Gangan (ガンガン, Gangan) is a manga imprint owned by Square Enix Holdings. It originated as a manga imprint for Enix before the company re-branded as Square Enix. It publishes manga in several anthologies aimed at different reader demographic groups in the Japanese market. Its anthologies are home to some popular Square Enix manga series which were adapted into anime series, like Fullmetal Alchemist, Moribito: Guardian of the Spirit, Nabari no Ou, Inu x Boku SS, The Case Study of Vanitas and Soul Eater.[1] The comics are later collected in paperback volumes under brand names such as Gangan Comics (ガンガンコミックス, Gangan Komikkusu), Gangan Comics Joker (ガンガンコミックスJOKER, Gangan Komikkusu Jōkā) and Young Gangan Comics (ヤングガンガンコミックス, Yangu Gangan Komikkusu), which identify the anthology of serialisation. These paperback brand names are formed by omitting any gekkan (月刊, monthly publication) or shōnen (少年, boy) in the magazine name and inserting Comics (コミックス, Komikkusu) directly after the word Gangan.
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Monthly Shōnen Gangan (since 1991)
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Monthly Shōnen Gangan (月刊少年ガンガン, Gekkan Shōnen Gangan) is a monthly manga anthology that regularly has over 600 pages. Shōnen Gangan was launched by Enix (now Square Enix) in 1991, to compete with other magazines such as Monthly Shōnen Magazine, Monthly Shōnen Jump and Shōnen Sunday Super, and is targeted toward the same young teen male demographic (shōnen means "young man"). It features manga with much action and adventure; science fiction and fantasy elements in the stories are very common. Square Enix also publishes the related Gangan YG and Monthly Gangan Wing.
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Monthly GFantasy (since 1993)
Monthly GFantasy (月刊Gファンタジー, Gekkan Jī Fantajī), also known as Gangan Fantasy, is a Japanese shōnen manga magazine.[3] Launched in 1992 as a special issue of Shounen Gangan under the name Fantastic Comic (ファンタスティックコミック). In 1993 it became its own magazine under the name of Monthly Gangan Fantasy (月刊ガンガンファンタジー). In the April 1994 issue it was renamed to GFantasy.
The manga tend to be set in a fantasy setting with large amounts of supernatural themes and a fair amount of action and/or horror scenes.
Manga featured:
- 10-4 (Hashiba Maki)
- A Terrified Teacher at Ghoul School! (Mai Tanaka)
- Aoharu × Machinegun (NAOE)
- Assistant Teacher at a Girls Magic Academy (Go Todo, Sakura Fujimoto)
- Black Butler (Yana Toboso) (ongoing)
- Crimson-Shell (Jun Mochizuki)
- Cuticle Detective Inaba (Mochi)
- D-Drops (Seana)
- Daisuke! (Hasu Kikuzuki)
- Devil Survivor 2: The Animation (Makoto Uezu)
- Disney Twisted-Wonderland The Comic: Episode of Heartslabyul (Wakana Hazuki, Sumire Kowono)
- Disney Twisted-Wonderland The Comic: Episode of Savanaclaw (Suzuka Oda) (ongoing)
- Durarara!! (Ryōgo Narita, Akiyo Satorigi (volumes 1-10), Aogiri (volume 11-present)
- E's (Satoru Yuiga)
- Fire Emblem: Ankoku Ryū to Hikari no Ken (Maki Hakoda)
- Fire Emblem: Gaiden (Maki Hakoda)
- Fire Emblem: Seisen no Keifu (Nattu Fujimori)
- Fire Emblem: Thracia 776 (Yūna Takanagi)
- From the Red Fog (Mosae Nohara) (ongoing)
- Gestalt (Yun Kōga)
- Graineliers (Rihito Takarai)
- Higurashi no Naku Koro ni: Minagoroshi-hen (Hinase Momoyama, Ryukishi07)
- Higurashi no Naku Koro ni: Tatarigoroshi-hen (Jiro Suzuki, Ryukishi07)
- Higurashi no Naku Koro ni: Yoigoshi-hen (Side Story) (Mimori, Ryukishi07)
- Horimiya (HERO, Daisuke Hagiwara)
- I, Otaku: Struggle in Akihabara (Sōta-kun no Akihabara Funtōki) (Jiro Suzuki)
- The Irregular at Magic High School (Fumino Hayashi)
- Kamiyomi (Ami Shibata)
- Kimi to Boku (Kiichi Hotta)
- Lammermoor no Shōnen Kiheitai (Nana Natsunishi)
- The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past (Ataru Cagiva)
- The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening (Ataru Cagiva)
- Monokuro Kitan (Kusu Rinka)
- Nabari no Ou (Yuhki Kamatani)
- Pandora Hearts (Jun Mochizuki)
- Pani Poni (Hekiru Hikawa)
- Revenger (Ryūsei Yamada) (ongoing)
- Rust Blaster (Yana Toboso)
- Skate-Leading Stars (Chiaki Nagaoka, Sumika Sumio) (ongoing)[4]
- Tales of Reincarnation in Maydare: This World's Worst Witch (Midori Yuma, Nana Natsunishi) (ongoing)
- The Daily Life of a Middle-Aged Online Shopper in Another World (Hifumi Asakawa, Umiharu) (ongoing)
- The Royal Tutor (Higasa Akai)
- Toilet-Bound Hanako-kun (Iro Aida) (ongoing)
- Tokyo Aliens (NAOE) (ongoing)
- Saiyuki (Kazuya Minekura)
- Saiyuki Gaiden (Kazuya Minekura) (2002, moved to Monthly Comic Zero Sum)
- Switch (naked ape)
- Teiden Shōjo to Hanemushi no Orchestra (Ninomiya Ai)
- Torikago Gakkyuu (Shin Mashiba)
- Yumekui Kenbun (Shin Mashiba)
- Zombie-Loan (Peach-Pit)
Young Gangan (since 2004)
Young Gangan (ヤングガンガン, Yangu Gangan) is a Japanese seinen manga magazine published by Square Enix twice a month, on the first and third Friday.[5] The magazine was first published on December 3, 2004.
