VISUAL DIARY 2018
KYOTO UNIVERSITY OF ART AND DESIGN MANGA DEPARTMENT STORY MANGA COURSE SPECIFIC ENGLISH CLASS VISUAL DIARY 2018
Contents Preface 2 | Miyu Ashida | Qiuxuan Chen (Senn) | Kentaro Fujii | Ayu Fukuchi | Takumi Gyoda | Yuma Hirose | Daiki Hoshijima | Chika Ishida | Kirito Kawamo | Honoka Komori | Ryusei Komura | Manami Komuro | YuTian Li | Keisuke Matsushima | Yuri Mizutani | Riku Morimoto | Ryo Moriwake | Riku Obata | Atsushi Sakata | Takahiro Yokoyama | Xinyun Yuan | Yujue Zhang (Brook)
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Just Another Nice-To-Meet-You Exhibition Report 136 Thanks 144
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Preface Many students hate English by the time they finish high school. They associate learning English with learning grammar and studying for exams. Visual Diary 2018 was a project to help students see that learning a foreign language could be enjoyable when coupled with their own form of creativity, and something physical to take home. Class work was not about practicing grammar, but about sharing their passion for expression and creation. This book is a document of the what we all shared in class, from September 2018 to January 2019. We hope you enjoy it.
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Yo! My name is Miyu Ashida. I’m from Hiroshima. I like to play games and draw pictures. My favorite game is UNDERTALE! UNDERTALE is soooooo good!!!!! YEAH!! This game’s characters and the story are sooooooo wonderful!!! If you have time, try it! My dream is to draw manga loved by everybody!
My favorite word is YO! Because I kind of like it!
I want to try to be a HERO for a day. I think it’s a cool job because I could do things that I normally couldn’t do.
This is my ideal partner! She’s my important character that I made myself.
There are many great eyes, but I really like cute, cool eyes!
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Hi! I’m Qiuxuan Chen, but you can call me Senn. Nice to meet you. Let me introduce myself. I have two eyeballs, one nose and one mouth. In fact, I’m a regular human being… (sad). In my profile illustration, I have a different hair style than the one that I have now, because it used to be longer, and I wore it in a bun. I always use this illustration in my manga. My favorite manga artist is CLAMP, and I read all their works. If I could be anything I would want to be a cat, because they sleep 2/3 of their day.
Hi! This is me, Sen! In this picture, I drew about myself! Nice to meet you.
This is my ideal big brother. I am an only child. If I had a big brother, he would be nice to me.
In this picture, I became a pilot for a day. I want to be a pilot because it is a cool job, and I could fly a big plane.
These are my favorite words and in this picture, I draw the character who said them from the novel, Dragon Raja.
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Hi, my name is Kentaro Fujii! I’m from Tokyo. I was born in Minayo-ku. I drew my profile like an octopus, the reason being because I like their tentacles. My self-introduction maybe short, but shorter is better, don’t you think so?
This is Me! I drew my favorite Pokemon because I was fired up; it was the first homework and fun.
My Ideal partner... I did their expression well.
My Hero. I love Marvel, this image is of Spider-Man on his day off.
I put this in because drawing eyes was the most fun homework.
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Hi! My name is Ayu. My home town is Nagano but I moved to Tokyo when I was very young. My favorite food is meat but I don’t like fish. The profile illustration l draw is of a cucumber, but i don’t like cucumbers particularly. My favorite works are special effects from Showa era in Japan. I like old-school things.
This is an ancient Kamen Rider. I like old special effects, so I drew this.
My favorite word. This is a wizard. I really admire wizards and witches.
A job for a day. This is me when I’m painting. I wish painting could be my full time job.
I always draw these eyes. I like my eyes shining with many eyelashes, and I like to color them even more.
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Hi, my name is Takumi Gyoda. I’m from Gunma prefecture. I like eating raw oysters, and listening to the chewing sound. But, I don’t want to listen to other noisy eaters. In other words, I like normal chewing sounds.
My favorite word. We have to make progress, but small steps are Ok. I have to draw manga and it will never end.
When you see a person’s face, what do you look at first? I always look at the left eye. In other words, I think the eyes are important.
My hero. He is a great Manga artist. His manuscripts were 3D because there were so many layers of black and white ink.
A Job for a day. I do not want to be a teacher, but I think that being a teacher’s trainee is a good position. So, I’d like to be an elementary school teacher for a day.
