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Monthly Afternoon
File:Afternoon seinen manga magazine.png
October 2011 issue.
EditorTatsuya Shishikura
CategoriesSeinen manga[1][2]
FrequencyMonthly
Circulation69,310[1]
(July-September, 2016)
PublisherKodansha
First issueJanuary 25, 1986
CountryJapan
Based inTokyo
LanguageJapanese
Websitekc.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][4]

Currently running manga series

Title Author / Artist Premiered
Aa! Shuukatsu no Megami-sama! Uhei Aoki (story) & Kumichi Yoshizuki (art) January 25, 2019
Big Windup! Asa Higuchi March 23, 2004
Blade of the Immortal - Bakumatsu Arc Kenji Takigawa (story) & Ryū Suenobu (art) in collaboration with Hiroaki Samura May 25, 2019
Blue Period Tsubasa Yamaguchi June 24, 2017
Darwin's Incident Shun Umezawa June 25, 2020
Fragile - The Finds of Pathologist Keiichirō Kishi Bin Kusamizu (story) & Megumi Saburo June 25, 2014
Hashikko Ensemble Shimoku Kio February 24, 2018
Heavenly Delusion Masakazu Ishiguro January 25, 2018
Historie Hitoshi Iwaaki January 25, 2003
Issak Shinji Makari (story) & Ji-Hyung Song (art) January 25, 2017
Inui to Tatsumi -Siberia Shuppei Hishi- Yoshikazu Yasuhiko September 25, 2018
I Want to Hold Aono-kun so Badly I Could Die Umi Shiina December 24, 2016
Land of the Lustrous Haruko Ichikawa October 25, 2012
Marginal Operation Yuri Shibamura (story) & Daisuke Kimura (art) May 25, 2013
Medalist Tsuruma Ikada May 25, 2020
Neko ga Nishimukya Yuki Urushibara April 25, 2018
Puu-Neko Masayuki Kitamichi 2004
Raise wa Tanin ga Ii Asuka Konishi August 25, 2017
Skip to Loafer Misaki Takamatsu August 25, 2018
Spotlight Kaze Miura July 21, 2020
The Decagon House Murders Yukito Ayatsuji (story) & Hiro Kiyohara (art) August 24, 2019
Tomodachi toshite Daisuki Mikumi Yuuchi January 24, 2020
Toppu GP Kōsuke Fujishima May 25, 2016
Vinland Saga Makoto Yukimura April 13, 2005
Wandering Island Kenji Tsuruta July 13, 2010
Wave, Listen to Me! Hiroaki Samura July 25, 2014
Weathering with You Makoto Shinkai (story) & Wataru Kubota (art) July 25, 2019
Wondance Coffee January 25, 2019

References

  1. ^ a b "Men's Manga" (in Japanese). Japanese Magazine Publishers Association. September 2016. Retrieved November 6, 2016.
  2. ^ Thompson, Jason (2007). Manga: The Complete Guide. Del Rey Books. p. 327-239. ISBN 978-0-345-48590-8.
  3. ^ "Takahashi's Ice Blade Manga to Relaunch in Japan". Anime News Network. August 25, 2008. Retrieved February 21, 2009.
  4. ^ Keiko Suenobu Launches Life 2 Manga Anime News Network. April 24, 2016. Retrieved June 24, 2020.
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