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Japanese Anthropologist Creates Manga on Oceanic Life

Sat, 2008-04-12 03:34
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From Daily Yomiuri comes an article on how Daisaku Tsuru, an assistant cultural anthropology professor at Toyama University, is creating a manga titled Nacun that focuses on the "mystery of life, with the sea in Okinawa Prefecture as its background.":

Tsuru debuted as a mangaka in 2006 with Nacun, a series that has been carried in Afternoon, a monthly magazine published by Kodansha Ltd. Nacun is based on Tsuru's own experience of having researched fishing culture on an isolated island in Okinawa Prefecture for a total of six months while at graduate school.

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Nope

Submitted by okinawa (not verified) on Sat, 2008-04-12 08:41.

Within a few years the plastic in the oceans will destroy so much life.....that manga like this won't matter.

You're wrong okinawa. If

Submitted by Manga Mom (not verified) on Sat, 2008-04-12 15:02.

You're wrong okinawa. If the oceans are in so much danger, than a manga like this will matter a lot. It's a record of a culture at a specific moment in time. It's what cultural anthropology is about. You can't learn from a past you don't know about. I wish we could get this manga and more like it in the US.

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