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Monthly Afternoon

is a Japanese monthly manga anthology published by Kodansha under the Afternoon line of magazines. The first issue was released in December 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.

History

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.

Many of the artists working for the magazine used to publish amateur and were influenced by amateur manga. Sharon Kinsella claims that around half of all series featured in Afternoon between 1994 and 1997 were inspired by aesthetics. She lists Discommunication, Gunsmith Cats, Assembler 0X, Seraphic Feather, Aqua and Oh! My Goddess as examples.

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.

Newcomer award

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.

Circulation and demographic

Like with most major manga magazines, the magazine's circulation has been declining since the 1990s:

  • 2004: 144.500
  • 2005: 133.800
  • 2006: 127.400
  • 2007: 119.666
  • 2016: 69.310

In the late 1990s, the magazine's editors guessed that about a third of the readers of the magazine could be called .

Features

Ongoing

There are currently 34 manga titles being serialized in Monthly Afternoon. Out of them, Big Windup!, Historie, Wandering Island and Yakuza Fiancé are on hiatus. Nella of the Horizon is serialized on an irregular schedule.

Past

1980s

1990s

2000s

  • by Shohei Manabe (2000)
  • by Iou Kuroda (2000–2002)
  • by Riichi Ueshiba (2001–2003)
  • Dead End by Shohei Manabe (2001–2002)
  • by Kenji Tsuruta (2001–2002)
  • Stone by Shinichi Hiromoto (2001–2002)
  • by Yoshito Asari (2001–2009)
  • by Shimoku Kio (2002–2016)
  • by Minoru Toyoda (2002–2005)
  • by Daisuke Igarashi (2002–2005)
  • by Yuki Urushibara (2002–2008) (moved from Afternoon Season Zōkan)
  • by Takatoshi Kumakura (2003–2009) (moved from Afternoon Season Zōkan)
  • Shadow Skill by Megumu Okada (2003–2014) (moved from Afternoon Season Zōkan)
  • by Tooru Fujisawa (2003–2004)
  • by Akira Hiramoto (2003–2008) (transferred to Young Magazine the 3rd)
  • by Kia Asamiya (2003–2004)
  • by Makoto Shinkai (original work) and Sumomo Yumeka (2004)
  • by Masaru Katori (story) and Jiro Ando (art) (2004–2008)
  • Gunsmith Cats Burst by Kenichi Sonoda (2004–2008)
  • by Yuzo Takada (2004–2008)
  • by Tetsuya Toyoda (2004–2005)
  • by Harutoshi Fukui (original novel), Takashi Nagasaki and Takayuki Kosai (2005–2007)
  • by Mahiro Maeda (2005–2008)
  • by Mami Kashiwabara (2005–2011)
  • by Makoto Shinkai (original work) and Sumomo Yumeka (2005–2006)
  • by Makoto Yukimura (2005–2025)
  • by Riichi Ueshiba (2006–2014)
  • by Daisaku Tsuru (2006–2010)
  • by Keito Koume (2006–2007)
  • by Yutaka Tanaka (2006–2009)
  • by Kazuki Nakashima (original story) and Una Hamana (2007–2009)
  • by Hitoshi Ashinano (2007–2012)
  • by Haru Akiyama (2008–2010)
  • by Shimoku Kio (2008–2010)
  • by Yoshiki Tanaka (story) and Narumi Kakinouchi (art) (2009)
  • by Tsutomu Nihei (2009–2015)
  • by Yuki Urushibara (2009–2010)

2010s

  • by Yoshiki Tanaka (story) and Narumi Kakinouchi (art) (2010)
  • by Makoto Shinkai (story) and Seike Yukiko (art) (2010–2011)
  • by Kenichi Sonoda (2010–2012)
  • by Tetsuya Imai (2011)
  • by Kenshin Hidekawa (2011–2015)
  • by Masashi Tanaka (2012–2013)
  • by Yoshiki Tanaka (story) and Narumi Kakinouchi (art) (2012)
  • by Haruko Ichikawa (2012–2024)
  • by Yoshiki Tanaka (story) and Narumi Kakinouchi (art) (2012–2013)
  • by Ao Akato (2013)
  • by Kaori Ozaki (2013)
  • by Makoto Shinkai (story) and Midori Motohashi (art) (2013)
  • by Yuri Shibamura (story) and Daisuke Kimura (art) (2013–2021)
  • by Daisuke Igarashi (2015–2019)
  • Black-Box by Tsutomu Takahashi (2015–2019)
  • by Makoto Shinkai (story) and Tsubasa Yamaguchi (art) (2016)
  • by Ao Akato (2016)
  • by Keiko Suenobu (2016–2018)
  • by Yu Yoshidamaru (2016–2019)
  • by Yuki Shirono (2016–2018)
  • by Umi Shiina (2016–2025)
  • by Shinji Makari (story) and Double-S (art) (2017–2025)
  • by Kaori Ozaki (2017–2019)
  • by Shimoku Kio (2018–2022)
  • by Yuki Urushibara (2018–2020)
  • by Yoshikazu Yasuhiko (2018–2024)
  • by Uhei Aoki (story) and Kumichi Yoshizuki (art) (2019–2021)
  • by Kenji Takigawa (story), RyÅ« Suenobu (art) and Hiroaki Samura (collaboration) (2019–2024)
  • by Makoto Shinkai (original work) and Wataru Kubota (2019–2020)
  • by Yukito Ayatsuji (story) and Hiro Kiyohara (art) (2019–2022)

2020s

  • by Mikumi Yuuchi (2020–2021)
  • by Kaze Miura (2020–2021)
  • by Hideo Nishimoto (2020–2023)
  • by Michi Ichiho (story) and Nori Arashiyama (art) (2021)
  • by Fiok Lee (2021–2022)
  • by Shu Sakura (2021–2022)
  • by Yasuhiro Yoshiura (original story) and Megumu Maeda (art) (2021–2022)
  • by Daiki Yamazaki (2022–2024)
  • by Richard Woo (story) and Seimu Yoshizaki (art) (2022–2023)
  • by Makoto Shinkai (story) and Denki Amashima (art) (2022–2023)
  • by Hinohiruko (2022–2025)
  • by Bomhat (2022–2025)
  • by Yuchi Mikumi (2023–2024)
  • by Seki Ayumu (2023–2024)
  • by Nori Arashiyama (2024–2025)
  • by Aki Kaneda (2025–2026)

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