Monthly Afternoon
Template:Short description Template:Infobox Magazine Template:Nihongo is a Japanese monthly [[seinen manga|Template:Transliteration manga]] anthology published by Kodansha under the Afternoon line of magazines. The first issue was released with a cover date of January 25, 1986. Afternoon has spawned many successful 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. A spin-off magazine, named good! Afternoon, started publishing on November 7, 2008.<ref name=":0">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
HistoryEdit
The magazine was founded as a sister to Morning by the same publisher. According to Frederik L. Schodt, stories that did not convince the editors of Morning would often land in Afternoon.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
Many of the artists working for the magazine used to publish amateur Template:Transliteration and were influenced by Template:Transliteration amateur manga. Sharon Kinsella claims that around half of all series featured in Afternoon between 1994 and 1997 were inspired by Template:Transliteration aesthetics. She lists Discommunication, Gunsmith Cats, Assembler 0X, Seraphic Feather, Aqua ańd Oh! My Goddess as examples.<ref name=":1">Template:Cite book</ref>
From 1999 until 2002, Afternoon Season Zōkan was published as a quarterly spin-off magazine to Afternoon. After the magazine was suspended, some of its series, like Mushishi and Mokke, were transferred to Afternoon.
Newcomer awardEdit
Since 1987, the magazine hands out the newcomer award Afternoon Shiki Shō. In 2000, Kodansha published a selection of winners of the award in a book.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Circulation and demographicEdit
Like with most major manga magazines, the magazine's circulation has been declining since the 1990s:
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- 2005: 133.800<ref name=":2" />
- 2006: 127.400<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation
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- 2007: 119.666<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation
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- 2016: 69.310<ref name=":0" />
In the late 1990s, the magazine's editors guessed that about a third of the readers of the magazine could be called Template:Transliteration.<ref name=":1" />
FeaturesEdit
OngoingEdit
There are currently 29 manga titles being serialized in Monthly Afternoon. Out of them, Wandering Island and Yakuza Fiancé: Raise wa Tanin ga Ī are on hiatus. Historie is serialized bimonthly. Nella of the Horizon is serialized on an irregular schedule.
PastEdit
1980sEdit
- Template:Nihongo by Kōsuke Fujishima (1988–2014)
- Template:Nihongo by Norifusa Mita (1989)
- Template:Nihongo by Hitoshi Iwaaki (1989–1994) (moved from Morning Open Zōkan)
- Spirit of Wonder by Kenji Tsuruta (1989–1994) (originally serialized in Weekly Morning)
1990sEdit
- Template:Nihongo by Kia Asamiya (1990–1992)
- Template:Nihongo by Kenichi Sonoda (1991–1997)
- Template:Nihongo by Riichi Ueshiba (1991–1999)
- Template:Nihongo by Tsutomu Takahashi (1992–1999)
- Template:Nihongo by Kia Asamiya (1992–1995)
- Template:Nihongo by Kazuichi Hanawa (1992–1994)
- Template:Nihongo by Hiroaki Samura (1993–2012)
- Template:Nihongo by Yo Morimoto, Toshiya Takeda (story) and Hiroyuki Utatane (art) (1993–2008)
- Template:Nihongo by Daisuke Igarashi (1994–1996)
- Template:Nihongo by Shinji Makari (story) and Akana Shu (art) (1994–2004)
- Template:Nihongo by Hitoshi Ashinano (1994–2006)
- Template:Nihongo by Mohiro Kitoh (1995–1997)
- Blame! by Tsutomu Nihei (1997–2003)
- Template:Nihongo by Satoshi Shiki (1997–2003)
- Template:Nihongo by Kenichi Sonoda (1997–2004)
- Eden: It's an Endless World! by Hiroki Endo (1997–2008)
- Template:Nihongo by Mohiro Kitoh (1998–2003)
- Template:Nihongo by Kon Kimura (1998–2006)
- Template:Nihongo by Yoshito Asari (1999–2000)
2000sEdit
- Template:Nihongo by Shohei Manabe (2000)
- Template:Nihongo by Iou Kuroda (2000–2002)
- Template:Nihongo by Riichi Ueshiba (2001–2003)
- Template:Nihongo by Kenji Tsuruta (2001–2002)
