Shogakukan

Shogakukan Inc
株式会社 小学館

Type	Kabushiki gaisha
Industry	Publishing
Founded	August 8, 1922
Headquarters	〒101-8001 Tokyo-to, Chiyoda-ku Hitotsubashi 2-3-1
Area served	Japan
Key people	Masahiro Ōga (president)
Products	Magazines, manga, picture books, light novels, educational books, reference books, other books
Employees	792(as of June 15, 2010)
Website	http://www.shogakukan.co.jp

Shogakukan (小学館, Shōgakukan) is a Japanese publisher of dictionaries, literature, manga, non-fiction, DVDs, and other media in Japan.

Shogakukan founded Shueisha which founded Hakusensha. These are three separate companies, but are together called the Hitotsubashi Group, one of the largest publishing groups in Japan. Shogakukan is located in the Shogakukan Building in Hitotsubashi, Chiyoda, Tokyo, and the other two companies are located in the same ward.

Shogakukan in the United States

Shogakukan, along with Shueisha, owns Viz Media, which publishes manga from both companies in the United States.

Shogakukan's licensing arm in North America was ShoPro Entertainment; it was merged into Viz Media in 2005.

Shogakukan's production arm is Shogakukan Productions Co.,Ltd. (now Shogakukan Shueisha Productions).

In March 2010 it was announced that Shogakukan would partner with the American comics publisher Fantagraphics to issue a line of manga to be edited by Matt Thorn.

List of magazines published by Shogakukan

Manga magazines

Male oriented manga magazines

Children's manga magazines

• CoroCoro Comic
• Bessatsu CoroCoro Comic
• CoroCoro Ichiban!

Shōnen manga magazines

• Shōnen Sunday
• Bessatsu Shōnen Sunday (discontinued)
• Shōnen Sunday Super
• Monthly Shōnen Sunday

Seinen manga magazines

• Big Comic
  • Big Comic Business
  • Big Comic Original
  • Big Comic Spirits
  • Monthly Big Comic Spirits
  • Big Comic Special
  • Big Comic Superior
• IKKI
• Monthly Sunday Gene-X
• Weekly Young Sunday(discontinued)

Female oriented manga magazines

Shōjo manga magazines

• Betsucomi
• Cheese!
• ChuChu
• Ciao
• Pochette
• Shōjo Comic

Josei manga magazines

• flowers
• Judy
• Petit Comic

Fashion magazines

• CanCam

List of manga published by Shogakukan

• 7 Seeds
• A Cruel God Reigns
• Bakusō Kyōdai Let's & Go!!
• Dengeki Daisy
• Detective Conan
• Doraemon
• Duel Masters
• Esper Mami
• H3 School! (Happy Hustle High)
• Happy!
• Hayate the Combat Butler
• In the Bathroom
• InuYasha
• Law of Ueki
• Law of Ueki Plus
• Kami nomi zo Shiru Sekai
• Kare First Love
• Kaze to Ki no Uta
• Kekkaishi
• Kikaider
• Kimi no Tonari de Seishunchuu
• Kiteretsu Daihyakka
• Konjiki no Gash Bell! (Zatch Bell!)
• Maison Ikkoku
• MÄR
• Midori no Hibi (Midori Days)
• Mobile Police Patlabor
• Monster
• Nozoki Ana
• O~i! Ryōma
• Pluto
• Pocket Monsters
  • Pocket Monster
  • Pocket Monsters SPECIAL (Pokémon Adventures)
  • Den-Geki! Pikachu (Pokémon: The Electric Tale of Pikachu)
  • Pocket Monsters PiPiPi ★ Adventures (Magical Pokémon Journey)
  • Pokémon Fushigi no Danjon Ginji no Kyūjotai (Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Ginji's Rescue Team)
• Prefectural Earth Defense Force
• RahXephon
• Ranma ½
• Rekka no Honō (Flame of Recca)
• Revolutionary Girl Utena
• Rockman EXE (MegaMan NT Warrior)
• Saikano
• Selfish Fairy Mirumo de Pon (Mirmo Zibang!)
• Sonic the Hedgehog
• Sora wa Akai Kawa no Hotori (Red River)
• SP: Security Police
• Spriggan
• Super Mario-Kun
• Cirque du Freak
• Togari
• Urusei Yatsura
• Yaiba
• Yakitate!! Japan

New Manga Awards

Shogakukan has awards for amateur manga artist who want to become professional. It allows people to either send in their manga by mail or bring it in to an editor.

External links

• Shogakukan website
• Shogakukan website (Japanese)
• Shogakukan Productions Co., Ltd. at Anime News Network's Encyclopedia