Gangan (ガンガン, Gangan) 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, Inu x Boku SS, and Soul Eater. The comics are later collected in paperback volumes under brand names such as Gangan Comics (ガンガンコミックス, Gangan Komikkusu), Gangan Comics Joker (ガンガンコミックスJOKER, Gangan Komikkusu JÅkÄ) and Young Gangan Comics (ヤングガンガンコミックス, Yangu Gangan Komikkusu), which identify the magazine of serialisation. These paperback brand names are formed by deleting any Gekkan (月刊, monthly publication) or ShÅnen (å°'å¹´, boy) in the magazine name and inserting Comics (コミックス, Komikkusu) directly after the word "Gangan".
§Magazines
§Monthly ShÅnen Gangan (since 1991)
Monthly ShÅnen Gangan (月刊å°'年ガンガン, Gekkan ShÅnen Gangan) is a monthly manga magazine that regularly has over 600 pages. ShÅnen Gangan was launched by Enix (now Square Enix) in 1991, to compete with other magazines such as ShÅnen Magazine, ShÅnen Jump and ShÅnen Sunday, and is targeted toward the same young, male demographic ("ShÅnen" 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:
- Bamboo Blade B (Masahiro Totsuka, Neko Sutajio)
- Bloody Cross (Yoneyama Shiwo)
- Banoten! (Taichi Kawazoe)
- Corpse Princess (Yoshiichi Akahito)
- Final Fantasy Type-0 (Takatoshi Shiozawa)
- Final Fantasy Type-0 Gaiden: The Icy Blade of Death (Takatoshi Shiozawa)
- GochisÅ Cinema Shita!! (Ikaring)
- Guilty Crown
- Isoshime! Nioka Sensei (Junichi Odaka)
- Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days (Shiro Amano)
- Kiyomura-kun to Sugi Kouji-kun (Mashihiro Totsuka)
- Kurenai Ouji (Souta Kuwabara)
- The Comic Artist and Assistants (Hiroyuki)
- Nagasarete Airantou (Takeshi Fujishiro)
- Red Raven (Shinta Fujimoto)
- Saki - Achika-hen - Episode of Side-A (Aguri Igarashi)
- Soul Eater Not! (Atsushi ÅŒkubo)
- Sukedachi Nine (Seishi Kishimoto)
- Toaru Majutsu no Index (Kazuma Kamachi, Chuuya Kogino)
- Tripeace (Maru Tomoyuki)
- Umineko no Naku Koro Ni: Episode 07 - Requiem of the Golden Witch (Ryukishi07, Eita Mizuno)
Manga and series featured:
- 666 Satan (O-Parts Hunter) (Seishi Kishimoto) (completed)
- Akuma Jiten (Shinya Suyama)
- B. Ichi (Atsushi Okubo) (completed)
- Blade Sangokushi (Ryuunosuke Ichikawa, Taiyou Makabe)
- Blast of Tempest (KyÅ Shirodaira, Ren Saizaki) (completed)
- Choko Beast!! (Rin Asano) (completed)
- Code Age Archives (Yusuke Naora)
- Doubt (Yoshiki Tonogai) (completed)
- Dragon Quest: Eden no Senshitachi (Kamui Fujiwara) (completed)
- Dragon Quest Monsters + (Mine Yoshizaki) (completed)
- Dragon Quest Retsuden: Roto no MonshÅ (Kamui Fujiwara) (completed)
- Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: Hatenaki Sora no Mukou ni (Ryunosuke Ichikawa) (completed)
- Fullmetal Alchemist (Hiromu Arakawa) (completed)
- Guardian Eito (Mine Yoshizaki) (completed)
- Guardian of the Spirit (Nahoko Uehashi, Kamui Fujiwara)
- Haré+Guu (Jungle wa Itsumo Hare nochi Gū & Hare Guu) (Renjuro Kindaichi) (2 series, completed)
- Hazama no Uta (Kaishaku)
- Heroman (Stan Lee, Tamon ÅŒta)
- JÅ«shin Enbu (Hiromu Arakawa) (originally Gangan Powered, completed)
- Hidamari no Pinyu (Misaki Ogawa)
- Flash! Funny-face Club (Motoei Shinzawa) (completed)
- It's a Wonderful World (Shiro Amano) (one shot)
- Judge (Yoshiki Tonogai)
- Kimi to Boku (Kiichi Hotta)
