University Offers Class on Madoka Magica
- Categories: Anime, News
- Date: Apr 22, 2015 03:04 JST
- Tags: Education, Image Gallery, Mahou Shoujo, Puella Magi Madoka Magica, Tokyo
Tokyo’s Tokai University recently held a class on the mahou shoujo phenomenon that is Mahou Shoujo Madoka Magica in hopes of actively discussing its psychological depth, though its many participants may well have attended simply to gain the benefit of a course which includes the instructions “watch all episodes again.”
The “frontier of knowledge” lecture covered all 12 episodes of the grim series and apparently proved so popular that many attendees were left without chairs:
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One of the lessons will be about masturbating to Mami's death
Too soon!
Too late. Already done.
And she's actually now Vivio.
Uh... Tokai in My country is a slang for Shit......
There was a breaking bad class
sorry I can go out tonight, I have a lot of hw to do.......
reminds me of he course on comic books. though, the argument behind was more convincing "comicbook heros are the modern myths".
still, its a step in the right direction.
I would say this class is a joke and a stupid idea because unless you can get Urobutcher to come and teach, then whatever your course is teaching is as legit as dedicating a course to the genetic engineering Godzilla.
Is good to know todays youth is receiving appropriate education to face the issues of today. with this courses they will sure be ready to solve the impending matter of global warming, the struggle for resources, etc.
Have you paused to consider that this may be for liberal arts and the like?
Sure, there are various bullshit humanities in universities (like "women's studies/gender studies" and "black studies"), but it's not like every major is "cure for cancer"-worthy.
this would be the right time for a school shoot out. if kids feel such a class is worth their time and money, there would be no important loses.
Madoka Magica is the 2nd most overrated and overhyped anime of all time (Behind Evangelion). It is not deep, and it didn't radically changed the mahou shoujo genre. It's just more of the same with a pretty coat of paint.
I'd argue about whether it's the 2nd most overrated or “whatever-other-number most overrated”, but it's not really important.
Point is, most anime is overrated nowadays (or even “ever”). Though to be fair, it's generally aimed towards people who are already known for liking stuff of that sort, so that everything is getting overrated is normal.
It's only famous because Mami's death made the Japanese happy in their pants.
Why the F*CK were classes like this NOT available here I am at???
If they were, there would be so *MANY* PhDs in Anime/Manga.
Imagine it, Dr.XXXXXXXXX PhD in Anime/Manga...
I could even do homeworks for once.
Would enroll in that class too.
Clearly a culture much superior to the west.
At least the west can look at pictures of genitals without going to prison.
You can suck my balls right now you stinking jew.
Oy vey, the goyim cattle are onto us, shower them with schekels to have access to baby goy dick!
Oy vey, the goyim cattle are onto us, shower them with shekels to have access to baby goy dick!
would take the course
I would obtain perfect attendance
The focus is too narrow. Why not just add Madoka into philosophy course syllabus?
maybe it's an attempt to lure as many hikikomori as possible out of the house as possible -- or the show was secretly part of an psychology experiment to begin with & now it's time to start collecting data from the unwitting test subjects who are in actuality paying the researchers to study/experiment on them under the guise of "taking a class".
It was the NHK all along!
Simple. The professor likes Madoka and he gets to decide the contents of his class.
studies shows that kamen rider ryuki should do a crossover with madoka
I would so love to enroll there in a heartbeat.
Seriously, that is a cute pic at the top.
so higher education is a joke in Asia as well. OK as long as everyone is losing and it's not just me.
Even our joke classes are better than the classes in your average murican college
Bless your tiny heart.
Literally would attend college.
And Flunk the class because i never watched the anime.
It's kind of amusing and a nice surprise that a tv show has garnered the attention of academia in such a way as to merit a whole course dedicated to it. All TV shows should aim to this. A shame they don't, and even worse that they don't need to to be popular (*cough, cough* Sword Art Online *cough, cough*)
It didn't "garner the attention of the academia"
It's just some random otaku who managed to get a job teaching there and will now waste everyone's time with a pointless class.