Japan Media Arts Festival (Japan’s Agency for Cultural Affairs), in collaboration with Matadero Madrid and the Japan Foundation, is organising an exhibition on contemporary Japanese society as seen in manga and other Japanese visual arts, entitled, Un planeta enloquecido: fantasmas, monstruos y alienígenas en el manga, which will be open until 31 January. Free admission. Nave 16.
Lamu: Urusei Yatsura o Esos desagradables extraterrestres (1978-1987), by Rumiko Takahashi, is a work of manga comics featuring several lovers of the protagonist, a secondary school student in any Japanese city, in addition to extraterrestrials, ghosts, local gods, time travellers, spectres and sacred personages from folk stories.
