「メカデミア国際学術会議 2025」に登壇しました。
admin2025年6月７〜9日まで京都精華大学、京都国際マンガミュージアムで開催された、マンガ・アニメ・ゲームなど、アジアのポピュラーカルチャー全般を扱う国際学術「メカデミア（Mecademia）」
9日14時〜京都国際マンガミュージアム ギャラリー6にて行われた「Japanese Anime Archive: Anime Archives as Cultural Infrastructure」に、当社代表取締役がメインスピーカーとして登壇し、日本のアニメ・アーカイブに関する基礎解説、国内初事例となる産学官連携によるアニメ・アーカイブ・データ化実証事業「精華ArchiveD」の説明と実証事例報告、質疑応答などを通訳付き英語で行いました。
会場は立ち見が出るほどの盛況で、用意した座席数の倍以上の海外研究者が熱心に聞いていました。
概要説明
Gallery 6 (ギャラリー 6)
Panel (2:00–3:30):
Roundtable: Japanese Anime Archive: Anime Archives as Cultural Infrastructure
—Kenji Fujita, Mariko Koizumi, Billy Tringali, and Frenchy Lunning
This presentation explores the often-overlooked realm of anime production archives and their digitization, focusing on the “SEIKA Anime Archive Digitize Proof of Concept” (Seika ArchiveD) project. While anime is widely celebrated as a global cultural product, its vast array of intermediate materials, such as storyboards, key frames, layout sheets, remain largely inaccessible and unpreserved. These materials are vital not only for production but also for understanding anime’s cultural, artistic, and industrial value.
In this presentation, I will talk about the workflow of commercial anime production and clarifies distinctions between production data and archival-quality digitization. It then outlines the challenges of preserving these materials, including use limited by instructions from the copyright holder, the need for specialized staffing and ideas for utilization in research.
Highlighting the Seika ArchiveD project, an industry-government-academia joint initiative supported by Kyoto Seika University, Onebilling Inc. and the local government of Seika town in Kyoto prefecture, the presentation emphasizes efforts to digitize anime cut bags and repurpose the data for education, exhibitions, and research. Through this case study, I argue for anime archives as essential cultural infrastructure, requiring interdisciplinary collaboration across media studies, digital preservation, and cultural policy. In addition to this topic, Billy Tringali, a researcher, and a faculty librarian at Indiana University Indianapolis, will talk about the U.S. copyright structure regarding archives.
※This round table will be interpreted between English and Japanese.
