Final Project Final Project Final Project

I am definitely interested in my topic (transmedia in Japanese pop culture), and certainly invested in the research.

But, boy, is researching it hard...


I've found one article on transmedia...only one!  I've found several on manga and anime alone, but no others about how the two relate, nor any on how video games relate to manga and anime.

In fact, the article about transmedia on Japan actually cites Jenkin's :D

I've found plenty of other topics, though, that I can easily use as transitions for my many examples.

To list a few examples I plan on using:

Kingdom Hearts and transmedia between video games and manga
Final Fantasy (it's mentioned in a book I found in the library about how there's a lot of anime on it too, but only briefly...there's also manga)

Fullmetal Alchemist (it has two anime series, one related to the manga, one kind of goes off in its own direction)

When They Cry (higurashi no naku koro ni) (it started off as a DS game, then adapted into an anime, then a manga.  One of my articles talks about how transmedia often deepens characters and their relationships with readers, and this one is a fine example.  The manga has elements in it that the anime doesn't have)

Hayao Miyazaki and his Nausicaa and the Valley of the Wind movie (produced in 1984).  An excerpt from a book in Google Scholar (yes, I looked there...I was desperate for more sources!) talked about the original manga version, and how he drew it so complicated so no one could animate it


It's great to be a manga/anime/Japan enthusiast.  Half the stuff I'll use for this project is stuff I've found out by reading a lot of manga....