To constitute the Tokyo International Manga Library (tentative name), Meiji University is collaborating with many private collectors and organaizations, including the Comic Market Committee. Together with the well-established collections of our collaborators, we have also begun to house donated collections and to aquire items for permanent exhibitions:
- Collected works of the late Yoshihiro Yonezawa: manga, books, dojinshi (self-published material), and subculture-related materials (totaling more than 140,000 volumes)
- These works form the core of the collection housed at the Yoshihiro Yonezawa Memorial Library of Manga and Subculture, which opened on October 31, 2009, as the forerunning module of the Tokyo International Manga Library (tentative name).
Yoshihiro Yonezawa Memorial Library of Manga and Subculture
- These works form the core of the collection housed at the Yoshihiro Yonezawa Memorial Library of Manga and Subculture, which opened on October 31, 2009, as the forerunning module of the Tokyo International Manga Library (tentative name).
- Otaku Exhibition from the Venice Biennale 2004 (multi-installation covering 250 square meters, including exhibits of over 10,000 figurines)
- The exhibition won the Seiun Award at The 44th Japan Science Fiction Convention.
“OTAKU: persona = space = city” (Japanese)
- The exhibition won the Seiun Award at The 44th Japan Science Fiction Convention.
- 415 original anime drawings, layouts, etc.
- 14 original anime design drawings
- 90 anime production cels
- 120 posters
- 6 arcade game cabinets
- 20 arcade game PCBs
- 10 historical personal computers
Other (collection is ongoing)
*As of October 2009
