Monthly Shonen Gangan
Encyclopedia
is a manga
imprint
of Square Enix
(originally Enix
). It publishes manga in several magazines aimed at different reader demographic groups in the Japanese market. Its magazines are home to some popular manga series which were adapted into anime series, like Fullmetal Alchemist
, Moribito: Guardian of the Spirit, Nabari no Ou and Soul Eater
. The comics are later collected in paperback volumes under brand names such as , and , which identify the magazine of serialisation. These paperback brand names are formed by deleting any or in the magazine name and inserting directly after the word "Gangan".
(now "Square Enix
") in 1991, to compete with other magazines such as Shōnen Magazine, Shōnen Jump
and Shōnen Sunday
, and is targeted toward the same young, male demographic ("Shōnen
" means young boy or young man). It features manga with lots of 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.
Ongoing manga:
Manga and series featured:
manga
magazine published by Square Enix
. The manga series within the magazine target young male readers and 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:
manga
magazine published by Square Enix
twice a month, on the first and third Friday. The magazine was first published on December 3, 2004.
Manga featured:
Manga featured:
Light Novels featured:
manga
magazine that was launched by Square Enix
on April 22, 2009.
Manga featured:
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.
Manga featured:
) (completed) Book Girl and the Suicidal Mime (Miho Takeoka)
Final Fantasy XII
(Gin Amou) Jūshin Enbu (Hiromu Arakawa
) HEAVEN (Aoi Nanase) (completed)
Higurashi no Naku Koro ni
: Onikakushi-hen (completed), Tsumihoroboshi-hen (completed), and Matsuribayashi-hen (Karin Suzuragi
, Ryukishi07
) He Is My Master
(Asu Tsubaki, Mattsu) Kimi to Boku
(Kiichi Hotta) Nusunde Ri-Ri-Su (Tinker)
Princess of Mana (Seiken Densetsu: Princess of Mana) (Satsuki Yoshino)
Shining Tears
(Akira Kanda) (completed) Superior
(Ichtys) Umineko no Naku Koro ni
(Kei Natsumi, Ryukishi07
)
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.
Manga featured:
(Shiro Ihara) Brothers (Yoshiki Naruse)
Aphorism (Karuna Kujo)
Ark (Nea Fuyuki)
dear
(Cocoa Fujiwara
) Chokotto Hime (Ayami Kazama)
Enchanter
(Izumi Kawachi) Fire Emblem Hikari wo Tsugumono (Nea Fuyuki)
Higurashi no Naku Koro ni
: Watanagashi-hen and Meakashi-hen (Yutori Hōjō
, Ryukishi07
)
Ignite (Sasa Hiiro)
Kon Jirushi (Toyotaro Kon)
Mahoraba
(Akira Kojima
)
Majipikoru (Kanoto Kinatsu)
Natsu no Arashi!
(Jin Kobayashi
)
NecromanciA (Hamashin)
Otoshite Appli Girl (Kako Mochizuki)
Sai Drill (Izumi Kawachi)
Sengoku Strays
(Shingo Nanami
)
Seto no Hanayome
(Tahiko Kimura)
Stamp Dead (Kanoto Kinatsu)
Shyo Shyo Rika (Takumi Uesugi)
Tales of Eternia
(Yoko Koike) (completed)
Tenshou Yaoyorozu (Kanoto Kinatsu)
Tokyo Innocent (Naru Narumi)
Vampire Savior: Tamashii no Mayoigo (Mayumi Azuma
) (completed)
Warasibe (Satoru Matsuba)
Watashi no Messiah-sama
(Suu Minazuki
)
Watashi no Ookami-san (Cocoa Fujiwara
)
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...
imprint
Imprint
In the publishing industry, an imprint can mean several different things:* As a piece of bibliographic information about a book, it refers to the name and address of the book's publisher and its date of publication as given at the foot or on the verso of its title page.* It can mean a trade name...
of Square Enix
Square Enix
is a Japanese video game and publishing company best known for its console role-playing game franchises, which include the Final Fantasy series, the Dragon Quest series, and the action-RPG Kingdom Hearts series...
(originally Enix
Enix
The was a Japanese company that produced video games, anime and manga. The company was founded by Yasuhiro Fukushima on September 22, 1975 as and renamed Enix in 1982...
). It publishes manga in several magazines aimed at different reader demographic groups in the Japanese market. Its magazines are home to some popular manga series which were adapted into anime series, like Fullmetal Alchemist
Fullmetal Alchemist
, is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Hiromu Arakawa. The world of Fullmetal Alchemist is styled after the European Industrial Revolution...
, Moribito: Guardian of the Spirit, Nabari no Ou and Soul Eater
Soul Eater (manga)
is a Japanese manga written and illustrated by Atsushi Ōkubo. Set at the "Death Weapon Meister Academy," the series revolves around three teams consisting of a weapon meister and human weapon...
. The comics are later collected in paperback volumes under brand names such as , and , which identify the magazine of serialisation. These paperback brand names are formed by deleting any or in the magazine name and inserting directly after the word "Gangan".
Monthly Shōnen Gangan
is a monthly manga magazine that regularly has over 600 pages. Shōnen Gangan was launched by EnixEnix
The was a Japanese company that produced video games, anime and manga. The company was founded by Yasuhiro Fukushima on September 22, 1975 as and renamed Enix in 1982...
(now "Square Enix
Square Enix
is a Japanese video game and publishing company best known for its console role-playing game franchises, which include the Final Fantasy series, the Dragon Quest series, and the action-RPG Kingdom Hearts series...
") in 1991, to compete with other magazines such as Shōnen Magazine, Shōnen Jump
Weekly Shonen Jump
is a weekly shōnen manga anthology published in Japan by Shueisha under the Jump line of magazines. The first issue was released with a cover date of July 2, 1968, and it is still circulating. One of the longest-running manga magazines in Japan, it has a circulation of 2.8 million copies...
and Shōnen Sunday
Shonen Sunday
, first published on March 17, 1959, is a weekly shōnen manga magazine published in Japan by Shogakukan. Contrary to its title, Weekly Shōnen Sunday issues are released on Wednesdays.- History :...
, and is targeted toward the same young, male demographic ("Shōnen
Shonen
The term refers to manga marketed to a male audience aged roughly 10 and up. The Kanji characters literally mean "few" and "year", respectively, where the characters generally mean "comic"...
" means young boy or young man). It features manga with lots of action and adventure; science fiction
Science fiction
Science fiction is a genre of fiction dealing with imaginary but more or less plausible content such as future settings, futuristic science and technology, space travel, aliens, and paranormal abilities...
and fantasy
Fantasy
Fantasy is a genre of fiction that commonly uses magic and other supernatural phenomena as a primary element of plot, theme, or setting. Many works within the genre take place in imaginary worlds where magic is common...
elements in the stories are very common. Square Enix also publishes the related Gangan YG and Monthly Gangan Wing.
Ongoing manga:
- Nagasarete Airantou (Takeshi Fujishiro)
- Soul EaterSoul Eater (manga)is a Japanese manga written and illustrated by Atsushi Ōkubo. Set at the "Death Weapon Meister Academy," the series revolves around three teams consisting of a weapon meister and human weapon...
(Atsushi ŌkuboAtsushi Okubo, also romanized as Atsushi Ohkubo, is a Japanese manga author and fantasy artist known for his work on the manga series Soul Eater, which has been adapted into an anime. Okubo worked as an assistant under Rando Ayamine, on the manga series Get Backers...
