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The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco announced on Jan 27, 2025, its plans to launch Art of Manga, the largest comprehensive exhibition of manga art ever held in the Americas, at the de Young Museum.

The showcase, running Sep 27, 2025, to Jan 25, 2026 will display over 700 original drawings by iconic Japanese artists, including One Piece creator Eiichiro Oda, JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure author Hirohiko Araki, and Inuyasha artist Rumiko Takahashi.

Organized in collaboration with major publishers Kadokawa, Kodansha, Shueisha, and others, the exhibition aims to position manga as a globally influential art form.

It marks the first U.S. museum effort to curate manga beyond pop culture conventions, spanning decades of artistic innovation.

“Captivating millions around the world with dynamic graphic narratives, manga is one of the most significant visual mediums of our time,” said Thomas P. Campbell, Director and CEO of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. “San Francisco has long been...

In its second weekend, advance theatrical screenings of Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuuX -Beginning- , a re-edited episode version of the upcoming Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuuX TV series, earned 528 million yen (3.41 million Usd) on 306,000 admissions — only a 12 percent week-on-week drop — retaining first place in the box office ranking according to Kogyo Tsushinsha . The anime's official website also confirmed that the film's performance in the two-day weekend between Saturday and Sunday was 107.6 percent in gross and 106.8 percent in attendance compared to the previous weekend . The screenings now have a total of 1,432,794,300 yen (9.24 million Usd) earned from 856,371 ticket sales in ten days since debuting in 426 Japanese theaters on January 17. The two-weekend gross was 75.2 percent of that of Mobile Suit Gundam Seed Freedom in February 2024 ( 1.9 billion yen ). The live-action film adaptation of Kengo Hanazawa's action manga series Under Ninja opened in 340 theaters on January 24, earning 226 million yen (1.46 million Usd) on 160,000 admissions to make a third-place debut.

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