iBrooklyn MuseumProspect Heights, Brooklyn
Art of Manga
East Coast debut of the first major Americas exhibition on manga as an art form, with more than 600 original drawings including Inuyasha, JoJo's Bizarre Adventure and ONE PIECE.
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The coat check has been renamed CosCheck, because cosplay is welcome and props need somewhere to go. Past it, Hirohiko Araki's life-sized, 12-panel painting from JoJo's Bizarre Adventure is built so you can imagine yourself standing inside the story's landscape.
More than 600 original drawings, the genga that printed pages are made from, fill the first-floor Great Hall. An introduction to manga history leads to Chiba Tetsuya and Akatsuka Fujio, then eight artists get a section each, including Oda, Takahashi, Tagame and Taniguchi. The last section shows Shueisha Manga-Art Heritage prints. The galleries run right to left, like a volume, and Kinokuniya has put printed books in the middle for handling. Wear the wig: the 2 train to Eastern Parkway has seen worse.
Timed tickets start at $30 for adults and include general admission, with entry every 15 minutes from 11am and last entry at 5pm. The museum is open Wednesday to Sunday, 11am to 6pm. The $75 Manga Fan Pass covers two people for unlimited visits.
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More than 600 original drawings: the hand-inked pages behind Inuyasha, JoJo's Bizarre Adventure and ONE PIECE. The first major show in the Americas to treat manga as art, with a companion collection show tracing 900 years of Japanese narrative pictures.
Look for
Araki's JoJo painting
A life-sized, 12-panel work made so the viewer can imagine being inside the JoJo's Bizarre Adventure landscape.
Chiba Tetsuya's last page of Ashita no Joe
Original final-page artwork of the boxing series, rarely exhibited outside Japan.
Taniguchi Jiro's self-portrait
An unfinished late self-portrait, lent outside Japan for the first time by his widow.
The Kinokuniya book section
Printed manga volumes you can pick up and read among the drawings they came from.
The Shueisha prints
The final section shows art prints of ONE PIECE, Rose of Versailles and BLEACH.
Good for
- Nerding Out
- Teenagers
Skip if
You want paintings or sculpture: it is mostly drawings, over 600 of them.
With kids
Ages 3 and under free, 4 to 12 $12, teens $21. Stroller tours run, and a guide character, Da Beshi, leads kids. Some work is written for adults on gender roles and inequality; curators call tweens and teens the sweet spot.
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Image credits
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- Art of MangaCourtesy of Brooklyn Museum
- Splendido, As Seen by Chris RhodesCourtesy of Aperture
- Pierre Huyghe: UUmweltCourtesy of Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)
- Brice Marden: I Am Plane ImageArtwork © 2026 Estate of Brice Marden/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photo: Owen Conway
- Brooklyn MuseumJim Henderson via Wikimedia Commons, Public domain