) - Corpse Princess (Yoshiichi Akahito)
- Kurenai Ouji (Souta Kuwabara)
- Toaru Majutsu no Index (Kazuma Kamachi, Chuuya Kogino)
- Kiyomura-kun to Sugi Kouji-kun (Mashihiro Totsuka)
- Tripeace (Maru Tomoyuki)
- Mangaka-san to Assistant-san to (Hiroyuki)
- Bamboo Blade BBamboo Bladeis a Japanese manga series written by Masahiro Totsuka, and illustrated by Aguri Igarashi. The manga was first serialized in the Japanese seinen manga magazine Young Gangan starting December 3, 2004. The manga has been licensed for distribution in North America by Yen Press. An anime adaptation by...
(Masahiro Totsuka, Neko Sutajio) - Bloody Cross (Yoneyama Shiwo)
- Isoshime! Nioka Sensei (Junichi Odaka)
- Gochisō Cinema Shita!! (Ikaring)
- HeromanHeromanis a manga and anime produced by Bones and created by Marvel's Stan Lee. The manga is published in Monthly Shōnen Gangan and began serialization in September 2009, while the anime series premiered on April 1, 2010, on TV Tokyo and related stations...
(Stan LeeStan LeeStan Lee is an American comic book writer, editor, actor, producer, publisher, television personality, and the former president and chairman of Marvel Comics....
, Tamon Ōta) - Kingdom Hearts 358/2 DaysKingdom Hearts 358/2 Daysis an action roleplaying game developed and published by Square Enix for the Nintendo DS with assistance from h.a.n.d. It is the fifth installment in the best-selling Kingdom Hearts series, and serves as an interquel beginning near the end of the first game, Kingdom Hearts, and covering the period...
(Shiro AmanoShiro Amanois a Japanese manga artist who has worked on several projects, including his adaptation on the popular Kingdom Hearts series.-Manga:* Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories* Kingdom Hearts II* Kingdom Hearts: 358/2 Days* Legend of Mana...
) - Banoten! (Taichi Kawazoe)
- Judge (Yoshiki Tonogai)
- Red Raven (Shinta Fujimoto)
- Soul Eater Not!Soul Eater (manga)is a Japanese manga written and illustrated by Atsushi Ōkubo. Set at the "Death Weapon Meister Academy," the series revolves around three teams consisting of a weapon meister and human weapon...
(Atsushi Ookubo) - Saki - Achika-hen - Episode of Side-ASaki (manga)is an ongoing Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Ritz Kobayashi. The story revolves around a first-year high school girl named Saki Miyanaga who is brought into the competitive world of mahjong by another first-year, Nodoka Haramura...
(Aguri IgarashiAguri Igarashiis a female Japanese manga artist. She is the illustrator for best selling manga series, Bamboo Blade.- External links :*...
)
Manga and series featured:
- 666 Satan (O-Parts Hunter) (Seishi KishimotoSeishi Kishimotois a Japanese manga artist. He is best known for 666 Satan, which was serialized in Japan by Monthly Shōnen Gangan from 2001 to 2007 and licensed by VIZ in North America as O-Parts Hunter. His older twin brother, Masashi Kishimoto, is also a manga artist and creator of Naruto...
) (completed) - Akuma Jiten (Shinya Suyama)
- B. Ichi (Atsushi OkuboAtsushi Okubo, also romanized as Atsushi Ohkubo, is a Japanese manga author and fantasy artist known for his work on the manga series Soul Eater, which has been adapted into an anime. Okubo worked as an assistant under Rando Ayamine, on the manga series Get Backers...
) (completed) - Blade Sangokushi (Ryuunosuke Ichikawa, Taiyou Makabe)
- Choko Beast!! (Rin Asano) (completed)
- Code Age Archives (Yusuke NaoraYusuke NaoraYusuke Naora is a Japanese video game art director and character designer working for Square Enix . He served as the art director for several Final Fantasy and Compilation of Final Fantasy VII titles...
) - DoubtDoubt (manga), also known as , is a shōnen horror manga written and illustrated by Yoshiki Tonogai. The series focuses on the "Rabbit Doubt" cell phone game, with rules similar to Mafia. The players must find the wolf, or killer, amongst their group of rabbits as they are picked off one-by-one...
(Yoshiki TonogaiYoshiki Tonogaiis a Japanese manga artist from Shiga, Japan. He is notable as the illustrator of one of the Higurashi no Naku Koro ni manga adaptations: Himatsubushi-hen. He is also the artist and writer of Doubt,which was completed in February, 2009.He is also the artist and writer of Judge, the sequel to Doubt,...
) (completed) - Dragon Quest: Eden no Senshitachi (Kamui FujiwaraKamui Fujiwarais a Japanese character designer and manga artist. Fujiwara's father was a soldier in the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II. He excelled in mathematics and computer science when in grade school. He graduated from the Kuwasawa Design School, which is attached to Tokyo Zokei University...
) (completed) - Dragon Quest Monsters + (Mine YoshizakiMine Yoshizakiis a Japanese manga creator who first started his career by making dōjinshi based on video games. Yoshizaki also worked as an assistant to manga artist Katsu Aki...
) (completed) - Dragon Quest Retsuden: Roto no MonshōDragon Quest Retsuden: Roto no Monshōis a manga series by Chiaki Kawamata , Junji Koyanagi and Kamui Fujiwara that was adapted into a comic CD in 1994. An anime movie based on the manga was released in Japan in . Its story is meant to take place between Dragon Warrior III and Dragon Warrior...
(Kamui Fujiwara) (completed) - Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: Hatenaki Sora no Mukou niFinal Fantasy Crystal Chroniclesis a action role-playing game for the Nintendo GameCube. It was published by Nintendo and developed by The Game Designers Studio, a shell corporation for Square Enix's Product Development Division-2. A spin-off of the Final Fantasy series, the game spawned a metaseries of the same name...
(Ryunosuke Ichikawa) (completed) - Fullmetal AlchemistFullmetal Alchemist, is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Hiromu Arakawa. The world of Fullmetal Alchemist is styled after the European Industrial Revolution...
(Hiromu ArakawaHiromu Arakawais a Japanese manga artist from Hokkaidō. Her renowned manga, Fullmetal Alchemist, became a hit both domestically and internationally, and was later adapted into two television anime series. She often portrays herself as a bespectacled cow.-Biography:...
) (completed) - Full Moon (Takatoshi Shiozawa)
- Guardian Eito (Mine Yoshizaki) (completed)
- Guardian of the SpiritGuardian of the Spiritis the first in the eleven volume series of Japanese fantasy novels by Nahoko Uehashi. It has since been adapted into numerous media, including radio, manga and anime adaptations. Scholastic released the first novel in English in June, 2008. Media Blasters has confirmed that they acquired the...
(Nahoko UehashiNahoko Uehashiis a Japanese writer, most famous for the series, which sold over 1.5 million copies in Japan. One of her novels, Guardian of the Sacred Spirit has been adapted into an anime television series, a manga, and a radio drama. The same book was published in English from Arthur A...
, Kamui FujiwaraKamui Fujiwarais a Japanese character designer and manga artist. Fujiwara's father was a soldier in the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II. He excelled in mathematics and computer science when in grade school. He graduated from the Kuwasawa Design School, which is attached to Tokyo Zokei University...
