Gangan Comics

Gangan Comics
ガンガンンコミックス

Parent company	Enix (1991–2003) Square Enix (2003–present)
Status	Active
Founded	1991; 30 years ago (1991)
Country of origin	Japan
Headquarters location	Tokyo, Japan
Distribution	Japan
Publication types	Manga, magazines, light novels, graphic novels
Fiction genres	Shōnen manga, seinen manga
Official website	gangan.square-enix.co.jp

Gangan (ガンガン, Gangan) is a manga imprint owned by Square Enix Holdings. It originated as a manga imprint for Enix before the company re-branded as Square Enix. It publishes manga in several anthologies aimed at different reader demographic groups in the Japanese market. Its anthologies are home to some popular Square Enix 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.^[1] 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 Jōkā) and Young Gangan Comics (ヤングガンガンコミックス, Yangu Gangan Komikkusu), which identify the anthology of serialisation. These paperback brand names are formed by omitting any gekkan (月刊, monthly publication) or shōnen (少年, boy) in the magazine name and inserting comics (コミックス, komikkusu) directly after the word gangan.

Anthologies[]

Monthly Shōnen Gangan (since 1991)[]

Monthly Shōnen Gangan

Monthly Shōnen Gangan (12/2004 issue)
Categories	Shōnen manga[2]
Frequency	Monthly
First issue	March 12, 1991 (April 1991)
Company	Enix (1991–2003) Square Enix (2003–present)
Country	Japan
Language	Japanese
Website	gangan.square-enix.co.jp

Monthly Shōnen Gangan (月刊少年ガンガン, Gekkan Shōnen Gangan) is a monthly manga anthology that regularly has over 600 pages. Shōnen Gangan was launched by Enix (now Square Enix) in 1991, to compete with other magazines such as Monthly Shōnen Magazine, Monthly Shōnen Jump and Shōnen Sunday Super, and is targeted toward the same young, male demographic (shōnen means "young man"). It features manga with much 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.

Series[]

Manga	First Issue	Author
Eiyuu Kyoushitsu (英雄教室)	September 2016	Shin Araki, Koara Kishida
Final Fantasy: Lost Stranger (ファイナルファンタジー　ロスト・ストレンジャー)	July 2017	Hazuki Minase, Itsuki Kameya
Futoku no Guild (不徳のギルド)	June 2017	Taichi Kawazoe
Val × Love (戦×恋（ヴァルラヴ）)	December 2015	Ryosuke Asakura
Majo no Geboku to Maou no Tsuno (魔女の下僕と魔王のツノ)	April 2014	Mochi
Munou na Nana (無能なナナ)	May 2016	Looseboy, Iori Furuya
Nagasarete Airantō (ながされて藍蘭島)	January 2002	Takeshi Fujishiro
Shachiku-san wa Yōjo Yuurei ni Iyasaretai. (社畜さんは幼女幽霊に癒されたい。)	August 2019	Imari Arita
Slime Tensei. Taikensha ga Youjo Elf ni Dakishimeraretemasu (スライム転生。大賢者が養女エルフに抱きしめられてます)	October 2018	Tsukiyo Rui, Warabimochi Kinako
Toaru Majutsu no Index (とある魔術の禁書目録)	April 2007	Kazuma Kamachi, Chuya Kogino
Umeidou Hiyo to Dannasama no Yabou (梅衣堂ひよと旦那様の野望)	February 2016	Shiwo Komeyama
Ura Sekai Picnic (裏世界ピクニック)	February 2018	Iori Miyazawa, Eita Mizuno

Manga and series featured:

Monthly GFantasy (since 1993)[]

