Comments on: Japan 2007: Kyoto International Manga Museum

By: welcome datacomp » Blog Archive » Kyoto International Manga Museum

welcome datacomp » Blog Archive » Kyoto International Manga Museum — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 14:02:43 +0000

[...] Smack dab in the middle of Kyoto (about 1km west of city hall, North on Karasume and Oike) is the Kyoto International Manga Museum, some of the most fun you can have in Kyoto on just 500 yen, possibly excluding the pair of Idolm@ster machines in Teramachi. While it might be hard for some of you to think of the point of having an entire museum just about manga (to which my counter-argument would probably include something like this link), the place is full of things to do that anyone who is seriously interested in manga or cartooning would likely find interesting. There’s a huge number of manga (all pre-2005, I believe) available for you to read anywhere on the premises, including the huge lawn they have out in front, so if you want to treat it as a cheap manga cafe, then you are more than welcome to. The shelves are separated into shonen on the first floor, shojo on the second, and seinen on the third floor, but there are also machines you can use to figure out where what is. However, there’s also a good number of permanent and special exhibits on topics like manga history (check the giant case of 70s Shonen Jumps and kashibon behind a giant wall of glass!) and artist/series exhibits, like the Takemiya Keiko exhibit that just replaced the giant Anpanman exhibit. They’re into international cartooning as well, and they have a shelf of foreign-language manga near the entrance, as well as a special exhibit on French BDs, complete with Jiro Taniguchi appearance next week! There’s also a huge archive downstairs, but I believe you have to be a member of the research room on the third floor to get access to that stuff, so it doesn’t seem very economical to do if you’re only in the area for a short time. In terms of pictures of the place, this guy has (semi-legally!) posted a good number of them, though some of the exhibits aren’t around anymore. There’s also a fairly standard (food and drink-wise) Japanese cafe attached to the place that’ll give you 10% off with your ticket stub that has big portraits that famous manga-ka have done of their big-name characters, including a really stunning Joe done by Chiba Tetsuya. [...]

By: The Sandman

The Sandman — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 08:19:57 +0000

Yeah, it’s a pretty fun museum; I was there when they had a big Terra-e exhibit last summer. Did you stop in the cafe next to the entrance, though? The food’s okay, but the cool part is the walls, which have a whole bunch of illustrations and autographs from various mangaka that have been to the museum.

By: Lianne Sentar

Lianne Sentar — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 00:00:55 +0000

That BMV sticker just blew my mind. Holy God.

By: MangaBlog » Blog Archive » Big Monday Post

MangaBlog » Blog Archive » Big Monday Post — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 12:45:59 +0000

[...] Christopher Butcher posts photos of his trip to the Kyoto Manga Museum and rounds up a couple of recent items with varying relevance to manga. [...]

By: GeorgeR

GeorgeR — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 04:35:31 +0000

Hey Chris,

I just heard this wild and crazy rumor that another TCAF is going down in May/June? Is this true?!

I can’t imagine that’s a valid thing, but if you’re throwing a TCAF so soon my heart will be overjoyed, as that will be a graduation gift like no other. Stupid surgeries prevented me from coming up in August, buuuut, I’ll stop rambling. Saw a few people posting rumors about it and figured I’d ask.

I so hope this is true, but I’m betting it is not, as I’ve got a feeling you would have been talking about it more.