Kyoto Seika University (京都精華大学 Kyōto Seika Daigaku) is a private university, located in Iwakura, Kyoto, Japan. The predecessor of the school was founded in 1968, and it was chartered as a university in 1979.
The school is noted for its faculties of manga and anime, and being involved in the teaching and training of future manga artists.[1][2][3][4] The dean of the manga faculty is Keiko Takemiya, and noted American anthropologist and translator Matt Thorn is also an associate professor at the school's faculty of manga.[5][6] Graduates of the university have gone on to forge successful careers in the manga, anime, and media industries.[2][6]
In 2005, Kyoto Seika University established the Kyoto International Manga Museum. Located in a converted elementary school building in downtown Kyoto, it contains the world's largest manga collection.
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