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"Recently, Tokyo has been encouraging efforts to promote Japanese culture beyond the technology (and bizarre tastes) that the country is traditionally known for." Japan, you just did it again. | |
Have you heard of the Library of Congress? It has comic books, too. | |
Does this include light novels? And how does taking out a book to read help your academic study? Unless you're doing a report on it maybe. | |
There are a lot of archives like these out there, but did any of the better known ones include video games before now? | |
Libraries are for reading, researching is only a peice of its function. My univeristy has hundreds of comics and graphic novels, not necessarily for reseaching but for light hearted reading. | |
It's a form of literature/art. Watching how the medium has evolved over time could be kinda difficult, so I can see why they'd want to consolidate all the works into one 'archive' so to speak. If you were a cultural scholar I could see it being important as well, since manga is ingrained into Japanese culture. There's probably other academic justifications for this as well, I just haven't thought of them :P | |
Oooh, Doraemon. Seems like an interesting place to visit once in my lifetime. | |
When they finish that place I am going to move into it, secretly if I must. I loves me some manga. | |
Wow.Needs some good burly gaurds though. | |
Haha! Awesome. Just plain awesome. | |
Nah, just one clumsy little girl in a fuku. No one would dare enter, just in case. | |
Bloody fu**ing awesome. Only the japs get the interesting books =/ everyone eles is stuck with math, history, biology..... sigh.. | |
......im going to your university, now. | |
From before World War II, eh? I'd love to read something about the empire of Japan mangaized actually, and I usually stay away from manga | |
This is a great idea. Manga is a fantastic form of art and I'm glad it's getting its own museum to reflect that. Japan may be the world's largest exporter of WTF but I applaud the person who came up with this. | |
The royal library in london is required to keep one copy of every known work of literature. Even porn. | |
I shall venture there one day, right after seeing the gundam. | |
That's pretty cool, but will it have Naoki Urasawa's work? | |
... me want... | |
hmm another good reason to learn Japanese | |
omg, now i really do need to learn japanese. thats now on my life to do list. visit a heaven of manga. sweet! japan rocks. | |
Doraemon is one of the best things to come out of Japan :). | |
Also, seeing how prominent manga is even in western youth culture, I think academic interest is well-founded. A library such as this can be not only entertaining but also useful. An arts student approves. | |
Yet another awesome thing from the wonderfully odd country of Japan. I hope something like this happens at my school/future university. Also, I'm pleased at how no anime/manga bashing has occurred, though CantFaketheFunk posting this is probably why. | |
Oh. my. [diety]. | |
Haha thats classic japan, though I would'nt mind hanging out there for a few...hours. | |
meh, I've seen a museum of manga in Kyoto with an archive of about that many manga already... it isn't anything really that new, manga has been taken deadly seriously for many years now in Japan. edit: oh by the way, I understand Japanese, and can therefore read all those 2 million manga with a wonderful sense of understanding. muahahahahahahahahhahahahhahahaaaa! | |
This may give it more respect around the world. Or it would become one of those places that Otakus have to visit at least once (ex. Comiket) | |
Kick ass. | |
I applaud this move. Manga deserves an archive of it`s own. | |
...if it's in Japan can I assume the adult section to be mixed with the kid section? | |
Well, Japan seems to love wasting money on stupid shit. | |
you should see the things America spends money on. | |
In other news, the mean GPA of Meiji university has fallen to 0.0 as students skip class to read manga. | |
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Japanese University Plans Massive Manga Library
Meiji University in Tokyo, Japan, has announced plans to open an academic library featuring more than two million manga comic books and other pieces of animation history, dating back to before World War II.
The library - tentatively named the Tokyo International Manga Library - is scheduled to open in early 2015, and will feature a collection of two million manga "comic books, animation drawings, video games and other cartoon industry artifacts" in an attempt to promote serious academic study of the industry and its history, reports the AFP.
Manga has been taken lightly in the past and there has been no solid archive for serious study," said Susumi Shibao, a Meiji University library official. "We want to help academic studies on manga as part of Japanese culture."
Recently, Tokyo has been encouraging efforts to promote Japanese culture beyond the technology (and bizarre tastes) that the country is traditionally known for. Plans to build a ¥11.7bn ($128m) museum for Japanese cartoon art and pop culture were axed after the former government was ousted from power in August elections, with the new officials deriding the idea as a "state-run manga cafe" that would do nothing to benefit the country's economy.
The library in question will reportedly hold everything from Astro Boy and Doraemon to more modern series - I hear they have five shelves reserved for Naruto, Bleach, and One Piece alone. If you can name a noteworthy title, it'll probably be in there. Two million is a pretty big number, don't you think?
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