Faculty of Manga pages in Japanese here

Japan's manga culture is famous around the world.
Kyoto Seika University's pioneering Faculty of Manga systematically teaches its essence.

Our Faculty of Manga opened in April 2006, based on the former Faculty of Art's departments of Cartoon Art, and Comic Art (Story Manga) . New courses were added in Manga Production, and Animation. KSU has also established a world-class Manga research center, the Kyoto International Manga Museum (see below).

Japanese manga and anime have become firmly established as dynamic new art forms, and are the focus of attention from all around the world. Despite their great popularity, until recently there was hardly any opportunity to study these popular media on a systematic basis.

Kyoto Seika University, which pioneered Japan's first university Manga program, continues to lead all other institutions in Japan with its full-scale Faculty of Manga.

This development realizes the ultimate in systematic and comprehensive study of this exciting field, fostering young artists and producers capable of original expression and creativity, and promoting the further development of manga culture in the world.

Graduation exhibitions: Online catalogs 1998-2008 (click through to individual images of work by every graduating student in each department...)

Statistics, Faculty of Manga (May 2009):
Total undergraduate enrollment: 852
(M: 284; F: 568)
Overseas undergraduate students: 57

Undergraduate Students
Details of undergraduate (B.A.) courses are available on our Japanese website. (In Japanese – please note that all KSU classes are taught in Japanese, and the application process is also all in Japanese).

Graduate Students
Master's level (and in some cases, Ph.D level) courses may be available through our Graduate School of Art. A high level of Japanese language ability (speaking, reading, writing) is required.

Exchange Students
Exchange students are welcomed from universities with which Kyoto Seika University has official reciprocal agreements (listed in the order in which these links were established). Please note however that Animation and Manga Production are new departments, and are not yet ready to accept exchange students:

• ANU School of Art, National Institute of the Arts,Canberra, Australia
• School of Art & Design, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA
• Southern California Institute of Architecture  (SCI-Arc), Los Angeles USA
• Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), Providence USA
  Glasgow School of Art, Scotland, UK
• Hong Ik University, Korea
• The Arts Academy, Turku University of Applied Arts, Finland
• Cooper Union, New York, USA
• California College of the Arts, San Francisco, USA
• The University of Art & Design, Helsinki, Finland
• Utrecht School of the Arts (HKU), Utrecht, the Netherlands
• Gerrit Rietveld Academie (GRA), Amsterdam, the Netherlands
• Kassel School of Arts & Design, Kassel, Germany
• Edinburgh College of Art, Scotland, UK
• L'Ecole de Design Nantes Atlantique, France
• L'Ecole Speciale d'Architecture, Paris, France
• Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture. Paris Malaquais, Paris, France
  

  

  In collaboration with Kyoto City, KSU has established the Kyoto International Manga Museum, the world's largest manga collection, in a converted school building in downtown Kyoto, as a museum, library, and research facility. Review here