Suginami Animation Museum - Past Events
Below is a list of all past events for Suginami Animation Museum. Current and upcoming events, as well as other details, are available on the venue's page.
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"Workshop Stamp Rally" Event
Participate in all the five workshops held at the museum to become an anime doctor! If you haven't finished your summer break homework, these detailed workshops can be your summer research project! You (...)
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Katsumi Itabashi Exhibition
Mechanical expertise is an indispensable element of Reiji Matsumoto's animations "Galaxy Express 999" and "Space Battleship Yamato". Katsumi Itabashi is a mechanical designer who lent his skills to Matsumoto's (...)
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"Tekkon Kinkreet Animation Drawings" Exhibition
The animated film "Tekkon Kinkreet" (adapted from the original work by Taiyo Matsumoto) was released in theaters in the winter of 2006, receiving much acclaim from viewers. The movie won the best animation (...)
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"Suginami Folklore Kamishibai" Special Event
Kamishibai is a form of storytelling for children used to be common in Japan. This event presents three or four folklores of Suginami Ward through kamishibai. You can learn a lot about Suginami while having (...)
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"Kappa Coo and Summer Vacation" DVD Release Event
The heartwarming animated story "Kappa Coo and Summer Vacation" was released in theaters in the summer of 2007, winning the prize for animation at the Japan Academy Awards, along with a slew of many other (...)
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"The World of Galaxy Express 999" Exhibition
This year marks the 30th anniversary of Reiji Matsumoto's manga "Galaxy Express 999". The manga was made into a TV series of 113 episodes, and three feature-length films. This exhibition introduces those (...)
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"Suginami Folklore Picture Story Show"
"Suginami Folklore Picture Story Show" is created and presented by the residents of Suginami Ward. Not only children, but also adults who haven't seen Kamishibai (picture story show) for a long time, anyone (...)
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"Infinite Dreams: Fujiko F. Fujio Exhibition"
Manga artist Fujiko F. Fujio created an enormous number of comics throughout his life, with an ideal to amuse himself as well as his readers. This retrospective exhibition introduces works that he made (...)
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"BACA-JA (Broadband Art & Contents Award Japan) 2007 Video Contents Section" Screening
This is an annual screening event featuring selected video works from the BACA-JA (Broadband Art & Contents Award Japan). BACA-JA is organized by Kansai Television to promote works by students. This (...)
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"Everybody Draw the Background Illustration for Wonder Sam!" Workshop
Just before Christmas, the Suginami Animation Museum invites children to participate in the production of the animated film "Wonder Sam in Wonderland." The museum is currently in the production process (...)
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Production I.G 20th Anniversary Exhibition
Production I.G is Japan's top animation studio, having created "Ghost in the Shell" which became the first Japanese work to top the U.S. charts and the animation for Quentin Tarantino's "Kill Bill". This (...)
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Animator Hiroshi Ousaka Exhibition
The Suginami Animation Museum will hold this retrospective exhibition in commemoration of animator Hiroshi Ousaka who passed away at the age of 45 on September 24th. Ousaka's death is a tremendous loss (...)
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"Fujio Akatsuka & Funny Friends" Exhibition
Fujio Akatsuka has been working as a manga artist for 50 years. He loves to do anything fun and has produced many humorous characters. Those characters are based on his roommates from the famous Tokiwa (...)
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History of Animation & Clay Animation Workshop
"Talk on History of Anime" Do you know when Japanese animation started? When were the famous animation series on air? This talk allows you to understand the history of Japanese animation. (Talk is in (...)
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"Manga Kingdom Tottori Fair" Exhibition
Tottori Prefecture is the origin of famous Manga artists such as Shigeru Mizuki of "Ge-Ge-Ge no Kitaro", and Jiro Taniguchi of "Haruka na machi e" (lit. "To the distant town"). This exhibition features (...)
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"Pocket Monster Anime Gallery" Exhibition
It was 1996 when "Pocket Monster" was released as a Game Boy video game, and the following year, the TV Anime series "Pocket Monster" began. There's no other animation series based on a video game that (...)
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Akihiro Kanayama Original Drawing Exhibition
Works by one of the most influential animators, Akihiro Kanayama, are on display. In addition to animations that he directed, comic books and character designs that he created are also included in the (...)
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Hideo Shinoda "Manga Lesson"
Manga workshops by Hideo Shinoda. for parents and kids, but adults also welcome to come alone. •Parents and Kids Course "Illustrating with Simple Shapes" Using simple shapes, this workshop teaches (...)
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”Manga Kingdom Tottori Fair" Exhibition
There are a lot of cartoonists from Tottori prefecture, and also many sites in Tottori that have used for cartoons. Introducing manga from Tottori, this exhibit aims to invite viewers to Tottori.
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Animation Festival 2007 - Suginami Animation Museum 2nd Year Anniversary
This event includes screenings of "Anpan Man", "Doraemon", "Crayon Shin Chan", and their original animation "Relay Anime Wonder Sam's Dream". With live concerts, wind music and so on, this is an exciting (...)
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"Coro Coro Animation History" Exhibition
"Coro Coro Animation History Exhibition in Suginami Animation Museum" is being held to celebrate the 30th anniversary of Coro Coro comics. Established in 1977, Coro Coro comics is a monthly comic magazine (...)
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"50 years of Eastern Anime" Exhibition
On July 31st 1956, the year after Disney Land was completed in the suburbs of Los Angeles, emerged an Asian film movement that would strive to become the "Disney of the East". In the following years, this (...)
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Osamu Tezuka's Atom Boy and Sun Wukong Exhibition
This exhibtion received great critical acclaim when it was shown in Hangzhou and Shanghai this autumn. It questions what sources have inspired Osamu Tezuka's animation; while many point to Disney's "Snow (...)





