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DragonsRevenge
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This is a rediculous question, considering where I'm asking it, but who (besides the dude begging us to do his homework for him) has made anime the subject of a homework assignment?
I remember a couple years ago for an essay assignment, I did a brief (bout 5 pages) write up about anime, how it got its start, most familiar genres and titles, and so on. I remember having to read it out loud, and was scared as hell, since for some reason, I'm very self conscious about my anime interests. I feel embarrassed to talk about it with people who are clueless about it (unless it's some major mainstream "accepted" title like Akira or Spirited away), much less try and describe it in front of 25 other people I hardly know. So I sucked it up and read it. To my utter shock and pants-wetting relief, it went over remarkably well. People asked me a lot of questions about it, a few were even like "oh yeah, I know *that show*." It didn't really occur to me that I was informing people on what is a widely unknown subject, and that's how they took it. It also surprised me since I wrote the whole thing practically off the top of my head in like an hour, with maybe one revision. |
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Tony K.
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I made a small booklet to introduce anime for one of my writing classes a few years ago. I covered production aspects from ground zero in Japan, licensing, overseas production, argued anime as a different medium of entertainment over "regular" animation, covered the different kinds of genres and content for all the demographics, and then addressed its growing popularity. Got an A on it, so I guess it was enough, though I personally think I could've done a lot better with more time. I threw it away after I got it back, so don't ask for scans...
And currently, I have a paper due on Tuesday for my Psychology of the Offender course where we're currently covering psychopathy. The assignment was to pick a fictional character and apply the criteria to that person and prove how they're psychotic. Criteria (according to DSM-IV-TR) include:
*Egocentric and grandiose *Lack of empathy *Deceitful and manipulative *Shallow emotions *Impulsive *Poor behavioral controls *Need for excitement *Lack of responsibility A person is not required to meet all criteria, but if they excel in certain characteristics, it's possible for them to be pyschopaths. I've seen quite a few anime characters that would fit under such qualities, but had ultimately chosen to pick Johan Liebert from Monster. spoiler[ His whole "2nd Hitler" upbringing, the events at 511 Kinderheim, and of course his plan for "the perfect suicide" is just a treasure chest of analysis waiting to be opened.] Maybe the rest of you would like to just think about it for fun? Criminal psychology, or just the psychology of any one character, really, would be a nice little showoff of just how "deep" anime can be at times. Of course, doing the research for terminology and all of that stuff is up to you, but the criteria I listed should be good enough for a basis. Last edited by Tony K. on Sat Apr 14, 2007 11:18 pm; edited 1 time in total |
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Mylene
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The criteria you listed fit just about every male character in Revolutionary Girl Utena as far as I can tell. I'd have to verify the terminology in a couple of cases before I could say for certain. That might be fun to do this summer when I'm on vacation for awhile. Anyway, I have used anime for a couple homework assignments. The first time was in my junior year of high school when we had to make soap in my chemistry class. Along with it, we were required to produce a commercial. My friend and I utilized some Sailor Moon bath scenes in order to advertise it. I have no idea what the class reaction was, because my dad died the day after we filmed it and I missed a few days of school. The second time was drama class senior year of high school. We were supposed to do a poetry (or similar) recitation and provide an additional bit of media to go with it. I chose to recite the English lyrics of "Yuzurenai Negai" (opening theme of Magic Knight Rayearth) and since this was back before the major advent of MP3s and Napster, I used a VHS fansub in the VHS/TV combo, turned it away from the class so they wouldn't get distracted, and let the Japanese opening theme play while I recited the English. Suprisingly, a lot of people thought it was really cool (cool and I don't go together much), and liked the music. "Yuzurenai Negai" is still my favorite anime opening. Let's see...my freshman year at university we had to do a group presentation on censorship in my comm class. Another girl and I were both anime fans, so we covered anime censorship (back in 1999, so it was more prevelant and relevant). I believe we discussed the ways in which Sailor Moon was censored and reasons for it, etc. I think we managed to come off pretty unbiased showing both sides. We were the only group to get an A at least. Finally, I remember making a website in Japanese for one of my classes that was about anime. I can't remember the details, unfortunately. I never really had classes that would allow for such creative uses of anime in a project. Given I was a soc major and enjoyed microsociology, it would have been fun to apply some concepts to anime, but never had the opportunity for an assignment. I do, however, do it unconsciously when I'm watching shows, although I tend to consider the creators rather than the fiction within the show itself. |
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Amasa
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About 6 years ago in my first year of high school we were asked to adapt a song of our choice and rewrite it about ourselves and sing it in front of the class. The class voted mine as the best and since then a number of acquaintances who saw me sing the song have told me that I inspired them to watch Sailor Moon. Fighting evil by moonlight... I don't think I even changed many of the words, except obviously the name.
Also we were given an assignment to analyse a film of our choice and obviously I did Spirited Away  . It wasn't really that radical, since my Japanese class was watching the film for cultural references at the time. Now I feel like I should have done something better but at least I got a good score.
Ohba from Kemonozume is all those characteristics and worse! Same with the evil guy from FMP: TSR. I lose all my respect for a series when they introduce a villain who is too insane to be scary or realistic at all. The two that I mentioned were in positions of a lot of power and I find that too unbelievable to appreciate their roles. That's offtopic anyway. |
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kk
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I made my own anime magazine for a mock magazine project for English class a few years back.
