Kobunsha is a Japan

Japan

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ese publishing

Publishing

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 company. It publishes literature

Literature

Literature is the art of written works, and is not bound to published sources...

, manga

Manga

Manga is the Japanese word for "comics" and consists of comics and print cartoons . In the West, the term "manga" has been appropriated to refer specifically to comics created in Japan, or by Japanese authors, in the Japanese language and conforming to the style developed in Japan in the late 19th...

 novels, and women's magazines.

Kobunsha was first established on October 1, 1945 and belongs to the Kodansha

Kodansha

, the largest Japanese publisher, produces the manga magazines Nakayoshi, Afternoon, Evening, and Weekly Shonen Magazine, as well as more literary magazines such as Gunzō, Shūkan Gendai, and the Japanese dictionary Nihongo Daijiten. The company has its headquarters in Bunkyō, Tokyo...

 group.

In 1975 Kobunsha published the women's magazine JJ

JJ (magazine)

JJ is a Japanese fashion and lifestyle magazine published by Kobunsha. It was established in 1975 as an extra issue of Weekly Josei Jishin, and was the first women's magazine for college students in Japan. Most readers of JJ are females between the ages of 17 and 26, and range from college students...

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known as the earliest established women's magazine for college students in Japan.

Kobunsha currently publishes women's magazines such as JJ, Classy

Classy (magazine)

Monthly Classy Magazine is a Japanese women's magazine published by Kobunsha. Its title Classy is derived from the English adjective classy. It is a sister magazine of JJ, and has been published since 1984 by the same company...

 and JJ Bis.

Women's magazines published by Kobunsha

• JJ
  JJ (magazine)
  JJ is a Japanese fashion and lifestyle magazine published by Kobunsha. It was established in 1975 as an extra issue of Weekly Josei Jishin, and was the first women's magazine for college students in Japan. Most readers of JJ are females between the ages of 17 and 26, and range from college students...
  
  
• Bis
  Bis (magazine)
  Bis is a magazine directed at teenaged schoolgirls, published in Japan by Kobunsha. JJ Bis had changed its title to Bis effective from the January 2006 issue. JJ Bis, former title of Bis, has been established in 2001 as an extra issue of monthly JJ, and JJ Bis is currently supported among Japanese...
  
   - a version of JJ magazine targeted to women aged between 15 to 19.
• Classy
  Classy
  Classy may mean:* Possessing elegance, the attribute of being tastefully designed, decorated and maintaining refined grace and dignified propriety.* Classy , a Japanese women's magazine* The nickname of professional wrestler Fred Blassie...
  
   - a version of JJ magazine targeted to women aged between 24 and 28.
• Very
• Story
  Story (magazine)
  Story was a magazine founded in 1931 by journalist-editor Whit Burnett and his first wife, Martha Foley, in Vienna, Austria. Showcasing short stories by new authors, 67 copies of the debut issue were mimeographed in Vienna, and two years later, Story moved to New York City where Burnett and Foley...
  
  
• Mart
• Josei Jishin

Men's magazines published by Kobunsha

• Gainer
• Brio

Other magazines published by Kobunsha

• Giallo
• Flash
• Shousetsu Houseki

Magazines no longer published by Kobunsha

• Hoseki
• Shukan Hoseki
• VS.

Series of literary books

• Kobunsha Bunko
• Kappa Novels
• Kobunsha Shinsho
• Kobunsha Paper Backs
• Chieno Mori Bunko

Series of Manga

• Koubunsha Girl Comic Series
• Koubunsha BL Comic Series
• Hinotama Game Comic Series

Manga Anthologies

• Megane de Suit
• BL Shouji Shinnyuu Shainsan Irasshai!!
• Shinsengumi
  Shinsengumi
  The were a special police force of the late shogunate period.-Historical background:After Japan opened up to the West following U.S. Commodore Matthew Perry's visits in 1853, its political situation gradually became more and more chaotic...
  
   anthology Hana to Ran