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From Wednesday, November 12 to Tuesday, November 25, 2025, Shueisha Manga-Art Heritage will present a special exhibition at the dedicated space in front of the information desk on the first floor of Daimaru Kyoto. This presentation coincides with Art Collaboration Kyoto (ACK) 2025.
Launched in 2021 with the vision of passing manga on as a form of art to future generations, Shueisha Manga-Art Heritage has participated in art fairs in New York, Los Angeles, and Miami. In September 2025, it was invited to the Art of Manga exhibition at the de Young Museum in San Francisco. This November marks its first participation in a domestic art fair, ACK 2025 in Kyoto. In addition, satellite exhibitions will be held at four locations throughout the city.
At Daimaru Kyoto, works by Eiichiro Oda ONE PIECE, Tite Kubo BLEACH, Riyoko Ikeda The Rose of Versailles, and Go Nagai Mazinger Z, including both previously released and new pieces, will be exhibited and available for purchase. A viewing table will be set up in the store, allowing visitors to browse works from stock cases upon request. Approximately 24 works will be on display, with around 14 additional works available from stock. Please note that viewing stock works will be guided one group at a time, and wait times may occur. Depending on crowd levels and time of day, viewing may not be possible.
Also featured for the first time are print works by Kyoko Okazaki and selected pieces from Jakuchu Ito’s Floral Compositions. These will be available for viewing and purchase. The full series will be exhibited at Kyoto Amplitude from November 13 to December 18.
In 1992, Oda received the Weekly Shonen Jump Tezuka Award for Wanted! Serialization of ONE PIECE began five years later in 1997. In the same year, the first tankobon (individual) volume of the series was released. In 1999, the title was made into an animated series. The first ONE PIECE exhibition was held in 2012.
In 1992, Oda received the 2nd place prize in the 44th Tezuka Award for Wanted! (under the pseudonym "Tsuki Himizu Kikondo"). In 1993, Oda was selected for the 104th Hop Step Award for Ikki Yako. In 2006, ONE PIECE chosen in the Japanese Media Arts Festival 100 Manga Selection. In 2012, Oda received first prize in the 41st Japan Cartoonists Association Award for ONE PIECE. In 2018, Oda received the Kumamoto Prefecture Honorary Award.
Kubo debuted in 1996 with Ultra Unholy Hearted Machine (published in Weekly Shonen Jump Summer Special). He published BLEACH in Weekly Shonen Jump between 2001 and 2016,. In 2018, he released a new work, Burn the Witch. Recently, in 2021, a new episode titled "BLEACH: New Breaths from Hell" was released.
Kubo won the 50th Shogakukan Manga Award for BLEACH in 2005. And in 2008, he received the Comic-Con International Inkpot Award.
In 1967, Ikeda made her debut with Bara Yashiki no Shôjo while she was a student at Tokyo University of Education (now Tsukuba University). In 1972, her Margaret series The Rose of Versailles became a bestseller. In 1980, she won the Japan Cartoonists Association Award of Excellence for The Window of Orpheus. While in her forties, she decided to pursue a career in music, and in 1995, she enrolled in the Vocal Department of the Tokyo College of Music. Since graduating, she has been performing as a soprano singer and has appeared in numerous opera productions. She received France's Legion of Honour in 2009.
Go Nagai made his manga debut with Meakashi Polikichi (serialized in Bokura) in 1967. In 1968, he began publishing Harenchi Gakuen in Weekly Shonen Jump. The series was a tremendous hit. In 1972, he launched two series, Devilman in Weekly Shonen Magazine and Mazinger Z in Weekly Shonen Jump, while the animated versions were being developed for television simultaneously. In 1973, he started serializing Cutie Honey in Weekly Shonen Champion. His works span a wide range of genres, from gag comedy to dark fantasy, science fiction, and horror. As of 2024, he continues to publish series. In 2019, he was awarded the Order of Arts and Letters (Chevalier) by the French government.
In 1983, she made her debut in the June issue of Manga Burikko. She went on to publish works such as Virgin (1985, Byakuya Shobo), Boyfriend is Better (1986, Hakusensha), pink (1989, Magazine House), Tokyo Girls Bravo (1993, JICC Publishing Bureau), River’s Edge (1994, Takarajimasha), I Am Your Toy (1995, Shodensha), Helter Skelter (2003, Shodensha), and Foam of the Daze (2003, Takarajimasha).
With Helter Skelter, she received the Excellence Award in the Manga Division at the 7th Japan Media Arts Festival, and the Grand Prize in the Manga category at the 8th Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize. In 1996, her creative activities were interrupted due to a traffic accident. In 2012, the film adaptation of Helter Skelter, directed by Mika Ninagawa, was released. In 2015, her solo exhibition “Girls’ Life on the Battlefield” was held at the Setagaya Literary Museum in Tokyo.