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Japan

Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...

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Seinen

is a subset of manga that is generally targeted at a 20–30 year old male audience, but the audience can be older with some manga aimed at businessmen well into their 40s. In Japanese, the word Seinen means "young man" or "young men" and is not suggestive of sexual matters...

 manga magazine pushlished on a monthly basis by Wani Books

Wani Books

is a Japanese publishing company focused on manga-related publication, including magazines and books. The company was established in November 1979. It publishes one manga magazine Comic Gum.- Wink Up : is an idol magazine published since July 1988....

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Unlike other Japanese magazines, Comic Gum rarely contains posters or pin-up pictures. However, a special gift is given away together with each issue, which is releated to one of the series featured in the magazine. That includes Special DVDs, Trading Cards or Drama CDs.

Its main readership is men from 18 years and up.

Manga serialized

• Amaenaideyo
  Amaenaideyo!!
  Ah My Buddha, known in Japan as , is a mature rated manga by Toshinori Sogabe that was serialised in Comic Gum magazine. An anime adaptation runs on TV Tokyo's anime satellite channel, AT-X...
  
  
• Because I'm the Goddess
  Because I'm the Goddess
  is a comedy manga series created by Shamneko and published in Japan by Wani Books. A 3-volume English translation was released by Tokyopop. The story is about a boy named Aoi, who upon meeding Pandora a Goddess reluctantly helps her collect gifts she needs to become a complete Goddess.- Plot...
  
  
• Ikki Tousen
  Ikki Tousen
  , also known as Battle Vixens, is a manga series written and illustrated by Yuji Shiozaki, based on the classic Chinese novel Romance of the Three Kingdoms...
  
  
• Mahoromatic
  Mahoromatic
  is a sci-fi romantic comedy manga and animeseries which contains elements of the literary genre of tragic dramas. It is about a female android former soldier, Mahoro...
  
  
• Tetragrammaton Labyrinth
  Tetragrammaton Labyrinth
  is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by manga author Ei Itou. The manga was serialized in the Japanese seinen manga magazine Comic Gum between January 26, 2005 and November 26, 2007, published by Wani Books. The manga has been licensed by Los Angeles-based company Seven Seas...
  
  
• The Candidate for Goddess
  The Candidate for Goddess
  is a Japanese manga written and illustrated by Yukiru Sugisaki. The series takes place in the distant future, where human beings live among space colonies and a single, inhabitable planet called Zion. The plot follows Zero Enna and his fellow candidates as they try to prove themselves worthy of...
  
  
• Tsukuyomi: Moon Phase
• Ashiarai
• Koe de Oshigoto!
• Tokyo Little Gunners
• Fight Ippatsu! Jūden-chan!!
  Fight Ippatsu! Jūden-chan!!
  is a manga series by Bow Ditama, which is also adopted into a television anime series of the same name that began airing on the liberal AT-X network in Japan from June 25, 2009. It features anthropomorphized characters representing aspects of charging electrical equipment...
  
  
• 99 (Ninetynine)
• Emuyon
• Aika Zero
• Hibi kore hai boku
• Iincho
• Kikokeso
• U~min
• Magallanica
• Nobunaga!
• Deep Forest
• Heavens Gate