The library will have more than 300,000 manga books, making it the world’s largest manga library, larger than the Kyoto International Manga Museum.
Kyoto International Manga Museum also happens to be built at former elementary school.
Kyoto International Manga Museum opened in 2006.
Meiji University opened its Yoshihiro Yonezawa Memorial Library of Manga and Subculture in 2009 with plans to expand to a larger facility, tentatively named Tokyo International Manga Library, with more than 2.5 million publications.