The document presents an empathy map of a bright young arts student who excels academically but shows no interest in traditional academic programs such as political science or social sciences. His passion lies in digital storytelling through comics, anime, and Japanese culture, leading to the recommendation that he pursue animation courses and a Japanese language certificate. The goal is to align his creative interests with career opportunities in digital arts.

1. Empathy MapEmpathy Map
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Dolly BhasinDolly Bhasin

2. Stakeholder
• A bright young arts’ student scoring
first division marks in Senior
Secondary School from a well to do
urban family

3. Say
• I am not interested in Political Science, or social
sciences
• I am interested in doing a JAPANESE language
course but not as a main course
• I am very interested in Reading Comics and
watching Anime
• I have created more than 1000 comics
• Why do I have to take up an academic program?

4. Do
• He won the computer programming contest in
school
• He makes comics on an online portal under a byline
“mr. kinzard” and has over 1000 of them on
Bitstrips
• He has demonstrated great storytelling skills
through pictures he drew in his school, which he
proudly showed me
• He listens to Japanese music and reads Manga
Comics and watches ANIME videos, he has also
picked up the nuances of Japanese culture and art
forms.
• He has many POKEMON digital pets.

5. Think
• He cannot go into political science or social
science stream
• He is not interested in making language as
a career option
• He is quite interested to learn Japanese
• He does not want to take up any academic
program for further studies.
• Comics and Animations interest him

6. Feel
• He should take up a skill development program
which also offers a graduation degree
• He should pursue career options in creative arts
using computers
• He should pursue career which helps him develop
his hobby of comics and creative story telling
through digital formats
• Animation courses might just be a right choice
for building his next level career skills

7. Problem Statement
A bright young arts’
student scoring first
division marks in Senior
Secondary School from a
well to do urban family
(Stakeholder)
Prepare for further
career options through
a graduate program
which trains him for
computer based digital
story telling
(Needs)
Needs a way to
He has demonstrated interests in digital story
telling through comics and drawings and has
great interests in certain genre like ANIME and
MANAGA and cult digital pets like POKEMON.
He should pursue ANIMATION to further his
career options and also take up Japanese
certificate course
(Insight)
Because