Gangan Comics
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Gangan Comics is a manga imprint of Square Enix (originally Enix). It publishes manga in several magazines aimed at different reader demographic groups in the Japanese market. Its most popular series is Fullmetal Alchemist.[1]
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[edit] Magazines
[edit] Monthly Shōnen Gangan
| Monthly Shōnen Gangan | |
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Monthly Shōnen Gangan (12/2004 issue) |
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| Categories | Shōnen manga |
| Frequency | Monthly |
| First issue | 1991 |
| Company | Enix |
| Country | Japan |
| Language | Japanese |
| Website | http://gangan.square-enix.co.jp/ |
Monthly Shōnen Gangan (月刊少年ガンガン Gekkan Shōnen Gangan?) is a monthly manga magazine that happens to be one of the thickest manga compilations in Japan[citation needed], regularly having over 600 pages. Shōnen Gangan was launched by Enix (now "Square Enix") in 1991, to compete with other magazines such as Shonen Magazine, Shonen Jump and Shonen Sunday, and is targeted toward the same young, male demographic ("Shōnen" means young boy or young man). It features manga with lots of action and adventure; science fiction and fantasy elements, and video games based manga, in the stories are very common. Square Enix also publishes the related Gangan YG and Monthly Gangan Wing.
Manga and series featured:
- 666 Satan (O-Parts Hunter) (Seishi Kishimoto)
- Akuma Jiten (Shinya Suyama)
- Blade Sangokushi (Ryuunosuke Ichikawa, Taiyou Makabe)
- Blan no Shokutaku ~Bloody Dining~ (Tsubasa Hazuki, Shogo Mukai)
- Choko Beast!! (Rin Asano)
- Code Age Archives (Yusuke Naora)
- Doubt (Yoshiki Tonogai)
- Dragon Quest: Eden no Senshitachi (Kamui Fujiwara)
- Dragon Quest Monsters + (Mine Yoshizaki)
- Emblem of Roto (Kamui Fujiwara)
- Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: Hatenaki Sora no Mukou ni (Ryunosuke Ichikawa)
- Fullmetal Alchemist (Hiromu Arakawa)
- Full Moon (Takatoshi Shiozawa)
- Guardian Angel Getten (Minene Sakurano)
- Haré+Guu (Renjuro Kindaichi)
- Hazama no Uta (Kaishaku)
- Heaven (Aoi Nanase)
- Hidamari no Pinyu (Misaki Ogawa)
- Flash! Funny-face Club (Motoei Shinzawa)
- It's a Wonderful World (Shiro Amano)
- Joou Kishi Monogatari (Tomohiro Shimomura)
- Kingdom Hearts II (Shiro Amano)
- Koushin Ouji (Souta Kuwabara)
- Luno (Kei Toume)
- Maboroshi no Daichi (Masomi Kanzaki)
- Mahoujin Guru Guru (Hiroyuki Etou)
- Matantei Loki (Sakura Kinoshita)
- Material Puzzle (Masahiro Totsuka)
- Megalomania (Daisuke Hiyama)
- Nagasarete Airantou (Takeshi Fujishiro)
- Nangoku Shounen Papuwa-kun (Ami Shibata)
- Nusunde Ri-Ri-Su (TINKLE)
- Onikiri-sama no Hakoiri Musume (Akinobu Uraku)
- Ousama no Mimi Okonomimi (Kei Natsumi)
- Papuwa (Ami Shibata)
- Phantom Dead or Alive (Michiaki Watanabe)
- Shikabane Hime (Yoshiichi Akahito)
- Shugen Byakuyū Rubikura (Ryūsuke MIta)
- Soul Eater (Atsushi Ookubo)
- Spiral: Suiri no Kizuna (Eita Mizuno, Kyo Shirodaira)
- Spiral Alive (Eita Mizuno, Kyo Shirodaira)
- Star Ocean: Blue Sphere (Aoi Mizuki)
- Star Ocean: The Second Story (Mayumi Azuma)
- Star Ocean: Till the End of Time (Akira Kanda)
- Superior (Ichtys)
- Tozasareta Nerugaru (Rumi Aruma)
- Tokyo Underground (Akinobu Uraku)
- Totsugeki! Papparatai (Natsuki Matsuzawa)
- Twin Signal (Sachi Oshimizu)
- UFO Princess Valkyrie (Kaishaku)
- Vampire Juuji Kai (Yuri Kimura, Kyo Shirodaira)
- Violinist of Hameln (Michiaki Watanabe)
- Watashi no Messiah-sama (Suu Mikazuki)
[edit] Gangan Powered
Gangan Powered (ガンガンパワード Gangan Pawaado?) is a Japanese shōnen manga magazine published by Square Enix.
