CoroCoro Comic
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CoroCoro Comic (ja コロコロコミック) is a Japanese monthly manga magazine published by Shogakukan. Its main target is elementary school aged boys, younger than the readers of Shonen manga.
The name comes from a phenomime korokoro (ころころ) representing something spherical, fat, or small, because children supposedly like such things.
The size of the book is A5, and about 6 cm (2¼ in) thick, so the book itself is korokoro.
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[edit] History
The magazine was launched in 1979 as a magazine for Doraemon, which is a popular manga in Japan. Before then Doraemon had been serialized on 6 magazines of Shogakukan, each magazine is targeted to students of 6 elementary school grades. It collected stories of Doraemon from these magazines.
[edit] Tie-ins
CoroCoro regularly promotes toys and video games related to their manga franchises, releasing stories and articles featuring them. Pokémon's big success in Japan owes to this in a way; the Game Boy game Pocket Monsters: Blue was sold exclusively through the magazine at first. Of course, this helped CoroCoro's sales as well. CoroCoro is also often a source of information about upcoming Pokémon games.
Other successful tie-ins include:
- Radio controlled car, Mini 4wd (with Tamiya)
- Famicom (NES), Super Famicom (SNES), and Game Boy (with Nintendo and third parties)
- Beyblade, B-Daman (with Takara)
- Bikkuriman (with Lotte)
[edit] Manga
[edit] 1970s
[edit] 1980s
- Bikkuriman
- Dodge Danpei
[edit] 1990s
- Ape Escape
- Crash Bandicoot
- Donkey Kong
- Duel Masters
- Fatal Fury Special
- Kirby
- Let's & Go!!
- Macross 7
- Pocket Monsters (Pokémon)
- Street Fighter II V
- Super B-Daman
- Speed Racer
- Super Mario
- Tamagotchi
- Wataru
- Zoids
[edit] 2000s
- Battle B-Daman
- Beyblade
- Bomberman Jetters
- Crash B-Daman
- Croket!
- Bomberman Jetters
- Mushiking
- Rockman.EXE
- Pokémon Gold & Silver
- Pokémon Pearl and Diamond
- Ryuusei no RockMan
[edit] External link
- Official site in Japanese
