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Title Holding and Evaluation “Real Stargazing Party” at an Anime Festa in a Region

Author(s) Watanabe, Takahito

Issue Date 2016-08-28

Doc URL http://hdl.handle.net/2115/62797

Type conference presentation

Note 2016 International Conference of East-Asian Association for Science Education. August 26-28th, 2016. TokyoUniversity of Science. Tokyo, Japan.

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Holding and Evaluation

“Real Stargazing Party”

at an Anime Festa in a Region

t_watanabeアットimc.hokudai.ac.jp

EASE2016 Tokyo

August 28, 2016 @ Tokyo University of Science

Takahito Watanabe t_watanabe［ａｔ］imc.hokudai.ac.jp

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Contents

1. Introduction

2. What is “TOYAKO Manga Anime Festa”?

3. Outline of Practice

4. Results of the Questionnaire Survey for Participants

5. Conclusion

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Previous Research

• The mental image of astronomy was more uniquely

positive in three cognitive dimensions (beautiful,

vast and interesting) than the images of other fields

of science (Toyosawa et al. 2011).

• The image of the research process regarding

astronomy and astronomers was inaccurate

(Toyosawa et al. 2011).

• The function of media as a constructor of the image

of astronomy could not be ignored (Kawai &

Takagaki 2011).

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Hyper-beautiful Media Representation of Stargazing

“Brynhildr in the Darkness” “Bakemonogatari”

“Kimi no Shiranai Monogatari”

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Recursive Reinforcement of the Images of Astronomy

Hyper-beautiful Images of Astronomy

Hyper-beautiful Media

Representations of Stargazing

Unfamiliarity

With

Astronomy

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“Real Stargazing Party”

“Kimi no Shitteru Monogatari”

“Akatsuki o Mirunhirude”

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“Augmented Realistic Imagination” Shown in the “Anime Pilgrimage”

• The reality of social relations entangled in fiction

and augmented (Uno & Hamano 2012).

Washinomiya Shrine Drawn in “Lucky ☆ Star”

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Relations Investigated via the Questionnaire Survey

Experiences of Stargazing

Media Contact

Images of Astronomy

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Contents

1. Introduction

2. What is “TOYAKO Manga Anime Festa”?

3. Outline of Practice

4. Results of the Questionnaire Survey for Participants

5. Conclusion

TMAF is held for two days in every June since 2010 at

TOYAKO spa town.

The visitors can cosplay at almost all locations in the

spa town and other places.

Events include a cosplay parade, a gathering of anime cars, exhibitions of original cartoon images, live

events featuring voice actors and singers, and so on.

According to the organizer, the most recent TMAF was

marked a record of 53,000 visitors over two days.

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What is “TOYAKO Manga Anime Festa” (TMAF)?

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Contents

1. Introduction

2. What is “TOYAKO Manga Anime Festa”?

3. Outline of Practice

4. Results of the Questionnaire Survey for Participants

5. Conclusion

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The Astronomical Objects Observed at the “Night” Part of the Party

The Summer Triangle The Spring Triangle

Mars Saturn Albireo in Cygnus Antares in Scorpius

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The Astronomical Object Observed at the “Day” Part of the Party

The Moon in the Daytime

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Situations of the Stargazing Party

While the author made a participant look an astronomical object, the author explained the object

to the participant orally.

The author reproduced stargazing scenes from anime by lying down on a picnic sheet with participants and

looking at the Summer Triangle, and by cosplaying.

The author’s cosplay wasn’t understood by the

participants in the “day” part of the party.

Many of the participants came to know for the first

time that the moon is observable in the daytime.

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Contents

1. Introduction

2. What is “TOYAKO Manga Anime Festa”?

3. Outline of Practice

4. Results of the Questionnaire Survey for

Participants

5. Conclusion

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Gender & Age

Male 35%

Female 65%

Gender (N=34)

Under 10 0%

10s 13%

20s 41%

30s 31%

40s 6%

50s 3%

60s 6%

70 & Over 0%

Age (N=32, M=31.0, SD=12.0)

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Job Title

Student 15%

Office Worker 15%

Civil Servant 6%

Systems Engineer 6%

Telephone Receptionist

6%

Clerk in supermarkets

6% Job-hoppers

6% Teacher

3%

Liberal Profession 3%

Financial Business

3%

Sales Staff 3%

Designer 3%

Medical Office Worker

3%

Construction Management

Engineer 3%

Operator 3%

Restaurant Business

3%

Housewife 3%

Company Management

3%

Engineer 3%

Jobless 3% Job Title (Free Writing, N=33)

