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Kawasaki City Museum Boosts Anime / Manga Offerings
Date: 11/28/2005
Kawasaki City Museum has unveiled a new plan to boost anime / manga related exhibitions. The move comes as the museum implements new reforms to boost visitor and income ratios. Five or more such exhibitions are planned to be executed per year. Until now, anime / manga related projects were carried out about once per year. Opening in 1998, previous exhibitions have inluded those related to CLAMP, manga of the Showa era and Akira Toriyama. Currently running there is the "Oh! Shigeru Mizuki Exhibition". Mizuki is known as the author of "Gegege No Kitaro", a comic based on "yokai"- unique mysterious characters sometimes based on folk tales. While striving to become an artist, he started creating yokais from the age of 16. Sketches of these characters as well as his living environment will be exhibited, along with his masks collection from all over the world.
Source: Anime News Service