Comic amour
| Comic amour
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| description | Manga magazine |
| Area of Expertise | Josei |
| language | Japanese |
| publishing company | Sun Shuppan → Magazine Magazine ( Japan ) |
| First edition | 1990 |
| attitude | 2017 |
| Frequency of publication | per month |
| Sold edition | 430,000 (1994) copies |
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Comic Amour ( Japanese コ ミ ッ ク ア ム ー ル , Komikku Amūru ) was a Japanese erotic manga magazine that was aimed at young women and is classified according to the Josei genre. It was published from 1990 to February 28, 2017 (issue 4/2017) by the publisher Sun Shuppan and from 2012 by the sister company Magazine Magazine and was the most successful magazine in its target group in the 1990s. The monthly magazine has over 400 pages, costs about 600 yen and sold about 430,000 copies in the 1990s. In 1994 Comic Amour received an offshoot for older teenagers with Young Amour .
Content orientation
The magazine was headed by Masafumi Mizuno after it was founded by the adult publisher Sun Shuppan, three other women and three men also worked in the editorial team. This wanted to appeal to women by not telling the stories directly and without further ado about sex, but by illuminating personal relationships and psychological aspects. Nonetheless, most of the stories contain explicit sex scenes. Women authors and artists were also specifically sought to address the female target group. The stories revolve around the sexual adventures of women and cover a wide spectrum - from affairs at work or with acquaintances to women who seduce or sexually harass men, to stories with women who indulge in sexual humiliation and violence . The men who wrote for the magazine consulted with women - for example via internet chats - about their wishes, which should be translated into stories.
In its editions, the comic Amour carried out regular surveys on the popularity of the stories, but also surveys, for example, on preferred sexual techniques. The ads in the magazine advertised weight loss, breast augmentation, skin care products and pornographic videos.
Published series (selection)
- 1994: Rangiku En'ya by Yayoi Watanabe
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d Frederik L. Schodt : Dreamland Japan - Writings on Modern Manga . Stone Bridge Press, Berkeley 2011, ISBN 978-1-933330-95-2 , pp. 124-127 .
- ↑ Comic Amour. comipedia.com, accessed March 16, 2017 .
- ^ Paul Gravett: Manga - Sixty Years of Japanese Comics , p. 118. Egmont Manga and Anime, 2004.