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My name is Yuma Hirose. I’m from Aomori prefecture. Aomori is famous for apples, but I rarely eat them. I like painting pictures but I don’t like drawing on paper. I always paint on my PC. I want to have a job painting pictures in the future. Thank you!
This is me.
These are my heros.
I don’t know what I want to do if I had a job for a day.
All kinds of eyes see the truth.
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Hi! My name is Daiki Hoshijima. I’m from Okayama. In my profile illustration I have a circle and a cross in my eyes, because I like games. So I tried to draw my eyes like a game controller’s buttons. But in fact my eyes are normal.
This is me! I like manga and games. This is my original pen.
My favorite words are “If you can dream it , you can do it.� It means a lot to me because l respect Walt Disney (these words are from him).
My heros are manga characters. I think they are cool. I respect them because they move me every time.
I’d like to be a ninja for a day. I think it’s a cool job because I could have a free run.
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Hi, My name is Chika Ishida. I’m from Kyoto, and I still live in Kyoto now. So I want to travel to many places. My profile illustration is a chick. I was watching the Asa-dora (morning TV drama) called Hiyokko when I decided on this design. Recently, I like Taichi Kokubun, because he is sooooo interesting and cute!
Hey! my name’s Chika. Look at this! This is me!
My marriage partner would be Taichi Kokubun. He’s an idol from the group Tokio in Japan. He is a wonderful entertainer!
My heros are singers who are working on the net. Try googling and singing “After the Rain’’
A job I want to try for day. I want to be surrounded by cute kids and want to play with them!
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Hi! My name is Kirito Kawamo. When you write it in kanji, my last name means river and hair. It’s so corny!! My favorite food is gumi (Japanese gumi sweets), because I like the food texture. My favorite animation is Puripara, because it changed my life. You should watch it too, by all means!
Kawaii is my favorite word, because cute is always forgiven when it fails.
My ideal partner is Rika Kamiyoshi. She is a Live2D creator. I admire the skill she has.
I’d love to have a younger sister. They are very very very very cute. Thank you.
I draw cute eyes for Japanese Otaku. Because i like Otaku culture. I saw a cute picture and wanted to draw my own.
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Hello, My name is Honoka Komori. I’m from Osaka. I like listening to music. I’m into K-pop right now. For example, MOMO LAND, BLACK PINK etc… And the reason is because they’re awesome!!!! I admire them so much!!!!!!! I love them so much that I’m considering about having plastic surgery!! (Just kidding)
My Hero: I drew Machida Tatsuki. He is a former figure skater. The reason why I drew him is because I respect his artistry and attitude toward skating very much.
A Job for a Day: If I could do anything for a day, I would like to become a shrine maiden. The reason why is because their uniform is cute, and I am also interested in Shintoism.
My Ideal Partner: I drew the actor, Suda Masaki. His profile is amazing and he is really cool.
Eyes: I drew Shiroma Miru. She belongs to NMB48, team 8. She says, “My attractive feature is my eyes”
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Hello! My name is Ryusei Komura. What a nice name I have. I’m from Mukomachi in Kyoto. Mukomachi has a shopping street with spicy food. The yuru character, “Karakki” is famous. It is very healthy and has a chilly-shaped head. Aside from that… I like moveable figures, because I can drawn them for reference. My icon? It has the appearance of a bunny head like a character from ni-chan (channel two in Japan). Ha ha ha! Thank you!
I am interested only in money. Because I can buy whatever I want. It is necessary to live.
If I could do anything for a day, I would like a job breaking things. I desire that.
My ideal partner: this is a character of manga Baki, Yujiro Hanma, because I admire him.He won the one-state America.
Human beings especially, do not judge only by what the eyes see, but also emphasize what is not visible.
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Hi! I’m Manami Komuro. I live in Shiga. I go to school by train and bus. It makes me so tired. I like spicy food. I often eat Tabasco sauce. I’m jealous of Gorugo Matsumoto. He often eats very very spicy food in Ariyoshi Zemi (a TV program). My hobby is watching TV. I watch Gaki no Tsukaiya Arahende! every week. I like Mr. J Office, too. I like the band TOKIO very much. I like Tatsuya Yamaguchi the most. In the future, I want to marry him♡
My hero: this is Tatsuya Yamaguchi. He has been a member of TOKIO from the old days. He is my hero. Because he gave us all excitement and laughter.
My ideal friend: this is MJ. He is dating Aoi Tukasa. I like her, too. I have a similar taste to her.
