Report on Activities
The Center takes a media ecological approach to anime as a platform organizing images into multi-layered fluid structures. The intermediate materials are expected to provide a valuable basis for empirical research of the processes and aesthetic dynamics of anime production. Archiving – acquiring, cataloging, and preserving – these materials, the Center aims to serve as an international research hub making them available to scholars both in Japan and abroad. Furthermore, it also seeks to use the collected materials for nurturing future specialists equipped with media literacy by incorporating them into the academic programs of Niigata University. A further aim is to channel the achievements in education and research back into the public sphere through close cooperation with animation productions and the visual media industry at large, as well as with local communities and municipalities.
