Japan Society

PAST EXHIBITION

KRAZY!: The Delirious World of Anime + Manga + Video Games

March 12, 2009—June 14, 2009

Once considered the preserve of an insular youth culture, within the last decade Japanese animated cartoons (anime), comics and illustrated narratives (manga), and interactive video games have migrated into the mainstream, with reverberations both high and low. In a first for New York City, Japan Society explores this phenomenon in KRAZY! The Delirious World of Anime + Manga + Video Games from March 13 through June 14, 2009.

Displayed in a series of enveloping spaces designed to evoke Tokyo’s clamorous cityscape by the Tokyo-based architectural firm Atelier Bow-Wow, KRAZY! includes the “Anime Garden” with simultaneous projections of six groundbreaking films, accompanied by a special soundtrack room; the “Manga Pod” with close to one thousand magazines, along with rare concept drawings and related action figures and other merchandise; and video excerpts and table console video games that can be played by visitors.

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