Bessatsu Friend
Bessatsu Friend ( Japanese 別 冊 フ レ ン ド , Bessatsu Furendo ), also known by the acronym Betsufure , is a Japanese manga magazine aimed at teenage girls ( Shōjo ) who go to high school.
The magazine appears monthly on the 13th of the previous month of the specified issue number by Kodansha Verlag at a price of 350 yen . The main part of the magazine is made up of various chapters of manga series and manga short stories. These are mostly about modern schoolgirls and (first) love. With Life and Vitamin by the cartoonist Keiko Suenobu , however, two comics are also appearing that deal with serious problems of teenagers such as bullying .
Bessatsu Friend was founded in March 1965 and initially appeared as Bessatsu Shōjo Friend ( 別 冊 少女 フ レ ン ド ), based on the now discontinued Manga magazine Shōjo Friend . In 1984 it was renamed the Bessatsu Friend . While the magazine had a circulation of over a million per issue in the 1980s, the number of copies has been falling steadily since then. In 2005 the circulation was 190,000, a decrease of around 15,000 compared to the previous year.
Published manga series
Ongoing
Status: February 2014
- Ao-Natsu by Atsuko Nanba
- Chitchai Toki kara Suki Dakedo by Saki Haruki
- Hope by Keiko Suenobu
- L DK by Ayu Watanabe
- Hana-kun to Koisuru Watashi by Fuyu Kumaoka
- Kageno Datte Seishun Shitai by Yuka Kitagawa
- Kimi ga Inakya Damette Itte from Hatsuharu
- Kirara no Hoshi by Ai Morinaga
- Koharu Biyori by Nichiho Higuchi
- Konchi wa Hamuko from Akari
- Kōri no Joō by Rikachi
- Kōsha no Ura ni wa Tenshi ga Umerarete Iru by Kariko Koyama
- Kurosaki-kun no Iinari ni Nante Naranai from Makino
- Kyō no Kira-kun by Rin Mikimoto
- Perfect Girl ( Yamato Nadeshiko Shichi Henge ) by Tomoko Hayakawa
- P to JK by Maki Miyoshi
- Silent Kiss by Rumi Ichinohe
- Sweets Kurosawa from Ishiko
- Tomoya Kōfuku Kenkyūjo by Beruno Mikawa
- Watashi ga Motete Dōsunda by Junko
Completed / no longer in the magazine (selection)
- Boys'n Girl by Kei Yasunaga
- Deep Love - Ayu no Monogatari by Yū Yoshi and Yoshi
- Deep Love - host of Yū Yoshi and Yoshi
- Dynamite na Honey by Nachika Ozaki
- Eden no Hana by Yuki Suetsugu
- Gokuraku Seishun Hockey Bu by Ai Morinaga
- Guruguru Pon-chan by Satomi Ikezawa
- Kimi no Kuroi Hane by Yuki Suetsugu
- Kimi no Shiroi Hane by Yuki Suetsugu
- Koibumi Biyori by George Asakura
- Life by Keiko Suenobu
- Mars by Fuyumi Soryo
- Only You by Yuki Suetsugu
- Othello by Satomi Ikezawa
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Peach Girl by Miwa Ueda
- Ura Peach Girl by Miwa Ueda
- Power!! by Shizuru Seino
- Silver by Yuki Suetsugu
- Sue-chan wa Himitsu by Satomi Ikezawa
- Vitamin from Keiko Suenobu
- Zig x Zag by Kei Yasunaga
Web links
- Official Website (Japanese)