Manga Museum

In Kyoto, is the Manga Museum. This would be a cool place to visit. Look at this collection of Manga!

Wow! I am interested in historical WWII Kamishibai. 

Apparently, 450 pro-war Kamishibai were produced/presented during the World War II era.

Other interesting facts:

* Kamishibai stories were written for boys (shonen), adventure or a period piece, and for girls (shojo) -- melodramas, featuring young girls as protagonists and focused on more down to earth scenarios, like a girl being teased in class. 

I want to find these favorites from the 1930s: Golden Bat and Tiger Boy -- two boy favorites; Snow White -- a favorite of the girls.

* Kenya Matsunaga cofounded the Japan Educational Kamishibai Association in the mid-1930s to "combat the scurrilous reputation of street-corner kamishibai."

* Tokyo survey in the 1930s found of 1,943 8-year-old schoolboys, 515 watched kamishibai stories more than twice a day. Kamishibai were banned in many schools and neighborhoods! According to the Manga Kamishibai book, "Officials claimed that kamishibai caused traffic problems because of the crowd of kids, that it was unhygienic because candy was passed along by dirty hands, and that the riotous compositions and colors were 'too stimulating' to young minds."