Monthly Afternoon

Afternoon ( Jap.アフタヌーン, afutanūn ) is a Japanese manga magazine, which is aimed at young men ( His ). It is a sister magazine of the Morning.

The magazine is published monthly during the Kodansha publishing house at a price of 620 yen. The main part of the magazine make different chapters of twenty manga series and manga short stories. These are usually comedy or romance stories like Oh! My Goddess or serious Historienepen like Blade of the Immortal. However, several experimental and partly alternative manga like Naru Taru appear in the afternoon, as it lets its artists a lot of freedom in terms of plot. Many of the series to be filmed as anime ( often referred to as OVA).

Afternoon was founded in 1986 as an additional magazine for Morningstar. His highest circulation had the magazine between 1994 and 1995. IN this time included an edition about 1000 pages. 2005, it had an average circulation of 134,000 copies per issue and a decrease of 7.4% over the previous year.

Since 1987, the magazine awards the Shiki - shō (四季 赏) to new, talented mangaka. This award received, among other Tsutomu Nihei, Risu Akizuki and Hiroki Endo.

Published manga series

Ongoing

  • Bakuon RETTO by Tsutomu Takahashi
  • Blade of the Immortal by Hiroaki Samura
  • Eden by Hiroki Endo
  • Genshiken by Kio Shimoku
  • Gunsmith Cats Burst by Kenichi Sonoda
  • History of Hitoshi Iwaaki
  • Little Jumper by Yuzo Takada
  • Lucu Lucu Yoshito Asari
  • Mokke by Takatoshi Kumakura
  • Mushishi by Yuki Urushibara
  • Oh! My Goddess by Kosuke Fujishima
  • Ore to Akuma Blues by Akira Hiramoto
  • Seraphic Feather by Hiroyuki Utatane

Closed / no longer in the magazine

  • Abenobashi Maho Shôtengai by Kenji Tsuruta
  • Akkanbe Ikkyu by Hisashi Sakaguchi
  • Blame! Tsutomu Nihei of
  • Blue World by Yukinobu Hoshino
  • Coo no Sekai of Hideji Oda
  • Dai- Nippon Tengu -tō Ekotoba of Iō Kuroda
  • Exaxxion by Kenichi Sonoda
  • Gunsmith Cats by Kenichi Sonoda
  • Inugami Masaya Hokazono
  • Jiraishin by Tsutomu Takahashi
  • Kakusan of Hideji Oda
  • Kamikaze by Satoshi Shiki
  • Kiseijū by Hitoshi Iwaaki
  • Little Forest by Daisuke Igarashi
  • Love Roma by Minoru Toyoda
  • Milk Closet by Hitoshi Tomizawa
  • Mishi of Iō Kuroda
  • Naru Taru of Mohiro Kitoh
  • Nasu Iō Kuroda
  • Poppoya by Jiro Asada and Takumi Nagayasu
  • Shadow Skill of Megumu Okada
  • Smuggler of Shohei Manabe
  • Spirit of Wonder by Kenji Tsuruta ( also in the Morning)
  • Tokko by Tōru Fujisawa
  • Wings of Vendemiaire of Mohiro Kitoh
  • Yokohama Kiko Kaidashi by Hitoshi Ashinano
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