Yesterday we went to an art exhibit we’ve been meaning to see all summer (indeed, we went on its closing day): “Tezuka: The Marvel of Manga” at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco, which covered Tezuka Osamu‘s work mostly from the 1940s to the 1970s. It was really neat! I even liked the design of the exhibit itself. I’ve never really tried getting into manga — mostly because I just didn’t know where to begin — but now I definitely want to start checking it out, beginning with Tezuka.
There I am in the photo, at the museum with Astro Boy. (As other Thom aptly comments, which one is me? Ha.)
By the way, the “manga lounge,” a room related to the exhibit, had some general manga and other anime toys on display, including a character I remember fondly from my childhood: Voltron!
3 replies on “The marvel of manga”
Kimba the White Lion was released as a movie [“The Jungle Emperor”] when I lived in Japan, so some friends and I went to see it. Several parts of The Lion King were blatantly ripped off from that movie.
The manga series was also awesome. I another series about people from Atlantis (or something like that), but didn’t like it as much.
Wow, you should have done the same as he did. I mean taking the top and the bottom off like that 🙂 I like his works very much. There was a TV programme about micro-scope adventure in the body to kill disease. I don’t even remember the title of it but it was a brilliant show. I hope you enjoyed the thing. BTW, is it okay if I added a link to your site on my blog?
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yeah, glad that we lived that one. i hope youre doing okay. cheers!