Can the content in Anime/Manga be used as a subject\discussion in school?
 

What i mean is i know you can learn a lot from anime\manga but is the content\plot in anime manga good enough to be used in school

example: Death Note -psychology
Inuyasha
Mononoke Hime
Spirited Away

From these you can learn about Japanese culture and History

this is a kind of sequel to my other post can you learn something from anime\manga

Yeah, if you want to get picked on. lol

If you don't mind being called a nerd, ya, take Perfect Blue for example, you can talk about obssesion or appearences. You talked about D.N that's a good one to talk about you can talk about a lot of the psycological aspects surrounding power.

i'm allready a nerd, besides since i have read and watched manga\anime for the past 3 years I really think that you can learn more fro manga\anime then regular text books at a certain point

It could be helpful if in discussing anime/manga references you could connect it somehow with more widely-known references from books or media. Because I'm sure that if you put forward only anime/manga references in illustrating psychological concepts, etc. you'll get quite a lot of "Hurr hurr, anime is for kids, you're an idiot, hurr hurr, I'm better than you" responses from the peanut gallery...

In short, No. There is no history and little culture to be learned from any of those titles. That's a little like learning American history and culture from watching Star Wars.

Unless you're taking Japanese class I don't think Anime/Manga serves any purpose considering it's FICTIONAL. And even the stuff based on true history is over-dramatized and not necessarily, well, true.

as an elementary teacher i give lessons on the history,technical history and story telling that animation has to offer.that's all animation.stop motion,drawing ,cells...anime from all over the world.i do think japanese anime is the best.:vsign:

I watched a lot of anime, it made me interested in Japanese History, it made me interested in Eastern Philosophy and religions, and so it led to me reading books on the subject. I think anime is great for doing that. But your text books must be pretty rubbish if you learnt more from the anime.

actually i learned more from wacthing documentaries when i was 3-4 years old then i ever did in school. i learned more from the net, anime and manga, and when we actually had an intresting subject in school i already knew about it, and yeah most of my text books were rubbish

I once wrote a paper on gender role reversal for college that included references to anime and manga.

But that was college.

I think you can bring it up as a topic of discussion about why it is growing in popularity or why people (not only children) like watching it, or the economics behind it or the benefits of japan because of it, but not as a way of learning history or culture, although I think you will be really outnumbered.

No.
Hell no.
Sweet Jesus baby bits no.

I learned from reading the Sonic comics that if I run fast enough, I can beat a megalomanic. No. Lawd no.

Pick up a novel. Read it. Be amazed at how much it can teach you in so few pages. Then go back to reading manga and watching anime and realize that they're there for entertainment purposes only.

Don't even get me started on the lil' tyke who killed himself trying to mimic Naruto.

That made me sad when I heard about it.

I don't really think a lot can be learned from anime/manga except for the fact that I knew more about Japan than my history teacher did when we were goin over it (but only cus he's gay and kept talkin about how hot the guys in our books were)