Gangan Comics

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Gangan (ガンガン Gangan) 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 magazines are home to some popular manga series which were adapted into anime series, like Fullmetal Alchemist, Moribito: Guardian of the Spirit, Nabari no Ou, Inu x Boku SS, and Soul Eater.[1] The comics are later collected in paperback volumes under brand names such as Gangan Comics (ガンガンコミックス Gangan Komikkusu), Gangan Comics Joker (ガンガンコミックスJOKER Gangan Komikkusu Jōkā) and Young Gangan Comics (ヤングガンガンコミックス Yangu Gangan Komikkusu), which identify the magazine of serialisation. These paperback brand names are formed by deleting any Gekkan (月刊, monthly publication) or Shōnen (少年, boy) in the magazine name and inserting Comics (コミックス Komikkusu) directly after the word "Gangan".

Magazines

Monthly Shōnen Gangan

Monthly Shōnen Gangan

Monthly Shōnen Gangan (12/2004 issue)
Categories Shōnen manga
Frequency Monthly
First issue 1991
Company Enix (1991-2003)
Square Enix (2003-present)
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 regularly has over 600 pages. Shōnen Gangan was launched by Enix (now Square Enix) in 1991, to compete with other magazines such as Shōnen Magazine, Shōnen Jump and Shōnen 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 in the stories are very common. Square Enix also publishes the related Gangan YG and Monthly Gangan Wing.

Ongoing manga:

Manga and series featured:

Monthly GFantasy

Monthly GFantasy (月刊Gファンタジー Gekkan Jī Fantajī), also known as Gangan Fantasy, is a Japanese manga magazine targeted to both men & women in highschool, published by Square Enix. The manga series within the magazine target young male readers and tend to be set in a fantasy setting with large amounts of supernatural themes and a fair amount of action and/or horror scenes.

Manga featured:

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:

This list is incomplete; you can help by expanding it.

Gangan Online

Gangan Online (ガンガンオンライン Gangan Onrain) is a free manga and light novel web magazine published and updated by Square Enix. The online web magazine was activated on October 2, 2008.

Manga featured:

  • Ai wa Noroi no Nihon Ningyou (Kiki Suihei)
  • Alba Rose no Neko (KARASU)
  • Asao-san to Kurata-kun (Hero)
  • Amanonadeshiko (Haruka Ogataya)
  • Aphorism (Karuna Kujo) (originally Gangan Wing)
  • Barakamon (Satsuki Yoshino)
  • Buyuuden Kita Kita (Hiroyuki Etou)
  • Chokotto Hime (Ayami Kazama) (originally Gangan Wing)
  • Cyoku! (Nico Tanigawa)
  • Daily Lives of High School Boys (Yamauchi Yasunobu) (completed)
  • En Passant (Taro Yuzunoki)
  • Esoragoto (usi)
  • Gekkan Shōjo Nozaki-kun (Izumi Tsubaki)
  • Hori-san to Miyamura-kun Omake (HERO)
  • Hyakuen! (Ema Tōyama)
  • Life is Money (author Asaniji Teru, artist Yaguraba Tekka)
  • Karasu-tengu Ujyu (Iwanosuke Neguragi)
  • Kitakubu Katsudō Kiroku (Kuroha)
  • Kyou mo Machiwabite (Ichi Saeki)
  • Kyousou no Simulacra (Hideaki Yoshimura)
  • No Matter How I Look at It, It's You Guys' Fault I'm Not Popular! (Nico Tanigawa) (ongoing)
  • Oji-chan Yuusha (Tarou Sakamoto)
  • Pochi Gunsō (Mao Momiji, Akira)
  • Princess of Mana (Seiken Densetsu: Princess of Mana) (Satsuki Yoshino) (originally Gangan Powered) (completed)
  • Ryuushika Ryuushika (Yoshitoshi ABe)
  • Seitokai no Wotanoshimi. (Marumikan)
  • Sengoku Sukuna (Nekotama.)
  • Shikisou (Akira Kanda)
  • Shougakusei Host Pochi (Saori)
  • Sougiya Riddle (Akai Higasa.)
  • The iDOLM@STER Cinderella Girls Shuffle!!, Kouka Mijin (ongoing)
  • Tokyo Innocent (Naru Narumi) (originally Gangan Wing)
  • Wa! (Akira Kojima)
  • RealPG (Yuki Domoto)

Light Novels featured:

This list is incomplete; you can help by expanding it.

Gangan Joker

Monthly Gangan Joker (月刊ガンガンJOKER Gekkan Gangan Joker) is a Japanese shōnen manga magazine that was launched by Square Enix on April 22, 2009.

Manga featured:

Discontinued magazines

Gangan Powered

Gangan Powered (ガンガンパワード Gangan Pawādo) was a Japanese shōnen/seinen manga magazine published by Square Enix. The last release of the magazine was with the April 2009 issue sold on February 21, 2009, and it was subsequently replaced by Gangan Joker.[3]

Manga featured:

Monthly Gangan Wing

Monthly Gangan Wing (月刊ガンガンWING Gekkan Gangan Wing) was a Japanese shōnen manga magazine published by Square Enix. The last release of the magazine was with the May 2009 issue sold on March 21, 2009, and it was subsequently replaced by Gangan Joker.[3]

Manga featured:

This list is incomplete; you can help by expanding it.

See also


References

  1. ↑ "2007 profile" (PDF). Square Enix. October 2007. p. 6. Retrieved 2008-04-28. 
  2. ↑ "Square Enix Comic Magazines" (in Japanese). Retrieved 2008-01-31. 
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Gangan Joker to Replace Gangan Powered, Wing Mags". Anime News Network. 2009-03-01. Retrieved 2009-06-30. 

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