Manga featured:
- Amigo x Amiga (Takahiro Seguchi)
- Arakawa Under the Bridge (Hikaru Nakamura) (completed)
- Astro Fighter Sunred (Makoto Kubota)
- Bamboo Blade (Aguri Igarashi, Masahiro Totsuka) (completed)
- Beauty and the Feast (Satomi U) (completed)
- Bitter Virgin (Kei Kusunoki) (completed)
- Black God (Park Sung-woo, Dall-Young Lim) (completed)
- Darker than Black: Shikkoku no Hana (Yūji Iwahara)
- Dead Mount Death Play (Ryohgo Narita, Shinta Fujimoto)
- Dimension W (Yūji Iwahara) (switched over to Monthly Gangan in November 2015)
- Dōsei Recipe (Towa Oshima)
- Donyatsu (Yūsuke Kozaki)
- Drop Kick
- Front Mission Dog Life and Dog Style/Front Mission The Drive (Yasuo Ohtagaki)
- Fudanshism (Morishige)
- Goodbye, Eden (Zero Ainan) (completed)
- Hanamaru Kindergarten (Yuto) (completed)
- Hohzuki Island (Sanbe Kei) (completed)
- Iroha-saka, Agatte Sugu (Yuto)
- Jackals (Kim Byung Jin, Shinya Murata) (completed)
- Kiba no Tabishounin (Park Joong-Gi), (Nanatsuki Kyouchi)
- Manhole (Tsutsui Tetsuya) (completed)
- Mononoke (Ninagawa Yaeko) (completed)
- Mouryou no Yurikago (Kei Sanbe)
- My Awkward Senpai (Makoto Kudo) (ongoing)
- My Dress-Up Darling (Shinichi Fukuda)
- Nikoichi (Renjuro Kindaichi)
- Rinne no Lagrange - Akatsuki no Memoria (Yoshioka Kimitake)
- Saki (Ritsu Kobayashi) (ongoing)
- Sekirei (Ashika Sakura) (completed)
- Shishunki no Iron Maiden (Watanabe Shizumu) (ongoing)
- Space☆Dandy (Masafumi Harada), (Park Sung-woo), (RED ICE)
- Sumomomo Momomo (Shinobu Ohtaka) (completed)
- The Comic Artist and Assistants (Hiroyuki) (completed)
- The Comic Artist and Assistants 2 (Hiroyuki) (completed)
- The Executioner and Her Way of Life (Mato Sato, Ryo Mitsuya)
- The iDOLM@STER Cinderella Girls Ensemble!, Sadoru Chiba & Haruki Kashiba (ongoing)
- Übel Blatt (Etorouji Shiono)
- Übel Blatt Gaiden (Etorouji Shiono)
- Umeboshi (Maya Koikeda)
- Until Death Do Us Part (DOUBLE-S, Hiroshi Takashige) (completed)
- Violinist of Hameln: Shchelkunchik (Michiaki Watanabe) (completed)
- Working!! (Karino Takatsu)
Gangan Online (since 2008)
Gangan Online (ガンガンオンライン, Gangan Onrain) is a free manga and light novel web magazine and smartphone app published and updated by Square Enix. The online web magazine was activated on October 2, 2008.
