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Young Animal (ヤングアニマル, Yangu Animaru) is a semimonthly Japanese seinen manga magazine that features photos of gravure idols. It has been published by Hakusensha on the second and fourth Friday of each month since 1992.
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Categories | Seinen manga[1][2] |
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Frequency | Semimonthly |
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Founded | May 1992 |
Company | Hakusensha |
Country | Japan |
Based in | Tokyo |
Language | Japanese |
Website | Official website ![]() |
Young Animal was launched in May 1992.[3][4][5] The magazine is a successor to Monthly Animal House (月刊アニマルハウス, Gekkan Animaru Hausu), Hakusensha's previous seinen manga magazine that ran from 1989 to 1992.[3][6][7] Young Animal is issued on the second and fourth Friday of each month in saddle-stapled B5 format.[4][5] Its headquarters is in Tokyo.[8]
A typical issue consists of about 300 black-and-white pulp pages of manga wrapped in about 20 slick pages of color pinup photos of teenage girls in bikinis (generally pop stars and gravure idols). Advertising (other than house ads for Hakusensha) appears only in the form of a few ads in the back pages and on the inside and back covers. As of 2015, circulation is approximately 119,000 copies.[9] Each issue features about 15 different stories, mostly serial stories tending toward sexy romantic comedy, fantasy, and epic adventure, with a number of humorous yonkoma or four-panel gag strips.
Popular long-running series appearing in Young Animal include the medieval dark fantasy adventure Berserk and the modern day married-life sex comedy Futari Ecchi (both over 300 chapters as of 2010). A number of Young Animal manga series have been adapted into anime.
Titles serialized in Young Animal are published as tankōbon volumes by Hakusensha under the Young Animal Comics imprint. Prior to June 2016, volumes were published under the Jets Comics imprint.[10]
Young Animal has also inspired several spin-off magazines: Young Animal Arashi (2000–2018);[11] Young Animal Island (2004–2013),[12] briefly relaunched as Young Animal Innocent (2014);[13][14] and Young Animal Zero (2019–present).[5]
There are currently 23 manga titles being serialized in Young Animal.
Series title | Author | Premiered |
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Berserk (ベルセルク, Beruseruku) | Kentaro Miura[lower-alpha 1] | October 1992[lower-alpha 2] |
D.Diver (D.ダイバー, Dī Daibā) | Kouji Mori | May 2023[16] |
Eroko-san on the Attack (進撃のえろ子さん~変なお姉さんは男子高生と仲良くなりたい~, Shingeki no Eroko-san Hen'na Onee-san wa Danshikōsei to Nakayoku Naritai) | Yoshiru Konogi | July 2019[17] |
Futari Ecchi (ふたりエッチ, Futari Etchi) | Katsu Aki | December 1996[18] |
Henjo: Hen na Joshikōsei Amaguri Senko (変女~変な女子高生 甘栗千子~) | Yoshiru Konogi | March 2015[lower-alpha 3] |
I Get the Feeling That Nobukuni-san Likes Me (となりの信國さんは俺のことが好きな気がする, Tonari no Nobukuni-san wa Ore no Koto ga Suki na Ki ga Suru) | Kousuke Yasuda | September 2020[20] |
I'm a Behemoth, an S-Ranked Monster, but Mistaken for a Cat, I Live as an Elf Girl's Pet (Sランクモンスターの《ベヒーモス》だけど、猫と間違われてエルフ娘の騎士として暮らしてます, Esu Ranku Monsutā no "Behimosu" Dakedo Neko to Machigawarete Erufu Musume no Petsuto to Shite Kurashitemasu) | Nozomi Ginyoku (original story), Taro Shinonome | July 2018[lower-alpha 4] |
Jofū (じょふう) | Ryuta Amazume | December 2021[22] |
Kakunaru Ue wa (この復讐にギャルはいらない) | Kyū Takahata (story), Kabatani (art) | February 2023[23] |
Kono Fukushū ni Gal wa Iranai (この復讐にギャルはいらない, Kono Fukushū ni Gyaru wa Iranai) | Manose | May 2022[24] |
Mahō Chūnen (魔法中年) | Maki (original story), Nemumi Haiba | March 2022[25] |
March Comes In like a Lion (3月のライオン, Sangatsu no Raion) | Chica Umino | July 2007[26] |
Nobunaga no Shinobi (信長の忍び) | Naoki Shigeno | June 2008[27] |
OL, Rakko O Kau (OL、ラッコを飼う) | Tomoyuki Inoue | August 2019[28] |
Outreijyo (アウトレイジョウ, Autoreijō) | Keiso (story), Kenta Yuzuriha (art) | June 2023[29] |
Peleliu Gaiden (ペリリュー –外伝–, Periryū Gaiden) | Kazuyoshi Takeda | July 2021[30] |
Pen to Wappa to Jijitsukon (ペンと手錠と事実婚) | Shinichi Sawaragi (story), Tank Gas-yama (art) | December 2022[31] |
Rock wa Lady no Tashinamideshite (ロックは淑女の嗜みでして) | Hiroshi Fukuda | October 2022[32] |
Shinmei no Rescue (神命のレスキュー, Shinmei no Resukyū) | Kirie | June 2023[33] |
The Shiunji Family Children (紫雲寺家の子供たち, Shiunji-ke no Kodomo-tachi) | Reiji Miyajima | February 2022[34] |
Tokyo Satsujin Gakuen (東京殺人学園) | Higuma (story), Ryūtarō Masuya (art) | February 2022[35] |
The Valiant Must Fall (勇気あるものより散れ, Tokyo Satsujin Gakuen) | Yu Aida | February 2021[36] |
Voices from Chernobyl (チェルノブイリの祈り, Cherunobuiri no Inori) | Svetlana Alexievich (original author), Tetsuji Imanaka (supervision), Yuta Kumagai (art) | July 2023[37] |
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