- Kingdom Hearts (Shiro Amano) (completed)
- Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories (Shiro Amano) (completed)
- Kingdom Hearts II (Shiro Amano)
- Luno (Kei Toume)
- Maboroshi no Daichi (Masomi Kanzaki) (completed)
- MahÅjin Guru Guru (Hiroyuki Etou) (completed)
- Mamotte Shugogetten (Minene Sakurano) (completed)
- Matantei Loki (Sakura Kinoshita) (completed)
- Material Puzzle (Masahiro Totsuka)
- Megalomania (Daisuke Hiyama)
- Meteo Emblem (Park Sung-woo)
- Ninpen Manmaru (Mikio Igarashi)
- Onikiri-sama no Hakoiri Musume (Akinobu Uraku)
- Ousama no Mimi Okonomimi (Kei Natsumi)
- Papuwa & Nangoku ShÅnen Papuwa-kun (Ami Shibata) (2 series, completed)
- Peace Maker (Nanae Chrono)
- Phantom Dead or Alive (Michiaki Watanabe) (completed)
- Saga of Queen Knight (Tomohiro Shimomura) (completed)
- Shugen Byakuyū Rubikura (Ryūsuke Mita)
- Soul Eater (Atsushi ÅŒkubo) (completed)
- Spiral: Suiri no Kizuna (Eita Mizuno, Kyo Shirodaira) (completed)
- Spiral Alive (Eita Mizuno, Kyo Shirodaira) (completed)
- Star Ocean: Blue Sphere (Aoi Mizuki) (completed)
- Star Ocean: The Second Story (Mayumi Azuma) (completed)
- Star Ocean: Till the End of Time (Akira Kanda) (completed)
- Straykeys (TarÅ Yuzunoki)
- Tozasareta Nerugaru (Rumi Aruma)
- Tokyo Fantasy Gakuen Yuushaka: Rua no Noel (Kaishaku)
- Tokyo Underground (Akinobu Uraka) (completed)
- Totsugeki! Papparatai (Natsuki Matsuzawa) (completed)
- Twin Signal (Sachi Oshimizu) (completed)
- UFO Ultramaiden Valkyrie (Kaishaku) (completed)
- Vampire Juuji Kai (Yuri Kimura, Kyo Shirodaira)
- Violinist of Hameln (Michiaki Watanabe) (completed)
- Watashi no Messiah-sama (Suu Minazuki)
- Z MAN (Hideaki Nishikawa) (completed)
§Monthly GFantasy (since 1993)
Monthly GFantasy (月刊Gファンタジー, Gekkan JÄ« FantajÄ«), also known as Gangan Fantasy, is a Japanese shÅnen 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:
- 10-4 (Hashiba Maki)
- Aoharu x Kikanjū (NAOE) (ongoing)
- Black Butler (Yana Toboso) (ongoing)
- Cuticle Detective Inaba (Mochi) (ongoing)
- D-Drops (Seana)
- Daisuke! (Hasu Kikuzuki)
- Dazzle (Minari EndÅ) (switched over to Monthly Comic Zero Sum in June 28, 2002)
- Devil Survivor 2: The Animation (Makoto Uezu) (completed)
- Durarara!! (Ryohgo Narita)
- 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 776 (YÅ«na Takanagi)
- Gestalt (Yun KÅga) (completed)
- Higurashi no Naku Koro ni: Minagoroshi-hen (Hinase Momoyama, Ryukishi07)
- Higurashi no Naku Koro ni: Tatarigoroshi-hen (Jiro Suzuki, Ryukishi07)
- Higurashi no Naku Koro ni: Yoigoshi-hen (Side story) (Mimori, Ryukishi07)
- Horimiya (HERO, Daisuke Hagiwara)
- I, Otaku: Struggle in Akihabara (SÅta-kun no Akihabara FuntÅki) (Jiro Suzuki) (completed)
- Kamiyomi (Ami Shibata)
- Kimi to Boku (Kiichi Hotta) (ongoing)
- Lammermoor no ShÅnen Kiheitai (Nana Natsunishi)
- The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past (Ataru Cagiva)
- The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening (Ataru Cagiva)
- MahÅka KÅkÅ no RettÅsei (Fumino Hayashi) (ongoing)
- Monokuro Kitan (Kusu Rinka)
- Nabari no Ou (Yuhki Kamatani) (completed)
- Pandora Hearts (Jun Mochizuki) (ongoing)
- Pani Poni (Hekiru Hikawa) (completed)
- Saiyuki (Kazuya Minekura) (completed)
- Switch (naked ape) (completed)
