1 / 12

Passport to Manga Clubs

Passport to Manga Clubs. Rachel Shankles shankles@cablelynx.com. What is Manga?.

denim
Download Presentation

Passport to Manga Clubs

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. Passport to Manga Clubs Rachel Shankles shankles@cablelynx.com

  2. What is Manga? Manga: Japanese word referring both to comics and cartooning. "Manga" as a term used outside Japan refers specifically to comics originally published in Japan. The word itself means ‘whimsical drawings’ in Japanese. Shōjo manga is for girls and Shōnen manga is for boys. In the 1990’s a translator went after the American and Canadian market. By 2008, the U.S. and Canadian manga market generated $175 million in annual sales. Manga reads back to front.

  3. Forming a Club • Notice the students checking out your Naruto and Bleach series. Talk to them about a Manga Club. • Have a sign up sheet the first two weeks of school for anyone to join this club from any grade. Mine goes 8th through 12th • These kids are usually loners or nerds, may not do well in school but are very intelligent.

  4. Meetings • The good thing is you don’t have to buy them free books to give out for book club meetings. They just like to sit and talk about the series. • We have had guided activities like tearing up pages of old, worn-out titles of Bleach or Naruto and then making bookmarks during a meeting by gluing them on an Ellison cutout of a book mark and adding yarn as a tassel • My aide made bookmarks with DeathNote and other characters for them for Christmas • We have had an artist come to demonstrate how the big eyes and faces are drawn • My club meets at 7:30 am every other week on Thursdays

  5. Related Gaming Activities • Another librarian from a local high school formed an Anime Club about the same time and we talked about having some kind of contest and settled on a Wii game contest using a game that has Manga characters. • We used Dragonball Z as the first tournament game between Hot Spgs High and Lakeside High • The Garland County Library was happy to hold the tournament for us and offer a trophy and other prizes on a Saturday in January. • Games: Drazonball Z, Smash Brothers, Soul Caliber

  6. Advantages • An oddball group of kids find a niche and develop some social skills; they come in at lunch and before school to practice the Wii games for the tournaments • My circulation stats have sky-rocketed as all these kids talk about the series I have and they check out like 5 a day each. I give them rights to more than two books at a time if in the club • I have some donated titles in a back room that are not cataloged; I don’t have Marc records so they feel privileged to go back there and take books to read from that cart too (they keep a log)

  7. Recommended Series • Naruto and Bleach are standards for jr/sr high; about 4 new titles come out each year. • Yu-gi-oh has several different sets like Millennium and Volume • Captive Hearts • Death Note- not for middle school • The Prince of Tennis • Sailor Moon • DragonBall Z or GT • Fruits Basket – great for mid sch • Full Metal Alchemist • Mars • Rebirth – only for high school • Genji no Seiza

  8. More Titles • Shaman King • Ouran High School Host Club • Vampire Game • Dragon Knights • One Piece • Beet Whistle • Silver Diamond • Her Majesty’s Dog • Marmalade Boy • The Queen’s Knights • Hot Gimmick

  9. Where to Purchase? • Delaney Educational’s Sherrie Torgerson (479) 477-0387 email: sherdeebooks@hotmail.com (she cks & reads the reviews and tells me which one will be appropriate) • Titlewave.com through Follett has some of the big sets in hardback • Amazon.com - to complete a • set or replace a volume

  10. We made tee shirts for the contests.

  11. Getting the first trophy from GCL

  12. Tournament Rounds

More Related