• Higher Learning

    Tokyo National University Begins Anime Graduate Program, Otaku Applicants Surge Overnight

    By Daniel Godfrey, 11:43 PM on Wed Dec 5 2007, 3,067 views (Edit, to draft, Top, Slurp)

    Starting next year, the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts will have something that's long overdue for an otaku-rich country: a two-year graduate degree in anime production—the first for a non-private institution in Japan. Courses will be taught by full-time professionals from the anime world including Koji Yamamura, and students will leave with two or three full-fledged works under their belt. We're jealous, but we think we might hold out for the Ph. D. in Gundam Suit fabrication studies. One day. [Yomiuri Shimbun]

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