New Anime Center Opens in Tokyo

Learn Japanese from the News – Season 2

Anime Tokyo Station, a new facility dedicated to showcasing Japanese animation to a global audience, opened in the Ikebukuro district of Tokyo on October 31. It boasts an archive of around 50,000 items, including scripts, storyboards and animation cels from popular series. In the second half of the program, we look at how Ikebukuro became an anime and manga destination on the same level as the famous Akihabara district.