- Template:Nihongo by Yoshito Asari (2001–2009)
- Template:Nihongo by Shimoku Kio (2002–2016)
- Template:Nihongo by Daisuke Igarashi (2002–2005)
- Template:Nihongo by Yuki Urushibara (2002–2008) (moved from Afternoon Season Zōkan)
- Template:Nihongo by Takatoshi Kumakura (2003–2009) (moved from Afternoon Season Zōkan)
- Shadow Skill by Megumu Okada (2003–2006)
- Template:Nihongo by Minoru Toyoda (2003–2005)
- Template:Nihongo by Tooru Fujisawa (2003–2004)
- Template:Nihongo by Kia Asamiya (2003)
- Template:Nihongo by Akira Hiramoto (2003–2008) (transferred to Young Magazine the 3rd)
- Template:Nihongo by Makoto Shinkai (original work) and Sumomo Yumeka (2004–2005)
- Template:Nihongo by Masaru Katori (story) and Jiro Ando (art) (2004–2008)
- Template:Nihongo by Yuzo Takada (2004–2008)
- Gunsmith Cats BURST by Kenichi Sonoda (2004–2008)
- Template:Nihongo by Harutoshi Fukui (original novel), Takashi Nagasaki and Takayuki Kosai (2005–2007)
- Template:Nihongo by Mahiro Maeda (2005–2008)
- Template:Nihongo by Mami Kashiwabara (2005–2011)
- Template:Nihongo by Makoto Shinkai (original work) and Sumomo Yumeka (2005–2006)
- Template:Nihongo by Riichi Ueshiba (2006–2014)
- Template:Nihongo by Daisaku Tsuru (2006–2010)
- Template:Nihongo by Yutaka Tanaka (2006–2009)
- Template:Nihongo by Kazuki Nakashima (original story) and Una Hamana (2007–2009)
- Template:Nihongo by Hitoshi Ashinano (2007–2013)
- Template:Nihongo by Haru Akiyama (2008–2011)
- Template:Nihongo by Shimoku Kio (2008–2010)
- Template:Nihongo by Yoshiki Tanaka (story) and Narumi Kakinouchi (art) (2009)
- Template:Nihongo by Tsutomu Nihei (2009–2015)
- Template:Nihongo by Yuki Urushibara (2009–2010)
2010sEdit
- Template:Nihongo by Yoshiki Tanaka (story) and Narumi Kakinouchi (art) (2010)
- Template:Nihongo by Makoto Shinkai (story) and Seike Yukiko (art) (2010–2011)
- Template:Nihongo by Kenichi Sonoda (2010–2012)
- Template:Nihongo by Tetsuya Imai (2011)
- Template:Nihongo by Kenshin Hidekawa (2011–2015)
- Template:Nihongo by Yoshiki Tanaka (story) and Narumi Kakinouchi (art) (2012)
- Template:Nihongo by Haruko Ichikawa (2012–2024)
- Template:Nihongo by Yoshiki Tanaka (story) and Narumi Kakinouchi (art) (2012–2013)
- Template:Nihongo by Ao Akato (2013)
- Template:Nihongo by Kaori Ozaki (2013)
- Template:Nihongo by Makoto Shinkai (story) and Midori Motohashi (art) (2013)
- Template:Nihongo by Yuri Shibamura (story) and Daisuke Kimura (art) (2013–2021)
- Template:Nihongo by Daisuke Igarashi (2015–2019)
- Black-Box by Tsutomu Takahashi (2015–2019)
- Template:Nihongo by Makoto Shinkai (story) and Tsubasa Yamaguchi (art) (2016)
- Template:Nihongo by Ao Akato (2016)
- Template:Nihongo by Yu Yoshidamaru (2016–2019)
- Template:Nihongo by Yuki Shirono (2016–2018)
- Template:Nihongo by Kaori Ozaki (2017–2019)
- Template:Nihongo by Shimoku Kio (2018–2022)
- Template:Nihongo by Yuki Urushibara (2018–2020)
- Template:Nihongo by Yoshikazu Yasuhiko (2018–2024)
- Template:Nihongo by Makoto Shinkai (original work) and Wataru Kubota (2019–2020)
- Template:Nihongo by Uhei Aoki (story) and Kumichi Yoshizuki (art) (2019–2021)
- Template:Nihongo by Yukito Ayatsuji (story) and Hiro Kiyohara (art) (2019–2022)
- Template:Nihongo by Kenji Takigawa (story), Ryū Suenobu (art) and Hiroaki Samura (collaboration) (2019–2024)
2020sEdit
- Template:Nihongo by Mikumi Yuuchi (2020–2021)
- Template:Nihongo by Kaze Miura (2020–2021)
- Template:Nihongo by Hideo Nishimoto (2020–2023)
- Template:Nihongo by Michi Ichiho (story) and Nori Arashiyama (art) (2021)
- Template:Nihongo by Fiok Lee (2021–2022)
- Template:Nihongo by Yasuhiro Yoshiura (original story) and Megumu Maeda (art) (2021–2022)
- Template:Nihongo by Shu Sakura (2021–2022)
- Template:Nihongo by Richard Woo (story) and Seimu Yoshizaki (art) (2022–2023)
- Template:Nihongo by Daiki Yamazaki (2022–2024)
- Template:Nihongo by Makoto Shinkai (story) and Denki Amashima (art) (2022–2023)
- Template:Nihongo by Bomhat (2022–2025)
- Template:Nihongo by Hinohiruko (2022–2025)
- Template:Nihongo by Yuchi Mikumi (2023–2024)
- Template:Nihongo by Seki Ayumu (2023–2024)