Manga featured:
- Final Fantasy XII (Gin Amou)
- Jūshin Enbu (Hiromu Arakawa)
- Higurashi no Naku Koro ni: Onikakushi-hen and Tsumihoroboshi-hen (Karin Suzuragi, Ryukishi07)
- He is My Master (Asu Tsubaki, Mattsu)
- Princess of Mana (Seiken Densetsu: Princess of Mana) (Satsuki Yoshino)
- Shining Tears (Akira Kanda)
- Umineko no Naku Koro ni (Kei Natsumi, Ryukishi07)
[edit] Monthly Gangan Wing
Monthly Gangan Wing (月刊ガンガンWING Gekkan Gangan Uingu?) is a Japanese shōnen manga magazine published by Square Enix.
Manga featured:
- Alice on Deadlines (Shiro Ihara)
- Ark (Nea Fuyuki)
- Dear (Cocoa Fujiwara)
- Chokotto Hime (Ayami Kazama)
- Enchanter (Izumi Kawachi)
- Higurashi no Naku Koro ni: Watanagashi-hen and Meakashi-hen (Yutori Hōjō, Ryukishi07)
- Natsu no Arashi! (Jin Kobayashi)
- Ignite (Hiiro Sasa)
- NecromanciA (Hamashin)
- Mahoraba (Akira Kojima)
- Sai Drill (Izumi Kawachi)
- Seto no Hanayome (Tahiko Kimura)
- Stamp Dead (Kanoto Kinatsu)
- Tales of Eternia (Yoko Koike)
- Tenshou Yaoyorozu (Kanoto Kinatsu)
- Tokyo Innocent (Naru Narumi)
- Vampire Savior: Tamashii no Mayoigo (Mayumi Azuma)
- Watashi no Ookami-san (Cocoa Fujiwara)
[edit] Monthly GFantasy
Monthly GFantasy (月刊Gファンタジー Gekkan Jī Fantajī?), also simply known as Gangan Fantasy, is a Japanese shōnen manga magazine published by Square Enix.
Manga featured:
- E'S (Satoru Yuiga)
- Higurashi no Naku Koro ni: Tatarigoroshi-hen (Jiro Suzuki, Ryukishi07)
- Higurashi no Naku Koro ni: Yoigoshi-hen (Side story) (Mimori, Ryukishi07)
- I, Otaku: Struggle in Akihabara (Sōta-kun no Akihabara Funtōki) (Jiro Suzuki)
- Kamiyomi (Ami Shibata)
- Kuroshitsuji (Yana Toboso)
- Nabari no Ou (Yuhki Kamatani)
- Pandora Hearts (Jun Mochizuki)
- Pani Poni (Hekiru Hikawa)
- Switch (naked ape)
- Zombie-Loan (PEACH-PIT)
[edit] Young Gangan
Young Gangan (ヤングガンガン Yangu Gangan?) is a Japanese seinen manga magazine published by Square Enix twice a month, on the first and third Friday.[2] The magazine was first published on December 3, 2004.
Manga featured:
- Amigo x Amiga (Takahiro Seguchi)
- Bamboo Blade (Aguri Igarashi, Masahiro Totsuka)
- Bitter Virgin (Kei Kusunoki)
- Black God (Sung-Woo Park, Dall-Young Lim)
- Dousei Recipe (Towa Oshima)
- Drop Kick
- Hanamaru Yōchien (YUTO)
- Hohzuki Island (Sanbe Kei)
- Jackals (Kim Byung Jin, Shinya Murata)
- Nikoichi (Renjuro Kindaichi)
- Saki (Ritsu Kobayashi)
- Sekirei (Sakurako Gokurakuin)
- Sumomomo Momomo (Shinobu Ohtaka)
- Übel Blatt (Etorouji Shiono)
- Umeboshi (Maya Koikeda)
- Until Death Do Us Part (DOUBLE-S, Hiroshi Takashige)
- Violinist of Hameln Shchelkunchik (Michiaki Watanabe)
- Working!! (Karino Takatsu)
[edit] See also
[edit] Notes
- ^ 2007 profile (PDF) 6. Square Enix (October 2007). Retrieved on 2008-04-28.
- ^ Square Enix Comic Magazines (Japanese). Retrieved on 2008-01-31.
[edit] External links
- Monthly Shonen Gan Gan official site (Japanese)
- Gangan Powered official site (Japanese)
- Monthly Gangan WING official site (Japanese)
- Monthly GFantasy official site (Japanese)
- Young Gangan official site (Japanese)
- GanganSearch (Japanese)
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