Banzai (Manga Magazine)

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BANZAI!

description German manga magazine
publishing company Carlsen Comics (Germany)
First edition 2001
attitude 2005
Frequency of publication per month
Sold edition 130,000 copies
( ICv2 )
ZDB 2075893-5

The Banzai (own spelling: BANZAI! ) Was a German-language manga magazine from Carlsen Verlag , which was mainly aimed at young male readers. It contained licensed series from the Shueisha publishing house as well as in-house productions and was the German offshoot of Weekly Shōnen Jump . Banzai ( Japanese 万 歳 ) literally means "ten thousand years" and is used as an exclamation in honor of a person or to announce a victory. Common translations are "Hurray!" And "Cheers for ...!"

The manga sister magazine of the Banzai, which was more aimed at girls and was published by Carlsen Verlag from February 2003 to May 2012, was called Daisuki .

Release history

The banzai! appeared monthly from November 2001 to December 2005 and reached a total of 50 issues. The magazine sold up to 130,000 copies per issue and was commercially successful. However, in 2005 it was discontinued because Shueisha withdrew the license rights. This was also due to the fact that the subsidiary of the American publisher Tokyopop, founded in 2004, both recruited many former Carlsen employees and had connections to Shueisha via the United States and has now acquired some of their licenses for Germany. The manga series that were not completed in the Banzai were continued as paperback series.

Regardless of the licensing problem, which caused the continuation of the Banzai to fail, other manga magazines were not able to stay on the German market permanently.

content

The Banzai took over manga series from the Japanese magazine Weekly Shōnen Jump of the Shueisha publishing house, but also published German in-house productions.

In addition to the mangas, the magazine contained background information on the series, their authors and Japan in general. There was also the Japanese course Banzai de Nihongo , the drawing course Studio Mangaka , curiosities from Japan under the title Tokyo 109 as well as fan art and letters to the editor . From time to time also were extras such as stickers , posters and CD-ROMs at (eg with demo versions of. Yu-Gi-Oh! - Computer Games ). Issue 2/2002 (No. 4) contained a CD by rapper Spax with the specially produced song Banzai .

As with the Japanese model Weekly Shōnen Jump , the individual chapters of the manga series from the magazine were largely summarized in anthologies and republished.

Published mangas

  • Black Cat : June 2005 to August 2005 (No. 44–46), presented as "Banzai" (reading sample)
  • DNA² : November 2001 to March 2003 (No. 1–17)
  • Dr. Slump - News from Pinguinhausen : July 2002 to January 2003 (No. 9–15), canceled
  • Hikaru no Go : November 2003 to December 2005 (No. 25–50)
  • Hunter x Hunter : November 2001 to December 2005 (No. 1–50)
  • I "s : February 2005 to May 2005 (No. 40–43), presented as“ Banzai ”(reading sample)
  • Naruto : November 2001 to December 2005 (No. 1–50)
  • Neko Majin : June 2002 to August 2002 (No. 8–10) and April 2004 to June 2004 (No. 30–32)
  • One Piece Red : April 2003 to August 2003 (No. 18–22)
  • One Piece - Rogue Town : December 2001 to September 2002 (No. 2-11)
  • One Piece - Romance Dawn : November 2001 (No. 1)
  • Sandland : November 2001 to May 2002 (No. 1–7)
  • Shaman King : December 2001 to December 2005 (No. 2-50)
  • Yu-Gi-Oh! : September 2002 to January 2005 (No. 11–39), canceled

Published in-house productions

  • Crewman 3 : January 2003 to October 2003 (No. 15–24)
  • The Gift : December 2005 (No. 50)
  • Hakuchi One : December 2004 to December 2005 (No. 38–50)
  • Halloweens (humorous short trips): November 2001 to November 2002 (No. 1–13)
  • White Maria : June, 2005 (no. 44) - winner of the manga Shonen Jump Banzai price of the Leipzig Book Fair in 2004, was also in the Japanese magazine Akamaru Jump published

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Paul Gravett: Manga - Sixty Years of Japanese Comics . Egmont Manga and Anime, 2004, ISBN 3-7704-6549-0 , p. 156 .
  2. ^ Manga Sales strong in Europe too. ICv2, March 6, 2013, accessed May 12, 2015 .
  3. ↑ Bernd Dolle-Weinkauff: Fandom, Fanart, Fanzine - Reception in Germany . In: German Film Institute - DIF / German Film Museum & Museum of Applied Arts (Ed.): Ga-netchû! The Manga Anime Syndrome . Henschel Verlag, 2008, ISBN 978-3-89487-607-4 , pp. 223 .
  4. ^ Paul M. Malone: The Manga Publishing Scene in Europe . In: Toni Johnson-Woods (Ed.): Manga - An Anthology of Global and Cultural Perspectives . Continuum Publishing, New York 2010, ISBN 978-0-8264-2938-4 , pp. 326 .
  5. ↑ Miriam Brunner: Manga . Wilhelm Fink, Paderborn 2010, ISBN 978-3-7705-4832-3 , p. 80 .