What’s Our Project About? Context • Vietnamese high school students face academic pressure and exam stress • Mental health resources are limited and often formal
What We Are • Adapting WHO Self-Help Plus into a manga format
Doing
• Developing draft volumes based on the five core skills • Sharing drafts with students in Vietnam • Revising based on their feedback
What’s Our Project About? Our Goal Help students manage stress using practical skills Make stress management more relatable and approachable Increase accessibility through familiar media
What is SH+? Skill 1:
Skill 3: Acting On Your Values
Grounding
Skill 4:
Being Kind Skill 2: Unhooking Skill 5:
Making Room
WHO’s Illustration Guide
Why Manga? Manga (or “truyện tranh” in Vietnamese) is one of the most popular storytelling forms in Vietnam with a long history
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Inspiration and Reference
Character Design
Character Design
Story Overview • The story follows An, Linh, and Binh, three high school students who join a school psychology club to learn how to manage stress.
• We see their academic pressure, social comparison during exam season, and also their ambition and motivation.
• The story focuses on how they struggle with the skills and how they practice them, together, over time.
Storyboard
Storyboard
Line Art & Background
Original vs Adapted Example
Original vs Adapted Example
No AI All artwork is hand-drawn. No AI was used in the creation of this manga.