[/floatr]Kippo: Professor says manga changes academic world
...Keiichi Makino, director of the Faculty of Manga at Kyoto Seika University...spoke enthusiastically about the current state of affairs of Japanese manga and its potential...He pointed out that university academism hesitated to accept manga as part of education and went on to say that he thought 'Kansai's regional climate and tradition to receive true intentions of humans led the university to take in manga.' He said followers of the late Osamu Tezuka, who established the foundation of manga culture in Japan, are now 'active in the vanguard of academic scientific research such as medical science and robotic engineering'...He also said it is possible that manga may become the new mainstream of Japanese culture and explained that there are many types of work that only manga can achieve. The essence of manga, he said, is emphasis and omission unlike photographs that are designed to show everything.
