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Monthly Afternoon (月刊アフタヌーン, Gekkan Afutanūn) is a Japanese monthly seinen 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.[3]
October 2011 issue | |
| Editor | Tatsuya Shishikura |
|---|---|
| Categories | Seinen manga[1][2] |
| Frequency | Monthly |
| Circulation | 69,310 (July–September, 2016)[1] |
| Publisher | Kodansha |
| First issue | January 25, 1986 |
| Country | Japan |
| Based in | Tokyo |
| Language | Japanese |
| Website | afternoon |
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.[4]
Many of the artists working for the magazine used to publish amateur doujinshi and were influenced by lolicon amateur manga. Sharon Kinsella claims that around half of all series featured in Afternoon between 1994 and 1997 were inspired by lolicon aesthetics. She lists Discommunication, Gunsmith Cats, Assembler 0X, Seraphic Feather, Aqua ańd Oh! My Goddess as examples.[5]
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.
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.[6]
Like with most major manga magazines, the magazine's circulation has been declining since the 1990s:
In the late 1990s, the magazine's editors guessed that about a third of the readers of the magazine could be called otaku.[5]
There are currently 25 manga titles being serialized in Monthly Afternoon. Out of them, Yakuza Fiancé: Raise wa Tanin ga Ī and Wandering Island is on hiatus.
| Series title | Author | Premiered |
|---|---|---|
| Big Windup! (おおきく振りかぶって) | Asa Higuchi | September 2003 |
| Bitter End Roll (ビターエンドロール, Bitā Endo Rōru) | Shu Sakura | June 2021 |
| Blue Period (ブルーピリオド, Burū Piriodo) | Tsubasa Yamaguchi | June 2017 |
| The Darwin Incident (ダーウィン事変, Dāuin Jihen) | Shun Umezawa | June 2020 |
| Dokudami no Hanasaku Koro (どくだみの花咲くころ) | Shiho Kido | November 2023 |
| Fragile (フラジャイル, Furajairu) | Bin Kusamizu (story) and Megumi Saburo | June 2014 |
| Heavenly Delusion (天国大魔境, Tengoku Daimakyō) | Masakazu Ishiguro | January 2018 |
| Hellhound (ヘルハウンド, Heruhaundo) | Ryōji Minagawa | June 2022 |
| Historie (ヒストリエ, Hisutorie) | Hitoshi Iwaaki | January 2003 |
| I Want to Hold Aono-kun so Badly I Could Die (青野くんに触りたいから死にたい, Aono-kun ni Sawaritai kara Shinitai) | Umi Shiina | December 2016 |
| Issak (イサック, Isakku) | Shinji Makari (story) and Double-S (art) | January 2017 |
| Medalist (メダリスト, Medarisuto) | Tsurumaikada | May 2020 |
| Minzoku Gakusha Akasaka Yaichirō no Jiken-bo (民俗学者 赤坂弥一郎の事件簿) | Richard Woo (story) and Seimu Yoshizaki (art) | August 2022 |
| Mō, Shimasen Kara: Seiun Risshi-hen (もう、しませんから。 〜青雲立志編〜) | Hideo Nishimoto | January 2020 |
| Omori | OMOCAT (story) and Nui Konoito (art) | June 2024 |
| Puu-Neko (プ～ねこ) | Masayuki Kitamichi | December 2003 |
| Skip and Loafer (スキップとローファー, Sukippu to Rōfā) | Misaki Takamatsu | August 2018 |
| Tengu no Daidokoro (天狗の台所) | Ai Tanaka | September 2021 |
| Toppu GP (トップウGP) | Kōsuke Fujishima | May 2016 |
| Under 3 (アンダー3, Andā 3) | Shunji Enomoto | April 2014 |
| Vinland Saga (ヴィンランド・サガ, Vinrando Saga) | Makoto Yukimura | December 2005 |
| Wandance (ワンダンス, Wandansu) | Coffee | January 2019 |
| Wandering Island (冒険エレキテ島, Bōken Erekite-tō) | Kenji Tsuruta | September 2011 |
| Wave, Listen to Me! (波よ聞いてくれ, Nami yo Kiitekure) | Hiroaki Samura | July 2014 |
| Yakuza Fiancé: Raise wa Tanin ga Ī (来世は他人がいい) | Asuka Konishi | August 2017 |
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