Here's something for all you manga and anime fans like Alessandra and the Cinema-Mad Sibling:
The brand-new Yoshihiro Yonezawa Memorial Library of Manga and Subculture will partially open October 31 at Meiji University. The massive collection will include some 140,000 comic books -- errr ... I mean, graphic novels! -- and some of those date from the World War II era or even earlier.
By the time the entire manga library is complete in 2015, it will hold 2 million comic books, drawings, and other cartoon artifacts. Wow!
I'm actually not being flippant (OK, not entirely flippant) when I tag this "Great Moments in Research." Manga is a big part of pop culture both Japanese and now abroad, so it's only fitting to try to give it the full academic treatment. Call it "cultural studies." And now we needn't feel too guilty when we run off to indulge in a bit of it.
Oh, and there's also the Kyoto International Manga Museum.
1 comment:
Cool. I wonder, do they offer travel grants for, ahem, researchers?
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