- Teiden ShÅjo to Hanemushi no Orchestra (Ninomiya Ai)
- Torikago Gakkyuu (Shin Mashiba)
- Yumekui Kenbun (Shin Mashiba) (completed)
- Zombie-Loan (Peach-Pit) (completed)
§Young Gangan (since 2004)
Young Gangan (ヤングガンガン, Yangu Gangan) is a Japanese seinen 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:
- Amigo x Amiga (Takahiro Seguchi)
- Arakawa Under the Bridge (Hikaru Nakamura) (ongoing)
- Astro Fighter Sunred (Makoto Kubota) (ongoing)
- Bamboo Blade (Aguri Igarashi, Masahiro Totsuka) (completed)
- Bitter Virgin (Kei Kusunoki) (completed)
- Black God (Sung-Woo Park, Dall-Young Lim) (completed)
- Darker than Black: Shikkoku no Hana (YÅ«ji Iwahara)
- Dimension W (YÅ«ji Iwahara)
- DÅsei Recipe (Towa Oshima)
- Drop Kick
- Front Mission Dog Life and Dog Style/Front Mission The Drive (Yasuo Otagaki)
- Fudanshism (Morishige)
- Hanamaru Kindergarten (Yuto) (completed)
- Hohzuki Island (Sanbe Kei) (completed)
- Iroha-saka, Agatte Sugu (Yuto)
- Jackals (Kim Byung Jin, Shinya Murata)
- The Comic Artist and Assistants (Hiroyuki)
- The Comic Artist and Assistants 2 (Hiroyuki)
- Manhole (Tsutsui Tetsuya) (completed)
- Mononoke (Ninagawa Yaeko) (completed)
- Mouryou no Yurikago (manhua) (Sanbe Kei)
- Nikoichi (Renjuro Kindaichi)
- Rinne no Lagrange - Akatsuki no Memoria (Yoshioka Kimitake)
- Saki (Ritsu Kobayashi) (ongoing)
- Sekirei (Ashika Sakura) (ongoing)
- Shishunki no Iron Maiden (Watanabe Shizumu) (ongoing)
- Space☆Dandy (Masafumi Harada), (Park Sung-woo), (RED ICE) (ongoing)
- Sumomomo Momomo (Shinobu Ohtaka) (completed)
- The iDOLM@STER Cinderella Girls Ensemble!, Sadoru Chiba & Haruki Kashiba (ongoing)
- Ãœbel Blatt (Etorouji Shiono)(ongoing)
- Ãœbel Blatt Gaiden (Etorouji Shiono)
- Umeboshi (Maya Koikeda)
- Until Death Do Us Part (manga) (DOUBLE-S, Hiroshi Takashige) (ongoing)
- Violinist of Hameln: Shchelkunchik (Michiaki Watanabe) (completed)
- Working!! (Karino Takatsu) (ongoing)
- Kiba no Tabishounin (Park Joong-Gi), (Nanatsuki Kyouchi)
§Gangan Online (since 2008)
Gangan Online (ガンガンオンライン, Gangan Onrain) 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 (KARASU)
- Asao-san to Kurata-kun (Hero)
- Amanonadeshiko (Haruka Ogataya)
- Aphorism (Karuna Kujo) (originally Gangan Wing)
- Barakamon (Satsuki Yoshino) (ongoing)
- Buyuuden Kita Kita (Hiroyuki Etou)
- Chokotto Hime (Ayami Kazama) (originally Gangan Wing)
- Cyoku! (Nico Tanigawa)
- Daily Lives of High School Boys (Yamauchi Yasunobu) (completed)
- En Passant (Taro Yuzunoki)
- Esoragoto (usi)
- Hayachine! (Aiko Fukumorita) (completed)
- Hori-san to Miyamura-kun Omake (HERO)
- Hyakuen! (Ema TÅyama)
- Life is Money (author Asaniji Teru, artist Yaguraba Tekka)
- Karasu-tengu Ujyu (Iwanosuke Neguragi)
- Kitakubu KatsudÅ Kiroku (Kuroha)
- Kyou mo Machiwabite (Ichi Saeki)
- Kyousou no Simulacra (Hideaki Yoshimura)
- Monthly Girls' Nozaki-kun (Izumi Tsubaki) (ongoing)
- No Matter How I Look at It, It's You Guys' Fault I'm Not Popular! (Nico Tanigawa) (ongoing)
- Oji-chan Yuusha (Tarou Sakamoto)
- Pochi GunsÅ (Mao Momiji, Akira)
- Princess of Mana (Seiken Densetsu: Princess of Mana) (Satsuki Yoshino) (originally Gangan Powered) (completed)
- Ryuushika Ryuushika (Yoshitoshi ABe)
- Seitokai no Wotanoshimi. (Marumikan)
- Sengoku Sukuna (Nekotama.)
