Magazine Special

Magazine Special

File:Magazine Special 10 2009 cover.jpg October 2009 Magazine Special (cover)
Categories	Shōnen manga
Frequency	Monthly
Circulation	50,667 (2015)
Publisher	Kodansha
First issue	1983
Country	Japan
Language	Japanese

Magazine Special (マガジンSPECIAL) is a Japanese shōnen manga magazine published by Kodansha and first launched in 1983. 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. In 2015, monthly circulation was reported at 50,667 copies by the Japan Magazine Publishers Association.

Magazine Special series

Title	Author / Artist	Status
Miami Guns	Takeaki Momose	1997–1999
Z Mazinger	Go Nagai	1998–2000
Kagetora	Akira Segami	2002–2006
Gacha Gacha	Hiroyuki Tamakoshi	2002–2008
Pastel	Toshihiko Kobayashi	2003–ongoing
Fantastic Detective Labyrinth	Meito Manjō (story), Seiji Wakayama (art)	August 2006 – August 2008
Sumire 16 sai!!	Takeru Nagayoshi	2006–2008
Psycho Busters	Tadashi Agi	2006–2008
Negima!? neo	Takuya Fujima	January 2008 – August 2009
School Rumble Z	Jin Kobayashi	August 2008 – May 2009
Boys Be... Next Season	Masahiro Itabashi (story), Hiroyuki Tamakoshi (art)	November 2009 – March 2012
Tsubasa World Chronicle: Nirai Kanai-hen	Clamp	August 2014 – ongoing

External links

• Official website (Japanese)