Afternoon (magazine)

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Afternoon
May 25, 2006 issue featuring Rabu-yan.
Categories	Seinen manga [1]
Frequency	Monthly
First issue
Country	Japan
Language	Japanese
Website	afternoon.co.jp

Afternoon (アフタヌーン) is a Japanese seinen manga magazine published by Kodansha. It is a monthly anthology, and each issue typically has around thirty ongoing stories by various authors and runs about 800 pages. Afternoon has spawned many successful seinen manga series such as Ah! Megami-sama (Oh My Goddess!), Genshiken: The Society for Study of Modern Visual Culture (which was a success among otaku) and Mugen no Jūnin (Blade of the Immortal). It is part of Kodansha's "1day" series, which also includes the magazines Morning and Evening.

[edit] Mangaka and series featured in Afternoon

• Kia Asamiya
  • Assembler 0X
  • Compiler
  • Karapuri!
• Hitoshi Ashinano
  • Yokohama Kaidashi Kikō
  • Kabu no Isaki
• Hiroki Endo
  • Eden: It's an Endless World
• Toru Fujisawa
  • Tokko (manga)
• Kosuke Fujishima
  • Oh My Goddess!
  • You're Under Arrest (originally on Morning Party Extra)
• Asa Higuchi
  • Ōkiku Furikabutte
• Hitoshi Iwaaki
  • Parasyte
  • Historie
• Shimoku Kio
  • Genshiken
• Mohiro Kitoh
  • Narutaru (Shadow Star)
  • Wings of Vendemiaire
• Takayuki Kōsai
  • Shuusen no Lorelei (based on the novel by Harutoshi Fukui)
• Iou Kuroda
  • Nasu
• Mahiro Maeda
  • Gankutsuou
• Tsutomu Nihei
  • Blame!
  • NOiSE
• Megumu Okada
  • Shadow Skill (originally in Bamboo Comics, then Dragon Comics)
• Mizu Sahara
  • The Place Promised in Our Early Days (adaptation of original work by Makoto Shinkai)
  • Voices of a Distant Star (adaptation of original work by Makoto Shinkai)
• Hiroaki Samura
  • Blade of the Immortal
• Satoshi Shiki
  • Kami Kaze
• Kenichi Sonoda
  • Cannon God Exaxxion
  • Gunsmith Cats
  • Gunsmith Cats BURST
• Yuzo Takada
  • Little Jumper
• Tsutomu Takahashi
  • Ice Blade
• Daisaku Tsuru
  • Nachun
• Kenji Tsuruta
  • Spirit of Wonder (originally serialized in monthly Weekly Morning)
• Hiroyuki Utatane
  • Seraphic Feather (story by Yo Morimoto and Toshiya Takeda)
• Yuki Urushibara
  • Mushishi
• Riichi Ueshiba
  • Mysterious Girlfriend X
  • Yume Tsukai
  • Discommunication
• Makoto Yukimura
  • Vinland Saga
• Kumakura Takatoshi
  • Mokke
• Katori Masaru & Jiro Ando
  • Shion no Ō
• Minoru Toyoda
  • Love Roma

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Afternoon Official website (Japanese)
• Afternoon (magazine) at Anime News Network's Encyclopedia

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