Genkina Hito
映画男！！！
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Anime UK News has received some awesome news from the Japan foundation: Japan: Kingdom of Characters Manga Exhibition is coming to the UK in February 2012.
This exhibition offers visitors the chance to explore Japanese characters from the 50’s through to the 2000’s and get an insight into their background. Taking place in the Sainsbury Centre at the University of East Anglia, visitors will get the chance to see human-size 3D models of characters such as Ultraman and Pikachu as well as characters from well known franchises like Hello Kitty, Galaxy Express 999, Mobile Suit Gundam, Nameneko, Urusei Yatsura and Haruhi Suzumiya.
Organisers promise over eighty graphic illustrations, photographs and anime screenings and films which will provide context and trace the history of development of these characters. There will even be a bedroom decorated with everything Hello Kitty for people to view. Organisers state:
The exhibition asks some thought-provoking questions about what characters are, why they are so popular and how they have become central to everyday life within contemporary Japanese society. The exhibition also considers ideas such as the importance of characters as design products.
The exhibition will be at the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts from 4th February 2012 – 24th June 2012. Here are the details
Japan: Kingdom of Characters
4 February – 24 June 2012
Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts , University of East Anglia
Norwich Research Park, Norwich NR4 7TJ
Tel: 01603 593199
Web: <a href="http://www.scva.ac.uk/exhibitions/forthcoming/?exhibition=118">www.scva.ac.uk</a>
Opening times: Daily 10am-9pm
Admission: Free
