Shōnen Club

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Shōnen Club
Cover of the April 1929 issue
description Manga magazine
Area of ​​Expertise Shonen
language Japanese
publishing company Kōdansha ( Japan )
First edition 1914
attitude 1962
Frequency of publication Per month

Shōnen Club ( Japanese 少年 倶 楽 部 , Shōnen Kurabu , dt. "Boys Club") was a Japanese manga magazine that was aimed at a male youth audience and is therefore counted in the Shōnen category. It was published monthly from 1914 by Kōdansha and contained a mixture of mostly humorous and adventure mangas , photo series, illustrated articles and serial novels .

From 1930 the proportion of mangas in the magazine increased and their stories were continued for longer and also over several issues, in order to be later published in books. With this development and its appearance from 1914, the magazine plays an important role in the development of manga. It developed into the most successful and well-known magazines of its time. In the course of the 1930s, the publication was increasingly involved in the war propaganda of the Japanese government. So from 1931 the successful series Norakuro Nitō Sotsu appeared about the military career of a soldier in dog form who fights against Chinese people depicted as pigs. Finally, in the course of the war, the proportion of manga continued to decline and articles about soldiers in the war were published, until finally instructions on the use of weapons were printed.

Under the American occupation, the magazine was held responsible for the war propaganda for its dissemination of propaganda during the war and many editors were fired. It now had to appear partly in English and also print comics in English. Even later, the magazine could no longer build on its earlier popularity. The publication was discontinued in 1962.

Sister magazines were the girls-oriented Shōjo Club and the children-oriented Yōnen Club .

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  1. ↑ Jason Thompson: Manga. The Complete Guide . Del Rey, New York 2007, ISBN 978-0-345-48590-8 , p. 338. (English)
  2. ↑ a b c d Frederik L. Schodt: Manga! Manga! The World of Japanese Comics . Kodansha America, 1983, ISBN 0-87011-752-1 , pp. 51, 128 .
  3. ↑ Wendy Siuyi Wong: Globalizing Manga: From Japan to Hong Kong and Beyond . In: Toni Johnson-Woods (Ed.): Manga - An Anthology of Global and Cultural Perspectives . Continuum Publishing, New York 2010, ISBN 978-0-8264-2938-4 , pp. 336 .
  4. ↑ Jean-Marie Bouissou: Manga: A Historical Overview . In: Toni Johnson-Woods (Ed.): Manga - An Anthology of Global and Cultural Perspectives . Continuum Publishing, New York 2010, ISBN 978-0-8264-2938-4 , pp. 23 f .
  5. ↑ Helen McCarthy: A Brief History of Manga . Lewes, East Sussex 2014, ISBN 978-1-78157-098-2 , pp. 33 (English).