The Art of Manga exhibition will make its East Coast debut at the Brooklyn Museum in New York City from October 3, 2026, to January 31, 2027. The show features over 600 drawings by major manga artists including Hirohiko Araki, Eiichiro Oda, Tite Kubo, Rumiko Takahashi, Junji Ito, and others, with sections dedicated to pioneers Tetsuya Chiba and Fujio Akatsuka, individual artist showcases, and a final section highlighting Shuiesha manga art prints from series like One Piece, Rose of Versailles, and Bleach. The exhibition is organized by the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco and was previously hosted at the de Young museum in San Francisco from September 2025 to January 2026.
The exhibition matters because it brings a comprehensive survey of manga—a globally influential art form with deep roots in Japanese visual culture—to a major East Coast museum for the first time, signaling growing institutional recognition of manga as a serious artistic medium. By featuring both historic pioneers and contemporary masters, the show bridges generations of manga creation and offers U.S. audiences a rare opportunity to view original drawings rather than printed reproductions, potentially expanding the conversation around what constitutes fine art in the 21st century.