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Final Education Record

Junior High School

3%

Senior High School

34%

Technical College 3%

Professional School

13% Junior College

3%

University 34%

Master's Course 7%

Doctoral Course 3%

Final Education Record (N=30)

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Address

Saitama 3%

Chiba 3%

Shizuoka 3%

Kagawa 3% Sapporo

32% Chitose 17%

Date 9%

Tomakomai 9% Muroran

6% Noboribetsu

3%

Toyako 3%

within Hokkaido 9%

Hokkaido 88%

Address (N=34)

Prefectures Cities etc.

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Companions

Friends 47%

Family 20%

Alone 21%

Lover 6%

Friends & Lover 6%

Companions (N=34)

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15 14

9

7 7 5

4 4 4 3 3

1 0 0 0

0

5

10

15

20

25

21 Weighted Sums Calculated From the Number of Respondents Whose

“Hobbies” Correspond to Each of These Choices (N=17)

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Evaluation Items of Impression (5-point scale)

1. Strongly Disagree

14%

2. Disagree 3%

3. Neutral 35%

4. Agree 31%

5. Strongly Agree 17%

I felt that stargazing became more familiar. (N=29, M=3.3, SD=1.2)

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Ownership of Telescopes

• The respondents were given

telescopes by their fathers

or mothers.

• The respondents had been

given or bought telescopes

during 12-15 years of age.

2 2

30

0

5

10

15

20

25

30

35

Given Bought forMyself

Not Have

Do you have telescopes? (Multiple Choice, N=34) men

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People Liking Stargazing Around the Respondents

5 5

18

0

2

4

6

8

10

12

14

16

18

20

Have Had Neither

Do you have people liking stargazing around you? (Multiple Choice, N=28)

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1 1 1 1

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The Relation With the People From the Viewpoint of the Respondents

(Free Writing, N=9）

men

men

25 Where had you looked through a telescope in the past? (Multiple Choice,

N=26)

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6

4 4

7

1

5

0

2

4

6

8

10

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In School Lessons At AstronomicalObservatories orMuseums During

School Events

In Camp Schools In Clubs inAssociation With a

School

At Home orDuring Family

Trips

Others Not Experienced

men

26 “Media Content” Which Have Scenes of Stargazing or a Starry Sky and Left

Impressions on Respondents’ Mind (Free Writing, N=12)

Content Types Titles etc.

Novels and

Young-adult

Fictions

Songs

“Onaji Hoshi”, “Tentai Kansoku”, “Starry Heavens”,

“Kimi no Shiranai Monogatari”, “Meteor”, “Planetarium”,

“Iteza Gogo Kuji Don't be late”

Comics “Hoshi no Hitomi no Silhouette”, “Natsu no Rocket”

Anime ”Space Battleship Yamato”, “Macross”, “Bakemonogatari”

Computer

Games

Actual Photos

and Films

Photos of Stars Got From an Astronomical Worker

at Akashi City, Hyogo Pref.

Others

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Contents

1. Introduction

2. What is “TOYAKO Manga Anime Festa”?

3. Outline of Practice

4. Results of the Questionnaire Survey for Participants

5. Conclusion

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Conclusion

• It was difficult to appeal to “augmented realistic

imagination”, because the author’s cosplay wasn’t

understood.

• The participants seemed to feel that stargazing

became more familiar.

• The future task is revealing the following:

• The relation between people’s experiences in stargazing

in the past, their images of astronomy, and media

representation

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Acknowledgement

I'd like to express my gratitude to the following: Mr.

Daisuke Oda of Messier Card Co., Ltd., who helped me

to hold the stargazing party, all members of The

Committee for the Promotion of TOYAKO Manga Anime

Festa/ Lake Toya Hot Spring Tourism Association, who

let me hold the party and cooperated variously, Mr.

Takayoshi Yamamura of Hokkaido University Center for

Advanced Tourism Studies and all members of Society

for the Study of Contents Tourism, who helped me to

hold the party diversely, and all the respondents of the

questionnaire survey.

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Toyosawa, J., Karasawa, K., Todayama, K., (2011)

Images of Astronomy and Other Sciences: Analysis

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