The article was originally published on https://sfist.com/2025/09/25/de-young-museum-to-host-americas-first-ever-manga-museum-exhibition-starting-this-saturday/The de Young Museum is displaying the first ever manga themed exhibition in a major American museum, starting this Saturday, and you better believe that Saturday’s opening event has been declared a “Cosplay Day.” It was just today that I learned that the name of the popular artistic medium manga is Japanese for "pictures run riot." And I learned this upon discovering that the de Young Museum in Golden Gate Park is opening a manga-specific exhibit Saturday called Art of Manga, which they’re billing as the “first large-scale exhibition in the Americas to explore manga as an art form.” The big name showing works that have never been se

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