Young Animal (magazine)

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Young Animal
Young animal 2006 13 cover.jpg
Cover of the magazine's July 14, 2006 issue
CategoriesSeinen manga[1][2]
FrequencySemimonthly
Circulation
  • 103,500[2]
  • (July–September 2016)
Year foundedMay 1992
CompanyHakusensha
CountryJapan
Based inTokyo
LanguageJapanese
Websitewww.younganimal.com

Young Animal (ヤングアニマル, Yangu Animaru) is a semimonthly Japanese seinen manga magazine that features photos of gravure idols. It has been published by Hakusensha on the second and fourth Friday of each month since 1992.

History and profile[]

Young Animal was launched in May 1992.[3][4][5] The magazine is a successor to Monthly Animal House (月刊アニマルハウス, Gekkan Animaru Hausu), Hakusensha's previous seinen manga magazine that ran from 1989 to 1992.[3][6][7] Young Animal is issued on the second and fourth Friday of each month in saddle-stapled B5 format.[4][5] Its headquarters is in Tokyo.[8]

A typical issue consists of about 300 black-and-white pulp pages of manga wrapped in about 20 slick pages of color pinup photos of teenage girls in bikinis (generally pop stars and gravure idols). Advertising (other than house ads for Hakusensha) appears only in the form of a few ads in the back pages and on the inside and back covers. As of 2015, circulation is approximately 119,000 copies.[9] Each issue features about 15 different stories, mostly serial stories tending toward sexy romantic comedy, fantasy, and epic adventure, with a number of humorous yonkoma or four-panel gag strips.

Popular long-running series currently[timeframe?] appearing in Young Animal include the medieval dark fantasy adventure Berserk and the modern day married-life sex comedy Futari Ecchi (both over 300 chapters as of 2010). A number of Young Animal manga series have been adapted into anime.

Titles serialized in Young Animal are published as tankōbon volumes by Hakusensha under the Young Animal Comics imprint. Prior to June 2016, volumes were published under the Jets Comics imprint.[10]

Young Animal has also inspired several spin-off magazines: Young Animal Arashi (2000–2018);[11] Young Animal Island (2004–2013),[12] briefly relaunched as Young Animal Innocent (2014);[13][14] and Young Animal Zero (2019–present).[5]

Manga artists and series featured in Young Animal[]

Names are listed in alphabetical order, with the family name given last.

Notes[]

  1. ^ Initially serialized in Young Animal Arashi beginning in 2008.[15]
  2. ^ Initially serialized in Monthly Animal House beginning in 1989.[6]

References[]

  1. ^ Thompson, Jason (2007). Manga: The Complete Guide. Del Rey Books. p. xxiii-xxiv. ISBN 978-0-345-48590-8.
  2. ^ Jump up to: a b 男性向けコミック誌 [Comic Magazines for Men] (in Japanese). Japanese Magazine Publishers Association. Archived from the original on August 18, 2017. Retrieved November 6, 2016.
  3. ^ Jump up to: a b 沿革. Hakusensha (in Japanese). Retrieved May 29, 2021. 1989年3月「ANIMAL HOUSE」（YOUNG ANIMALの前身）創刊 ／ 1992年5月「YOUNG ANIMAL」月2回刊誌として創刊 [March 1989: First issue of Animal House (predecessor of Young Animal) . / May 1992: First issue of Young Animal, published twice a month.]
  4. ^ Jump up to: a b 「ベルセルク」三浦建太郎原作＆プロデュース、完全新作が新増刊『ヤングアニマルZERO』にて連載決定！. PR Times (in Japanese). August 23, 2019. Retrieved May 29, 2021. 『ヤングアニマル』とは 白泉社が1992年より発行している青年漫画雑誌…毎月第2・第4金曜日発売。 [What is Young Animal? A seinen manga magazine published by Hakusensha since 1992. ... On sale every second and fourth Friday of the month.]
  5. ^ Jump up to: a b c Pineda, Rafael Antonio (July 12, 2019). "New Young Animal Zero Magazine Launches on September 9". Anime News Network. Retrieved May 29, 2021.
  6. ^ Jump up to: a b Shimada, Kazushi (May 21, 2021). 三浦建太郎『ベルセルク』が漫画界に残した功績　ダーク・ファンタジー興隆への礎に. Real Sound (in Japanese). Retrieved May 29, 2021. …1989年、『ヤングアニマル』の前身である『アニマルハウス』で『ベルセルク』を連載開始。 [... in 1989, [Miura] started serializing Berserk in Animal House, the predecessor of Young Animal.]
  7. ^ "Animal House". NDL Online (in Japanese). National Diet Library. Retrieved May 29, 2021. Monthly Animal House ran from its May 1989 issue to its April 1992 issue, after which the magazine ceased publication (刊行終了, kankō shūryō).
  8. ^ Ingulsrud, John E.; Allen, Kate (February 3, 2010). Reading Japan Cool: Patterns of Manga Literacy and Discourse. Lexington Books. p. 21. ISBN 978-0-7391-3507-5. Retrieved October 30, 2016.
  9. ^ Japan Magazine Publishers Association Magazine Data June 2015. Retrieved October 28, 2015.
  10. ^ ジェッツコミックスが名称変更！「ベルセルク」38巻発売＆全巻リニューアル. Comic Natalie (in Japanese). Natasha, Inc. April 8, 2016. Retrieved May 29, 2021.
  11. ^ Pineda, Rafael Antonio (May 31, 2018). "Hakusensha's Young Animal Arashi Magazine Ends". Anime News Network. Retrieved May 29, 2021.
  12. ^ ヤングアニマルあいらんど. NDL Online (in Japanese). National Diet Library. Retrieved May 29, 2021.
  13. ^ ヤングアニマルあいらんど、リニューアルし“イノセント”に. Comic Natalie (in Japanese). Natasha, Inc. March 7, 2014. Retrieved May 29, 2021.
  14. ^ ヤングアニマルイノセント. NDL Online (in Japanese). National Diet Library. Retrieved May 29, 2021.
  15. ^ Loo, Egan (September 22, 2009). "KimiKiss' Shinonome to Start Amagami Game Manga Series". Anime News Network. Retrieved May 29, 2021. In that same 21st issue of Young Animal, Ryuta Amazume ... will move his one-year-old Nana to Kaoru manga from Young Animal Arashi magazine to the main Young Animal magazine.
  16. ^ Hodgkins, Crystalyn (March 9, 2019). "Sora Inoue Ends Mai Ball! Soccer Manga". Anime News Network. Retrieved May 29, 2021.

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