Before either of those open, though, there’s the British Museum’s current special exhibition, simply dubbed “Manga.”
The British Museum’s Manga exhibition is going on until August 26, but if these photos have whetted your appetite for manga art, there’s plenty more to be found within the pages of the collected volumes of their respective series.
One of the first Japanese artforms to gain widespread appreciation in the west was ukiyo-e, woodblock prints.
So really, why shouldn’t manga, for which slice-of-life and titillating fan service are established genres unto themselves, be given a similarly scholarly look?