Manga International Library - Coming 2015
A Tokyo university is planning to open a library to promote serious study of Japanese manga comics. The proposed Tokyo International Manga Library will house two million comic books, animation drawings, video games and other cartoon industry artefacts. It is hoped the new library will open by early 2015 at Meiji University.
"Manga has been taken lightly in the past and there has been no solid archive for serious study," the university's Susumi Shibao told AFP.
"We want to help academic studies on manga as part of Japanese culture," she added.
It is anticipated that the library will be made available to researchers and fans from Japan and abroad.
Source - BBC News
Below is a video of what the Manga Library will look like. Pretty mind-blowing if you ask me. Now if only I could understand Japanese...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vR2_5G4ZkzA
More information in the spoiler.