My favorite word: this is Shigeru Joshima. He is the leader of TOKIO. He said “Shirouto wa damattore� (amatuers should keep their mouths shut). These words are very cool.
I like clear eyes. I always draw eyelashes because they’re very cool.
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Hi, my name is Li Yutian. I’m from Sichuan in China. I like manga. My favorite manga is Naruto because Naruto and Sasuke are sooo sweet. I hate frogs. But when I came to Kyoto, my house was next to a rice paddy, and there were a lot of frogs. But the only good thing was there were no mosquitoes. Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha!
This is me. I like to play games, I like to sleep, and I always overeat. From time to time, I also feel very tired. This is me, cute as a hamster.
I love Rick Sanchez. He is a mad scientist who seems to know everything in the universe and thus finds life a traumatizing and pointless experience. I love him like Morty.
My hero is All Might. He smiles to save the world, and brings people peace and love.
My favorite words are “Nothing is difficult in the world, so long as you are willing to give up.� I think learning to give up is a subject that makes me live a freer, happier life.
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Hello. My name is Keisuke Matsushima. Please call me “Mattsu.” I am not good at English, but I can study it. I’m from Kyoto, but I don’t like it because the summer here is very hot and the winter is very cold. It’s crazy. My favorite foods are meat & sweets. I could eat them all the time. Meat please! My hero is Rumiko Takahashi.
My heros are comic heros because I grew up reading comic books. Comic heros are cool, kind and handsome.
My favorite word is「なんとでもなる」(nantodemonai). It means it’ll be fine. I think this word all the time and it makes my day happy.
I like movies, especially Jurassic Park. Outside the manga world, I respect Steven Spielberg. I’d like to be a director for a day. I want to join the movie course.
My ldeal woman is like a hotokesama, because kind people are attractive.
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Hi! My name is Yuri Mizutani. I’m from Shizuoka. My profile picture is a kasasagi (it’s a European magpie in English). I use it for my Twitter account icon. My favorite thing is to go on a trip. Taking pictures that capture the atmosphere of the location I am in is fun. My dream is to take a trip to hot springs sometimes.
This is me. I like to draw pictures, take photos and watch sea animals.
Everyone is my hero. I think they are great. I respect them because they teach me a lot of things.
My favorite word is nisshin geppo. It’s “steady progress“ and it means a lot to me because I would like to get better.
I’d like to be an aquarium keeper for a day. Because I yearn to work at an aquarium.
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Hi, my name is Riku Morimoto. I’m from Osaka. I like dragons, because dragons are so strong and cool. My favourite dragon is Smaug in The Hobbit (movie). I want to draw a dragon manga.
I love dragons.
I want to be a dragon.
I play Overwatch.
I like to relax.
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My name is Ryo Moriwake. I’m from Hiroshima. I love twin tails. Twin tails are soooo cute!! I often draw girls with twin tails. In the future, I would like to work as manga artist. I respect Keita Takadu. He drew Oshikake Twintail (which is a manga masterpiece).
This is me! I drew my favorite things.
My favorite words are “Twin Tails�. I love twin tails.
I’d like to be Kamen Rider for a day.
My ideal neighbor: I think that a smiling person would be wonderful.
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Hi! my name is Riku Obata. I’m from Osaka. I like sweets and cheese. My favourite games are card games and gambling games, especially poker and tactics games. Incidentally, I have not read Kaiji (a manga about gambling). My dream job is to be a manga artist because there are no other ways for me.
This is me! From left to right: Muffet, Paul Bunyan, and Yamashiro. I have to spread their cuteness around the world.
Because it is more serious than other themes, I’d like to be a childcare giver for a day.
My Ideal Partner. Her name is Yamashiro. She is part of the Kancolle (Kantai Collection) game characters.
Free theme: because it is the theme that I choose.
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Hi! My name is Atsushi Sakata. I’m from Kyoto. Kyoto is veeeeery hot, because the city is encircled in a lot of mountains. I like ramen, especially Tonkotsu ramen (pork ramen from Kagoshima). My dream is to be a manga artist.
I want to be an emperor for a day. I want to govern Japan. The greatest emperor was emperor Jubilee.
My hero is Tsukinomito. She is a Virtual Youtuber. She is very cute. She always talks about funny stuff.
My favorite words are “go for broke!” In Japanese, it’s “当たって砕けろ” (atatte kudakero). I like the meaning.
I like Idol Master eyes. Idol Master is a game. A game that produces idols.
