Professor Munakata’s British Museum Adventure

In this one-shot graphic novel from 2011, Yukinobu Hoshino’s erudite folklore expert, Professor Munakata, is dispatched to the British Museum to investigate a mysterious Japanese artifact. Published by the British Museum itself, the story blends archaeological mystery with Hoshino’s signature detailed, realistic art and deep cultural scholarship. It stands as a unique, museum-commissioned crossover between Japanese manga and British institutional history.