Afternoon
Afternoon | |
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description | Manga magazine |
Area of Expertise | His |
language | Japanese |
publishing company | Kōdansha ( Japan ) |
First edition | January 25, 1986 |
Frequency of publication | per month |
Web link | afternoon.moae.jp |
Afternoon ( Japanese 月刊 ア フ タ ヌ ー ン , Gekkan Afutanūn ) is a Japanese manga magazine aimed at young men ( his own ). It is a sister magazine to Morning .
The magazine appears on the 25th in the previous month of the number printed by the Kōdansha publishing house at a price of 700 yen for 800 to 900 pages. The main part of the magazine is made up of various chapters from almost 30 manga series and manga short stories. These are mostly comedy or romance stories like Oh! My Goddess or serious historical epics like Blade of the Immortal . However, several experimental and partly alternative manga such as Naru Taru appear in the Afternoon , as it gives its artists a lot of freedom with regard to the plot. Many of the series are also filmed as anime .
Afternoon first appeared on January 25, 1986 as a supplement to Morning. The magazine had its highest circulation between 1994 and 1995. At that time one issue contained about 1000 pages. In 2005 it had an average circulation of 134,000 copies per issue and a decrease of 7.4% compared to the previous year. Since November 7, 2008, the sister magazine Good! Afternoon .
Since 1987, the magazine has been awarding the Shiki-shō ( 四季 賞 ) to new, talented mangaka . This award went to Tsutomu Nihei , Risu Akizuki and Hiroki Endo , among others .
Published series (selection)
Ongoing
- Genshiken by Kio Shimoku
- History of Hitoshi Iwaaki
- Lucu Lucu by Yoshitō Asari
- Mushishi by Yuki Urushibara
- Nami yo kiite course by Hiroaki Samura
- Ore to Akuma no Blues by Akira Hiramoto
- Soft-Metal Vampire by Hiroki Endo
- Vinland Saga by Makoto Yukimura
Completed / no longer in the magazine
- Abenobashi Mahō Shōtengai by Kenji Tsuruta
- Akkanbe Ikkyu by Hisashi Sakaguchi
- Bakuon Rettō by Tsutomu Takahashi
- Blade of the Immortal by Hiroaki Samura
- Blame! by Tsutomu Nihei
- Blue World by Yukinobu Hoshino
- Coo no Sekai by Hideji Oda
- Dai-Nippon Tengu-tō Ekotoba by Iō Kuroda
- Eden - It's an Endless World! by Hiroki Endo
- Exaxxion by Kenichi Sonoda
- Gankutsuō by Yura Ariwara and Mahiro Maeda
- Gon by Masashi Tanaka (color version)
- Gunsmith Cats by Kenichi Sonoda
- Gunsmith Cats Burst by Kenichi Sonoda
- Hoshi no Koe by Makoto Shinkai and Mizu Sahara
- Inugami by Masaya Hokazono
- Jiraishin by Tsutomu Takahashi
- Kakusan by Hideji Oda
- Kamikaze by Satoshi Shiki
- Knights of Sidonia by Tsutomu Nihei
- Kiseijū by Hitoshi Iwaaki
- Kotonoha no Niwa by Makoto Shinkai and Midori Motohashi
- Kujibiki Unbalance by Kio Shimoku
- Little Forest by Daisuke Igarashi
- Little Jumper by Yūzō Takada
- Love Roma by Minoru Toyoda
- Milk Closet by Hitoshi Tomizawa
- Mishi from Iō Kuroda
- Mokke by Takatoshi Kumakura
- Naru Taru by Mohiro Kitoh
- Nasu from Iō Kuroda
- Nazo no Kanojo X by Riichi Ueshiba
- NOiSE by Tsutomu Nihei
- Oh! My Goddess by Kōsuke Fujishima
- Poppoya by Jirō Asada and Takumi Nagayasu
- Seraphic Feather by Hiroyuki Utatane
- Shadow Skill from Megumu Okada
- Smuggler from Shohei Manabe
- Spirit of Wonder by Kenji Tsuruta (also in Morning )
- Tokkō by Tōru Fujisawa
- Wings of Vendemiaire by Mohiro Kitoh
- Yokohama Kaidashi Kikō by Hitoshi Ashinano
Web links
- Official Homepage (Japanese)