We educate students to be skilled professionals who can create winning and marketable designs!

We have a special industry-collaborative educational system that trains students to become creative professionals in a variety of fields including graphic design, illustration, manga, gaming, CG, animation, accessory design, interior design, and car design. From the first year, through corporate projects in particular, students gain experience via assignments in developing products for commercial release. Since the opening of the school, more than 1,300 companies have provided students will such product development experiences. Lecturers, themselves professionals, teach the students the necessary skills and knowledge they will require for their careers. In the three years spent at school, students grow from enjoying design to being a creative designers of saleable and successful products.

Schools in this field

Tokyo Communication Arts
Osaka Communication Arts
Fukuoka Communication Arts
Nagoya Communication Arts
Sendai Communication Arts

Majors/Courses Offered

Design, Illustration & Web World (3 Years)

  • ■Graphic Designer Course
  • ■Illustrator Course
  • ■Character Design Course
  • ■Web・Website Design Course
  • ■Magazine Editing & Writing Course
  • ■Comprehensive Design & Illustration Course
  • ■Digital Photography Course

As customers, our purchase decisions are greatly influenced by promotions. This includes posters and packaging, illustrations and characters. The Internet is also becoming an indispensable tool in this regard. Being able to capture customers' attention is important. These courses enable students to systematically learn the theories and advanced expressive skills used in creating successful marketing concepts.

Graphic designer, packaging designer, WEB designer, WEB planner, magazine designer, magazine editor, illustrator, character designer

Product & Interior Design World (3 Years)

  • ■Interior & Product Design Course
  • ■Decorative Accessory Design Course

Mobile phones, watches, computers, kitchenware, furniture, home appliances.... You can give form to these everyday items that are beautiful, functional, and eco-friendly. To train students in universal design, global design, and eco design, we have created the Product & Interior Design World. Students will gain the skills to plan and design products that can meet a variety of needs.

Interior designer, interior coordinator, exterior designer, shop designer, decorator, space designer, lighting designer, product designer, product planner

Manga World (3 Years)

  • ■Professional Manga Artist Course
  • ■Comic Illustrator Course
  • ■Light Novelist・Novelist Course

The manga and comics industry is not limited to comics for young boys and girls. It is expanding its genres to include business-themed comics and web comics. The business side of comics (e.g. how many manga magazines and books are published) is bigger than you can imagine. In order to better meet the needs of readers, students learn story construction, framing, and drawing techniques that will lead to a successful professional debut.

Manga artist, illustrator, graphic designer, manga artist assistant, manga author, screenwriter, structure writer, novelist, copywriter, newspaper reporter, magazine writer

Gaming & Animation World (3 Years)

  • ■Game Programmer Course
  • ■Game Planner Course
  • ■Game Graphics & Character Design Course
  • ■Digital Content Programmer Course
  • ■CG Creator Course
  • ■Animation Course

There is a lot of new gaming software being produced to take advantage of the constantly evolving capabilities of computer hardware. Like games, Japanese animation being incredibly popular worldwide. This course teaches the latest expressive animation techniques, production knowledge, and advanced skills necessary for creating new games for these burgeoning business markets.

Game planner, network programmer, game designer, game producer, CG creator, CG designer, CG character designer, CG illustrator, 3DCG animator, compositor, producer, digital image editor

Car Design World (4 Years)

  • ■Car Design Course
  • ■Car Model Course
  • ■Car Interior & Colour Design Course
  • ■Motorcycle Design and Model Course
  • ■3DCG Design and Model Course

The chance to become a car designer --- to do what you love for a living --- is right in front of you. For those who love cars, it is a dream that can come true with the help of a proven educational system. Since its inception in 1988, TCA has had an original curriculum and industry-collaborative educational system that has put our graduates at the forefront of the industry. We are recognized by the automotive industry as one of the best educational institutions for car design.

自動車エクステリアデザイナー、自動車インテリアデザイナー、プロダクトデザイナー、自動車モデラー、プロダクトデザインモデラー、CADモデラー、カラーデザイナー、マテリアルデザイナー、二輪デザイナー、二輪モデラー、ビジュアルCGデザイナー、プロダクトCGモデラー

日中韓翻訳通訳ワールド (2年制)

  • ■Business Translator and Interpreter Course
  • ■Anime and Movie Translator Course
  • ■IT・WEB Translation Course
  • ■GAME Translation Course

We believe that there are three major abilities required for translating and interpreting work: "foreign language / mother language expression ability," "business ability," and "sensibility." With these three abilities in mind, we prepared a language curriculum which leverages our academic-industrial cooperation system. With this curriculum, students acquire skills and knowledge to be active as Asian-trilingual translators / interpreters who can manipulate Japanese, Chinese, and Korean. Make your dreams come true and flourish as a translator / interpreter in the industry you desire.

In-house interpreter, trading interpreter, translation and interpretation company staff, manual translator, conference interpreter, simultaneous interpreter, WEB translator, animation scenario translator, film and drama scenario translator, game technology translator, publication and book translator, advertisement agency staff, mass communication media translator & interpreter, lyrics translator, travel agent, hotel staff, airline company staff, interpreter guide

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