Magazine Special

Magazine Special

October 2009 Magazine Special (cover)
Categories Shōnen manga
Frequency Monthly
Circulation 84,667 (2008)
Publisher Kodansha
First issue 1983
Country Japan
Language Japanese

Magazine Special (マガジンSPECIAL) is a Japanese shōnen manga magazine published by Kodansha and first launched in 1983. Its audience demographic is geared toward younger teenage boys, and contents tend to be predominantly sports stories and high school romantic comedies. Many of the popular series in Magazine Special were transferred there from other Kodansha publications like Weekly Shōnen Magazine after their initial run. It is issued monthly on the 20th in perfect-bound B5 format and retails for 500 yen. Issues are typically about 600 pages printed in black and white on heavy newsprint, with a few glossy pages in color. Between 20 and 30 stories appear in each issue, almost all of them installments of ongoing and frequently long-running serials by different manga artists. In 2008, monthly circulation was reported at 84,667 copies by the Japan Magazine Publishers Association.[1]

Magazine Special series

Title Author / Artist Status
Miami Guns Takeaki Momose 1997–1999
Z Mazinger Go Nagai 1998-2000
Kagetora Akira Segami 2002-2006
Gacha Gacha Hiroyuki Tamakoshi 2002–2008
Pastel Toshihiko Kobayashi 2003–ongoing
Fantastic Detective Labyrinth Meito Manjō (story), Seiji Wakayama (art) August 2006–August 2008
Sumire 16 sai!! Takeru Nagayoshi 2006–2008
Psycho Busters Tadashi Agi 2006–2008
Negima!? neo Takuya Fujima January 2008–August 2009
School Rumble Z Jin Kobayashi August 2008 – May 2009
Boys Be... Next Season Masahiro Itabashi (story), Hiroyuki Tamakoshi (art) November 2009–March 2012
Tsubasa World Chronicle: Nirai Kanai-hen Clamp August 2014–ongoing

References

  1. ↑ Japan Magazine Publishers Association Magazine Data 2008.

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