Also, anime seems to be helpful when I'm trying to do my Japanese homework. Usually if I hear a word enough times, it'll stick in my head and I won't have to bother looking it up for my essays and such in the class. |
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10円
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I wasn't really into anime during my school years, so no such luck for me. I must admit that even if I had been I'm not sure that I'd choose anime for any task that involved the rest of the class. Based on all the flack people say they get at school just for enjoying anime it seems like I might have had second thoughts about bringing it up, at least in a grade school classroom environment.
Hold up. You're talking about English and Japanese homework but your location states... In a place closed off from the world( anime is virtually non-existent here except in my mind) Where the heck are you? Last edited by 10円 on Sat Apr 14, 2007 11:16 pm; edited 1 time in total |
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Azathrael
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I've participated in several lectures from different professors who included or focused on anime/manga. Akira, for example, is a great example of the thoughts and worries of Japanese people during the 1980's. And if your major happens to be East Asian Culture (with a focus on Japanese culture), anime can become pretty useful when you know how to use it.
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jetz
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I don't know if this counts but once we were asked to draw Angels for either Religion or English class. Our teacher wanted to know how we thought angels looked like, so I drew Belldandy from Ah! My Goddess. I thought no one would recognize her but some of my classmates actually knew about her.
There was also this English test (not really a home work, but school work nonetheless). We had to figure out what words meant from their context clues. We were given sentences and the word we're supposed to define was underlined. I was surprised that the sentences were all about Akazukin Cha Cha (my teacher was actually an otaku and Akazukin Cha Cha was popular that time). I remember one of the sentences. it was: Shiine always thought Dorothy was a fickle person. I am not sure whether or not I got it right, cause our teacher didn't return the tests.  I was gonna keep it too!
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Stupidman007
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Three years ago, in American History class, a girl did her American History project on Manga/Anime. She talked about some history and technicals regarding mostly manga, and talked a little about anime as well. Some pictures featured Kurama from Yu Yu Hakusho and Kenshin as far as I can remember, and I believe she drew them herself. At that time, I've only seen whatever anime series that were on Adult Swim and didn't really care much for anime as a whole, so I didn't pay too much attention to her presentation and can't remember much of the details.
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EmperorBrandon
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I had a one-week intersession class early this year that was focused on anime (the title was Special Topics in Media and this was the particular topic of the course). It was pretty nice as all we did was get a short lecture and watch anime and after it was over, write a five-page paper on any anime topic. I did mine on voice actors in anime and enjoyed researching and writing it.
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Asako
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I have used anime (or manga) before in assignments. There was the obvious Totoro and Grave of the Fireflies which was try to recognize as many words or phrases in Japanese and write them down and turn it in at the end of class. We also made some New Years Cards for Japanese class and could draw on them, so I drew different anime characters. We had to describe Kanji and so I drew pictures that resembled it. We also had to make a children's story book to The Monkey and the Crab.
But, there were some art classes for instance where we were given a free sketch assignment. I copied 4 different manga styles on my art paper and had to explain it to the class. I guess at the time I wanted to show that there was more out there than Sailor Moon. It was those beginning years when people kept saying "Oh! Are you drawing Sailor Moon?!" and I would be like "uhm... no..." So I think I picked Sailor Moon from Sailor Moon, Kagome from Inu Yasha, Ai Amano from Video Girl Ai, and Utako from 20 Mensou ni Onegai adult version. I guess I was fed up with people thinking that everything anime looked like Sailor Moon so I wanted to prove otherwise. I once wrote a paper trying to describe the differences between Japanese Animation and American Cartoons, but I don't know how well that went. The teacher was very disagreeable. I think from that point on I've tried to leave anime out of the picture of assignments because once it became a little more mainstream, many of my teachers became close minded about the subject. But since I wasn't going into the writing field, really, I didn't really need to write anything of the sort. I pursued Computer Science, Information Technology, Asian Studies, and Liberal Arts. But now that I'm pursuing Japanese once again, maybe I will  I can probably incorporate it in many of the Translation Classes.
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Wolverine Princess
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My sister has a great project planned for next year's science fair. She plans to go to all of the major geek forums and conduct an anonymous survey asking people for their weight and height, and then she'll compare the weights of all the different types of nerds together. Then she’ll get into even more depth and compare the average weights of specific websites. So who do you think will be fatter, anime fans or Star Wars fans? How about the Gaia Online or the 4chan userbase?
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Iwatch2muchanime
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ALWAYS. Any assignment with a free choice of subject is anime. My "Personal Book" in Computer Graphics this year is all anime, and a little about me.
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mind over matter
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that's interesting and I would like to see the conclusion...but I don't think it would be accurate. For one thing, in the past, I've seen people join a forum just to post a survey....they almost never work out. Usually they are either locked on-site or no one answers...also, I think people would be liberal in their estimates, or just right out lie..plus, only the less heavy people would reply most likely, so you won't get an accurate representation...but I would still like to see how it comes out. PM me the result when you get it please...I'm very curious |
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frentymon
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When I first started learning Japanese, one of our earlier assignments was to write an essay, in English, on an aspect of Japanese culture. I somehow got assigned the topic of anime (lucky me), so I did a bit of research, amassed information, and did a paper out of it. I was already fairly knowledgable about anime at the time, so it wasn't too much trouble for me.
Looking back though, that paper was really awful. |
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