Schrödinger Manga Museum

October 31, 2009 in Bakemonogatari, Funny, Japan, Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei
Tags: Comiket, Democratic Party of Japan, Kaichiro Morikawa, Meiji University, Paradox, Schrödinger Manga Museum, Thought experiment, Tokyo International Manga Library, Yoshihiro Yonezawa

Exultation ~Bakemonogatari E09

Tokyo International Manga Library

In a move to promote serious study of Japanese manga, a university in Tokyo plans to open a library with two million comic books, animation drawings, video games and other cartoon industry artifacts.

Tentatively named the Tokyo International Manga Library, it would open by early 2015 on the campus of the private Meiji University, and be available to researchers and fans from Japan and abroad.

Japanese university plans huge ‘manga’ library, AFP, Oct 22, 2009

Yoshihiro Yonezawa Collection

The idea to create the library emerged after the university received a collection of over 140,000 titles from the late manga critic Yoshihiro Yonezawa, who attended Meiji University and who helped build up Comiket, the biannual market for self-published comics, and the university started collecting items two years ago.
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Kaichiro Morikawa, an associate professor in Meiji University’s School of Global Japanese Studies who has played a central part in the plans, emphasizes the scholarly value of manga.

“Manga are mirrors which reflect the lifestyles of the public after the war, and they are also precious in scholarly terms. There is a need to systematically preserve them,” he said.

Meiji University drawing up plans for international manga library, Mainichi, October 27, 2009,

Schrödinger Manga Museum : If you don’t vote, the museum could be built or not.

Similar plans for a national media arts center were shelved earlier this year by the Democratic Party of Japan.

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