Gangan Comics

Gangan Comics

Gangan Comics (月刊少年ガンガン Gekkanshōnen 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 and Soul Eater.[1]

Contents

Magazines

Monthly Shōnen Gangan

Monthly Shōnen Gangan

Monthly Shōnen Gangan (12/2004 issue)
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 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:

  • Nagasarete Airantou (Takeshi Fujishiro)
  • Soul Eater (Atsushi Ōkubo)
  • Corpse Princess (Yoshiichi Akahito)
  • Kurenai Ouji (Souta Kuwabara)
  • Toaru Majutsu no Index (Kazuma Kamachi, Chuuya Kogino)
  • Kiyomura-kun to Sugi Kouji-kun (Mashihiro Totsuka)
  • Tripeace (Maru Tomoyuki)
  • Mangaka-san to Assistant-san to (Hiroyuki)
  • Bamboo Blade B (Masahiro Totsuka, Neko Sutajio)
  • Bloody Cross (Yoneyama Shiwo)
  • Isoshime! Nioka Sensei (Junichi Odaka)
  • Gochisō Cinema Shita!! (Ikaring)
  • Heroman (Stan Lee, Tamon Ōta)
  • Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days (Shiro Amano)
  • Banoten! (Taichi Kawazoe)
  • Judge (Yoshiki Tonogai)
  • Red Raven (Shinta Fujimoto)
  • Soul Eater Not! (Atsushi Ookubo)
  • Saki - Achika-hen - Episode of Side-A (Aguri Igarashi)

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 shōnen manga magazine 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)
  • En Passant (Taro Yuzunoki)
  • Esoragoto (usi)
  • Hyakuen! (Ema Tooyama)
  • Life is Money (author Asaniji Teru, artist Yaguraba Tekka)
  • Karasu-tengu Ujyu (Iwanosuke Neguragi)
  • Kyou mo Machiwabite (Ichi Saeki)
  • Kyousou no Simulacra (Hideaki Yoshimura)
  • Oji-chan Yuusha (Tarou Sakamoto)
  • Pochi Gunsō (Mao Momiji, AKIRA)
  • Ryuushika Ryuushika (Yoshitoshi Abe)
  • Seitokai no Wotanoshimi. (Marumikan)
  • Sengoku Sukuna (Nekotama.)
  • Shikisou (Akira Kanda)
  • Shougakusei Host Pochi (SAORI)
  • Sougiya Riddle (Akai Higasa.)
  • Tokyo Innocent (Naru Narumi) (originally Gangan Wing)
  • Wa! (Akira Kojima)

Light Novels featured:

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

Monthly 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:

  • Book Girl and the Suicidal Mime (Rito Kōsaka) (originally Gangan Powered)
  • Book Girl and the Famished Spirit (Rito Kōsaka)
  • Corpse Party: Blood Covered (Team Guriguri, adapted by Toshimi Shinomiya) (originally Gangan Powered)
  • Damekko Kissa Dear (Ryōta Yuzuki)
  • Eighth (Izumi Kawachi)
  • Himawari (Blank-Note, adapted by Daisuke Hiyama)
  • Inu x Boku Secret Service (Cocoa Fujiwara)
  • Love x Rob x Stockholm (Hiroki Haruse)
  • Manabiya (Akira Kojima)
  • Natsu no Arashi! (Jin Kobayashi) (originally Gangan Wing)
  • NEET Princess Terrass (Tomohiro Shimomura)
  • Ore no Kanojo to Osananajimi ga Shuraba Sugiru (Nanasuke)
  • Prunus Girl
  • rail aile bleue (Kazuyoshi Karasawa)
  • Sengoku Strays (Shingo Nanami) (originally Gangan Wing)
  • Seto no Hanayome (Tahiko Kimura) (originally Gangan Wing)
  • Shinigami-sama ni Saigo no Onegai wo (YAMAGUCHI Mikoto)
  • Shitsurakuen (Tōru Naomura)
  • Tasogare Otome x Amnesia (Maybe) (Also known as Dusk Maiden of Amnesia)
  • Today's Great Satan II (Yūichi Hiiragi)
  • Umineko no Naku Koro ni (Kei Natsumi, Ryukishi07) (Originally Gangan Powered)
  • Yandere Kanojo (Shinobi)

Discontinued magazines

Gangan Powered

Gangan Powered (ガンガンパワード Gangan Pawādo?) was a Japanese shōnen 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

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References

  1. ^ "2007 profile" (PDF). Square Enix. October 2007. p. 6. http://www.square-enix.com/jp/common/images/sqex_07profile_e.pdf#page=6. Retrieved 2008-04-28. 
  2. ^ "Square Enix Comic Magazines" (in Japanese). http://www.square-enix.com/jp/magazine/#01. Retrieved 2008-01-31. 
  3. ^ a b "Gangan Joker to Replace Gangan Powered, Wing Mags". Anime News Network. 2009-03-01. http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2009-03-01/gangan-joker-to-replace-gangan-powered-wing-mags. Retrieved 2009-06-30. 

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