''Shōnen Club'' (''Shōnen Kurabu'' / 少年倶楽部, later 少年クラブ in 1946) was a monthly boys' magazine begun by

Kodansha is a Japanese privately-held publishing company headquartered in Bunkyō, Tokyo. Kodansha is the largest Japanese publishing company, and it produces the manga magazines ''Nakayoshi'', ''Afternoon'', ''Evening'', ''Weekly Shōnen Magazine'' an ...

in November 1914. The magazine initially featured articles, poetry and serialized novels, but it began to focus more on creating

manga Manga (Japanese: 漫画 ) are comics or graphic novels originating from Japan. Most manga conform to a style developed in Japan in the late 19th century, and the form has a long prehistory in earlier Japanese art. The term ''manga'' is u ...

content by the 1930s. The first manga, ''

Norakuro is a Japanese manga series created by Suihō Tagawa, originally published by Kodansha in '' Shōnen Kurabu'', and one of the first series' to be reprinted in tankōbon format. The titular protagonist, Norakuro, or Norakuro-'' kun'', i ...

'', was published in the magazine in 1931. The magazine's success lead to the sister-publication of ''

Shōjo Club was a monthly Japanese (girls) magazine. Founded by the publishing company Kodansha in 1923 as a sister publication to its magazine ''Shōnen Club'', the magazine published articles, short stories, illustrations, poems, and manga. ''Shōjo Clu ...

'' in 1923'','' which offered similar content, but catered for girls.

Notable works

Novel serialization

Manga serialization

References

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Notable works

Novel serialization

Manga serialization

See also

References