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Wings (Japanese Magazine)
is a shōjo manga magazine published by Shinshokan. Published bi-monthly, it features articles on action and fiction aimed at women in the age group of 16–20 years. Headquartered in Tokyo, the magazine previously had the following editions namely Shinshokan South (aka South), Phantom Club, Huckleberry, Un Poco and Wings: Story; however, currently, only Un Poco and Wings:Story are still being published. Serializations Current *'' Hyakushō Kizoku'' by Hiromu Arakawa (2006–present) *'' Kase-san and Yamada'' by Hiromi Takashima (2017–present) Former ;1980s *''Dragon Fist'' by Shu Katayama (1988–2005) *''Earthian'' by Yun Kōga (1988–1994) *''RG Veda'' by Clamp (1989–1996) ;1990s *''Dragon Knights'' by Mineko Ohkami (1990–2007) *''Tokyo Babylon'' by Clamp (1990–1993) *''Sanban-chō Hagiwara-ya no Bijin'' by Keiko Nishi (1991-2000) *''Hidarite'' by Clamp (1994) *'' The Young Magician'' by Yuri Narushima (1995–2016) *'' Vampire Game'' by Judal (1996–2004) *'' L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shōjo Manga
is an editorial category of Japanese comics targeting an audience of adolescent females and young adult women. It is, along with manga (targeting adolescent boys), manga (targeting young adult and adult men), and manga (targeting adult women), one of the primary editorial categories of manga. manga is traditionally published in dedicated manga magazines, which often specialize in a particular readership age range or narrative genre. manga originated from Japanese girls' culture at the turn of the twentieth century, primarily (girls' prose novels) and ( lyrical paintings). The earliest manga was published in general magazines aimed at teenagers in the early 1900s, and entered a period of creative development beginning in the 1950s as it began to formalize as a distinct category of manga. While the category was initially dominated by male manga artists, the emergence and eventual dominance of female artists beginning in the 1960s and 1970s led to a period of signif ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dragon Knights
is a manga series drawn by Mineko Ohkami and published in the monthly Japanese magazine ''Wings''. The manga was licensed in the United States by Tokyopop. The Tokyopop translation is imported to Australia by Madman Entertainment. The sequel ''Heavenly Black and Evil White: Dragon Knights 2'' follows 500 years after the original story and it is currently ongoing since 2014. __TOC__ Characters Dragon Knights ;Rath Illuser:The Dragon Knight of Fire. One of his favorite hobbies is killing demons, and will go out of his way to seek them out. He uses the Fire Dragon sword, and later the Light Dragon Sword, as his weapon. He also boasts Ice and Fire magic and a strange ability to create temporary copies of himself and absorb others' powers, along with special ties to the Light Dragon. It is now known that he wasn't the true Dragon Knight of Fire. Rath harbors a great amount of self-hate, frequently projecting this hatred onto others. In volume 19, he also nearly commits suicide ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antique Bakery
is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Fumi Yoshinaga. The slice of life series follows the lives of four men who work in a ''pâtisserie''. It was originally serialized in the manga magazine ''Wings'' from 1999 to 2001, and collected into four ''tankōbon'' volumes published by Shinshokan; a spin-off ''dōjinshi'' (self-published manga) series has also been produced. The series has been adapted multiple times: as a live-action television drama that aired on Fuji TV in 2001, as a four-volume audio drama released from 2002 to 2003, and as a television anime series produced by Nippon Animation and Shirogumi that aired on Fuji TV's Noitamina programming block in 2008. Two international adaptions – the 2008 South Korean live-action film ''Antique'', and the 2021 Thai live-action television series '' Baker Boys'' – have also been produced. ''Antique Bakery'' and its adaptations have been critically acclaimed: the manga won a Kodansha Manga Award for best ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hakase Mizuki
