Special Exhibition
DNA of "SUNDAY" & "MAGAZINE" :50 Years of Weekly Shonen Manga
| Exhibition Period | Saturday the 10th of October to the Sunday the 20th of December 2009.
10am to 6pm (admission until 5:30pm). |
| Venue | Kyoto International Manga Museum, 2 floor main gallery, gallery 4. |
| Admission fee | Adults: 1,000yen, High and Junior High school students: 500yen, Elementary school students: 200yen.
* This fee includes the museum general entrance fee (Adults: 500yen, High and Junior High school students: 300yen, Elementary school students: 100yen) |
Sponsors: DNA of Sunday & Magazine exhibition executive committee, Kyoto International Manga Museum.
Join sponsors: Kodansha, Shogakukan.
In special cooperation with: Osaka Prefectural International Institute for Children's Literature.
Planning collaboration: NHK Enterprise, Kawasaki City Museum.
Supervision: Natsume Fusanosuke (Gakushuin University graduate school professor), Saito Nobuhiko (editor, manga researcher).
In fierce business competition, these two rival magazines introduced a great many masterpieces. Their success paved the way for many more manga magazines. Moreover, strings of hits carried in either of these two magazines were subsequently published as stand-alone books, transformed into anime works and aired on TV. In this way, the two magazines played an essential role in creating Japanese children's and young adults' culture. Basically, over the past half-century the two magazines, representing weekly boys' manga magazines, helped form the core of Japan's contemporary audiovisual and multi-media culture. Since this culture has significantly influenced the aesthetic and cultural values of present-day Japan, reviewing the history of the two magazines is meaningful and helpful for understanding current Japanese culture and arts.
Displaying a time line and original images of 100 manga works carried in the two magazines, this Exhibition spotlights a wide diversity of manga categories, such as baseball, combat sports and romance comedies, which resulted from the competition between the two magazines. Regarding these respective categories as "cultural genes" inherited by succeeding generations of artists, as organizers we intend to illustrate the influence of these "genes" on present-day Japanese culture and social trends. We sincerely hope that visitors to the Exhibition will enjoy the fascinating features of boys' manga and discover the boundless potential of manga as a cultural medium.
This exhibition is a traveling exhibition and has been planned in cooperation with the following museums:
Kawasaki City Museum (Nakahara-ku, Kawasaki City, Kanagawa Prefecture)
Exhibition period: Saturday the 18th of July to Sunday the 13th of September, 2009.
Museum of Art, Kochi (Kochi City, Kochi Prefecture)
Exhibition period: Sunday the 29th of April to Sunday the 11th of July, 2010.
Nagasaki Museum of History and Culture (Nagasaki City, Nagasaki Prefecture)
Exhibition period: Saturday the 17th of July to Monday the 6th of September, 2010.
Exhibition Details
Original Artworks
Covering 50 works each from Shonen Sunday and Shonen Magazine, to make a planned total of 233 exhibition items from 100 different works.
* Items may be changed throughout the exhibition duration. Some items will be reproductions.
Panel Display
Cultural history chronology and explanation of the background of the times in which the artworks were produced.
Other
More than 250 different publications, toys and related goods of the times.
Special Feature Corner
- Manga Artists from Tokiwa-so
Episodes and traces left by Tezuka Osamu, Fujiko F. Fujio, Fujiko Fujio A. et al. - Ashita no Jo (Tomorrow's Joe) and Kyojin no Hoshi (Star of the Giants)
Including 10 pages from the original Ashita no Jo written script, as hand penned by Takamori Asao (aka Kajiwara Ikki). - Touch and Urusei Yatsura
Roughly 25 idea notes written by Adachi Mitsuru (of Touch fame) and loved art supplies belonging to Takahashi Rumiko (Urusei Yatsura). - Manga Magazines, their Readers and Editors.
Precious photographs from early on in the editorial departments, as well as notebooks filled with editorial memos etc.
Reading Corner
500 manga volumes that were serialized in Sunday and Magazine available for reading.
Exhibition Catalogue
An exhibition catalogue on sale in the museum shop that contains pictures from the 100 exhibited works, corner commentary text, transcript of a special dialogue between Akamatsu Ken and Hata Kenjiro, the creators of Love Hina and Hayate no Gotoku! (Hayate the Combat Butler!) respectively. Only you can buy this catalogue at the traveling exhibition place.
* Expected price: 2,000yen (including tax)
Related Events
Research Lecture
"The Unknown World of Shonen Manga"
An analysis into the charm of the medium of manga from unknown masterpieces, mystery works and every nook and corner of the magazine pages. There is such enjoyment in manga magazines!
| Participants | Onishi Shohei (manga author and critic, lecturer in the manga faculty of Kyoto Seika University) |
| Date and Time | Sunday, November the 15th, 2009. 2pm to 3:30pm. |
| Venue | Kyoto International Manga Museum, 3rd floor, research room 1. |
| Language | Japanese only |
Research Lecture
"All the Puzzles of Sunday and Magazine Solved!"
