The aim of this course is to examine the meaning of cross-border culture by looking at the reception of Japanese manga and anime culture (hereafter ACGN culture) in Taiwan.
The goal of this lecture is to understand the various aspects of the acceptance of ACGN culture in Taiwan, mainly through the results of academic and field research. Specifically, we will first overview the development of manga culture in Taiwan since the 1950s, referring to the works of Chen Chu-wei, a leading researcher of ACGN culture. Next, I will give an overview of some of the topics that arose in the 1990s and 2000s. After that, we will discuss the trend of master thesis on ACGN culture and the second half of the class will be devoted to the basic knowledge of ACGN culture in Japan. The second half of the class will be devoted to teaching basic knowledge of Japanese ACGN culture. As a concrete example of the localization of ACGN culture, the Japan-Taiwan collaboration puppet show "Thunderbolt Fantasy" will be introduced.