Oike Festa is a festival that is held every autumn on Oike street . There were many events on the street for the weekend and of course Manga Museum held cosplay and many other events. This is a photo from the tennis school that was held by…

The movie “Ohoku”which was originally a serial manga from manga magazine “MELODY” (drawn by Yoshinaga Humi) is going to be in cinemas from October 1st. The story of “Ohoku” is about the reversal between men and women in the Edo period. Man…

We added many Brazilian comics to the manga expo where we have foreign comics and manga that's been translated from Japanese. This time we newly displayed 30 mangas that originally was in japanese translated into Portages. Princess Kinigt …

For the Japan Media Arts Festival in Kyoto a talk show and a symposium was held at the museum last weekend. On 4th Saturday there was a talk show with manga artist Isogarashi Daisuke who is the author of "Children of the Sea", chief editor…

Have you seen the shower that blows mist so you feel cooler? We have it for the summer until September 14th outside of the museum taking the heat away. This shower doesn't make you wet but will make you skin feel cooler. We had opening cer…

Japan Media Arts Festival is a festival of art, entertainment, animation and manga that started in 1997 and is in it's 14th year.The festival expanded itself within Japan and also overseas from 2002, this year it will come to Kyoto for the…

Manga Museum used to be Tatsuike elementary school that's how local people still use the facilities for their local meeting and sport etc. "Tatsuike MM Summer Festival" was held yesterday. It was very busy like every other years. Many even…

The first day we received many flowers. It made the atmosphere nicer. We also had a talk show with Watanabe Masako, Kai Yukiko's sister Hatsu Akiko and project leader Takemiya Keiko.Of course the venue was packed with 140 people. Thank you…

From Saturday the 21st Genga'dash exhibition ”Watanabe Masako & Kai Yukiko, Fantastic Journey” started. It was the 8th time to exhibit at Kinokuniya gallery. We set up a day before it started. It's very important to make sure everything lo…

The museum opened November 25th in 2006. 3 years and 9 months (1138 days) since we opened, we had our millionth guest yesterday. Thank you very much for all of your support. The millionth guest was elementary school student Liana Smale who…

This year's Genga'Dash exhibition is coming soon. Genga'Dash is an elaborate duplication of an original manga. It even shows you the texture of paper and strokes of the blushes. This exhibition futures Shojo manga. This year we will be sho…

Finally the summer holiday has arrived. Many people are visiting the museum. At the main gallery on the second floor, you can learn about what manga is and about the history, industry and techniques of manga. We lined up popular manga from…

Now we have many Dogu-chan goods at the museum shop on the ground floor. Dogu-chan is a character on the poster of special exhibition “Genealogy of the Figurine: from Dogu to Kaiyodo”. You cannot find this many Dogu-chan products anywhere …

It's been sunny everyday since the rainy season has ended. We are throwing a workshop that is as hot as the summer over here. "Want to be a Manga Artist!" is a perfect workshop for people who like making manga but don't know what to do. We…

Shikishi is a kind of paperboard which is commonly known for its square shape made with Japanese washi paper. People often use it as autograph board. However to find creative view of using shikishi we held a workshop from May 15th until Ju…

Gion Matsuri (Gion festival) brought us summer, and today was the day of Yamahoko Junko (Yamahoko procession). Yoiyama (night time festival that was on last night) had no rain, we are sure many people had good time there. Yamahoko were all…

This summers special exhibition has started! You can find figures in the exhibition in Japan often but we are going to show you our different point of view. In this exhibition we are showing you how figures came to be accepted in Japanese …

We now have new arrivals in the shop. These are the goods for the exhibition “Range Murata : rm drawing works”. There are comics anthologies with his illustration on the cover, post cards set with a mouth pad, folders with catalogue and mo…

The 4th concert of Hayashido at Manga Museum is going to be held on 17th of July this is also the day for a parade in the Gion Festival, the Yamaboko Junko (山鉾巡行）. This year we are going to explore the relationship between a mask that…

"Range Murata : rm drawing works" has been prepared and it will be exhibited from tomorrow at Gallery 4 on the 2nd floor.Murata is an illustrator and designer, his style of drawing fuses girls with retro mechanical elements, his work has b…

The rainy season started over here in Kyoto. It's been raining almost everyday.Have you ever heard of Mizuki Shigeru who is a manga artist? There is a TV drama made by NHK channel that started this spring which was written by his wife abou…

Hi everybody! Today is my last day in the manga museum. I really had a great time and learnt a lot of thing about Japan and Japanese culture here. I have known of how important is manga is the Japanese day to day life. This museum is still…

On 16th (Sunday), I take part in the cosplay event of the International Manga Museum. As every other day of cosplay, the museum is full of laughers and flashes of non professional photographers. For the first time in my life I wear a cospl…

先月の中ごろから１階エントランス付近にて設置している英文/仏文のアンケート「Survey about your visit to the Manga Museum」についてのご案内です。 このアンケートは、フランスのリール大学で人類学を専攻し同大学の助教も務められているクロティルド・…

Hello, last week end I went for the first time in Tokyo. As manga fan I choose to have a walk in Shibuya. From the starbucks in front of the station one could catch a glimpse of the human tide crossing the legendary Shibuya crossroad. I ma…

Last week, took place the Gion Matsuri. It’s one of the most important one in Japan. As an intern in the Kyoto International Manga Museum, I couldn’t afford to miss such an impressive cultural event. On the 16th of July, at nightfall, the …