Monthly GFantasy (月刊Gファンタジー, Gekkan Jī Fantajī), also known as Gangan Fantasy, is a Japanese shōnen manga magazine published by Square Enix. The manga 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 ()
• Aoharu × Machinegun (NAOE)
• Black Butler (Yana Toboso) (ongoing)
• Crimson-Shell (Jun Mochizuki)
• Cuticle Detective Inaba (Mochi)
• (Seana)
• ()
• Devil Survivor 2: The Animation (Makoto Uezu)
• E's (Satoru Yuiga)
• Fire Emblem: Ankoku Ryū to Hikari no Ken (Maki Hakoda)
• Fire Emblem: Gaiden (Maki Hakoda)
• Fire Emblem: Seisen no Keifu ()
• Fire Emblem: Thracia 776 ()
• Graineliers (Rihito Takarai)
• Higurashi no Naku Koro ni: Minagoroshi-hen (, Ryukishi07)
• Higurashi no Naku Koro ni: Tatarigoroshi-hen (Jiro Suzuki, Ryukishi07)
• Higurashi no Naku Koro ni: Yoigoshi-hen (Side Story) (Mimori, Ryukishi07)
• Horimiya (HERO, )
• I, Otaku: Struggle in Akihabara (Sōta-kun no Akihabara Funtōki) (Jiro Suzuki)
• ()
• Kimi to Boku () (ongoing)
• ()
• The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past (Ataru Cagiva)
• The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening (Ataru Cagiva)
• Mahōka Kōkō no Rettōsei (Fumino Hayashi)
• ()
• Nabari no Ou (Yuhki Kamatani)
• Pandora Hearts (Jun Mochizuki)
• Pani Poni (Hekiru Hikawa)
• Rust Blaster (Yana Toboso)
• Skate-Leading Stars (Chiaki Nagaoka, Sumika Sumio) (ongoing)^[3]
• The Royal Tutor ()
• Toilet-Bound Hanako-kun () (ongoing)
• Saiyuki (Kazuya Minekura)
• Switch ()
• ()
• ()
• Yumekui Kenbun (Shin Mashiba)
• Zombie-Loan (Peach-Pit)

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.^[4] The magazine was first published on December 3, 2004.

Manga featured:

• ()
• Arakawa Under the Bridge (Hikaru Nakamura) (completed)
• Astro Fighter Sunred ()
• Bamboo Blade (Aguri Igarashi, ) (completed)
• Beauty and the Feast () (completed)
• Bitter Virgin (Kei Kusunoki) (completed)
• Black God (Park Sung-woo, Dall-Young Lim) (completed)
• Darker than Black: Shikkoku no Hana (Yūji Iwahara)
• Dimension W (Yūji Iwahara) (switched over to Monthly Gangan in November 2015)
• (Towa Oshima)
• (Yūsuke Kozaki)
• ()
• (Morishige)
• Hanamaru Kindergarten () (completed)
• Hohzuki Island () (completed)
• ()
• (, Shinya Murata) (completed)
• (), ()
• () (completed)
• My Dress-Up Darling/Sono Bisuku Dōru wa Koi wo Suru (Shinichi Fukuda)
• Mononoke () (completed)
• ()
• ()
• Rinne no Lagrange - Akatsuki no Memoria ()
• Saki () (ongoing)
• Sekirei (Ashika Sakura) (completed)
• () (ongoing)
• Space☆Dandy (Masafumi Harada), (Park Sung-woo), (RED ICE)
• Sumomomo Momomo (Shinobu Ohtaka) (completed)
• The Comic Artist and Assistants (Hiroyuki) (completed)
• The Comic Artist and Assistants 2 (Hiroyuki) (completed)
• The Executioner and Her Way of Life (Mato Sato, Ryo Mitsuya)
• The iDOLM@STER Cinderella Girls Ensemble!, & (ongoing)
• Übel Blatt (Etorouji Shiono)
• (Etorouji Shiono)
• (Maya Koikeda)
• Until Death Do Us Part (manga) (, Hiroshi Takashige) (completed)
• Violinist of Hameln: Shchelkunchik (Michiaki Watanabe) (completed)
• Working!! ()

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 and smartphone app published and updated by Square Enix. The online web magazine was activated on October 2, 2008.