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Hi! My name is Takahiro Yokoyama. I’m from Gifu, which is not very famous. That’s why I want everyone to know about Gifu. I used to play soccer, but now I don’t like it, because the football club activities were not fun. I like to draw pictures now. Drawing makes me happy. I think that it is better to have more things in life, so I always try to add to my list of favorite things.
This is my hero. He is from Jump Comics. His name is Kankichi Ryotsu. he has an interesting life.
I think it would be cool to be a house husband for a day. Only my wife would get angry with me when I make a mistake.
My Ideal sister. This character is named Mikan Yuki in “To loveる”. My ideal sister would have to be level-headed, have an obliging-nature and be family-oriented.
What my favorite character says is “I don’t do what I dont have to do. I do things I have to do quickly.”
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HI! My name is Xinyun Yuan. I was born in Sichuan, China. I like to eat meat and spicy food. So I love dishes with spicy meat. I also love animation and manga. I came to Japan as a International student. I wear t-shirts with manga characters on as my casual clothes. Recently, I like wearing t-shirts with Marvel characters. Oh, I got about 20 pounds fatter after I came to Japan. Japan’s food is very very sweet… I don’t like sweets :(
This is my self portrait. This is all of me.
This is money. Money is my hero. Money is always useful.
My ideal partner is a game companion. This is my imaginary game companion. I want someone who I can play games together with.
These are eyes, and only eyes. I want to draw like this.
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Hi, my name is Zhang Yujue. I’m from Qingdao in China. I’m 24 years old. I like the anime character called Brook, so my former English teacher called me Brook. I have been in Japan for nearly four years. I study comics in Japan. My hobby is drawing, cooking and playing sports. But recently, I am too busy to exercise. I want to go to the gym!!
This is me. I like Dragonball. I Like the character Sun Goku therefore I’m wearing the same combat clothes.
My ideal neighbor: I hope my neighbor is quiet.
My favorite word. “Do it now.� I want to overcome procrastination.
A job I want to try for a day: I like hiphop music. Im into 6ix9ine and Wiz Khalifa at the moment.
Just another Nice-To-Meet-You Exhibition 2019 “You mean, I can use the large-format printer as much as I want as long as it’s lesson related?” I was dumbfounded. This year’s exhibition was gonna be a game changer. So once again, from the 20th of December till the 17th of January 2019,
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the Specific English glass hijacked the 4th floor hallway space in the Ningenkan building at KUAD with the permission of “Hallway Art KUAD� project. With window-sized artworks, a lot more heads were turning this time. We ran the printer hot for a solid 8 hours getting all the works done, but the results were visually imposing. All the photos seen here were taken from this exhibition; all works were created by students involved. Report: Duncan Brotherton
Thanks This year, we had a record breaking number of students apply for Manga Specific English class. When I started in 2016, there were 12 students in my class. In 2017 there were 20, but this year, we had 34 students apply. There are only 24 desks in the room I teach however, so 10 students couldn’t join. Why the popularity? I asked some other teachers and students. “You do things differently, like making the Visual Diary magazine. Students like that,” said one of the teachers. “Probably rumors of how fun your classes are” said Pina, a student from my 2016 class. I’m not trying to make classes fun... I just try to do things that are interesting. The ones who make the class fun are my students. Before I taught here, I thought Manga students would be the quite types, but BOY was I wrong: they come with wild attitudes, their ideas are bonkers and they’re all strangely proud of it. I’m always slightly worried that my super noisy lessons are gonna get me fired. Thank you for being noisy. I wouldn’t have you guys any other way. Thursdays at the Manga Department are just awesome! Duncan Brotherton (Course Instructor) 144
Contributors | Miyu Ashida | Qiuxuan Chen (Senn) | Kentaro Fujii | Ayu Fukuchi | Takumi Gyoda | Yuma Hirose | Daiki Hoshijima | Chika Ishida | Kirito Kawamo | Honoka Komori | Ryusei Komura | Manami Komuro | YuTian Li | Keisuke Matsushima | Yuri Mizutani | Riku Morimoto | Ryo Moriwake | Riku Obata | Atsushi Sakata | Takahiro Yokoyama | Xinyun Yuan | Yujue Zhang (Brook)
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Design: Duncan Brotherton
Published by THIRD EYE PRESS January, 2019 Facebook: THIRD EYE PRESS
KYOTO UNIVERSITY OF ART AND DESIGN MANGA DEPARTMENT STORY MANGA COURSE SPECIFIC ENGLISH CLASS VISUAL DIARY 2018