CoroCoro Comic

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CoroCoro Comic

description Manga magazine
Area of ​​Expertise Kodomo
language Japanese
publishing company Shogakukan ( Japan )
First edition 1977
Frequency of publication per month
Sold edition 790,000 (2016) copies
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Web link corocoro.tv

CoroCoro Comic (Japanese コ ロ コ ロ コ ミ ッ ク KoroKoro Komikku ) is a Japanese manga magazine , which is published every month by the publisher Shogakukan . It was founded in 1977 as a magazine for children and therefore includes Kodomo series. From 1977 the magazine published the mangas Doraemon and Asari-chan, which are still popular today . It was the first in its A5 format and with 600 to 700 pages Telefonbuchdick published magazine for its target group, which was later followed by similar ones from other publishers. The most important competition for a long time was the comic BomBom . In 2016, each of the 600 to 700-page editions sold 790,000 copies; in 1994 it was 750,000 after sales had fallen sharply from a peak of 1.5 million.

The style of most of the series is described as "happy and exuberant", the covers as "psychedelic explosions of the characters contained". Many of the series are related to video games and toys, are sports, and are humorous. Around 60% of the stories are gag comic strips, which are also intended to appeal to young elementary school students who are not yet proficient in reading. The name stands for the Japanese onomatopoeia of "roll". The leitmotifs of CoroCoro Comic are yūki , yūjō and tōchi (courage, friendship and fighting spirit).

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Boy's Manga. Japanese Magazine Publishers Association, September 2016, accessed June 1, 2017 .
  2. ^ Paul Gravett: Manga - Sixty Years of Japanese Comics , p. 7, p. 84. Egmont Manga and Anime, 2004.
  3. ↑ a b Jason Thompson: Manga. The Complete Guide . Del Rey, New York 2007, ISBN 978-0-345-48590-8 , p. 50. (English)
  4. ↑ a b c Frederik L. Schodt : Dreamland Japan - Writings on Modern Manga . Stone Bridge Press, Berkeley 2011, ISBN 978-1-933330-95-2 , pp. 83-87 .

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