Library to 300,000 Japanese comics
Not far
from Nijo Castle, in the city center of Kyoto, is the Museum of the
International Manga. Maybe because it is not located in a city that we call the
capital of the manga, it remains relatively unknown to travelers in Japan. But
there is another reason: this museum still quite far from the idealized image
of the West in manga reader: usually the pimply teenager addicted to Naruto.
Built as a
large library on three floors, this Manga Museum is actually very quiet. He
held a long series of volumes and collections: three hundred thousand manga and
documents according to the official brochure (!). Its central point is an
impressive piece permanent exhibition on the history of manga.
From its
origins to today, every library there offers hundreds of volumes available,
sorted by release year. Like many others, we actually had a good time to
re-read a few volumes of the Dragon Ball. It is even possible to take the manga
to go read on the terrace of the courtyard, where children did their baseball
training during our passage.
Obviously,
all the manga featured in this museum are in the original language, in this
case in Japanese. however, are some comics and Western comics, from evidence of
links between the manga and its congeners in the world. For non-japanophones,
explanations and guide are provided in five languages, including French.
At the exit, a small store divested as Abbott
derivatives without doubt your remaining yen!
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