Afternoon
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Afternoon (magazine)
 May 25, 2006 issue featuring Rabu-yan. |
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| Categories | Seinen manga[1] |
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| Frequency | Monthly |
| Circulation | 102,834 (2010)[2] |
| Country |  Japan |
| Language | Japanese |
| Website | afternoon.co.jp |
Afternoon (アフタヌーン Afutanūn) is a Japanese seinen manga magazine published by Kodansha. It is a monthly anthology, and 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]
Manga artists and series featured in Afternoon
- Haru Akiyama
- Octave
- Kia Asamiya
- Assembler 0X
- Compiler
- Karapuri!
- Hitoshi Ashinano
- Hiroki Endo
- Tooru Fujisawa
- Kōsuke Fujishima
- Oh My Goddess!
- You're Under Arrest (originally on Morning Party Extra)
- Asa Higuchi
- Hitoshi Iwaaki
- Shimoku Kio
- Genshiken
- Jigopuri
- Mohiro Kitoh
- Narutaru (Shadow Star)
- Wings of Vendemiaire
- Takayuki Kōsai
- Shuusen no Lorelei (based on the novel by Harutoshi Fukui)
- Iou Kuroda
- Mahiro Maeda
- Tsutomu Nihei
- Megumu Okada
- Sumomo Yumeka
- The Place Promised in Our Early Days (adaptation of original work by Makoto Shinkai)
- Voices of a Distant Star (adaptation of original work by Makoto Shinkai)
- Hiroaki Samura
- Satoshi Shiki
- Kami Kaze
- Kenichi Sonoda
- Cannon God Exaxxion
- Gunsmith Cats
- Gunsmith Cats BURST
- Bullet the Wizard
- Yuzo Takada
- Little Jumper
- Tsutomu Takahashi
- Daisaku Tsuru
- Nachun
- Kenji Tsuruta
- Spirit of Wonder (originally serialized in monthly Weekly Morning)
- Hiroyuki Utatane
- Seraphic Feather (story by Yo Morimoto and Toshiya Takeda)
- Yuki Urushibara
- Mushishi
- Waters
- Riichi Ueshiba
- Mysterious Girlfriend X
- Yume Tsukai
- Discommunication
- Makoto Yukimura
- Vinland Saga (originally serialized in Weekly Shōnen Magazine)
- Kumakura Takatoshi
- Naoko Hayashiba & Jiro Ando
- Minoru Toyoda
References
- ^ "J-Magazine.or.jp on Afternoon" (in Japanese). Archived from the original on 2 April 2007. http://www.j-magazine.or.jp/data_001/main_b.html#003. Retrieved 2007-04-13.
- ^ "News: 2010 Japanese Manga Magazine Circulation Numbers". Anime News Network. http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2011-01-17/2010-japanese-manga-magazine-circulation-numbers. Retrieved 2 April 2011.
- ^ "Takahashi's Ice Blade Manga to Relaunch in Japan". Anime News Network. 2008-08-25. http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2008-08-25/takahashi-ice-blade-manga-to-relaunch-in-japan. Retrieved 2009-02-21.
External links
- Official website (Japanese)
- Afternoon at Anime News Network's Encyclopedia
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