Bà Âken à  (Ã¥ÂÂéºçÂÂ, "Adventure King") was a monthly magazine for youth published by Akita Shoten between 1949 and 1983. It was among the first generation of children's comic magazines after World War II in Japan and was initially focused on publishing illustrated prose and emonogatari and then shifted to manga.
The magazine was initially founded under the title Shà Ânen Shà Âjo Bà Âkenà  (å°Âå¹´å°Â女åÂÂéºçÂÂ) and was eventually renamed Bà Âken à Â. Nobumichi Akutsu acted as chief editor of the magazine for decades and worked extensively with Osamu Tezuka.
The magazine initially published some of the biggest hits of emonogatari during its peak, among them the science fiction series Sabaku no Maà  by Tetsuji Fukushima. The magazine's editor gave Fukushima American comics as a reference for the series. In the early 1950s, it shifted more and more towards manga. The judo manga Igaguri-kun by Eiichi Fukui, serialized between 1952 and 1954, became the top selling manga series at the time, brought Bà Âken à  to a circulation of 300.000 per month and fueled a surge in judo manga. In 1952, in response to the magazine's success, Manga à  (漫çÂȍÂÂ, "Manga King") was established as a sister magazine to Bà Âken à Â.
From the 1960s on, the magazine had a focus on manga adaptations of tokusatsu films and news about anime. After its cancellation, the magazine turned into a magazine reporting about anime.
Animation director Hayao Miyazaki read the magazine in his childhood and was inspired by works like Sabaku no Maà  and Tezuka's Taiheiyà  X Ten (Point).
Among the series featured in the magazine were: