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This fall, Center for Global Education Executive Director Takeo Suzuki is introducing UTC students to Japanese anime and manga. On Halloween, many of the students dressed the part. Photo by Angela Foster.<\/p><\/div>\n

When Dr. Takeo Suzuki agreed to teach a course on Japanese anime and manga culture this fall, he was supposed to have only 10 or 12 students.<\/p>\n

After the class filled up in the first hour of registration, the dean agreed to expand it\u2014first to 15 and eventually to 35 students.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut I still have a waitlist, and some students, actually a few of them, do not take my class, but they come to class and listen. When was the last time you heard somebody actually come to class for no grade? Right,\u201d said Suzuki, who for eight years has been the executive director for the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga Center for Global Education, his \u201creal\u201d job.<\/p>\n

Anime is a style of Japanese film and television animation aimed at adults as well as children. Manga is the style of Japanese comic books and graphic novels.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s fun,\u201d Suzuki said of the class\u2019s draw, \u201cand I have a great participation rate. Not only do we talk about the Japanese language, tradition, history, beliefs\u2014pretty much everything\u2014but they are described in these manga shows and animated movies. I have very educated students who like to learn.\u201d<\/p>\n

Senior Marietta Song, a Chinese-American graduate of nearby Hixson High School, said she is taking Suzuki\u2019s class because anime was an outlet that helped her grow up and was a big part of her self-identity.<\/p>\n

It also helped as an icebreaker during years of childhood discrimination, in which bullies associated her with the Vietnam War, the Khmer Rouge Killing Fields and the Korean War. She even remembers being called \u201cNagasaki\u201d and \u201cHiroshima,\u201d the two Japanese cities upon which the U.S. dropped atomic bombs to end World War II.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnime has really, really told me things about Asia that I would\u2019ve never learned here in America, because here in America we mostly focus on certain things and I wasn\u2019t really taught much about Asia at all. In fact, growing up I was faced with a lot of discrimination,\u201d Song said. \u201cAnime influenced my culture, so it\u2019s definitely had a dominant role within American pop culture. I think it really helps people mingle together, share a connection.\u201d<\/p>\n

When Song meets a Japanese exchange student, anime and manga get the conversation started, she said.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo it\u2019s always nice to see how Asian pop culture really dominates here in America, and it\u2019s really become a bridge to do multicultural connections,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Anime and manga were outlets she said \u201ccomforted me\u201d and drew her into archery through the manga series \u201cInuyahsha,\u201d whose main character was Kagome Higurashi, a 15-year-old middle school girl from modern-day Tokyo and a graceful and elegant practitioner of archery.<\/p>\n

With Kagome as a role model, Song took up archery at age 8 and, at Hixson High, was one of the state\u2019s top shooters.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd even though I\u2019m not Japanese, I can still understand how lonely it can be being in a different, whole new world. Me as an Asian-American, there\u2019s always that strange bridge. I\u2019m too Asian to be American. I don\u2019t fit in as an American, but if I were to go to Asia, I can\u2019t be Asian because I\u2019m too American. Yeah, it\u2019s that weird thing,\u201d said Song, who will graduate from UTC in May with a bachelor of arts degree in studio art with a minor in communication.<\/p>\n

Caleb Nabors, a junior business major from Cookeville, Tennessee, said he is taking the anime and manga class without credit because he was a foreign exchange student in Japan and is interested in the culture.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m also taking it really because I love the professor,\u201d said Nabors, who also is enrolled in Suzuki\u2019s Japanese language class.<\/p>\n

He\u2019s hooked on the manga and anime series \u201cDemon Slayer,\u201d which is set in medieval Japan.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt shows how they handled politics and combat, stuff like that,\u201d Nabors said, \u201cand you can kind of see the Japanese history come into that, which I think is really cool. Understanding cultures will help me understand more people in general. And I used to live in Japan, so I could use this to understand them more.\u201d<\/p>\n

Chattanooga sophomore Joseph Sanders, an East Hamilton High graduate, is an engineering major who needed a \u201cfun elective\u201d that would not further weigh him down with after-class studies.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt doesn\u2019t demand a whole lot of me outside of the class,\u201d Sanders said. \u201cI can go to the class, usually get my stuff done and then we just do discussion or something, maybe a weekly project, or whatnot. It\u2019s not like physics where I\u2019m spending three and four hours a day on it.\u201d<\/p>\n

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