Monthly Afternoon

Monthly Afternoon

May 25, 2006 issue featuring Rabu-yan.
Editor Tatsuya Shishikura
Categories Seinen manga[1]
Frequency Monthly
Circulation 75,310 (2015) [2]
Publisher Kodansha
First issue January 25, 1986
Country  Japan
Language Japanese
Website kc.kodansha.co.jp/magazine/index.php/13871

Monthly Afternoon (月刊アフタヌーン Gekkan Afutanūn) is a Japanese monthly seinen manga anthology published by Kodansha under the Afternoon line of magazines. The first issue was released with a cover date of January 25, 1986. 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 Oh My Goddess!, Genshiken, Blade of the Immortal and Big Windup! It is part of Kodansha's "1day" series, which also includes the magazines Morning and Evening. In its October 2008 issue, a spin-off magazine called good! Afternoon was announced to be launched.[3]

Manga artists and series featured in Afternoon

References

  1. ↑ "J-Magazine.or.jp on Afternoon" (in Japanese). Archived from the original on 2 April 2007. Retrieved 2007-04-13.
  2. ↑ Japan Magazine Publishers Association Magazine Data June 2015. Retrieved Oct. 29, 2015.
  3. ↑ "Takahashi's Ice Blade Manga to Relaunch in Japan". Anime News Network. 2008-08-25. Retrieved 2009-02-21.

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