Manga featured:

• Adachi to Shimamura () (manga adaption started in 2016)
• ()
• ()
• ()
• ()
• () (originally Gangan Wing)
• Barakamon ( ) (completed)
• ()
• () (originally Gangan Wing)
• ()
• Daily Lives of High School Boys () (completed)
• Day Break Illusion () (completed)
• ()
• (usi)
• () (completed)
• Hori-san to Miyamura-kun Omake (HERO) (completed)
• (Ema Tōyama)
• ()
• ()
• Kitakubu Katsudō Kiroku (Kuroha)
• ()
• ()
• Monthly Girls' Nozaki-kun (Izumi Tsubaki) (ongoing)
• The Morose Mononokean () (completed)
• No Matter How I Look at It, It's You Guys' Fault I'm Not Popular! () (ongoing)
• ()
• (, )
• Princess of Mana (Seiken Densetsu: Princess of Mana) () (originally Gangan Powered) (completed)
• (Yoshitoshi ABe)
• (Marumikan)
• ()
• ()
• ()
• ()
• Suppose a Kid From the Last Dungeon Boonies Moved to a Starter Town (ongoing)
• The iDOLM@STER Cinderella Girls Shuffle!!, (ongoing)
• Tokyo Innocent () (originally Gangan Wing)
• (Akira Kojima)
• ()

Light Novels featured:

Gangan Joker (since 2009)[]

Monthly Gangan Joker (月刊ガンガンJOKER, Gekkan Gangan Joker) is a Japanese shōnen manga anthology that was launched by Square Enix on April 22, 2009.

Manga featured:

• Akame ga Kill! (Takahiro, Tetsuya Tashiro) (completed)
• Book Girl and the Suicidal Mime () (originally Gangan Powered)
• Book Girl and the Famished Spirit (Rito Kōsaka)
• Bottom-tier Character Tomozaki (Eight Chida)
• Corpse Party: Blood Covered (, adapted by ) (originally Gangan Powered)
• Dusk Maiden of Amnesia (Maybe) (completed)
• ()
• ()
• Grimgar of Fantasy and Ash (Mutsumi Okubashi)
• Gugure! Kokkuri-san (Midori Endō) (completed)
• Happy Sugar Life (Tomiyaki Kagisori) (completed)
• (, adapted by )
• Inu x Boku SS (Cocoa Fujiwara) (completed)
• Jahy-sama Won't Be Discouraged! (Wakame Konbu) (ongoing)
• Kakegurui - Compulsive Gambler (, ) (ongoing)
• ()
• Manabiya (Akira Kojima)
• Natsu no Arashi! (Jin Kobayashi) (originally Gangan Wing) (completed)
• ()
• One Week Friends (Matcha Hazuki) (completed)
• Ore no Kanojo to Osananajimi ga Shuraba Sugiru ()
• Prunus Girl
• ()
• ()
• Sengoku Strays (Shingo Nanami) (originally Gangan Wing)
• Shibuya Goldfish ()
• Suki na Ko ga Megane wo Wasureta (Koume Fujichika) (ongoing)
• My Bride Is a Mermaid () (originally Gangan Wing) (completed)
• ()
• Shitsurakuen () (completed)
• The Case Study of Vanitas (Jun Mochizuki) (ongoing)
• The iDOLM@STER Cinderella Girls New Generations, (ongoing)
• ()
• Umineko no Naku Koro ni (, Ryukishi07) (originally Gangan Powered)
• Watashi no Tomodachi ga Motenai no wa dō Kangaetemo Omaera ga Warui. (Nico Tanigawa)
• Yandere Kanojo ()

Monthly Big Gangan (since 2010)[]

Monthly Big Gangan is a seinen manga publication entry in Square Enix's Gangan imprint.