A disclosure of the history of shonen manga as born through the rivalry between Sunday vs. Magazine.
From 1pm on the same day agallery talk will take place in the special exhibition hall.
(roughly 40 minutes. Admission fee to the special exhibition is required)
| Participants | Saito Nobuhiko (editor, supervising editor of this exhibition) |
| Date and Time | Saturday, December the 5th, 2009. 2pm to 3:30pm. |
| Venue | Kyoto International Manga Museum, 3rd floor, research room 1. |
| Language | Japanese only |
Exhibition Commentary by the Museum Researchers.
| Date and Time | 1pm onwards (roughly 40 minutes) on Sunday the 18th of October, Sunday the 1st, 15th and 29th of November and Sunday the 13th of December. |
| Venue | Kyoto International Manga Museum, 2nd floor, special exhibition gallery. |
| Participation fee | Free (however, admission fee to the special exhibition is required) |
| Language | Japanese only |
Shimamoto Kazuhiko Talk Show
Hot-blooded manga artist Shimamoto Kazuhiko will speak fervently about shonen manga, using topics from his partially autobiographical work Aoihono, a sharply critical work that covers 80 years of shonen manga magazines.
| Participants | Shimamoto Kazuhiko, manga artist and author of Hono no Tenkosei (Blazing Transfer Student) and Asuka @ Mirai Kei (Asuka at future) |
| Date and Time | Saturday, November the 21st, 2009. 2pm to 4pm. * Numbered tickets will be distributed from 10am on the day. |
| Venue | Kyoto International Manga Museum, 1st floor, multipurpose hall. |
| Chair | Sasakibara Go (manga editor and critic) |
| Language | Japanese only |
Quiz Rally
"Secrets of Sunday and Magazine"
A quiz about the secrets of popular characters from Sunday and Magazine, with hints placed around the special exhibition hall.
| Date and Time | Every day for the duration of the exhibition between 10am and 6pm (reception until 5:30pm). |
| Venue | Kyoto International Manga Museum, 2nd floor, special exhibition hall. |
| Participation fee | Free (however, admission fee to the special exhibition is required) |
List of Exhibits
| 1959 - 69 | ||
| Weekly Shonen Sunday |
SPORTSMAN KINTARO | TERADA Hiroo |
| UMI NO OJI | FUJIKO Fujio | |
| ZERO-MEN | TEZUKA Osamu | |
| IGA NO KAGEMARU | YOKOYAMA Mitsuteru | |
| OSOMATSUKUN | AKATSUKA Fujio | |
| PERMAN | FUJIKO F Fujio | |
| DORORO | TEZUKA Osamu | |
| MORETSU ATARO | AKATSUKA Fujio | |
| 21EMON | FUJIKO F Fujio | |
| Weekly Shonen Magazine |
EIGHT MAN | HIRAI Kazumasa and KUWATA Jiro |
| GEGEGE NO KITARO | MIZUKI Shigeru | |
| STAR OF THE GIANTS | KAJIWARA Ikki and KAWASAKI Noboru | |
| TENSAI BAKABON | AKATSUKA Fujio | |
| MUYONOSUKE | SAITO Takao | |
| TOMORROW'S JOE | TAKAMORI Asao and CHIBA Tetsuya | |
| TIGER MASK | KAJIWARA Ikki and TSUJI Naoki | |
| 1970 - 79 | ||
| Weekly Shonen Sunday |
DAME OYAJI | FURUYA Mitsutoshi |
| OTOKOGUMI | KARIYA Tetsu and IKEGAMI Ryoichi | |
| PRO GOLFER SARU | FUJIKO Fujio A | |
| GANBARE GENKI | KOYAMA Yu | |
| SURVIVAL | SAITO Takao | |
| URUSEI YATSURA | TAKAHASHI Rumiko | |
| CYBORG 009 | ISHINOMORI Shotaro | |
| Weekly Shonen Magazine |
HOMOHOMO7 | MINAMOTO Taro |
| KUGISHI SABUYAN | GYU Jiro and BIG Joe | |
| OTOKO OIDON | MATSUMOTO Leiji | |
| KARATE BAKA ICHIDAI | KAJIWARA Ikki and TSUNODA Jiro | |