is a Japanese manga artist born in Hokkaidō, Japan. She made her manga debut with ''The Monsters Collection'' in the June 1997 issue of ''Wings'', published by Shinshokan. Her representative works include ''Asian Beat'', ''Baku'', '' The Demon Ororon'' and '' Demon Flowers''. Works ; Other titles : ''Maybe Blue'' (not yet collected in a tankōbon is the Japanese Japanese may refer to: * Something from or related to Japan, an island country in East Asia * Japanese language, spoken mainly in Japan * Japanese people, the ethnic group that identifies with Japan through ancestry or cultur ... release) : ''Mephisto'' (collected in ''Baku'' tankōbon) : ''Monkey Magic'' (not yet collected in a tankōbon release) : ''The Monsters Collection'' (debut work, not yet collected in a tankōbon release) : ''Sugar'' (not yet collected in a tankōbon release) : ''Yuki no Furu Machi'' (collected in ''Asian Beat'' tankōbon) References External links * Living people Mang ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Demon Ororon
is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Hakase Mizuki. The manga was licensed in North America by Tokyopop. The epilogue to the series, had six chapters released as of 2007. Plot When Chiaki meets a wounded young man on the street and offers to take him in, she has no idea that she's just invited the King of Hell to move in with her. Out of gratitude for helping him, Ororon offers to grant Chiaki one wish. Chiaki, who lives a very lonely life, asks Ororon to stay with her forever. Remarking that "forever" is not the same for each of them, Ororon agrees, and the two of them quickly become attached to each other. Unfortunately, Chiaki soon realizes that falling in love with a demon has consequences. Ororon has abandoned his throne, causing renegade demons, bounty hunters, and his own brothers to come after him to take his crown. As Ororon fights to stay alive and protect the girl he loves, Chiaki is appalled by the violence surrounding her, and condemns Ororon as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mikiyo Tsuda
__NOTOC__ is a Japanese manga writer and illustrator from Fukui Prefecture who has been writing manga since 1998. This name is one of her two pen names that she writes under when drawing manga, the other being .Afterword section in the Digital Manga Publishing version of ''The Day of Revolution'', volume 1. Under the name ''Taishi Zaō'', she writes boys love and girls love manga while under ''Mikiyo Tsuda'' she writes comedy- shōjo manga. Her reasons for doing this mainly had to do with keeping the fact that she drew manga centered on homosexual relationships from her family but they eventually found out anyway. Many manga artists often adopt artistic personas for themselves in order to represent themselves in sections of their manga not attributed to the story, as in an author's note section. Mikiyo Tsuda's persona is that of a teddy bear wearing a red bow tie with a bell at its center. One of her friends, and also a fellow manga artist, is Eiki Eiki. They often co-author man ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Day Of Revolution
is a Japanese manga written and illustrated by Mikiyo Tsuda. The series was serialized in Shinshokan's manga magazine ''South'' between April 1998 and February 2001. The manga is licensed in English by Digital Manga Publishing and has been released in North America in 2006. Two drama CDs based on the series were produced, the first in July 2001 and the second in March 2002. The story mainly focuses around a boy who starts to live as a girl and how his group of friends changes due to his new lifestyle. Plot ''The Day of Revolution'' revolves around Kei Yoshikawa, a boy in high school who one day is informed that he is genetically female. This shocking realization causes his family to grow closer together and Kei decides that he is going to restart his life as a girl named Megumi. Megumi takes a six-month leave from school and returns as a first-year student with Makoto Yutaka, the niece of the doctor who aided in Kei's transition; Makoto also helps Megumi adjust to living lif ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Liling-Po
is a Japanese manga written and illustrated by Ako Yutenji. The manga is published in Shinshokan's ''Wings''. The English-language release of manga has been licensed in North America by Tokyopop and a German-language release in Germany by Egmont Publishing The Egmont Group (formerly The Gutenberghus Group) is a Danish media corporation founded and rooted in Copenhagen, Denmark. The business area of Egmont has traditionally been magazine publishing but has over the years evolved to comprise mass me .... References External links * 1997 manga Adventure anime and manga Shinshokan manga Shōjo manga Tokyopop titles {{manga-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Judal
