Tokyo Anime Center, an exhibition center located on the 4th floor of the Akihabara UDX building, has announced that it’s going to closed on July 18 because of expiration of contract with the building. The exhibition room has been run by the Association of Japanese Animations since 2006. Reopening of the center at other areas are going to be announced on the official website, if came to the realization.
As announced oftentimes, the center has been constantly holding several anime related exhibitions showing valuable materials, including key animation drawing and seiyuu’s autographed promotional posters, and also providing several anime merchandise which includes its shop’s original ones.
As reported by Anime Review site, Anime Bibly, said that in the last event, Tokyo Anime CEnter has been holding an exhibition focused on traditional cell animation works in assistance with Tokyo Prefecture since yesterday, June 20. The prefecture has been doingworking with the Anime Archive Project to retain the vital production materials applied to production of cell anime titles and to use them as tourism resource.
In that exhibition to be help until July 17, variations of the production process between cell and digital animation are mentioned with panels, and guests can now see several production materials of several popular anime titles.
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