“Animate” is a specialty store for anime, comics and games, with stores in all 47 prefectures of Japan, as well as overseas. “Animate Ikebukuro Main Store” will celebrate its 40th anniversary in 2023 with a grand re-opening on March 16, after its renewal. Please come to the re-opening of… Read More
The long-selling series, “Sazae-san”, is representative of Japanese anime. To commemorate the 100th anniversary of the birth of the original author, Hasegawa Machiko, the ” Hasegawa Machiko Memorial Museum (currently an annex of the Hasegawa Machiko Art Museum)” opened on July 11, 2020. Here, you can experience the world of… Read More
Akihabara has been well-known as Electric Town for a long time. Now, it is not only a marketplace for electronic equipment, but also home to various attractions related to anime, manga comics, games, and idols, such as: Sofmap, Melonbooks, animate, GAMERS, AKB48 Theatre, and more; it has become a symbol… Read More
This is the first full-scale museum in Japan on the theme of “original manga drawings”, and in addition to keeping and displaying “original manga drawings” by manga artists from Akita Prefecture and Japan’s leading manga artists, also focusing on its preservation and utilization as it is also a sacred place… Read More
Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, is known as a place associated closely with Shotaro Ishinomori, creator of many comic masterpieces like “Masked Rider” and “Cyborg 009.” The plan to build this museum emerged out of a talk between the comic artist and the then Mayor of Ishinomaki back in 1995. Their intention… Read More
Miyazawa Kenji was a children’s fairy tale writer, he is well-known as the author of Night on the Galactic Railroad, The Life of Guskou Budori, and more. In Bungo Stray Dogs, a story about famous literary authors who turn into individuals with super natural powers, he appears as one of… Read More
