Magazine Special

Magazine Special (マガジンSPECIAL) was a Japanese shōnen manga magazine published by Kodansha and first launched with a cover date of September 5, 1983.[2] Its audience demographic is geared toward younger teenage boys, and contents tend to be predominantly sports stories and high school romantic comedies. Many of the popular series in Magazine Special were transferred there from other Kodansha publications like Weekly Shōnen Magazine after their initial run. It is issued monthly on the 20th in perfect-bound B5 format and retails for 540 yen. Issues are typically about 600 pages printed in black and white on heavy newsprint, with a few glossy pages in color. Between 20 and 30 stories appear in each issue, almost all of them installments of ongoing and frequently long-running serials by different manga artists.

Magazine Special
October 2009 Magazine Special (cover)
CategoriesShōnen manga[1]
FrequencyMonthly
Circulation40,667[1]
(July–September, 2016)
PublisherKodansha
First issueSeptember 5, 1983[2]
Final issueJanuary 20, 2017[2]
CountryJapan
Based inTokyo
LanguageJapanese

In August 2016 it was announced that the magazine would cease publication with the February 2017 issue.[3]

Series
TitleAuthor / ArtistStatus
Miami GunsTakeaki Momose1997–1999
Z MazingerGo Nagai1998–2000
KagetoraAkira Segami2002–2006
Gacha GachaHiroyuki Tamakoshi2002–2008
PastelToshihiko Kobayashi2003–2017
Fantastic Detective LabyrinthMeito Manjō (story), Seiji Wakayama (art)August 2006 – August 2008
Sumire 16 sai!!Takeru Nagayoshi2006–2008
Psycho BustersTadashi Agi2006–2008
Negima!? neoTakuya FujimaJanuary 2008 – August 2009
School Rumble ZJin KobayashiAugust 2008 – May 2009
Boys Be... Next SeasonMasahiro Itabashi (story), Hiroyuki Tamakoshi (art)November 2009 – March 2012
Tsubasa World Chronicle: Nirai Kanai-henClampAugust 2014 – March 2016

References
  1. "Boy's Manga". Japanese Magazine Publishers Association (in Japanese). September 2016. Retrieved November 6, 2016.
  2. 雑誌基本：少年マガジンSPECIAL（週刊少年マガジン増刊）（講談社 ∥ コウダンシャ. Media Arts Database via Agency for Cultural Affairs (in Japanese). Archived from the original on March 4, 2018. Retrieved August 3, 2016.
  3. "Kodansha's Magazine Special to Cease Publication in January". Anime News Network. August 3, 2016. Retrieved August 3, 2016.


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