) - Haré+GuuHaré+Guuis a Japanese anime, based on an original manga which ran in Monthly Shōnen Gangan Twenty-six TV episodes were made, followed by two OVA sequels: Haré+Guu DELUXE and Haré+Guu FINAL....
(Jungle wa Itsumo Hare nochi Gū & Hare Guu) (Renjuro Kindaichi) (2 series, completed) - Hazama no Uta (Kaishaku)
- Hidamari no Pinyu (Misaki Ogawa)
- Flash! Funny-face Club (Motoei ShinzawaMotoei Shinzawais a Japanese manga artist born June 10, 1958 in Kashiwazaki, Niigata Prefecture, Japan.His debut manga was Sannen Kimen-gumi, published in Weekly Shōnen Jump beginning in 1980. After Sannen ended in 1982, he began publishing Highschool! Kimen-gumi, also in Weekly Shōnen Jump, until 1987...
) (completed) - It's a Wonderful WorldIt's a Wonderful World (video game)The World Ends with You, known in Japan as , is an action role-playing game developed by Square Enix's Kingdom Hearts team and Jupiter for the Nintendo DS handheld console. Set in the modern-day Shibuya shopping district of Tokyo, The World Ends with You features a distinctive art style inspired by...
(Shiro AmanoShiro Amanois a Japanese manga artist who has worked on several projects, including his adaptation on the popular Kingdom Hearts series.-Manga:* Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories* Kingdom Hearts II* Kingdom Hearts: 358/2 Days* Legend of Mana...
) (one shot) - Jūshin Enbu (Hiromu ArakawaHiromu Arakawais a Japanese manga artist from Hokkaidō. Her renowned manga, Fullmetal Alchemist, became a hit both domestically and internationally, and was later adapted into two television anime series. She often portrays herself as a bespectacled cow.-Biography:...
) (originally Gangan Powered, completed) - Kimi to Boku (Kiichi Hotta)
- Kingdom Hearts (Shiro AmanoShiro Amanois a Japanese manga artist who has worked on several projects, including his adaptation on the popular Kingdom Hearts series.-Manga:* Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories* Kingdom Hearts II* Kingdom Hearts: 358/2 Days* Legend of Mana...
) (completed) - Kingdom Hearts: Chain of MemoriesKingdom Hearts: Chain of Memoriesis an action role-playing game developed by Square Enix and Japanese studio Jupiter and published by Square Enix in 2004 for the Game Boy Advance. The game serves as an intermediary between the two larger-scale PlayStation 2 games in the Kingdom Hearts series. It was one of the first GBA games to...
(Shiro AmanoShiro Amanois a Japanese manga artist who has worked on several projects, including his adaptation on the popular Kingdom Hearts series.-Manga:* Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories* Kingdom Hearts II* Kingdom Hearts: 358/2 Days* Legend of Mana...
) (completed) - Kingdom Hearts IIKingdom Hearts IIis an action role-playing game developed by Square Enix and published by Buena Vista Games and Square Enix in 2005 for the Sony PlayStation 2 video game console...
(Shiro AmanoShiro Amanois a Japanese manga artist who has worked on several projects, including his adaptation on the popular Kingdom Hearts series.-Manga:* Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories* Kingdom Hearts II* Kingdom Hearts: 358/2 Days* Legend of Mana...
) - Luno (Kei ToumeKei Toumeis a Japanese manga artist.Kei Toume studied at the Tama Art University in Tokyo. Her first manga, Rokujō gekijō, was published in Comic Burger magazine in 1992. The manga won her the Shiki prize in a contest held by Kodansha in 1993. A year later, her follow-up manga Mannequin also won a prize.She...
) - Maboroshi no DaichiDragon Quest VI, Dragon Quest VI: Realms of Reverie in Europe, is a console role-playing game developed by Heartbeat and published by Enix for the Super Famicom as a part of the Dragon Quest series. It is the last Dragon Quest game in the Zenithia trilogy. It was released on December 9, 1995 in Japan...
(Masomi Kanzaki) (completed) - Mahōjin Guru GuruMahojin Guru Guruis a manga by Hiroyuki Etō, which was serialized in Enix's Monthly Shōnen Gangan from 1992 to 2003. It was later adapted into an anime series on October 13, 1994....
(Hiroyuki Etou) (completed) - Mamotte Shugogetten (Minene SakuranoMinene Sakuranois the pen name of a Japanese manga artist born on November 29 in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan.Sakurano made her debut in 1995 with her story Mother Doll, which tied for first place in the 1st Enix 21st Century Manga Prize contest, sharing the prize with Yasaka Mamiko's Kaze no Daidōzoku...
) (completed) - Matantei LokiThe Mythical Detective Loki Ragnarokis a manga by Sakura Kinoshita published from August 1999 to October 2004. A television anime based upon the manga series ran for 26 episodes from April 5, 2003 to September 27, 2003 in Japan....
(Sakura KinoshitaSakura Kinoshitais a Japanese manga artist. She's most famous for two of her works: Matantei Loki Ragnarok and Tactics .One of her characters in Loki has a very similar name to her Tactics co-author's .-References:...
) (completed) - Material PuzzleMaterial Puzzleis a 2002 Japanese manga by Masahiro Totsuka. In Japan there are currently twenty volumes out. However, the manga has yet to be translated into English.The manga is a parody manga and is constantly making fun out of the typical shōnen manga...
(Masahiro Totsuka) - Megalomania (Daisuke Hiyama)
- Meteo Emblem (Sung-Woo Park)
- Onikiri-sama no Hakoiri Musume (Akinobu Uraku)
- Ousama no Mimi Okonomimi (Kei Natsumi)
- PapuwaPapuwais a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Ami Shibata and serialized in Square Enix's manga magazine Monthly Shōnen Gangan from April 1991 to June 1995. The series follows Kotaro who is stranded on an uncharted island inhabited by strange talking animals hand has memory of his past...
& Nangoku Shōnen Papuwa-kun (Ami Shibata) (2 series, completed) - Peace Maker (Nanae ChronoNanae Chronois a female Japanese manga artist. She is best known as the creator of the manga series Peacemaker Kurogane, Senki Senki Momotama, and Vassalord .-Serials:*; *; *; *; *; -Artbooks:*;*;...
) - Phantom Dead or Alive (Michiaki Watanabe) (completed)
- Saga of Queen Knight (Tomohiro Shimomura) (completed)
- Shugen Byakuyū Rubikura (Ryūsuke MIta)
- Spiral: Suiri no Kizuna (Eita MizunoEita Mizunois a Japanese manga artist and illustrator, best known for drawing the Spiral: The Bonds of Reasoning series.- Manga :* Spiral: The Bonds of Reasoning * Spiral: Alive - Art books :...
, Kyo Shirodaira) (completed) - Spiral Alive (Eita MizunoEita Mizunois a Japanese manga artist and illustrator, best known for drawing the Spiral: The Bonds of Reasoning series.- Manga :* Spiral: The Bonds of Reasoning * Spiral: Alive - Art books :...
, Kyo Shirodaira) (completed) - Star Ocean: Blue SphereStar Ocean: Blue Sphereis a 2001 Game Boy Color video game that is the direct sequel to Star Ocean: The Second Story. It has never been released outside of Japan. The text is colloquial with an emphasis on "sci-fi" jargon...
(Aoi Mizuki) (completed) - Star Ocean: The Second StoryStar Ocean: The Second Story (manga)is a seven volume manga series written and illustrated by Mayumi Azuma. Based on the tri-Ace video game Star Ocean: The Second Story, it follows the exploits of Claude C. Kenny, a young ensign in the Earth Federation who finds himself stranded on the Planet Expel...
(Mayumi AzumaMayumi Azumais a Japanese manga artist who is the creator of the now completed manga Elemental Gelade, which finished with eighteen volumes and was adapted into a 26-episode television anime series, and its ongoing spinoff manga Elemental Gelade: Flag of Blue Sky...
) (completed) - Star Ocean: Till the End of TimeStar Ocean: Till the End of Timeis the third main game in the Star Ocean series. The game was developed by tri-Ace and published by Square Enix for the PlayStation 2 console. It was released in Japan, North America, and the PAL territories. The original Japanese release date was in February of 2003 by Enix, its penultimate...
(Akira Kanda) (completed) - Straykeys (Tarō Yuzunoki)
- Tozasareta Nerugaru (Rumi Aruma)
- Tokyo Fantasy Gakuen Yuushaka: Rua no Noel (KaishakuKaishaku (manga group)is a group of two manga artists consisting of and . The name comes from , an appointed second person whose duty it is to decapitate one who commits seppuku - ritual suicide by disembowelment...
) - Tokyo UndergroundTokyo Undergroundis a manga series by Akinobu Uraka and published by Enix. It became an anime series, produced by Studio Pierrot and shown on the TV Tokyo Network from April 2 until September 24, 2002....
(Akinobu UrakaAkinobu Urakais a Japanese manga artist best known for creating Tokyo Underground. Uraka won one of two grand prizes at the 4th Enix 21st Century Manga Awards in 1997 for his work Yojō Mahō Shoriban...
) (completed) - Totsugeki! Papparatai (Natsuki Matsuzawa) (completed)
- Twin SignalTwin Signalis a manga series originally written by Sachi Oshimizu. It was later animated as a 3 episode anime OVA series. Both the manga and the OVA have been licensed by Media Blasters for distribution in the USA....
(Sachi Oshimizu) (completed) - UFO Ultramaiden ValkyrieUFO Ultramaiden Valkyrie, aka UFO Princess Valkyrie, is an anime series based on the manga of the same name, which has run for at eleven volumes, and still seems to be continuing...
(KaishakuKaishaku (manga group)is a group of two manga artists consisting of and . The name comes from , an appointed second person whose duty it is to decapitate one who commits seppuku - ritual suicide by disembowelment...
) (completed) - Vampire Juuji KaiThe Record of a Fallen Vampireis a modern-day vampire-themed manga illustrated by and written by , writer behind the popular manga and anime series Spiral - Bonds of Reasoning. It was serialized in Monthly Shōnen Gangan and has been collected into nine tankōbon published by Square Enix...
(Yuri Kimura, Kyo Shirodaira) - Violinist of HamelnViolinist of Hamelnis a fantasy adventure manga created by Michiaki Watanabe. Its premise is that a group of adventurers are traveling north to the Northern Capital to prevent a catastrophe. In this world, music has magical qualities. The manga and the anime are very different. The manga tends toward a lighter, more...
(Michiaki Watanabe) (completed) - Z MAN (Hideaki Nishikawa) (completed)
Monthly GFantasy
, also known as Gangan Fantasy, is a Japanese shōnenShonen
The term refers to manga marketed to a male audience aged roughly 10 and up. The Kanji characters literally mean "few" and "year", respectively, where the characters generally mean "comic"...
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...
magazine published by Square Enix
Square Enix
is a Japanese video game and publishing company best known for its console role-playing game franchises, which include the Final Fantasy series, the Dragon Quest series, and the action-RPG Kingdom Hearts series...
. The manga series within the magazine target young male readers and tend to be set in a fantasy
Fantasy literature
Fantasy literature is fantasy in written form. Historically speaking, literature has composed the majority of fantasy works. Since the 1950s however, a growing segment of the fantasy genre has taken the form of films, television programs, graphic novels, video games, music, painting, and other...
setting with large amounts of supernatural
Supernatural fiction
Supernatural fiction is a literary genre exploiting or requiring as plot devices or themes some contradictions of the commonplace natural world and materialist assumptions about it....
themes and a fair amount of action and/or horror
Horror fiction
Horror fiction also Horror fantasy is a philosophy of literature, which is intended to, or has the capacity to frighten its readers, inducing feelings of horror and terror. It creates an eerie atmosphere. Horror can be either supernatural or non-supernatural...
scenes.
Manga featured:
- 10-4 (Hashiba Maki)
- Black Butler (Yana TobosoYana Tobosois a female Japanese manga artist born in Warabi, Saitama Prefecture, Japan and currently resides in Yokohama.-Works:* Rust Blaster is a 2006 six-chapter manga published by Square Enix in one volume. It tells the story of a human and a vampire who both attend Millennium Academy, a school for...
) - Cuticle Detective (Mochi)
- D-Drops (Seana)
- Daisuke! (Hasu Kikuzuki)
- Durarara!!Durarara!!, often romanized as DRRR!! in Japan, is a Japanese light novel series written by Ryohgo Narita, with illustrations by Suzuhito Yasuda, that has also been adapted in to a Japanese anime series. As of February 2011, nine volumes have been published by ASCII Media Works under their Dengeki Bunko...
(Ryohgo NaritaRyohgo Narita' is a Japanese light novelist. He won the Gold Prize in the 9th Dengeki Novel Prize for Baccano!, which was made into a TV anime in 2007. His series Durarara!! was also made into a TV anime, which began airing January 2010....
) - E's (Satoru Yuiga)(completed)
- 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 776Fire Emblem: Thracia 776is a Japanese tactical role-playing game developed by Intelligent Systems and published by Nintendo, and the fifth installment in the Fire Emblem series. It is also the third and final Fire Emblem series title to be released on the Super Famicom. It was originally released through Nintendo Power...
(Yūna Takanagi) - GestaltGestalt (manga)is an 8-volume fantasy manga series by Yun Kōga and published by Square Enix and later by Ichijinsha that later spawned a two episode OVA series.-Plot:...
(Yun KougaYun Kouga, better known by the pen name is a female Japanese manga artist. She is married to fellow manga artist Tatsuneko. She is a graduate of Mita Senior High School, Tokyo...
) - Higurashi no Naku Koro niHigurashi no Naku Koro ni, known simply as When They Cry for the North American release of the anime adaptation, is a Japanese murder mystery dōjin soft sound novel series produced by 07th Expansion. The games are built on the NScripter game engine and are playable on Microsoft Windows PCs...
: Minagoroshi-hen (Hinase Momoyama, Ryukishi07Ryukishi07is the pen name of a Japanese man originally from Chiba Prefecture who is well known as the original creator for the idea of the visual novel series Higurashi no Naku Koro ni and Umineko no Naku Koro ni. He is the representative member of the group 07th Expansion...
) - Higurashi no Naku Koro niHigurashi no Naku Koro ni, known simply as When They Cry for the North American release of the anime adaptation, is a Japanese murder mystery dōjin soft sound novel series produced by 07th Expansion. The games are built on the NScripter game engine and are playable on Microsoft Windows PCs...
: Tatarigoroshi-hen (Jiro SuzukiJiro Suzukiis a female Japanese manga artist. She is notable as the artist for the Higurashi no Naku Koro ni manga; only Tatarigoroshi-hen however was done by her. An earlier manga of hers is MAGiMAGi. She will also be doing the manga version of Umineko no Naku Koro ni episode two, Turn of the golden...
, Ryukishi07Ryukishi07is the pen name of a Japanese man originally from Chiba Prefecture who is well known as the original creator for the idea of the visual novel series Higurashi no Naku Koro ni and Umineko no Naku Koro ni. He is the representative member of the group 07th Expansion...
) - Higurashi no Naku Koro niHigurashi no Naku Koro ni, known simply as When They Cry for the North American release of the anime adaptation, is a Japanese murder mystery dōjin soft sound novel series produced by 07th Expansion. The games are built on the NScripter game engine and are playable on Microsoft Windows PCs...
: Yoigoshi-hen (Side story) (Mimori, Ryukishi07Ryukishi07is the pen name of a Japanese man originally from Chiba Prefecture who is well known as the original creator for the idea of the visual novel series Higurashi no Naku Koro ni and Umineko no Naku Koro ni. He is the representative member of the group 07th Expansion...
) - I, Otaku: Struggle in AkihabaraI, Otaku: Struggle in Akihabarais a Japanese manga series written by Japanese author Jirō Suzuki. The manga is serialized in the Japanese shōnen manga magazine Monthly GFantasy...
(Sōta-kun no Akihabara Funtōki) (Jiro SuzukiJiro Suzukiis a female Japanese manga artist. She is notable as the artist for the Higurashi no Naku Koro ni manga; only Tatarigoroshi-hen however was done by her. An earlier manga of hers is MAGiMAGi. She will also be doing the manga version of Umineko no Naku Koro ni episode two, Turn of the golden...
) - Kamiyomi (Ami Shibata)
- Kimi to BokuKimi to Boku (manga)is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Kiichi Hotta about four teens, Yuta and Yuki Asaba, Shun Matsuoka and Kaname Tsukahara, who grew up together and a half-Japanese transfer student Chizuru Tachibana who joins the circle of friends. In 2011, it was adapted into an anime television...
(Kiichi Hotta) - Lammermoor no Shōnen Kiheitai (Nana Natsunishi)
- Monokuro Kitan (Kusu Rinka)
- Nabari no Ou (Yuhki KamataniYuhki Kamataniis a Japanese manga writer and illustrator from Hiroshima, Japan. She debuted with and is known for . was published a year later. Both manga are published by Monthly GFantasy....
) - Pandora HeartsPandora Heartsis a manga series by Jun Mochizuki. Originally starting serialization in the shōnen magazine GFantasy published by Square Enix in June 2006. Currently fourteen volumes have been released in Japan. The manga series was licensed for an English language release by Broccoli Books but has been dropped;...
(Jun Mochizuki) - Pani Poni (Hekiru Hikawa)
- Saiyuki (Kazuya MinekuraKazuya Minekurais a Japanese manga artist most known for the Saiyuki series. Her other manga series include Wild Adapter, Shiritsu Araiso Koto Gakko Seitokai Shikkobu , and Stigma. Stigma is notable for being a full-color work, unusual as manga is generally drawn in black and white...
) - SwitchSwitch (manga)is a shōnen, action manga written by Otoh Saki and illustrated by Tomomi Nakamura. It was serialized in Square Enix's GFantasy from 2002 to October 2008. The individual chapters were collected and published in 13 tankōbon volumes by Square Enix, with the first volume released on June 21, 2002 and...
(naked ape) - Teiden Shōjo to Hanemushi no Orchestra (Ninomiya Ai)
- Torikago Gakkyuu (Shin Mashiba)
- Yumekui KenbunYumekui Kenbunis a Japanese shōnen manga series created by Shin Mashiba. It first premiered in Monthly Stencile, a shōjo magazine, in December 2001 and was then serialized in Monthly GFantasy from 2003 to 2007. Nine volumes have been released in Japan by Square-Enix since 2007, ending the series...
(Shin Mashiba) - Zombie-LoanZombie-Loanis a Japanese manga series created by Peach-Pit: Banri Sendo and Shibuko Ebara. It is published by Square Enix and is serialized in the Japanese shōnen manga magazine GFantasy. The series is licensed in the United States by Yen Press....
(Peach-PitPEACH-PITis a female manga artist duo in Japan, made up of and . Their group name derives from the diner hangout Peach-Pit from the TV show Beverly Hills, 90210. Although both have similar styles, with some artwork it is possible to identify which artist drew it. Both are known for their bishōjo styled works...
)
Young Gangan
is a Japanese seinenSeinen
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
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...
magazine published by Square Enix
Square Enix
is a Japanese video game and publishing company best known for its console role-playing game franchises, which include the Final Fantasy series, the Dragon Quest series, and the action-RPG Kingdom Hearts series...
twice a month, on the first and third Friday. The magazine was first published on December 3, 2004.
Manga featured:
- Amigo x Amiga (Takahiro Seguchi)
- Arakawa Under the BridgeArakawa Under the Bridgeis a Japanese manga series created by Hikaru Nakamura. The manga was first serialized in the Japanese seinen manga magazine Young GanGan starting December 3, 2004. An anime adaptation by Shaft was broadcast in Japan between April 4, 2010 and June 27, 2010 on TV Tokyo...
(Hikaru NakamuraHikaru Nakamura (manga artist)is a Japanese manga artist. She is mostly known for Saint Young Men and Arakawa Under the Bridge.-External links:...
) - Bamboo BladeBamboo Bladeis a Japanese manga series written by Masahiro Totsuka, and illustrated by Aguri Igarashi. The manga was first serialized in the Japanese seinen manga magazine Young Gangan starting December 3, 2004. The manga has been licensed for distribution in North America by Yen Press. An anime adaptation by...
(Aguri IgarashiAguri Igarashiis a female Japanese manga artist. She is the illustrator for best selling manga series, Bamboo Blade.- External links :*...
, Masahiro Totsuka) - Bitter VirginBitter Virginis a seinen manga presented by Kei Kusunoki and serialized in Young Gangan. Prior to producing this manga, Kusunoki had stopped writing for a period in order to cope with a miscarriage....
(Kei KusunokiKei Kusunoki, real name , is a Japanese manga artist best known for her horror and comedy manga series. She debuted in 1982 in Ribon Original with Nanika ga Kanojo Tōri Tsuita?. Her twin-sister Kaoru Ōhashi also works as a manga artist.- Works :...
) (completed) - Black GodBlack God (manga)is a Japanese-Korean manga series written by Dall-Young Lim and illustrated by Sung-Woo Park. Square Enix publishes the manga in Japan's bi-monthly seinen magazine Young Gangan. The story is initially set in modern day Tokyo, then changes to the island of Okinawa in the middle of the story. The...
(Sung-Woo Park, Dall-Young LimDall-Young LimLim Dall-Young is a South Korean author known for scripting the manhwa Unbalance Unbalance and the Japanese manga Black God and Freezing. He is the founder of Artlim Media, which was established in 1999...
) - Darker than Black: Shikkikou no HanaDarker than Blackis an anime television series, created, directed and written by Tensai Okamura and animated by Bones. It premiered across Japan from April 5, 2007 on MBS, TBS, and its affiliated broadcast stations, with its satellite television premiere in Japan on Animax in May 2007. The music for the series is...
(Yuji IwaharaYuji Iwaharais a Japanese manga artist. After graduating from art school he joined Hudson Soft as a graphic artist. He made his manga debut in 1994 in Afternoon with a story for which he won the fall Afternoon Four Seasons Award, a prize he received three more times over the next two years...
) - Dōsei Recipe (Towa OshimaTowa Oshimais a Japanese manga artist, currently residing in Tokyo, Japan. She is best known for the manga, High School Girls and its anime adaptation, Girl's High...
) - Drop KickDrop kickA drop kick is a type of kick in various codes of football. It involves a player dropping the ball and then kicking it when it bounces off the ground. It contrasts to a punt, wherein the player kicks the ball without letting it hit the ground first....
- Front Mission Dog Life and Dog Style/ Front Mission The Drive (Yasuo Otagaki)
- Fudanshism (MorishigeMorishigeis a Japanese manga artist. Under the name Rondoberu, he made is manga debut in 1996 with , published in the Tsukasa Shobō magazine Comic Ichiban. While his series are known for having an abundance of beautiful female characters, he is also known for addressing serious issues in his works...
) - Hanamaru YōchienHanamaru Kindergartenis a Japanese situation comedy manga series written and illustrated by Yuto and published by Square Enix. It is mainly about a kindergarten girl who is in love with her teacher and tries to win his affection but always fails...
(YUTO) - Hohzuki IslandHohzuki Islandis a manga written and illustrated by Kei Sanbe. It was serialized in Square Enix bi-monthly seinen magazine Young Gangan, commencing in the first issue of 2008 and running for 27 chapters through issue 14 of 2009, the July 3, 2009)...
(Sanbe Kei) (completed) - Jackals (Kim Byung Jin, Shinya Murata)
- Mangaka-san to Assistant-san to (HiroyukiHiroyukiis a male Japanese manga creator from Nerima, Tokyo, Japan. He is notable for the creation of the four-panel comic strip manga Dōjin Work which is the first of his works to be adaptated into an anime. Hiroyuki is well known for the creation of many dōjinshi based on the Type-Moon visual novels...
) - Mononoke (Ninagawa Yaeko)
- Mouryou no Yurikago (manhua) (Sanbe Kei)
- Nikoichi (Renjuro Kindaichi)
- SakiSaki (manga)is an ongoing Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Ritz Kobayashi. The story revolves around a first-year high school girl named Saki Miyanaga who is brought into the competitive world of mahjong by another first-year, Nodoka Haramura...
(Ritsu Kobayashi) - SekireiSekireiis a Japanese manga series by Sakurako Gokurakuin. The manga began serialization in the seinen magazine Young Gangan published by Square Enix in December 2004 and the first tankōbon was released on June 25, 2005, with ten volumes available in Japan as of June 25, 2010...
(Sakurako Gokurakuin) - Shikabane HimeShikabane Himeis a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Yoshiichi Akahito. Premiering in Monthly Shōnen Gangan on April 12, 2005, the series centers around the "Corpse Princess" Makina Hoshimura, an undead girl who is hunting down 108 undead corpses in order to gain entry into heaven with the help of...
(Yoshiichi Akahito) - Sumomomo MomomoSumomomo Momomois a Japanese manga series created by Japanese author Shinobu Ohtaka. The manga was first serialized in the Japanese manga magazine Young Gangan in 2004, which is published by Square Enix. The manga has been licensed by Yen Press for distribution in North America...
(Shinobu OhtakaShinobu Ohtaka. is a Japanese manga artist, and the author of Sumomomo Momomo manga series and recently, Magi-Labyrinth of Magic.-References:...
) (completed) - Tentai Senshi Sunred (Makoto Kubota)
- Übel BlattÜbel Blattis an ongoing seinen manga series created by Etorouji Shiono. It is serialized in Square Enix's bi-monthly manga magazine Young Gangan. As of September 25, 2009, 10 volumes have been published in Japan...
(Etorouji Shiono) - Übel Blatt Gaiden (Etorouji Shiono)
- Umeboshi (Maya KoikedaMaya Koikedais the pen name of a Japanese manga artist. Her real name is , and her pen name was created by saying backward the syllables from her real name. Koikeda graduated with a degree in art from the Kyoto City University of Arts...
) - Until Death Do Us PartUntil Death Do Us Partis a manga that started its serialization on Young Gangan Magazine's December 2005 issue. Its story is written by Hiroshi Takashige and the manga is drawn by DOUBLE-S. Currently, 15 volumes have been published. The story centers on a young girl who has the ability to tell what the future is...
(DOUBLE-S, Hiroshi TakashigeHiroshi Takashigeis a Japanese manga artist best known in various manga communities in Japan and overseas for his work in Spriggan and later in Until Death Do Us Part.-Biography:...
) - Violinist of Hameln: Shchelkunchik (Michiaki Watanabe)
- Working!!Working!!Working!! is a Japanese four-panel comic strip manga series written and illustrated by Karino Takatsu, and concerns the activities of the unusual employees at the Wagnaria family restaurant. It began serialization in the January 2005 issue of Square Enix's Young Gangan seinen manga magazine...
(Karino Takatsu)
Gangan Online
is a free manga and light novel web magazine published and updated by Square Enix. The online web magazine was activated on October 2, 2008.Manga featured:
- Ai wa Noroi no Nihon Ningyou (Kiki Suihei)
- Alba Rose no Neko (KARASUKarasuKarasu is a town situated in the western Black Sea coast. It has an overwinter population of around 24,500 which swells substantially in the summer to around 250,000 due to an influx tourists. Its municipal code is 264. Much of its commerce centers around hazelnut farming and tourism...
) - Asao-san to Kurata-kun (Hero)
- Amanonadeshiko (Haruka Ogataya)
- Aphorism (Karuna Kujo) (originally Gangan Wing)
- Barakamon (Satsuki Yoshino)
- Buyuuden Kita Kita (Hiroyuki Etou)
- Chokotto Hime (Ayami Kazama) (originally Gangan Wing)
- Cyoku! (Nico Tanigawa)
- En PassantEn passantEn passant is a move in the board game of chess . It is a special pawn capture which can occur immediately after a player moves a pawn two squares forward from its starting position, and an enemy pawn could have captured it had it moved only one square forward...
(Taro Yuzunoki) - Esoragoto (usi)
- Hyakuen! (Ema Tooyama)
- Life is Money (author Asaniji Teru, artist Yaguraba Tekka)
- Karasu-tengu Ujyu (Iwanosuke Neguragi)
- Kyou mo Machiwabite (Ichi Saeki)
- Kyousou no Simulacra (Hideaki Yoshimura)
- Oji-chan Yuusha (Tarou Sakamoto)
- Pochi Gunsō (Mao Momiji, AKIRAAkiraAkira may refer to:*Akira , a 1980s cyberpunk manga by Katsuhiro Otomo**Akira , a 1988 anime film adaptation of the manga...
) - Ryuushika Ryuushika (Yoshitoshi AbeYoshitoshi ABeis a Japanese graphic artist who works predominantly in anime and manga. He received his Master of Fine Arts from the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music. His works have an edgy style due to, among other things, his not using a ruler while drawing as is usual for most anime-style art....
) - Seitokai no Wotanoshimi. (Marumikan)
- Sengoku Sukuna (Nekotama.)
- Shikisou (Akira Kanda)
- Shougakusei Host Pochi (SAORI)
- Sougiya Riddle (Akai Higasa.)
- Tokyo Innocent (Naru Narumi) (originally Gangan Wing)
- Wa! (Akira KojimaAkira Kojimais a manga artist from Ibaraki prefecture who works for Square Enix. He is best known for Mahoraba, which was published in Gangan WING and adapted as an anime television show broadcast on TV Tokyo. He often represented himself in Mahoraba as a monolith with eyes and limbs.-External links:...
)
Light Novels featured:
Monthly Gangan Joker
is a Japanese shōnenShonen
The term refers to manga marketed to a male audience aged roughly 10 and up. The Kanji characters literally mean "few" and "year", respectively, where the characters generally mean "comic"...
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...
magazine that was launched by Square Enix
Square Enix
is a Japanese video game and publishing company best known for its console role-playing game franchises, which include the Final Fantasy series, the Dragon Quest series, and the action-RPG Kingdom Hearts series...
on April 22, 2009.
Manga featured:
- Book Girl and the Suicidal Mime (Rito Kōsaka) (originally Gangan Powered)
- Book Girl and the Famished Spirit (Rito Kōsaka)
- Corpse Party: Blood Covered (Team Guriguri, adapted by Toshimi Shinomiya) (originally Gangan Powered)
- Damekko Kissa Dear (Ryōta Yuzuki)
- Eighth (Izumi Kawachi)
- Himawari (Blank-Note, adapted by Daisuke Hiyama)
- Inu x Boku Secret Service (Cocoa FujiwaraCocoa Fujiwarais a Japanese manga author and illustrator, born on April 28, 1983 in the Fukuoka Prefecture. She currently resides in Japan. Her debut was with a work called CALLING, which she made when she was only fifteen. She chose not to go to high school so that she could draw manga...
) - Love x Rob x Stockholm (Hiroki Haruse)
- Manabiya (Akira KojimaAkira Kojimais a manga artist from Ibaraki prefecture who works for Square Enix. He is best known for Mahoraba, which was published in Gangan WING and adapted as an anime television show broadcast on TV Tokyo. He often represented himself in Mahoraba as a monolith with eyes and limbs.-External links:...
) - Natsu no Arashi!Natsu no Arashi!is a Japanese manga written and illustrated by Jin Kobayashi, who is known for his previous work School Rumble. The manga started serialization in Square Enix's Gangan Wing shōnen manga magazine on August 25, 2006, and seven bound volumes have been released in Japan as of March 2010...
(Jin KobayashiJin Kobayashiis a Japanese manga artist. His most famous work so far is School Rumble, which ran in Weekly Shōnen Magazine from 2002 to 2008. His second serial manga, Natsu no Arashi!, began running at Square Enix's Gangan Wing in 2006....
) (originally Gangan Wing) - NEET Princess Terrass (Tomohiro Shimomura)
- Ore no Kanojo to Osananajimi ga Shuraba SugiruOre no Kanojo to Osananajimi ga Shuraba Sugiru, is a Japanese light novel series written by Yuji Yuji, with illustrations provided by Ruroo. The first volume was published by SoftBank Creative under their GA Bunko imprint February 2011; as of May 2011, two volumes have been released...
(Nanasuke) - Prunus Girl
- rail aile bleue (Kazuyoshi Karasawa)
- Sengoku StraysSengoku Straysis a Japanese shōnen manga series by written and illustrated by Shingo Nanami. The manga is currently being serialized in the Monthly Gangan Wing magazine, and published in Japan by Square Enix.-Plot:...
(Shingo NanamiShingo Nanamiis a Japanese manga artist. Her debut work was a one volume manga titled Tennen Yuuryouji. Many of her works are serialized in Enix magazines, with collected volumes published by Square Enix. Her series KAMUI has been translated and published in English by Broccoli Books beginning in 2005...
) (originally Gangan Wing) - Seto no Hanayome (Tahiko Kimura) (originally Gangan Wing)
- Shinigami-sama ni Saigo no Onegai wo (YAMAGUCHI Mikoto)
- ShitsurakuenShitsurakuen (manga)is a shōnen manga series written and illustrated by Tōru Naomura. It follows the story of Himoto Sora, a transfer student with a sense of justice and dreams of becoming a knight. Upon arriving at Utopia Academy, she learns of a virtual reality-like game played by the male students in which they use...
(Tōru Naomura) - Tasogare Otome x Amnesia (Maybe) (Also known as Dusk Maiden of Amnesia)
- Today's Great Satan II (Yūichi Hiiragi)
- Umineko no Naku Koro niUmineko no Naku Koro niis a Japanese murder mystery dōjin soft visual novel series produced by 07th Expansion. The first game in the series, Legend of the Golden Witch, was first released at Comiket 72 on August 17, 2007 playable on the PC; the game sold out in thirty minutes...
(Kei Natsumi, Ryukishi07Ryukishi07is the pen name of a Japanese man originally from Chiba Prefecture who is well known as the original creator for the idea of the visual novel series Higurashi no Naku Koro ni and Umineko no Naku Koro ni. He is the representative member of the group 07th Expansion...
) (Originally Gangan Powered) - Yandere Kanojo (Shinobi)
Gangan Powered
was a Japanese shōnenShonen
The term refers to manga marketed to a male audience aged roughly 10 and up. The Kanji characters literally mean "few" and "year", respectively, where the characters generally mean "comic"...
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...
magazine published by Square Enix
Square Enix
is a Japanese video game and publishing company best known for its console role-playing game franchises, which include the Final Fantasy series, the Dragon Quest series, and the action-RPG Kingdom Hearts series...
. 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.
Manga featured:
Shogo Mukai
Shogo Mukai was the coach of the Japan national rugby union team during and prior to the 2003 Rugby World Cup. As such he must take a great deal of credit for the exciting and attractive brand of rugby which the team played at that time, which was very popular with many fans, not just Japanese ones...
) (completed)
Final Fantasy XII
is a console role-playing video game developed and published by Square Enix for the PlayStation 2. Released in 2006, it is the twelfth title in the Final Fantasy series and the last in the series to be released exclusively on the PlayStation platform...
(Gin Amou)
Hiromu Arakawa
is a Japanese manga artist from Hokkaidō. Her renowned manga, Fullmetal Alchemist, became a hit both domestically and internationally, and was later adapted into two television anime series. She often portrays herself as a bespectacled cow.-Biography:...
)
Higurashi no Naku Koro ni
, known simply as When They Cry for the North American release of the anime adaptation, is a Japanese murder mystery dōjin soft sound novel series produced by 07th Expansion. The games are built on the NScripter game engine and are playable on Microsoft Windows PCs...
: Onikakushi-hen (completed), Tsumihoroboshi-hen (completed), and Matsuribayashi-hen (Karin Suzuragi
Karin Suzuragi
is a female Japanese manga artist from Aichi, Japan. She is employed with Square Enix, working mainly as a manga artist for video games that are adapted into manga, such as Higurashi no Naku Koro ni.-Works Illustrated:Higurashi No Naku Koro Ni: Onikakushi-hen...
, Ryukishi07
Ryukishi07
is the pen name of a Japanese man originally from Chiba Prefecture who is well known as the original creator for the idea of the visual novel series Higurashi no Naku Koro ni and Umineko no Naku Koro ni. He is the representative member of the group 07th Expansion...
)
He Is My Master
is a gag comedy manga which ran in Monthly Shōnen Gangan, later spun off into a television anime series in the harem genre with a lolicon aspect. The manga is authored by two individuals: Mattsu who does the story and his ex-wife Asu Tsubaki who does the artwork...
(Asu Tsubaki, Mattsu)
Kimi to Boku (manga)
is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Kiichi Hotta about four teens, Yuta and Yuki Asaba, Shun Matsuoka and Kaname Tsukahara, who grew up together and a half-Japanese transfer student Chizuru Tachibana who joins the circle of friends. In 2011, it was adapted into an anime television...
(Kiichi Hotta)
Shining Tears
is an action role-playing game co-developed by Nextech and Amusement Vision and published by Sega in 2004 for the Sony PlayStation 2 video game console as a part of the Shining Force video game series. It tells the story of a mysterious boy named Xion. An anime adaptation for the game was announced...
(Akira Kanda) (completed)
Superior (manga)
is a manga created by Ichtys and published by Gangan Comics. Superior is a high fantasy Manga that includes dragons, demons, and most importantly, heroes...
(Ichtys)
Umineko no Naku Koro ni
is a Japanese murder mystery dōjin soft visual novel series produced by 07th Expansion. The first game in the series, Legend of the Golden Witch, was first released at Comiket 72 on August 17, 2007 playable on the PC; the game sold out in thirty minutes...
(Kei Natsumi, Ryukishi07
Ryukishi07
is the pen name of a Japanese man originally from Chiba Prefecture who is well known as the original creator for the idea of the visual novel series Higurashi no Naku Koro ni and Umineko no Naku Koro ni. He is the representative member of the group 07th Expansion...
)
Monthly Gangan Wing was a Japanese shōnen
Shonen
The term refers to manga marketed to a male audience aged roughly 10 and up. The Kanji characters literally mean "few" and "year", respectively, where the characters generally mean "comic"...
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...
magazine published by Square Enix
Square Enix
is a Japanese video game and publishing company best known for its console role-playing game franchises, which include the Final Fantasy series, the Dragon Quest series, and the action-RPG Kingdom Hearts series...
. 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.
Manga featured:
Alice on Deadlines
is a manga series by Shiro Ihara. The manga was serialized in Square Enix's shōnen magazine, Gangan Wing. Square Enix released the manga's four tankōbon volumes between March 26, 2005 and May 27, 2006...
(Shiro Ihara)
Dear (manga)
is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Cocoa Fujiwara. It was first serialized in the shōnen manga magazine Monthly Gangan Wing in June 2002, published by Square Enix. Currently, twelve volumes have been released in Japan...
(Cocoa Fujiwara
Cocoa Fujiwara
is a Japanese manga author and illustrator, born on April 28, 1983 in the Fukuoka Prefecture. She currently resides in Japan. Her debut was with a work called CALLING, which she made when she was only fifteen. She chose not to go to high school so that she could draw manga...
)
Enchanter (manga)
is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Izumi Kawachi. The manga was serialized in October 2002 in Square Enix's magazine Monthly Gangan Wing. The manga is licensed in North America by Digital Manga Publishing...
(Izumi Kawachi)
Higurashi no Naku Koro ni
, known simply as When They Cry for the North American release of the anime adaptation, is a Japanese murder mystery dōjin soft sound novel series produced by 07th Expansion. The games are built on the NScripter game engine and are playable on Microsoft Windows PCs...
: Watanagashi-hen and Meakashi-hen (Yutori Hōjō
Yutori Hojo
is a female Japanese manga artist from Hiroshima, Japan. She is notable for illustrating two of the story arcs from the Higurashi no Naku Koro ni series: Watanagashi-hen, and Meakashi-hen.-External links:...
, Ryukishi07
Ryukishi07
is the pen name of a Japanese man originally from Chiba Prefecture who is well known as the original creator for the idea of the visual novel series Higurashi no Naku Koro ni and Umineko no Naku Koro ni. He is the representative member of the group 07th Expansion...
)
Mahoraba
is a manga series by Akira Kojima, which was later adapted into an anime. It was serialized in Square Enix's Monthly Gangan WING manga magazine between January 2000 and July 2006, spanning a total of 12 tankōbon volumes....
(Akira Kojima
Akira Kojima
is a manga artist from Ibaraki prefecture who works for Square Enix. He is best known for Mahoraba, which was published in Gangan WING and adapted as an anime television show broadcast on TV Tokyo. He often represented himself in Mahoraba as a monolith with eyes and limbs.-External links:...
)
Natsu no Arashi!
is a Japanese manga written and illustrated by Jin Kobayashi, who is known for his previous work School Rumble. The manga started serialization in Square Enix's Gangan Wing shōnen manga magazine on August 25, 2006, and seven bound volumes have been released in Japan as of March 2010...
(Jin Kobayashi
Jin Kobayashi
is a Japanese manga artist. His most famous work so far is School Rumble, which ran in Weekly Shōnen Magazine from 2002 to 2008. His second serial manga, Natsu no Arashi!, began running at Square Enix's Gangan Wing in 2006....
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Sengoku Strays
is a Japanese shōnen manga series by written and illustrated by Shingo Nanami. The manga is currently being serialized in the Monthly Gangan Wing magazine, and published in Japan by Square Enix.-Plot:...
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Shingo Nanami
is a Japanese manga artist. Her debut work was a one volume manga titled Tennen Yuuryouji. Many of her works are serialized in Enix magazines, with collected volumes published by Square Enix. Her series KAMUI has been translated and published in English by Broccoli Books beginning in 2005...
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Seto no Hanayome
is a Japanese manga series written by Tahiko Kimura. The manga was serialized between the September 2002 and May 2009 issues of Monthly Gangan Wing, and the June and December 2010 issues of Monthly Gangan Joker, both published by Square Enix. In 2004, a drama CD based on the series was released by...
(Tahiko Kimura)
Tales of Eternia
is a Japanese PlayStation action role-playing video game released by Namco on November 30, 2000, selling 873,000 copies and later ported to the PlayStation Portable on March 3, 2005, selling 398,000 copies. Tales of Eternia's characteristic genre name is...
(Yoko Koike) (completed)
Mayumi Azuma
is a Japanese manga artist who is the creator of the now completed manga Elemental Gelade, which finished with eighteen volumes and was adapted into a 26-episode television anime series, and its ongoing spinoff manga Elemental Gelade: Flag of Blue Sky...
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Watashi no Messiah-sama
is a Japanese manga series by Suu Minazuki, serialized in Monthly Shōnen Gangan. It ran from 2002 to 2007, with 26 chapters. The sequel, Watashi no Kyūseishu-sama ~lacrima~, was serialized in Monthly GFantasy, with 35 chapters. The whole series has 13 volumes.-Planet Celestia:In the manga series...
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Suu Minazuki
is a Japanese manga artist.Their fantasy comedy manga Sora no Otoshimono has been released as two anime series, and is being developed into a film.-Manga written:*Daisuki desu!! Mahou Tenshi Kosumasu *Gou-Dere Bishōjo Nagihara Sora...
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Cocoa Fujiwara
is a Japanese manga author and illustrator, born on April 28, 1983 in the Fukuoka Prefecture. She currently resides in Japan. Her debut was with a work called CALLING, which she made when she was only fifteen. She chose not to go to high school so that she could draw manga...
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