is a monthly Japanese
seinen
is an editorial category of Japanese comics marketed toward young adult men. In Japanese, the word ''seinen'' literally means "youth", but the term "''seinen'' manga" is also used to describe the target audience of magazines like ''Weekly Ma ...
manga magazine
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 used ...
, published on the 5th each month by
Media Factory
, formerly is a Japanese publisher and brand company of Kadokawa Future Publishing.
History
It was founded on December 1, 1986, and its headquarters are situated in Shibuya, Tokyo. It is a subsidiary of Recruit Co., Ltd. Media Factory was possi ...
since November 5, 1999 as a successor to ''Comic Alpha''. The magazine celebrated its 100th issue on February 5, 2008 (March issue 2008).
On July 13, 2022, a supplemental magazine for ''Flapper'' called ''Monthly Comic Alunna'' began publishing. ''Alunna'' will focus on manga by notable online influencers and creators, with some titles currently being published in ''Flapper'' moving to the new magazine.
Serialized titles
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*''Atagoul ha neko no mori'' by
Hiroshi Masumura
is a Japanese manga artist. He is best known for his adaptations of Kenji Miyazawa's children novels, including his work on the anime film ''Night on the Galactic Railroad'' (1985), and for several manga series set in the fantasy universe '' ...
(1999-2011)
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Brave 10
''Brave 10'' (stylized as ''BRAVE10'') is a manga series by Kairi Shimotsuki, serialized in Media Factory's ''Comic Flapper'' from 2006 to 2010. The series was resumed on June 15, 2011 and retitled ''Brave 10 Spiral'', better known as ''Brave ...
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Candy Boy
is an eight-minute original net animation produced by Anime International Company, and directed by Takafumi Hoshikawa. Since November 22, 2007, the ONA is available through streaming on the Cho! animelo audiovisual website and the Nico Nic ...
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Chio-chan no Tsūgakuro
is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Tadataka Kawasaki. It was serialized in Media Factory's ''Monthly Comic Flapper'' magazine from April 2014 to September 2018. A 12-episode anime television series adaptation by Diomedéa a ...
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Dance in the Vampire Bund
is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Nozomu Tamaki. The manga was serialized in Media Factory's ''seinen'' manga magazine ''Monthly Comic Flapper'' between 2005 and 2012, and is licensed for publication in English by Se ...
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Denkigai no Honya-san
, also known by the abbreviation , is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Asato Mizu. It depicts slice of life stories about a group of characters who work in a fictional ''doujin'' shop called , a reference to the real-life '' ...
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Fantastic Children
is a Japanese anime television series created by Takashi Nakamura and produced by Nippon Animation. It first aired in Japan across TV Tokyo between October 4, 2004 and March 28, 2005, totaling 26 episodes. There was an extended ending speci ...
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Girls und Panzer
, abbreviated as ''GuP'' or ''Garupan'' , is a Japanese anime franchise created by Actas which depicts a competition between girls' high schools practicing tank warfare as a sport. The series was directed by Tsutomu ...
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Guin Saga
is a best-selling heroic fantasy novel series by the Japanese author Kaoru Kurimoto, in continuous publication since 1979. A record 100 volumes were originally planned, but the final total stands at 147 volumes and 26 side-story novels, ...
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Kage Kara Mamoru!
is a Japanese series of light novels written by Achi Taro. The light novels had ended in March 2008 with the release of Volume 12, but as of July 2009, a new series entitled has started serialization. It features manga and anime adaptations. ...
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Kamisama Kazoku
is an anime series based on a series of light novels by Yoshikazu Kuwashima, which premiered May 18, 2006 in Japan across the anime satellite television network Animax. The original light novel series has concluded with eight volumes; howev ...
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Kuma Miko: Girl Meets Bear'' (ongoing)
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Locke the Superman
is a Japanese manga series created by Yuki Hijiri, which was later adapted into a movie and three OVA releases. The movie was given an obscure video release in the United States by Celebrity Home Entertainment as ''Locke the Superpower' ...
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Madan no Ō to Vanadis
is a Japanese light novel series written by Tsukasa Kawaguchi and illustrated by Yoshi☆o and Hinata Katagiri. In ''Lord Marksman and Vanadis'', the fictional European country of Brune is under the leadership of King Faron. Brune is on the ...
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Lycoris Recoil
is a Japanese original anime television series created by Spider Lily and Asaura. It was produced by A-1 Pictures and aired from July to September 2022.
A manga adaptation by Yasunori Bizen began serialization in Media Factory's manga maga ...
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Math Girls
is the first in a series of math-themed young adult novels of the same name by Japanese author Hiroshi Yuki. It was published by SoftBank Creative in 2007, followed by ''Math Girls: Fermat's Last Theorem'' in 2008, ''Math Girls: Gödel's Incom ...
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Mushoku Tensei
is a Japanese light novel series by and illustrated by Shirotaka. The series is about a jobless and hopeless man who dies after having a sad and withdrawn life and reincarnates in a fantasy world while keeping his memories, determin ...
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My Wife Has No Emotion
My or MY may refer to:
Arts and entertainment
* My (radio station), a Malaysian radio station
* Little My, a fictional character in the Moomins universe
* ''My'' (album), by Edyta Górniak
* ''My'' (EP), by Cho Mi-yeon
Business
* Market ...
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Nijū Mensō no Musume
is a Japanese 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 ...
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Overman King Gainer
is an anime television series, created by Yoshiyuki Tomino, written by Ichirō Ōkouchi, and featuring character designs by Yoshihiro Nakamura, Kinu Nishimura and Ken'ichi Yoshida. The series ran from September 7, 2002 to March 22, 2003 on ...
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Space Adventure Cobra: Magic Doll''
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Tate no Yuusha no Nariagari
is a Japanese dark fantasy ''isekai'' light novel series written by Aneko Yusagi. Originally published as a web novel in the user-generated novel site Shōsetsuka ni Narō, the series has since been published by Media Factory with an ...
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Togari Shiro
is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Yoshinori Natsume. The story follows orphan Tobei, who was beheaded for committing countless crimes in the Edo period and sent to Hell where he suffered for 300 years. The regent of Hell m ...
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Tonari no Seki-kun
is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Takuma Morishige. The series follows a girl named Rumi Yokoi who is constantly distracted by her neighboring classmate, Toshinari Seki, as he indulges in elaborate hobbies and somehow n ...
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Tono to Issho
is a Japanese yonkoma, 4-panel gag manga written and illustrated by Ohba-Kai. ''Tono to Issho'' parodies several historical figures from Japan's Sengoku period (Warring States Era). ''Tono to Issho'' was adapted into two anime television ser ...
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Translucent
In the field of optics, transparency (also called pellucidity or diaphaneity) is the physical property of allowing light to pass through the material without appreciable scattering of light. On a macroscopic scale (one in which the dimensions a ...
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Twin Spica
is a Japanese Seinen manga, ''seinen'' manga series written and illustrated by Kou Yaginuma. The "realistic, Slice of life story, slice-of-life science fiction series" tells the story of a group of Japanese high school students training to b ...
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Vamos Lá!
, from Portuguese ''Let's Go!'' is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Yoshimi Osada. It has been published in France by Bamboo Édition, under their manga imprint Doki Doki.
Plot
Yu Kamazaki is a schoolgirl who lacks confiden ...
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Young Ladies Don't Play Fighting Games
is a Japanese manga series by Eri Ejima. It has been serialized in Media Factory's seinen manga, ''seinen'' manga magazine ''Monthly Comic Flapper'' since January 2020 and has been collected in seven ''tankōbon'' volumes. The manga is licens ...
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References
External links
Comic Flapper official website
{{Comic Flapper
1999 establishments in Japan
Monthly manga magazines published in Japan
Magazines established in 1999
Seinen manga magazines
Media Factory magazines