Welcome to Week 3

Please watch Prof. Hisayo Ogushi, the lead educator of this course, introduce this week’s topic “Technology” in Japanese Subculture.

In this week, Professor Susumu Niijima, an expert on science fiction and French literature, will share his opinions about the world of posthumanism in Japanese subculture by examining manga, anime, and TV shows featuring robots, hybrid human-robots and super-humans.

Science fiction, such as humanoids, is also very popular in girls manga as you can see in the examples introduced in this video. It will be interesting to compare those with the works you’ll learn in this week.

Girls manga introduced in the video

  • Oz by ITSUKI Natsumi, Hakusensha 1990 - 1992

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