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Monthly Afternoon

October 2011 issue.
Editor	Tatsuya Shishikura
Categories	Seinen manga[1][2]
Frequency	Monthly
Circulation	69,310[1] (July-September, 2016)
Publisher	Kodansha
First issue	January 25, 1986
Country	Japan
Language	Japanese
Website	kc.kodansha.co.jp/magazine/index.php/13871

Monthly Afternoon (月刊アフタヌーン, Gekkan Afutanūn) is a Japanese monthly seinen manga anthology published by Kodansha under the Afternoon line of magazines. The first issue was released with a cover date of January 25, 1986. Each issue typically has around thirty ongoing stories by various authors and runs about 800 pages. Afternoon has spawned many successful seinen 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. In its October 2008 issue, a spin-off magazine called good! Afternoon was announced to be launched.^[3][4]

Manga artists and series featured in Afternoon

• 
  Haru Akiyama
  
  • Octave


• 
  Kia Asamiya
  
  • Assembler 0X
  
  
  • Compiler
  
  
  • Karapuri!
  
  


• Yoshito Asari
  
  • Uchu Kazoku Carlvinson
  
  
  • LucuLucu
  
  


• 
  Hitoshi Ashinano
  
  • Yokohama Kaidashi Kikō
  
  
  • Kabu no Isaki
  
  


• 
  Hiroki Endo
  
  • Eden: It's an Endless World!


• 
  Tooru Fujisawa
  
  • Tokko (manga)


• 
  Kōsuke Fujishima
  
  • Oh My Goddess!
  
  
  • 
    You're Under Arrest (originally on Morning Party Extra)
  
  


• 
  Asa Higuchi
  
  • 
    Big Windup! (ongoing)


• 
  Hitoshi Iwaaki
  
  • Parasyte
  
  
  • 
    Historie (ongoing)
  
  


• 
  Shimoku Kio
  
  • Genshiken
  
  
  • Jigopuri
  
  


• 
  Mohiro Kitoh
  
  • Narutaru
  
  
  • Wings of Vendemiaire
  
  


• 
  Takayuki Kōsai
  
  • 
    Shuusen no Lorelei (based on the novel by Harutoshi Fukui)


• 
  Iou Kuroda
  
  • Nasu


• 
  Mahiro Maeda
  
  • Gankutsuou: The Count of Monte Cristo


• 
  Norifusa Mita
  
  • Kū o Kiru


• 
  Tsutomu Nihei
  
  • Blame!
  
  
  • Knights of Sidonia
  
  
  • NOiSE
  
  


• 
  Megumu Okada
  
  • Shadow Skill


• 
  Sumomo Yumeka
  
  • 
    The Place Promised in Our Early Days (adaptation of original work by Makoto Shinkai)
  
  
  • 
    Voices of a Distant Star (adaptation of original work by Makoto Shinkai)
  
  


• 
  Hiroaki Samura
  
  • Blade of the Immortal


• 
  Satoshi Shiki
  
  • Kami Kaze


• 
  Kenichi Sonoda
  
  • Cannon God Exaxxion
  
  
  • Gunsmith Cats
  
  
  • Gunsmith Cats BURST
  
  
  • Bullet the Wizard
  
  


• 
  Yuzo Takada
  
  • Little Jumper


• 
  Tsutomu Takahashi
  
  • Ice Blade


• 
  Daisaku Tsuru
  
  • Nachun


• 
  Kenji Tsuruta
  
  • 
    Spirit of Wonder (originally serialized in monthly Weekly Morning)
  
  
  • 
    Wandering Island (ongoing)
  
  


• 
  Hiroyuki Utatane
  
  • 
    Seraphic Feather (story by Yo Morimoto and Toshiya Takeda)


• 
  Yuki Urushibara
  
  • Mushishi
  
  
  • Waters
  
  
  • Neko ga Nishimukya
  
  


• 
  Riichi Ueshiba
  
  • Mysterious Girlfriend X
  
  
  • Yume Tsukai
  
  
  • Discommunication
  
  


• 
  Makoto Yukimura
  
  • 
    Vinland Saga (originally serialized in Weekly Shōnen Magazine) (ongoing)


• 
  Kumakura Takatoshi
  
  • Mokke


• 
  Naoko Hayashiba & Jiro Ando
  
  • Shion no Ō


• 
  Minoru Toyoda
  
  • Love Roma


• 
  Haruko Ichikawa
  
  • 
    Land of the Lustrous (ongoing)

References

External links

• 
  Official website (in Japanese)
  


• 
  Afternoon (manga) at Anime News Network's encyclopedia