Niigata City Manga and Anime Information Center

Visitors are the main characters. An experiential facility where you can enjoy going back and forth between two and three dimensions

  • Cultural Spaces
  • A dynamic space expressing the world of manga and anime welcomes visitors.

    A dynamic space expressing the world of manga and anime welcomes visitors.

  • Enjoy hands-on content surrounded by many characters

    Enjoy hands-on content surrounded by many characters

  • The space is composed of a huge graphic wall expressing a "frame," onomatopoeia, and lines.

    The space is composed of a huge graphic wall expressing a "frame," onomatopoeia, and lines.

  • Niigata City Manga and Anime Information Center
  • Enjoy hands-on content surrounded by many characters
  • The space is composed of a huge graphic wall expressing a "frame," onomatopoeia, and lines.

Photo: Forward Stroke inc.

About the Project

Overview This museum introduces manga artists and anime creators with ties to Niigata and conveys the appeal of manga and anime. It is a facility where you can experience "Niigata, the city of manga and anime," with items that allow you to experience manga and anime techniques, and content that allows you to enter the world of manga and experience it with the characters.
Issues/Themes The goal is to create a facility that will pass on and develop Niigata's manga and anime culture to the next generation, while also promoting that culture both within and outside the city, promoting Tourism in Niigata City and revitalizing the region.
Space Solution/Realization The exhibition proposed a space where visitors could enter the world of the artist by spatializing "artistic techniques of manga and anime" such as onomatopoeia, panel divisions, and layouts. The "frames" spread across the space as a giant graphic wall, and the "onomatopoeia" and "dialogue" jumped out into the space with their own momentum. The exhibition made visitors the protagonists of the works, and created a platform for the birth of the next generation of creators, who could enjoy going back and forth between two and three dimensions.

Basic Information

Client Niigata City
Services Provided Display Planning, Design, Layout, Production, Construction
Our Team Display Planning: Takayoshi Ozeki
Direction: Masashi Koyama
Design, Layout: Yujiro Iwasaki, Erina Yuasa
Awards "DSA Space Design Award 2014" Excellence Award
"48th SDA Award" Sign Design Encouragement Award
Location Niigata Prefecture
Open May 2013
Website http://museum.nmam.jp/
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