Professor Munakata - Bookplate Special Edition

This special edition gift box contains the exciting manga story, Professor Munakata's British Museum Adventure, and an exclusive bookplate individually signed and hand-drawn by the author, Hoshino Yukinobu. There is only a limited number of these gift sets available, as each bookplate has been individually created by the author.

Manga is a Japanese comic book art form that has become an international phenomenon in recent years. In this new and unique series of episodes, leading Japanese manga artist Hoshino Yukinobu engages with history through one of his most popular characters, Professor Munakata.

Professor Tadakusu Munakata is a fictional ethnologist who unravels the mysteries of Japan's past. Since his creation in 1995, the professor's popularity has escalated and today millions of readers in Japan eagerly follow his adventures in the bi-weekly manga magazine Big Comic (published by Shogakukan in Japan).

In this new compilation of ten episodes, we follow Professor Munakata on an exciting adventure when he becomes embroiled in a mysterious criminal plot at the British Museum. Worked in elegant black-and-white graphics, the episodes see the black-cloaked professor encountering mystical challenges and making deductions about some of the Museum's most iconic objects.

The author Hoshino Yukinobu is Japan's leading manga artist. Creator of the extremely popular series Professor Munakata's Case Records (serialised in Big Comic, Shogakukan, since 2004), Hoshino has also created a science-fiction series, 2001 Nights, serialised in Japan (Monthly Super Action, from 1984) and America (by Viz).

Read more about this exciting title on The British Museum Press Books Blog.