Monthly Afternoon
Monthly Afternoon (月刊アフタヌーン, Gekkan Afutanūn) is a Japanese monthly seinen manga anthology published by Kodansha under the Afternoon line of magazines. The first issue was released with a cover date of January 25, 1986. Each issue typically has around thirty ongoing stories by various authors and runs about 800 pages. Afternoon has spawned many successful seinen manga series such as Oh My Goddess!, Genshiken, Blade of the Immortal and Big Windup! It is part of Kodansha's "1day" series, which also includes the magazines Morning and Evening. In its October 2008 issue, a spin-off magazine called good! Afternoon was announced to be launched.[3][4]
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 October 2011 issue. | |
| Editor | Tatsuya Shishikura |
|---|---|
| Categories | Seinen manga[1][2] |
| Frequency | Monthly |
| Circulation | 69,310[1] (July-September, 2016) |
| Publisher | Kodansha |
| First issue | January 25, 1986 |
| Country | Japan |
| Based in | Tokyo |
| Language | Japanese |
| Website | kc |
Currently running manga series
| Title | Author / Artist | Premiered |
|---|---|---|
| Aa! Shuukatsu no Megami-sama! | Uhei Aoki (story) & Kumichi Yoshizuki (art) | January 25, 2019 |
| Big Windup! | Asa Higuchi | March 23, 2004 |
| Blade of the Immortal - Bakumatsu Arc | Kenji Takigawa (story) & Ryū Suenobu (art) in collaboration with Hiroaki Samura | May 25, 2019 |
| Blue Period | Tsubasa Yamaguchi | June 24, 2017 |
| Darwin's Incident | Shun Umezawa | June 25, 2020 |
| Fragile - The Finds of Pathologist Keiichirō Kishi | Bin Kusamizu (story) & Megumi Saburo | June 25, 2014 |
| Hashikko Ensemble | Shimoku Kio | February 24, 2018 |
| Heavenly Delusion | Masakazu Ishiguro | January 25, 2018 |
| Historie | Hitoshi Iwaaki | January 25, 2003 |
| Issak | Shinji Makari (story) & Ji-Hyung Song (art) | January 25, 2017 |
| Inui to Tatsumi -Siberia Shuppei Hishi- | Yoshikazu Yasuhiko | September 25, 2018 |
| I Want to Hold Aono-kun so Badly I Could Die | Umi Shiina | December 24, 2016 |
| Land of the Lustrous | Haruko Ichikawa | October 25, 2012 |
| Marginal Operation | Yuri Shibamura (story) & Daisuke Kimura (art) | May 25, 2013 |
| Medalist | Tsuruma Ikada | May 25, 2020 |
| Neko ga Nishimukya | Yuki Urushibara | April 25, 2018 |
| Puu-Neko | Masayuki Kitamichi | 2004 |
| Raise wa Tanin ga Ii | Asuka Konishi | August 25, 2017 |
| Skip to Loafer | Misaki Takamatsu | August 25, 2018 |
| Spotlight | Kaze Miura | July 21, 2020 |
| The Decagon House Murders | Yukito Ayatsuji (story) & Hiro Kiyohara (art) | August 24, 2019 |
| Tomodachi toshite Daisuki | Mikumi Yuuchi | January 24, 2020 |
| Toppu GP | Kōsuke Fujishima | May 25, 2016 |
| Vinland Saga | Makoto Yukimura | April 13, 2005 |
| Wandering Island | Kenji Tsuruta | July 13, 2010 |
| Wave, Listen to Me! | Hiroaki Samura | July 25, 2014 |
| Weathering with You | Makoto Shinkai (story) & Wataru Kubota (art) | July 25, 2019 |
| Wondance | Coffee | January 25, 2019 |
Manga artists and series featured in Afternoon
- Haru Akiyama
- Octave
- Kia Asamiya
- Assembler 0X
- Compiler
- Karapuri!
- Yoshito Asari
- Uchu Kazoku Carlvinson
- LucuLucu
- Hitoshi Ashinano
- Hiroki Endo
- Tooru Fujisawa
- Kōsuke Fujishima
- Oh My Goddess!
- You're Under Arrest (originally on Morning Party Extra)
- Asa Higuchi
- Big Windup! (ongoing)
- Hitoshi Iwaaki
- Shimoku Kio
- Genshiken
- Jigopuri
- Mohiro Kitoh
- Narutaru
- Wings of Vendemiaire
- Takayuki Kōsai
- Shuusen no Lorelei (based on the novel by Harutoshi Fukui)
- Iou Kuroda
- Mahiro Maeda
- Norifusa Mita
- Kū o Kiru
- Tsutomu Nihei
- Megumu Okada
- Sumomo Yumeka
- The Place Promised in Our Early Days (adaptation of original work by Makoto Shinkai)
- Voices of a Distant Star (adaptation of original work by Makoto Shinkai)
- Hiroaki Samura
- Satoshi Shiki
- Kami Kaze
- Kenichi Sonoda
- Cannon God Exaxxion
- Gunsmith Cats
- Gunsmith Cats BURST
- Bullet the Wizard
- Yuzo Takada
- Little Jumper
- Tsutomu Takahashi
- Daisaku Tsuru
- Nachun
- Kenji Tsuruta
- Spirit of Wonder (originally serialized in monthly Weekly Morning)
- Wandering Island (ongoing)
- Hiroyuki Utatane
- Seraphic Feather (story by Yo Morimoto and Toshiya Takeda)
- Yuki Urushibara
- Mushishi
- Waters
- Neko ga Nishimukya
- Riichi Ueshiba
- Mysterious Girlfriend X
- Yume Tsukai
- Discommunication
- Makoto Yukimura
- Vinland Saga (originally serialized in Weekly Shōnen Magazine) (ongoing)
- Kumakura Takatoshi
- Naoko Hayashiba & Jiro Ando
- Minoru Toyoda
- Haruko Ichikawa
- Land of the Lustrous (ongoing)
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References
- "Men's Manga" (in Japanese). Japanese Magazine Publishers Association. September 2016. Retrieved November 6, 2016.
- Thompson, Jason (2007). Manga: The Complete Guide. Del Rey Books. p. 327-239. ISBN 978-0-345-48590-8.
- "Takahashi's Ice Blade Manga to Relaunch in Japan". Anime News Network. August 25, 2008. Retrieved February 21, 2009.
- Keiko Suenobu Launches Life 2 Manga Anime News Network. April 24, 2016. Retrieved June 24, 2020.
External links
- Official website (in Japanese)
- Afternoon (manga) at Anime News Network's encyclopedia
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