| DEVILMAN | NAGAI Go and Dynamic Pro | |
| AI TO MAKOTO | KAJIWARA Ikki and NAGAYASU Takumi | |
| SANPEI THE FISHER BOY | YAGUCHI Takao | |
| ORE WA TEPPEI | CHIBA Tetsuya | |
| USHIRO NO HYAKUTARO | TSUNODA Jiro | |
| THE THREE-EYED ONE | TEZUKA Osamu | |
| TONDA COUPLE | YANAGISAWA Kimio | |
| 1,2, NO SANSHIRO | KOBAYASHI Makoto | |
| 1980 - 89 | ||
| Weekly Shonen Sunday |
SAYONARA SANKAKU | HARA Hidenori |
| MUSASHI NO KEN | MURAKAMI Motoka | |
| TOUCH | ADACHI Mitsuru | |
| HONO NO TENKOSEI | SHIMAMOTO Kazuhiko | |
| JUST MEET | HARA Hidenori | |
| RANMA1/2 | TAKAHASHI Rumiko | |
| KENJI | MATSUDA Ryuchi and FUJIWARA Yoshihide | |
| KENTA YARIMASU! | MITSUDA Takuya | |
| KYO KARA OREWA! | NISHIMORI Hiroyuki | |
| YAIBA | AOYAMA Gōshō | |
| OBI WO GYUTTO NE! | KAWAI Katsutoshi | |
| SPRIGGAN | TAKASHIGE Hiroshi and MINAGAWA Ryoji | |
| Weekly Shonen Magazine |
ASHITA TENKI NI NAARE | CHIBA Tetsuya |
| THE KABOCHA WINE | MIURA Mitsuru | |
| KOTARO MAKARITORU! | HIRUTA Tatsuya | |
| BATS & TERRY | OSHIMA Yasuichi | |
| BARI BARI DENSETSU | SHIGENO Shuichi | |
| MR.AJIKKO | TERASAWA Daisuke | |
| SUPER DR.K | MAFUNE Kazuo | |
| HAJIME NO IPPO | MORIKAWA George | |
| 1990 - 99 | ||
| Weekly Shonen Sunday |
USHIO TO TORA | FUJITA Kazuhiro |
| GHOST SWEEPER MIKAMI: THE GREAT PARADISE BATTLE!! | SHIINA Takashi | |
| OUR FIELD OF DREAMS | MURAEDA Kenichi | |
| H2 | ADACHI Mitsuru | |
| "LOVe" | ISHIWATA Osamu | |
| DETECTIVE CONAN | AOYAMA Gōshō | |
| MAJOR | MITSUDA Takuya | |
| DAN DOH!! | SAKATA Nobuhiro and BANJO Daichi | |
| FLAME OF RECCA | ANZAI Nobuyuki | |
| THE HOLY MOTEMOTE KINGDOM | NAGAI Ken | |
| MONKEY TURN | KAWAI Katsutoshi | |
| INUYASHA | TAKAHASHI Rumiko | |
| ARMS | MINAGAWA Ryoji | |
| KARAKURI CIRCUS | FUJITA Kazuhiro | |
| KATTENI KAIZO | KUMETA Kohji | |
| Weekly Shonen Magazine |
CHAMELEON | KASE Atsushi |
| MMR | ISHIGAKI Yuki | |
| SHOOT! | OSHIMA Tsukasa | |
| KAZE DENSETSU BUKKOMI NO TAKU | SAKI Hiroto and TOKORO Juzo | |
| BOYS BE... | ITABASHI Masahiro and TAMAKOSHI Hiroyuki | |
| KINDAICHI SHONEN NO JIKENBO | AMAGI Seimaru, KANARI Yozaburo and SATO Fumiya | |
| J-DREAM | HEIUCHI Natsuko | |
| PSYCHOMETRER EIJI | ANDO Yuma and ASAKI Masashi | |
| GTO | FUJISAWA Toru | |
| LEGENDARY GAMBLER TETSUYA | SAI Fumei and HOSHINO Yasushi | |
| LOVE HINA | AKAMATSU Ken | |
| GET BACKERS | AOKI Yuya and AYAMINE Rando | |
| SAMURAI DEEPER KYO | KAMIJYO Akimine | |
| RAVE | MASHIMA Hiro | |
| 2000 - | ||
| Weekly Shonen Sunday |
THE LAW OF UEKI | FUKUCHI Tsubasa |
| YAKITATE!! JAPAN | HASHIGUCHI Takashi | |
| KENICHI: THE MIGHTIEST DISCIPLE | MATSUENA Shun | |
| KEKKAISHI | TANABE Yellow | |
| HAYATE NO GOTOKU ! | HATA Kenjiro | |
| CROSS GAME | ADACHI Mitsuru | |
| KAMI NOMI ZO SHIRU SEKAI | WAKAKI Tamiki | |
Weekly |
CROMARTIE HIGH SCHOOL | NONAKA Eiji |
| KUNIMITSU NO MATSURI | ANDO Yuma and ASAKI Masashi | |
| GODHAND TERU | YAMAMOTO Kazuki | |
| SCHOOL RUMBLE | KOBAYASHI Jin | |
| AIR GEAR | Oh! great | |
| NEGIMA! MAGISTER NEGI MAGI | AKAMATSU Ken | |
| AHIRU NO SORA | HINATA Takeshi | |
| SAYONARA ZETSUBO SENSEI | KUMETA Kohji | |
| ACE OF DIAMOND | TERAJIMA Yuji | |
*Please be aware that event schedules and matter may be subject to change.
