A Setagaya Literary Museum exhibit honors Kaoru Mori and Aki Irie, two artists who rose together through manga from the world of doujinshi.
Feb 26, 2025 • Subscribe
More like this
Gaza Photo exhibit at Ritsumeikan Peace Museum
The Kyoto Museum for World Peace, Ritsumeikan University, recently hosted an exhibition on Gaza. Sadly, ironically for a Peace Museum, I think the exhibit did little to counteract…
[Event Review] Art of Manga Exhibit at the de Young Museum in San Francisco
Photo by Rachael Kahn, Art of Manga Exhibit at the de Young Museum in San Francisco, CA – December 2025By: Rachael Kahn | @TAVMediaCurrently exhibiting at the de…
Sailor Moon Museum: Osaka Exhibit Cafe
✦ Sailor Moon Museum Cafe Details ✦ The #702 CAFE & DINER at the newly...
Women supporting women in the manga of Kaoru Mori and Mari Okazaki
We live in a society, where, especially girls, grow up hating their looks because that’s profitable for capitalism. They turn into insecure individuals in a heteronormative model where…
Mangaka Spotlight #1 Kaoru Mori: The Queen of Modern Historical Fiction in Manga
A video series where I talk about and highlight different mangaka and their works. Here I dive into Kaoru Mori, one of the most prolific modern mangakas that…
Aki Irie: Ran and the Gray World and Go with the Clouds, North-by-Northwest
We have merch! If you like our podcast and want shirts, stickers, or a few other things with the logo on it, find our store on Tee Public.…
Aki Irie: Ran and the Gray World and Go with the Clouds, North-by-Northwest
We have merch! If you like our podcast and want shirts, stickers, or a few other things...
The Manga Review: Night at the Museum
If you’re planning a trip to San Francisco this year, be sure to check out The Art of Manga, a new exhibition hosted by the deYoung Museum. The…
Future Boy Conan at the Ghibli Museum
By Andrew Osmond. For all fans of Ghibli and Hayao Miyazaki, we’d like to remind you that Miyazaki’s first anime, the adventure series Future Boy Conan, is available…
Travel log: Godzilla at the Museum (Nagoya)
Amanda wasn’t able to make it to G-Fest this year, so she did the next best thing: Went to check out the “Godzilla at the Museum” exhibit in…
Mr. Pen Pen (1986)
https://nyaa.si/view/1618768 Fansub credits can be found in the link above. Here's an English fansub of something I've been eyeing for a w...
Japan as Continuity: the Ashmolean Museum at Oxford
“Wow! It’s so dark in here.” “Yes. Yes, it is.” We had arrived at the Ashmolean Museum of Art and Anthropology, the University of Oxford’s official university mu…
Setagaya Game (2023) review
The Ohara Bros do not only offer the spectator a pleasant concatenation of kicks and punches, but also deliver a touching emotional pay-off.
Mission!!: Irie Kiwa
How could I resist a book with a title like this? Mission! It immediately conjures up adventure and action, maybe because of the whole Mission: Impossible connection. But…
‘Tokyo: Art and Photography’ at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
29 July 2021 – 3 January 2022 Ahhh… Edo, Edo, Edo… …city of dreams, and occasional nightmares… …as Kumagai Jiro Naozane in the final part of the Kabuki…
The Relative Worlds
By Jeremy Clarke. Teenage romance, parallel worlds and dysfunctional families are the main ingredients of The Relative Worlds, Yuhei Sakuragi’s uneasy cross between a mawkish teenage romance boy…
A Look At – Azrael (426) – Memento Mori
“This is the story of a boy who can see Death”By a twist of luck, he was saved from death by the Grim Reaper, and in return, is…
In my backyard – Alien Worlds
(Original image courtesy of NASA.)The week after Christmas, we had a snowstorm here… Looking at the snow in the raking light of early morning, the landscape (snowscape?) reminded…
Swim like Kermit and feast on bagels in Setagaya
If you’re a swimmer who likes bagels, you should pay a visit to the Setagaya Chitose All-Season Swimming Pool in Tokyo. What are quite likely the best bagels…
The Worlds of Tomino
[This post was inspired by a bit of a conversation between Biblionyan and I on Discord. Thanks for talking with me, let’s talk more often.] Yoshiyuki Tomino is…
Mori: The Artist’s Habitat (Mori no iru basho)
There are actors who have to do very little to be captivating on screen, who are a joy to watch even when they’re simply sitting silently and staring…
The Manga Shelf: Paperback Love in MARIA KODAMA LITERARY CORPUS
Kodama Maria Bungaku Shuusei is an unconventional school life romcom that focuses on the sole two members of a high school literature club.
Literary Review: The Book of Disquiet
In spite of much procrastination, and a few false starts, I have finally gotten through a copy of Fernando Pessoa’s The Book of Disquiet that a friend of mine…
Vtuber Spotlight: Aki Hoshikawa
In this journey we often talk about animals. No it’s not a cat this time, but we are talking about a mythical creature that appears frequently in this…
Hirohiko Araki’s Art Will Be Showcased at de Young Museum in San Francisco
In September 2025, de Young Museum's "Art of Manga" exhibition will display art by Hirohiko Araki, Eiichiro Oda, Rumiko Takahashi, and more.
Deb’s France-Japan Travel Diary Day 1: Manga, BD, & Comics Exhibit at the Pompidou
See photos of original comics, bande dessinée and manga pages from the "Comics 1964-2024" exhibit at the Pompidou Centre in Paris
Not Drawn to “Scale”
“Sword Art Online” has been one of the more interesting series (and now franchises) of the past half-dozen years. As with any movie that comes from a successful…
Ameku MD Doctor Detective Episode 2 Review – A Night At The Museum
So Takao is just Maomao, Ron Kamonohashi and Phoenix Wright meshed into one.
CFP for May 2023 conference at the Kyoto International Manga Museum: Aftermath
Mechademia x Kyoto International Manga Museum 2023 May 27th-29th, 2023 at the Kyoto International Manga Museum CFP: Aftermath Keynote Speaker: Jaqueline Berndt The extended COVID pandemic h…
Hokusai: The Great Picture Book of Everything – The Master Arrives at the British Museum
This week I was lucky enough to start off on an exciting note with a guided tour of the British Museum’s new exhibition, Hokusai: The Great Picture Book…
Case 64 – Chekhov’s Pen
For the first time in a long while, we are going back to the anime. Specifically, we are talking about Detective Conan: The Last Wizard of the Century.…
Aki no Masayuki – Shinban Matsuri
October 15 will be another glorious day in Masayuki Yamamoto’s career, this time, we’ll see three new projects on the same day! Yamamoto has done simultaneous releases twice…
Memento Mori
365 days after we started, it’s time to say goodbye.
The Brand New Tsushima Museum
Tsushima 対馬 is a really interesting place. Halfway between Korea and Japan, it was ruled for hundreds of years by the Sо̄ samurai house 宗家, retainers to the…
Visiting the Sailor Moon Museum
Travelouge with me to the magical land of Namba Station in Osaka and let us geek out over plastic transformation items and merchandise. Edited by Savior44 on Discord
Far away worlds
“Do you want to fly through the sky? Isn’t that painful? Do you want to go together? …Hey the world is pretty isn’t it? But there’s something I…
Daima's Foreshadowed Worlds
Need Gohan Black playable ASAP. Edited/Written by: @TeeHallumsYT SUPPORT US ON PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/totallynotmark FOLLOW ME ON TWITTER: https://www.twitter.com/totallynotmark FOLLOW ME ON TIKTOK: https://www.tiktok.com/@totallynotmark
Classic Adventures: Animated Literary Tales
I have a box set of “Classic Adventures,” consisting of ten 48-minute animated adaptations of classic literary adventures, nine based on novels and one based on a true-life…
Being a kid at the Studio Ghibli Museum | Japan DAY 3 – BLAUGUST 2025
How would you spend 20 summer days in Japan? Here’s a log of highlights from my latest trip, day by day. Follow along this Blaugust as I recount…
Rilakkuma and Kaoru – Episode 4
July debuts in Rilakkuma and Kaoru with an explosion of color, as cut-paper illustrations extol all of Kaoru’s summertime fantasies. Stop motion is such a laborious mode of…
Kaoru Wada @ Anime Boston 2018
A decorated composer and orchestrator, Kaoru Wada hails from a traditional background that demanded technical mastery of the orchestra. Given The post Kaoru Wada @ Anime Boston 2018 appeared…
Overcoming Tragedy with Kaoru Ijuin
Welcome back to Day 8 of 12 Days of Anime! Man, the days are really starting to fly by now. So far I have somehow managed to stay…
Kaoru Wada @ Anime Boston 2018
A decorated composer and orchestrator, Kaoru Wada hails from a traditional background that demanded technical mastery of the orchestra. Given my interest in in the classical genre, I…
Hyoto no Kamen: Kurimoto Kaoru
I’ve been going back in time, trying to fill out my reading history in Japanese and not just pick up whatever’s on the new release shelf. With manga,…
Rilakkuma and Kaoru – Episode 5
The long evenings of summer are perfect for horror movies. After the constant bustle of a day in the sun, I find little more satisfying than curling up…
Rilakkuma and Kaoru – Episode 3
June arrives in Rilakkuma and Kaoru, heralded by a torrent of cool, unending rain. Though most narratives are guided by the course of their protagonists’ journeys, Rilakkuma and…
Kaoru Wada @ Anime Boston 2018
A decorated composer and orchestrator, Kaoru Wada hails from a traditional background that demanded technical mastery of the orchestra. Given
Anime Feminist’s Recommendation Backlog: Girls in Strange Worlds
Let's take a trip back into the 2010s and highlight some of our favorite fantastic(al) speculative fiction with lady leads.
Princess Principal, Snow White with the Red Hair, Code: Realize ~Guardian of Rebirth~, Girls' Last Tour, GRANBELM
Pen Love Volume 1 Review
Unless you're very much into the art style or like a glimpse into an aspect of the doujinshi world, Pen Love's lead characters bring this debut volume down.