Rurouni Kenshin, one of the best selling manga of all time is celebrating its 25th anniversary by holding a special exhibition at Tokyo Dome City Gallery Aamo. The exhibition will allow visitors to view over 200 original drawings and manuscripts,…
The National Art Center hosts the largest manga exhibition in the country, exploring the relations between Tokyo and its pop culture. Manga Toshi Tokyo, designed around a 1/1000 model of the city, showcases over 500 works from more than 90…
As part of the Tokyo Tokyo Festival project, the Tokyo Metropolitan Government, Arts Council Tokyo and the Museum of Modern Contemporary Art Tokyo have come together to present “What if Tokyo.” This special exhibition showcases 20 different “Tokyos” by 20…
The Otaku Summit 2020 will be taking place in Ikebukuro this June. The exhibition, aimed to spread otaku culture from Tokyo to the world, will feature otaku conferences, booths, symposiums and more. Otaku organizers from all over the world will…
Popular manga and anime, “Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure,” has teamed up with Tokyo Mystery Circus for an exclusive escape room event. What better way to enjoy Jojo than with a thrilling game of finding clues and solving mysteries in order to escape! Don’t worry…
Comic Market, widely known as Comiket, is a biannual comic market for dojinshi, or independent manga. Tens of thousands of artists — amateur and professional, cosplayers, avid manga readers and anime fans descend upon Tokyo Big Sight, the country’s largest…
Alphonse Mucha was a prolific Czech painter and a key figure in the Art Nouveau movement. Japonism in Paris, which peaked in the late 19th century, was contemporary to Mucha, but his bold lines, delicate colors and characteristic flatness came…
Head over to Tokyo’s Arts Chiyoda for a rare chance to see the spectacular original artwork of Takeshi Obata, the legendary artist behind smash-hit manga series including Hikaru no Go, Death Note, and Bakuman. Organized by publisher Shueisha to celebrate…