Manga featured:

• ACCA: 13-Territory Inspection Dept. (Natsume Ono) (completed)
• Akame ga Kill! Zero () (artist) (Takahiro) (writer) (completed)
• () (artist) () (writer) (completed)
• () (completed)
• Deep Insanity: Nirvana (Etorouji Shiono) (artist) (Norimitsu Kaihō and Makoto Fukami) (writer) (ongoing)
• Dimension W (Yūji Iwahara) (switched over from Monthly Gangan in November 2015) (completed)
• Goblin Slayer () (artist) () (writer) (ongoing)
• () (artist) () (writer) (completed)
• High Score Girl (Rensuke Oshikiri) (completed)
• Kusuriya no Hitorigoto (Nekokurage) (artist) (Natsu Hyūga and Ikki Nanao) (writers) (ongoing)
• Magical Girl Spec-Ops Asuka (Seigo Tokiya) (artist) (Makoto Fukami) (writer) (completed)
• (TALI) (artist) (Yuya Takahashi) (writer) (ongoing)
• () (completed)
• Tales of Wedding Rings (Maybe)
• The Greatest Demon Lord Is Reborn as a Typical Nobody (Misuho Kotoba) (artist) (Myōjin Katō) (writer) (ongoing)
• Tohyo Game: One Black Ballot to You (Tatsuhiko) (artist) (G.O. and Chihiro) (writers) (completed)
• Übel Blatt (Etorouji Shiono) (completed)

Manga UP! (since 2018)[]

Like Gangan Online, Manga UP! is a manga app and website which serializes a lot of popular media mix works with manga adaptations of novels exclusively published on the service.

• By the Grace of the Gods
• My Friend's Little Sister Has It In for Me!
• My Isekai Life
• Rust–Eater Bisco
• Sacks&Guns!!
• Selection Project
• The Genius Prince's Guide to Raising a Nation Out of Debt
• The Misfit of Demon King Academy
• The Strongest Sage With the Weakest Crest
• Wandering Witch: The Journey of Elaina

Discontinued magazines[]

Gangan Powered (2001–2009)[]

Gangan Powered (ガンガンパワード, Gangan Pawādo) was a Japanese shōnen/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.^[5]

Manga featured:

• (, Shogo Mukai) (completed)
• Book Girl and the Suicidal Mime (Miho Takeoka)
• Final Fantasy XII ()
• Jūshin Enbu (Hiromu Arakawa)
• (Aoi Nanase) (completed)
• Higurashi no Naku Koro ni: Onikakushi-hen (completed), Tsumihoroboshi-hen (completed), and Matsuribayashi-hen (Karin Suzuragi, Ryukishi07)
• He Is My Master (, )
• Kimi to Boku ()
• ()
• Princess of Mana (Seiken Densetsu: Princess of Mana) ()
• Shining Tears () (completed)
• Superior (Ichtys)
• Umineko no Naku Koro ni (, Ryukishi07)

Monthly Gangan Wing (1996–2009)[]

Monthly Gangan Wing (月刊ガンガンWING, Gekkan Gangan Wing) was a Japanese shōnen 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.^[5]

Manga featured:

• Alice on Deadlines ()
• ()
• ()
• ()
• dear (Cocoa Fujiwara)
• ()
• Enchanter ()
• Fire Emblem Hikari wo Tsugumono ()
• Higurashi no Naku Koro ni: Watanagashi-hen and Meakashi-hen (Yutori Hōjō, Ryukishi07)
• ()
• ()
• Mahoraba (Akira Kojima)
• ()
• Natsu no Arashi! (Jin Kobayashi)
• ()
• ()
• ()
• Sengoku Strays (Shingo Nanami)
• My Bride Is a Mermaid ()
• ()
• ()
• Tales of Eternia () (completed)
• ()
• Tokyo Innocent ()
• (Mayumi Azuma) (completed)
• ()
• Watashi no Messiah-sama (Suu Minazuki)
• Watashi no Ookami-san (Cocoa Fujiwara)

See also[]

• List of manga magazines
• List of Square Enix manga franchises

References[]

External links[]

• Monthly Shōnen Gangan official website (in Japanese)
• Monthly Gangan Joker official website (in Japanese)
• Monthly GFantasy official website (in Japanese)
• Young Gangan official website (in Japanese)
• Gangan Online official website (in Japanese)
• Monthly Gangan Wing official website (in Japanese)
• Monthly Big Gangan official website (in Japanese)
• Gangan Mobile official website (in Japanese)
• Gansuma Information Agency official website (in Japanese)
• GanganSearch (in Japanese)