- Shikisou (Akira Kanda)
- Shougakusei Host Pochi (Saori)
- Sougiya Riddle (Akai Higasa.)
- The iDOLM@STER Cinderella Girls Shuffle!!, Kouka Mijin (ongoing)
- Tokyo Innocent (Naru Narumi) (originally Gangan Wing)
- Wa! (Akira Kojima)
- RealPG (Yuki Domoto)
Light Novels featured:
§Gangan Joker (since 2009)
Monthly Gangan Joker (月刊ガンガンJOKER, Gekkan Gangan Joker) is a Japanese shÅnen manga magazine that was launched by Square Enix on April 22, 2009.
Manga featured:
- Akame ga Kill! (ongoing)
- Book Girl and the Suicidal Mime (Rito KÅsaka) (originally Gangan Powered)
- Book Girl and the Famished Spirit (Rito KÅsaka)
- Corpse Party: Blood Covered (Team Guriguri, adapted by Toshimi Shinomiya) (originally Gangan Powered)
- Dusk Maiden of Amnesia (Maybe) (completed)
- Damekko Kissa Dear (RyÅta Yuzuki)
- Eighth (Izumi Kawachi)
- Gugure! Kokkuri-san (Midori EndÅ) (ongoing)
- Himawari (Blank-Note, adapted by Daisuke Hiyama)
- Inu x Boku SS (Cocoa Fujiwara) (completed)
- Love x Rob x Stockholm (Hiroki Haruse)
- Manabiya (Akira Kojima)
- Natsu no Arashi! (Jin Kobayashi) (originally Gangan Wing) (completed)
- NEET Princess Terrass (Tomohiro Shimomura)
- One Week Friends (Matcha Hazuki)
- Ore no Kanojo to Osananajimi ga Shuraba Sugiru (Nanasuke)
- Prunus Girl
- rail aile bleue (Kazuyoshi Karasawa)
- Sengoku Strays (Shingo Nanami) (originally Gangan Wing)
- Seto no Hanayome (Tahiko Kimura) (originally Gangan Wing) (completed)
- Shinigami-sama ni Saigo no Onegai wo (YAMAGUCHI Mikoto)
- Shitsurakuen (TÅru Naomura) (completed)
- The iDOLM@STER Cinderella Girls New Generations, namo (ongoing)
- Today's Great Satan II (YÅ«ichi Hiiragi)
- Umineko no Naku Koro ni (Kei Natsumi, Ryukishi07) (Originally Gangan Powered)
- Watashi no Tomodachi ga Motenai no wa dÅ Kangaetemo Omaera ga Warui. (Nico Tanigawa) (ongoing)
- Yandere Kanojo (Shinobi)
§Discontinued magazines
§Gangan Powered (2001 â€" 2009)
Gangan Powered (ガンガンãƒ'ワード, Gangan PawÄdo) was a Japanese shÅnen/seinen 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:
- Blan no Shokutaku ~Bloody Dining~ (Tsubasa Hazuki, Shogo Mukai) (completed)
- Book Girl and the Suicidal Mime (Miho Takeoka)
- Final Fantasy XII (Gin Amou)
- JÅ«shin 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)
§Monthly Gangan Wing (1996 â€" 2009)
Monthly Gangan Wing (月刊ガンガンWING, Gekkan Gangan Wing) was a Japanese shÅnen 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:
- Alice on Deadlines (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 HÅjÅ, 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)
§See also
- List of manga magazines
§References
§External links
- Monthly ShÅnen Gangan official website (Japanese)
- Monthly Gangan Joker official website (Japanese)
- Monthly GFantasy official website (Japanese)
- Young Gangan official website (Japanese)
- Gangan Online official website (Japanese)
- Monthly Gangan Wing official website (Japanese)
- Monthly Big Gangan official website (Japanese)
- Gangan Mobile official website (Japanese)
- Gansuma Information Agency official website (Japanese)
- GanganSearch (Japanese)
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