Kyoto Manga Festa 2009
At the Kyoto International Manga Museum, manga is not limited to a mere paper media; rather, it can be seen as an entire culture to be embraced as a whole. During the Kyoto Manga Festa 2009, a diverse range of events will be held with themes based on other areas of the arts, the culture of life and collaborative manga. We would like to invite you to gain a sense of the spread of manga culture and its possibilities.
This third installment of the Manga Festa coincides with the special exhibition celebrating the works of Sugiura Shigeru, which forms a core part of the festival. Creatively active in various fields and influential even to this day; Sugiura Shigeru’s works easily push the limits of manga, and he is an appropriate artist to symbolize the Manga Festa.
Also, come and enjoy the manga museum in a way somewhat different than usual. As a fragrant museum, a street style museum, a manga museum with a sub-cultural atmosphere, etc… We would like to show you the manga museum’s new demeanor.
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FRI. 20. MAR. – SUN. 24. MAY |
| Entrance fee | Free. However the general entrance fee to the Museum still applies (Adults: 500yen, High and Junior High school students: 300yen, Primary school students: 100yen). |
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Talks with a manga title calligrapher and a scholar of the brain. Takeshi Yoro and Juichi Yoshikawa discuss “viewing as calligraphy or reading as pictures” | |
 A discussion panel featuring Juichi Yoshikawa, the calligrapher whose publication “SYOING” with new calligraphy from the title text of the manga Vagabond is in worldwide circulation, and Takeshi Yoro, Director of the Manga Museum who has developed theories in manga studies on the relationship between letters and pictures.
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| Date | SAT. 21. MAR. 2009 14:00-16:00 |
| Manga Artist of Adventure and the Fantastic, Shigeru Sugiura! "Taro Minamoto, Naoki Karasawa and Tomofusa Kure tell us of Shigeru Sugiura." |
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 Manga researcher turned artist Taro Minamoto, and manga artist Naoki Karasawa self proclaimed huge fans of Sugiura’s works, welcome manga critic Tomofusa Kure and together they talk of the genius Sugiura Shigeru. |
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| Date | SUN. 22. MAR. 2009 14:00-16:00 |
| Improvised piano music and manga! "BJ Live" | |
 Composer for the music played on the Kyoto Tower viewing platform and the Manga Museum’s own background music, Masafumi Komatsu and ‘book jockey’ (BJ) Live, offer a fusion between the world of sound and world of manga, performing live improvised music while watching manga projected onto a screen! | |
| Date | SUN. 29. MAR. 2009 ①13:30 ②15:00 |
| Popular classical music reveals manga’s backstage! Classical manga concert "mini concert for Nodame" | |
 When the classical music themed manga Nodame Cantabile was animated into a television series, world-famous pianist Iku Miwa played for the protagonist Nodame’s musical performance scenes. The museum welcomes her for a piano concert, reproducing the world of Nodame as well as the series chief editor Kaori Mikawa to tell us of the other side of Nodame.
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| Date | SUT. 11. APR. 2009 14:00-16:00 |
| Represeting the Musical World, Sugiura Shigeru Ideologist Talk! "Saeki Kenzo talks about Sugiura Shigeru" | |
 Kenzo Saeki, famous as the vocalist from the band Pearl Kyodai and a lyricist who has written songs for Kenji Sawada, Morning Musume and others, comes to talk about the ever loved Sugiura Shigeru and the use of that character for the promotion of his own musical works.
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| Date | SUN. 12. APR. 2009 14:00-15:30 |
| Author of Cooking Papa, cooks food from the manga! "Tochi Ueyama’s second serving of manga cooking" | |
 Tochi Ueyama author of Cooking Papa, the famous popular cooking manga, that features practical cooking instructions and has reached over 100 volumes, returns again this year for a cooking performance and lecture, manga not just to be read! An aromatic talk show which conveys practical cooking and the sheer enjoyment of eating. |
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| Date | SUN. 26. APR. 2009 14:00-16:00/td> |
| That anime song in intense live sound! "Concert by the Kyoto Northern Hills Wind Instrument Orchestra" | |
 Concert of anime songs by the Kyoto Northern Hills Wind Instrument Orchestra. Hear anime songs at a completely different intensity level than you could ever hear through television or cinema speakers. |
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| Date | SUN. 3. MAY. 2009 ①14:00 ②16:00 |
| Museum turned club space, with live painting and DJ sounds. "Featuring Archives Live Omoi.de 3" | |
 Musician and painter, Kohei Yamao (aka Bakibaki), musician and DJ, Baiyon and modelling master ‘L’ form the unit Archives, who return this year to transform the Manga Museum into a club space, performing a fusion of live painting and DJ sounds inspired by manga artworks. |
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| Date | MON. 4. MAY. 2009 |
| New wave Kamishibai – the overthrowing of Kamishibai common sense. "New picture story shows in high speed" | |
 A 3 person kamishibai unit, “Spice Arthur 702” is made up of an author and page turner, a storyteller, and a musician providing background music. The performances center around Radio DJ Naomi Imai, backed by clever sound effects, live accompanying music and a flying cascade of pictures. Each performance spans over one hundred frames making it seem like flipping the pages of a manga. It is a new kind of nostalgic picture story show. | |
| Date | SAT. 23. MAY. 2009 ①13:00 ②15:00 ③17:00 |