Be love
Be Love ( Japanese ビ ー ラ ブ , bīrabu ) is a Japanese manga magazine that has been published twice a month by Kōdansha since September 1980 . It is one of the leading comic magazines for adult women and was largely responsible for the rise in popularity of Josei manga in the 1980s , which led to the creation of other magazines such as You and Big Comic for Lady .
The magazine first appeared as Be in Love , but was renamed in 1982. It had a constant circulation of between 270,000 and 280,000 per issue between 1995 and 2000. In 2006 and 2007, Be Love had a sold circulation of around 200,000.
Most of the magazine's readers are working women and housewives, about a tenth are female students.
Most of the comics in this publication are everyday and love stories with adult women in the foreground, but stories with a historical setting and about pets are also included. From 1988 to 1997, Jun Fukami created with her series Waru ( 悪 女 ) about a young woman who, just hired at a company, falls in love with one of her colleagues and is now trying to win him over, one of the most famous titles in the Be Love were released. Also successful and with a length of several thousand pages in over thirty books as long as Waru was Galboy! ( ギ ャ ル ボ ー イ! , Garubōi! ) By the illustrator Mariko Nakamura . This manga, which was to be read in this magazine from 1988 to 1998, focuses on his rather masculine-looking protagonist and her love and later married life. Further mangaka in the magazine are, for example, Yōko Shōji , Konami Kanata , Makoto Ōnishi , Ayumi Tachihara , Shigeko Maehara , Kazu Gotō , Tsubasa Nunoura , Nobuko Hama and Waki Yamato .
Web links
- Official Website (Japanese)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b 少女 漫画 の 歴 史 1980 年代. (No longer available online.) In: propel.ne.jp. Archived from the original on March 3, 2016 ; accessed on August 7, 2016 (jp). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Jaqueline Berndt : Manga phenomenon: comic culture in Japan . edition q, Berlin 1995. ISBN 3-86124-289-3 , p. 133.
- ↑ Comparison of the editions of various Shōjo and Josei Manga magazines ( Memento from December 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) (Japanese)
- ↑ Manga Anthology Circulations 2004-2006. In: Comipress. December 27, 2007, accessed August 7, 2016 .
- ↑ Presentation of manga magazines for a female target group by Matt Thorn (English)
