Shogakukan

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Shogakukan
株式会社小学館

Type	Kabushiki kaisha
Founded	1922-08-08
Headquarters	〒101-8001 Tokyo-to, Chiyoda-ku Hitotsubashi 2-3-1
Area served	Japan
Key people	Masahiro Ōga (president)
Industry	Publishing
Products	Magazines, manga, picture books, light novels, educational books, reference books, other books
Employees	834 (as of October 2006)
Website	shogakukan.co.jp/english/

Shogakukan (株式会社小学館, Kabushiki kaisha 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,^[1] and the other two companies are located in the same ward.

Shogakukan in the US

Shogakukan company, 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)

List of magazines published by Shogakukan

Manga magazines

Male oriented manga magazines

Kodomo manga magazines

• CoroCoro Comic
• Bessatsu CoroCoro Comic
• CoroCoro Ichiban!

Shōnen manga magazines

• Shonen Sunday
• Shonen Sunday Super

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

Female oriented manga magazines

Shōjo manga magazines

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

Josei manga magazines

• flowers
• Judy
• Petit Comic

Fashion magazines

• CanCam

List of manga published by Shogakukan

• 7 Seeds
• Bakusō Kyōdai Let's & Go!!
• Detective Conan
• Doraemon
• Esper Mami
• H3 School! (Happy Hustle High)
• In the Bathroom
• Law of Ueki
• Law of Ueki Plus
• Kami nomi zo Shiru Sekai
• Kare First Love
• Kekkaishi
• Kikaider
• Kiteretsu Daihyakka
• Konjiki no Gash Bell! (Zatch Bell!)
• Maison Ikkoku
• MÄR
• Midori no Hibi (Midori Days)
• Mobile Police Patlabor
• Monster
• O~i! Ryōma
• Pluto (manga)
• 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

References

External links

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