Animage

Animage

September 1997 cover, featuring the artwork of the Studio Ghibli film, Princess Mononoke.
Editor Toshiya Matsushita (since 2005)
Former editors Hideo Ogata (founding)
Toshio Suzuki
Mikio Takeda
Susumu Arakawa
Takashi Watanabe
Toshiya Matsushita
Shūichi Ōno (2002–2005)
Categories Anime, manga, voice acting
Frequency Monthly
Circulation 65,660 (2009)[1]
First issue 26 May 1978 (July issue)
Company Tokuma Shoten
Country Japan
Based in Tokyo
Language Japanese
Website Official site

Animage (アニメージュ, Animēju) is a Japanese anime and entertainment magazine which Tokuma Shoten began publishing in July 1978. Hayao Miyazaki's internationally renowned manga, Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind, was serialized in Animage from 1982 through 1994. Other titles serialized in Animage include Ocean Waves (1990–1995), a novel by Saeko Himuro, which was later made into a television movie by the same title.

History

Animage was established in 1978[2] as the first magazine devoted to animation and comics aimed at a general public and not professionals.[3] In 2007 the magazine started its online edition.[4]

Timeline

Anime Grand Prix

The Anime Grand Prix is the annual prize decided by the readers' votes to the anime of the year. The Anime Grand Prix started in 1979, and the first prize was announced at the issue 1980 January, generally announced at the next year's June issue every year. It’s the Animage's Anime Grand Prix Magazine Reader’s Choice too.[5]

Voice Animage

Voice Animage
ボイスアニメージュ

Cover of an issue of Voice Animage, showing five female voice actors dressed in white and wearing a variety of hats.

Cover of an issue of Voice Animage.
Former editors Hideaki Kobayashi
Takashi Watanabe
First issue 1994 (1994)
Company Tokuma Shoten
Country Japan
Language Japanese
Website animage.jp/now-voiceanimage/

Voice Animage (ボイスアニメージュ, Boisu Animēju) is a sister magazine launched in 1994 that covers the voice acting industry in Japan. It was published irregularly at first, then settled into a regular release every other month. The magazine was edited by Hideaki Kobayashi together with Takashi Watanabe before Kobayashi moved to work on various Kadokawa Shoten magazines, and the magazine suspended publication in February 2002 with its 42nd issue. At Kadokawa, Kobayashi and Watanabe helped launch Voice Newtype.

Beginning in February 2009, Voice Animage resumed publication as a quarterly magazine.[6] The magazine has focused mainly on male voice actors since relaunching.

AniRadi also began publishing VoiceRadimage (ボイスラジメージュ, Boisu Radimēju) as a play on the name of Voice Animage.

References

  1. ↑ "2009 Japanese Anime/Game Magazine Circulation Numbers". Anime News Network. January 19, 2010. Archived from the original on January 22, 2010. Retrieved January 19, 2010.
  2. ↑ "Animage January 2017". Otakumode. Retrieved February 1, 2017.
  3. ↑ Patten 2004, p. 142
  4. ↑ "Official Animage Magazine Website Opens in Japan". Anime News Network. June 8, 2007. Retrieved July 25, 2015.
  5. ↑ Anime Grandprix
  6. ↑ "じゅじゅの編集奮闘記 第28回 魅惑のボイスにくびったけ" [Juju Editorial Struggles Journal #28 - Head Over Heels with Captivating Voices] (in Japanese). Animage Official Site. Archived from the original on September 17, 2010. Retrieved September 25, 2009.

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