Kyoto International Manga Museum

The Kyoto International Manga Museum opened in November 2006 and is a joint venture between Kansai University and the city of Kyoto. The museum, which cost 1.2 billion yen (approximately 81.6 million Hong Kong dollars) to renovate from the old Ryo池小学, spans three floors above ground and one basement level, with a total area of approximately 5,010 square feet (165.3 square meters). The museum recognizes manga as an area and system within the cultural industry, aiming to display and preserve works. It will collect various manga works in large quantities.

Kyoto, loved by some for its classical elegance, disliked by others for being old-fashioned and rigid, is actually not so. Apart from being a concentration of ancient sites, it is also the birthplace of manga, and many manga schools teach creativity that surpasses drawing skills here.

In Kyoto, there was a primary school called "Ryo池", which moved into a new school building ten years ago. In fact, the old school building was not dilapidated, so it was not demolished, but it was not used either. In 2006, someone came to renovate it, transforming it into a museum, a "Kyoto International Manga Museum" co-hosted by the Kyoto City University of Arts International Manga Research Center. In November 2006, Japan's first officially named manga museum, the Kyoto International Manga Museum, opened here, allowing you to travel through 130 years of Japanese manga creativity.

The museum mainly collects, preserves, and displays manga works that are highly regarded and popular among readers, conducts investigations, research on anime culture, and expands and plans activities related to anime culture. When the museum opened, it had a total collection of 200,000 books, with the goal of becoming the world's largest manga resource collection museum. The museum has collected more than 100,000 pieces of precious historical materials, including magazines and overseas works, making its manga collection quantity the largest in Japan. Among the precious manga collections are Japan's first children's manga magazine "Shounen PACK" and the magazine "Manga no Kuni" during the war period.

The manga displayed in the museum also reflects the appearance of different eras. During World War II, Japan wrote many comics with battlefields as the background. By 1995, the peak of Japanese manga, the weekly sales of the "Dragon Ball" series reached 6.48 million copies.