is a manga by the Japanese author and artist, Judal. It originally ran in the monthly manga magazine ''Wings'', with its last chapter serialized in the November 2004 issue. The series has 15 volumes in all. It was licensed in the U.S. by Tokyopop Tokyopop (styled TOKYOPOP; formerly known as Mixx Entertainment) is an American distributor, licensor and publisher of anime, manga, manhwa and Western manga-style works. The German publishing division produces German translations of licensed J .... The story One hundred years ago, Vampire King Duzell led a war against the humans and kingdom of Pheliosta, simply because he was bored. In the epic last battle, King Phelios defeated Duzell by using a powerful spell that uses the caster's life force as a weapon to destroy the enemy, but kills the caster in the process. As both lay dying, Duzell swore that they would be reborn in a century's time, and he would find Phelios' reincarnation and kill him. Ninety-nine and a half years l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vampire Game
is a manga by the Japanese author and artist, Judal. It originally ran in the monthly manga magazine ''Wings'', with its last chapter serialized in the November 2004 issue. The series has 15 volumes in all. It was licensed in the U.S. by Tokyopop Tokyopop (styled TOKYOPOP; formerly known as Mixx Entertainment) is an American distributor, licensor and publisher of anime, manga, manhwa and Western manga-style works. The German publishing division produces German translations of licensed J .... The story One hundred years ago, Vampire King Duzell led a war against the humans and kingdom of Pheliosta, simply because he was bored. In the epic last battle, King Phelios defeated Duzell by using a powerful spell that uses the caster's life force as a weapon to destroy the enemy, but kills the caster in the process. As both lay dying, Duzell swore that they would be reborn in a century's time, and he would find Phelios' reincarnation and kill him. Ninety-nine and a half years la ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yuri Narushima
is a Japanese manga artist best known for her series ''Planet Ladder'', licensed in English by Tokyopop, and '' The Young Magician'', licensed in English by CMX. Narushima is a member of the dōjinshi circle Comodo. Bibliography Manga *''Replica Master'' (1996, Shinshokan) *'' The Young Magician'' (1996–2005, serialized in ''Wings Comics'', Shinshokan) *''Genjuu Bunsho'' (1996–2005, serialized in ''Wings Comics'', Shinshokan) *''Planet Ladder'' (1998–2003, serialized in ''Crimson'', Sobisha/Shueisha) *''Shinazu No Agito'' (2000–2004, serialized in ''Ultra Jump'', Shueisha) *''Shounen Kaiki'' (2000–2005, serialized in ''Asuka'', Kadokawa Shoten) *''Tetsuichi'' (2005–present, serialized in ''Comic Zero Sum'', Ichijinsha is a Japanese publishing company focused on manga-related publication, including magazines and books. The company was first established in August 1992 as a limited company under the name Studio DNA whose main purpose was to edit shōnen mang ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Young Magician
is a fantasy ''shōjo'' manga written and illustrated by Yuri Narushima. Plot Incorporating multiple sub-plots, ''The Young Magician'' focuses on two young men—Carno Guino, a magician whose soul fuses with demons, and Ibuki Shikishima, who practices Shinto—who find themselves entangled in a complex war between various factions. Development Yuri Narushima collected references books about magic for ''The Young Magician''; in the afterword of the first volume, she comments that " erbookcase is totally over-flowing with reference material!" She also planned to take a research trip to Hong Kong in September. For the section of the first volume in which the characters discuss genetics, she consulted ''The Meaning of Immunity'' by Tomio Tada and ''Understanding Genetics'' by Hironori Kodama. Because of the content in the first volume, she often received letters asking if the manga was horror—which she does not consider it to be. Release Written and illustrated by Yuri Narus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
