Bessatsu Margaret

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Bessatsu Margaret ( Japanese別 冊 マ ー ガ レ ッ トbessatsu māgaretto ), Betsuma for short (別 マ), is a manga magazine that has been published by Shūeisha publishing house since 1964 . The magazine, which appears monthly at a price of 370 yen , is aimed primarily at middle and high school students; So it specializes in shōjo mangas.

The paperback publications of the mangas published in the magazine come out on the Margaret Comics label at Shūeisha. Sister magazines of the Bessatsu Margaret are Margaret , The Margaret and Deluxe Margaret .

Release history

Although well-known mangaka such as Chikako Urano , Yōko Tadatsu and Miuchi Suzue worked for the magazine in the 1960s and 1970s , it was overshadowed by its weekly sister publication Margaret . By the 1980s, however, the magazine's circulation number rose to 1.8 million per issue ( Margaret had a circulation of around 700,000 at the same time). In the early 1980s, it was the manga magazine with the highest circulation for a female target group; Until then, this position was held mainly by the magazines Nakayoshi and Ribon . The authors Fusako Kuramochi ( Itsumo Pocket ni Chopin , 1980–1981), Satoru Makimura ( Ai no Aranjuez , 1978–1980) and Kaoru Tada ( Aishite Night , 1981–1984) contributed to this success . Ryō Ikuemi , Masayo Miyagawa and Taku Tsumugi also accompanied the magazine at this time. The book publications on Tsumugi's Hot Road , which was published in Bessatsu Margaret from 1986 to 1987 , became bestsellers. Nevertheless, the circulation fell to 1.3 million by 1990.

With Itazurana Kiss Kaoru Tada achieved an even bigger hit after her Aishite Night . The series started in 1990 and ended in 1999 because Tada passed away. Eriko Iwata's Wolf Monogatari (1994-2006) and Masami Nagata's Renai Catalog (1995-2007) could be read in the magazine for over ten years . Kazune Kawahara and Mitsuba Takanashi shaped the magazine with their series Sensei! (1996-2003) and Akuma de Sōrō (1999-2002).

As with almost all manga magazines, circulation fell sharply in the 1990s. In 1995 Bessatsu Margaret had a circulation of 800,000, in 2000 one of around 650,000.

Aya Nakahara's comedy Love ★ Con (2001-2006) should develop into one of the most important titles of the 2000s for Bessatsu Margaret . In addition to Mitsuba Takanashi's current manga Beniiro Hero , works by Ao Mimori , Naoko Wada , Karuho Shiina and Yōko Kamio are also currently being published . In 2005 one issue sold an average of 355,000 copies.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Jason Thompson: Manga. The Complete Guide . Del Rey, New York 2007, ISBN 978-0-345-48590-8 , p. 335. (English)
  2. ↑ a b Editions of Shōjo magazines from 1979 to 2000 ( Memento from December 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive )