Manga Workshops in Japan for High School Students

If you’re seeking a fun & original experience for your next Japan school trip, an interactive Manga Seminar is among the many and varied offerings we can arrange for your students.

A feature of our Japan ‘Art & Technology’ trips, this activity is always popular with any student wishing to learn of the illustrative techniques that have spawned a generation of inspiration, procreating the developments of series such as Pokémon, Transformers & Astro Boy.

Hosted by a talented Manga artist, this workshop can be tailored to novice drawers and accomplished illustrates alike, and is run to impart the techniques of this immersive storytelling medium, where images rule supreme!

The Japanese characters for manga translate as ‘pictures run riot’ or ‘pictures unbounded’. It is manga’s visually immersive quality that makes it so popular. The activity teaches students to draw manga characters from scratch and how cleverly constructed illustrations can depict inspired protagonists, heroes and fantasy characters using techniques such as proportion, exaggerated form and visual dynamism to give characters their unique style and personality.