Manga featured:
- Adachi to Shimamura (Author:Mani, artist: Non) (manga adaption started in 2016)
- Ai wa Noroi no Nihon Ningyou (Kiki Suihei)
- Alba Rose no Neko (KARASU)
- Asao-san to Kurata-kun (Hero)
- Amanonadeshiko (Haruka Ogataya)
- Aphorism (Karuna Kujo) (originally Gangan Wing)
- Are You Okay With a Slightly Older Girlfriend? (Kota Nozomi, Enya Uraki)
- Assassin & Cinderella (Yuzo Natsuno)
- Barakamon (Satsuki Yoshino) (completed)
- Buyuuden Kita Kita (Hiroyuki Etou)
- Chokotto Hime (Ayami Kazama) (originally Gangan Wing)
- Cyoku! (Nico Tanigawa)
- Daily Lives of High School Boys (Yamauchi Yasunobu) (completed)
- Day Break Illusion (Kōki Katō) (completed)
- En Passant (Taro Yuzunoki)
- Esoragoto (usi)
- Gōkon ni Ittara Onna ga Inakatta Hanashi (Nana Aokawa)
- Hayachine! (Aiko Fukumorita) (completed)
- Hori-san to Miyamura-kun Omake (HERO) (completed)
- How I Attended an All-Guy's Mixer (Nana Aokawa) (ongoing)
- Hyakuen! (Ema Tōyama)
- I'm a Maid, but I've Pulled Out the Holy Sword?! (Midori Akino, Genen, Fua Yamazaki)
- I'm Glad They Kicked Me From The Hero's Party... But Why're you following me, Great Saintess? (Renge Hatsueda, Pinko Kurimoto)
- Life is Money (author Asaniji Teru, artist Yaguraba Tekka)
- Karasu-tengu Ujyu (Iwanosuke Neguragi)
- Kitakubu Katsudō Kiroku (Kuroha)
- Kyou mo Machiwabite (Ichi Saeki)
- Kyousou no Simulacra (Hideaki Yoshimura)
- Monthly Girls' Nozaki-kun (Izumi Tsubaki) (ongoing)
- The Morose Mononokean (Kiri Wazawa) (completed)
- My Happy Marriage (Rito Kousaka, Akumi Agitogi) (ongoing)
- No Matter How I Look at It, It's You Guys' Fault I'm Not Popular! (Nico Tanigawa) (ongoing)
- Oji-chan Yuusha (Tarou Sakamoto)
- Pochi Gunsō (Mao Momiji, Akira)
- Princess of Mana (Seiken Densetsu: Princess of Mana) (Satsuki Yoshino) (originally Gangan Powered) (completed)
- RealPG (Yuki Domoto)
- Reincarnation of the Unrivalled Time Mage (Shusui Hazuki, Yui Sakumi) (ongoing)
- Ryuushika Ryuushika (Yoshitoshi ABe)
- Seitokai no Wotanoshimi. (Marumikan)
- Sengoku Sukuna (Nekotama)
- Shikisou (Akira Kanda)
- Shougakusei Host Pochi (SAORI)
- Sougiya Riddle (Akai Higasa)
- Suppose a Kid From the Last Dungeon Boonies Moved to a Starter Town (ongoing)
- The Gender of Mona Lisa (Tsumuji Yoshimura)
- The Ice Guy and His Cool Female Colleague (Miyuki Tonogaya) (ongoing)
- The iDOLM@STER Cinderella Girls Shuffle!! (Kouka Mijin) (ongoing)
- The Lady Likes a Nerd over Princes (Yuma Tosaka, Noyama Carpaccio)
- The Villainess' Butler: Death Flag Destroyer at Your Service (Hiironoame, Shobu, Yuichi Murakami)
- Tokyo Innocent (Naru Narumi) (originally Gangan Wing)
- Wa! (Akira Kojima)
- You Were Experienced, I Was Not: Our Dating Story (Makiko Nagaoka, Naoyama Carpaccio) (ongoing)
Light Novels featured:
Gangan Joker (since 2009)
Monthly Gangan Joker (月刊ガンガンJOKER, Gekkan Gangan Joker) is a Japanese shōnen manga anthology that was launched by Square Enix on April 22, 2009.
Manga featured:
Monthly Big Gangan (since 2010)
Monthly Big Gangan is a seinen manga publication entry in Square Enix's Gangan imprint.
Manga featured:
Gangan Pixiv (since 2017)
On February 22, 2017, Gangan Pixiv was launched as a collaboration between Pixiv and Square Enix.[6]
Manga UP! (since 2017)
Like Gangan Online, Manga Up! is a manga app and website which serializes a lot of popular media mix works with manga adaptations of novels exclusively published on the service. In July 2022, Square Enix launched an English version of the Manga UP! featuring titles from Manga UP! and other Square Enix magazines.[7]
Gangan BLiss (since 2021)
In September 2021, Square Enix launched Gangan BLiss, a manga label dedicated to publishing boy's love manga. The manga published under this label will be serialized on the CMOA website.[8]
- Mobsters in Love
- Ōkami wa Tantei wo Tabetai
- Ore no Hanamuko wa Omae Janai
- Shota x Oni
Gangan Powered (2001–2009)
Gangan Powered (ガンガンパワード, Gangan Pawādo) was a Japanese shōnen/seinen manga magazine published by Square Enix. The last release of the magazine was with the April 2009 issue sold on February 21, 2009, and it was subsequently replaced by Gangan Joker.[9]
Manga featured:
Monthly Gangan Wing (1996–2009)
Monthly Gangan Wing (月刊ガンガンWING, Gekkan Gangan Wing) was a Japanese shōnen manga magazine published by Square Enix. The last release of the magazine was with the May 2009 issue sold on March 21, 2009, and it was subsequently replaced by Gangan Joker.[9]
Manga featured: