JAPAN 75
Anime
Lecture and discussion. The registrar has published a final exam time.
Fall 2026: 1 lecture and 9 discussions. Nothing here is open. The oldest of these readings was 3 hours ago.
Grades
3.84
Average grade awarded in JAPAN 75. Not a student rating: this is what the grades were.
In the A range
90%
of the 965 letter grades
D, F or W
0.9%
of every letter grade awarded, plus withdrawals
Taken pass/no pass
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the registrar has this letter grade only this term
The registrar's own records: 965 grades over 5 terms, Fall 2021 to Fall 2025. Every instructor is pooled here.
What is inside that record
2 of those terms are summer sessions, and summer sessions are counted here.
The table below splits them, and term averages across those 5 terms ran 3.57 to 3.91.
Historical grades for EMMERICH, MICHAEL D, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.
- A+ 205 · 28.1%
- A 397 · 54.4%
- A- 72 · 9.9%
- B+ 25 · 3.4%
- B 14 · 1.9%
- B- 8 · 1.1%
- C+ 1 · 0.1%
- C 1 · 0.1%
- C- 1 · 0.1%
- D 1 · 0.1%
- F 5 · 0.7%
- P 25 of 757
- NP 1 of 757
- I 1 of 757
Percentages are of the 730 letter grades. Grey bars are non-letter outcomes: passes (P), no-passes (NP), and incompletes (I).
How the non-letter outcomes are counted
They are excluded from the GPA entirely rather than scored, because counting a P as a 4.0 would be a fabrication.
By instructor
| Instructor | Predicted GPA | Raw | n | Terms | A range | Workload | Fall 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| EMMERICH, MICHAEL D reviews ↗ | 3.87 | 3.87 | 730 | 3 | 92% | very light | Waitlist, 19 of 27 places taken |
| MCNELLY, KIMBERLY MARIE reviews ↗ | 3.85 | 3.85 | 92 | 1 | 90% | - | not teaching it |
| SHIMA, KENNETH MASAKI reviews ↗ | 3.78 | 3.76 | 77 | 1 | 87% | very light | not teaching it |
| SMITH, JORDAN ANTONY YAMAJI reviews ↗ | 3.62 | 3.57 | 66 | 1 | 61% | - | not teaching it |
Why Predicted is not the Raw average
“Predicted” is shrunk toward the course average, which is itself shrunk toward the department, so an instructor with a handful of students sits near the course mean rather than topping the list.
Grade records describe outcomes. For what a course is like to take, read student reviews written on dibs below or follow the separate external review link.
Workload and assignments
Work types reported in BruinWalk reviews of this course, across recorded instructors and terms. They may differ from this term's syllabus.
What the work looks like
- 1 exam, said by 4 reviewers
- Quizzes mentioned, no number given, said by 2 reviewers
- 2 papers, said by 14 reviewers
- 1 project, said by 1 reviewer
- 1 group work, said by 1 reviewer
Read from 32 reviews about 1 month ago. dibs counts only what a review actually states, so a kind of work nobody mentioned is absent rather than zero.
In Falls
Ran in 1 of the last 4 Falls, so it turns up in Fall sometimes rather than dependably. dibs has no record of it in any quarter since Fall 2024.
From the terms dibs holds, which start in Fall 2021 and exclude summer. A department can run a course in a quarter it never has before.
From the registrar's catalog
Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Discussion and analysis of seminal works of Japanese animation, or anime, created from 1980s to present. Engagement with works in variety of styles, and that deal with broad range of themes. Reading and discussion of recent scholarship on anime produced by scholars working in diverse modes, from philosophical to anthropological. Letter grading.
Sections in Fall 2026
You enroll in the discussion, not the lecture, so a discussion's status is the one that decides whether you get in. A lecture can read open while every discussion under it is full.
Seat counts as of : the oldest of these 16 readings. Seat readings are snapshots, not live availability. Their timestamps show when dibs last checked.
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Lec 1 MW 11:00am-12:15pmWaitlist3.87predicted, this instructor · 730 grades
19 of 27 places taken. 180 of 180 enrolled high risk
9 discussions, none open. The way in is the lecture's waitlist, at 19 of 27.
Every discussion, with its time and seats (15)
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Dis 1A
F 9:00am-9:50am · Haines Hall A28
Waitlist2 of 3 places taken.
20 of 20 enrolled
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Dis 1B
F 10:00am-10:50am · Haines Hall A28
Waitlist2 of 3 places taken.
20 of 20 enrolled
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Dis 1C
F 11:00am-11:50am · Haines Hall A28
Waitlist2 of 3 places taken.
20 of 20 enrolled
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Dis 1D
F 12:00pm-12:50pm · Renee and David Kaplan Hall A60
Waitlist2 of 3 places taken.
20 of 20 enrolled
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Dis 1E
F 1:00pm-1:50pm · Renee and David Kaplan Hall A60
Waitlist2 of 3 places taken.
20 of 20 enrolled
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Dis 1F
F 2:00pm-2:50pm · Renee and David Kaplan Hall A60
Waitlist2 of 3 places taken.
20 of 20 enrolled
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Dis 1G
F 9:00am-9:50am · Haines Hall A76
Waitlist2 of 3 places taken.
20 of 20 enrolled
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Dis 1H
F 10:00am-10:50am · Haines Hall A76
Closed20 of 20 enrolled
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Dis 1I
F 11:00am-11:50am · Haines Hall A76
Waitlist2 of 3 places taken.
20 of 20 enrolled
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Dis 1J
F 12:00pm-12:50pm · Renee and David Kaplan Hall
Cancelledno enrollment count published
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Dis 1K
F 1:00pm-1:50pm · Renee and David Kaplan Hall
Cancelledno enrollment count published
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Dis 1L
F 2:00pm-2:50pm · Renee and David Kaplan Hall
Cancelledno enrollment count published
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Cancelled
no enrollment count published
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Cancelled
no enrollment count published
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Cancelled
no enrollment count published
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Final enrollment, averaged across each term's sections: between 241 and 267 a term over 3 terms, summer excluded, most recently 248 in Fall 2024. That is the shape across years, not this term, which is above.
From the people who took it
Student reviews
What taking JAPAN 75 was like: the work, the teaching, and what students wish they’d known.
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Seats over time in Fall 2026
How each lecture has filled since dibs first saw it.
A dot is a reading where something moved: the seat count, the status, or the waitlist.
What a flat run means, and where a line starts
Flat between dots means it did not drift, it held and then jumped, and a line starts when dibs first saw that lecture rather than reaching back before it existed. A lecture that has never moved draws a flat line across the whole window, and one with two or three readings draws a line joining them, which is too few to read a trend from.
Lec 1 · Emmerich, M.D. · 180 of 180 enrolled
Nothing read since 2 Oct, 3 hours ago. Over about 2 months before that, freed 61 seats.
How readings and alerts work
A reading and an hourly record are different things, and most charts here hold more of the second missing than present. dibs has taken readings of a section since long before it began keeping an hour-by-hour log of when it looked, so the empty stretches are dibs saying it was not keeping that log yet, not that it looked and found nothing. That is the age of the record and not a fault.
Seat counts show the last successful read, not live availability. Refreshes can be delayed by request limits or upstream interruptions. Watched sections receive priority, but an hourly update for every section is not guaranteed.
The registrar can change a seat count between our checks. Alerts depend on dibs detecting an opening and completing delivery; a quiet watch does not prove that no seat opened. Check the registrar before enrolling.