Part 2 - Day 1: Visit to Nippon Engineering College

Saturday, September 20, 2008

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Our first stop on the programme was the Nippon Technical College in another area of Tokyo called Komata, which was about 40 minutes away from Shinjuku.

Yeah, sounds kind of boring at first but our real intention really,is to check out the Animation and Manga faculty in there! Yep, this college offers real professional courses in Japanese animation and creating manga. This should be interesting to see how its actually conducted here in Japan.

Sign that says Katayanagi Institute - Tokyo University of Technology Graduate School.

Katayanagi had several sister or subsidiary training colleges under its hat. Nippon Graduate school is one of them. I'm a little confuse as into whether Nippon Kogakuin is a graduate school, technical college or a junior college...all I do know is they offer courses for Japanese animation, manga, music and other creative production oriented subjects.

The coolest thing is about the design and art related fields here, is that they are grouped under one name called CREATORS or Ku-rie-ta-su. (クリエイタズ ) So if you are enrolled in manga or anime school here, you are known as a creator!

Our first stop, the creator's college building, located about 2 minutes away from the main campus. This is the building housing all the budding Japanese creators!

Also known as the Nippon Kogakuin Creator's College
(日本 工学院 クリエイタズ カレッジ)

Entrance to the Creator's Building showcasing some of the student's work. Now we know we are at the right place! Inside the building, there's also a mini gallery housing all the student's work, mostly anime and manga-inspired illustrations.

A close-up shot of one of the posters, protected and cared for inside a well-polished a glass cabinet. Yep, they take their IP pretty seriously around here lol

Rei having a quick pose. Everything here is 100% original stuff lol

The mini-gallery giving out hints of the future potential animes that will be hit our screens!

We are still at the ground floor by the way! Next on our tour, is the ANIMATION FACTORY! So stay tune!