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is a
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manga anthology. It is marketed to ''
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'' public (young adult men), edited and published monthly by Coamix. From 2010 to 2020, it was formerly published by North Stars Pictures and
Tokuma Shoten is a publisher in Japan, headquartered in Shinagawa, Tokyo. The company was established in 1954 by Yasuyoshi Tokuma in Minato, Tokyo. The company’s product portfolio includes music publishing, video game publishing, movies, anime, magazines, ...
. It was produced as a replacement for ''
Weekly Comic Bunch is a Japanese manga anthology marketed to a ''seinen'' audience that was edited by Coamix and published weekly by Shinchosha from 2001 throughout 2010 and became monthly since 2011. The collected editions of their titles are published under th ...
'', Coamix's previous manga anthology. The collected editions of their titles are published under the ''Zenon Comics'' imprint.


Overview

After the drop of
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's ''
Weekly Comic Bunch is a Japanese manga anthology marketed to a ''seinen'' audience that was edited by Coamix and published weekly by Shinchosha from 2001 throughout 2010 and became monthly since 2011. The collected editions of their titles are published under th ...
'' circulation numbers, Coamix, which edited the magazine, announced ''Bunch''s discontinuation. Coamix marked August 27, 2010 as the day of ''Bunch''s last release, and started to consider to launch a new magazine. In October 2010, Coamix announced a partnership with North Stars Pictures and
Tokuma Shoten is a publisher in Japan, headquartered in Shinagawa, Tokyo. The company was established in 1954 by Yasuyoshi Tokuma in Minato, Tokyo. The company’s product portfolio includes music publishing, video game publishing, movies, anime, magazines, ...
, stating that the new magazine ''Monthly Comic Zenon'' would debut on October 25, 2010. At the same time Shinchosha launched ''Monthly Comics @ Bunch'', a replacement for ''Weekly Comic Bunch'', but edited without Coamix's involvement. As a result, many of the manga artists from ''Bunch'' have been moved to ''Zenon''. The magazine's name is based on —the Japanese name of
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—, specifically the part, which means to "hear the voice of the worldwide". The "Z" from "Zenon" was chosen with the meaning of "ultimate" since it is the last letter from alphabet. In order to approach more readers, ''Monthly Comic Zenon'' is published in both, print and digital editions. The website "Zenon Land" was launched, publishing the ''Zenon''s manga series only for smartphones. A
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channel was created to disclose ''Zenon''-related media. Also, "Cafe Zenon", a ''
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'' decorated with manga motifs, in Kichijōji, a neighborhood in the city of Musashino,
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, was inaugurated on November 11, 2009. To expand its range the magazine also promotes a "silent manga" contest; first, in 2011, it was a national competition. Starting from 2013, it became an international contest, in which no dialogues were necessary. Open for professional and amateurs, the focus of the judgment was the performance of the works through art rather than exposition. The judges were manga authors
Tsukasa Hojo is a Japanese manga artist. He studied technical design while still at Kyushu Sangyo University, where he began to draw manga. He worked on several one-shot stories before releasing his serialized works: '' Cat's Eye'', ''City Hunter'' and ' ...
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City Hunter is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Tsukasa Hojo. It was serialized in ''Weekly Shōnen Jump'' from 1985 to 1991 and collected into 35 ''tankōbon'' volumes by its publisher Shueisha. The manga was adapted into ...
'') and
Tetsuo Hara is a Japanese manga artist. He is best-known for creating the post-apocalyptic martial arts series ''Fist of the North Star'' (1983–1988) with writer Buronson, which is one of the best-selling manga in history with over 100 million copies ...
(''
Fist of the North Star is a Japanese manga series written by Buronson and illustrated by Tetsuo Hara. It was serialized in Shueisha's ''shōnen'' manga magazine ''Weekly Shōnen Jump'' for 245 issues published from 1983 to 1988 and initially collected in 27 ' ...
''), then editor-in-chief Nobuhiko Horie and the magazine editorial team. The best five received prize awards while the top three had their works published in the magazine. The first international edition received 514 submissions from 53 countries, while in the second people from 65 countries submitted 609 works. Molico Ross, a winner of the domestic competition, wrote ''Nobo and Her?'' between 2012 and 2017, and ''Shinigami ni Datte, Ai wa Aru'' (published since 2017) is based on "Thirty and a Half Minutes", a work by the 4th international contest winner, Vietnamese female writer Snippy MJ. In another action to expand its public, in August 2015, Coamix and The Silent Manga Audition Committee created a section called "Zenon International" on the contest website to publish the ''SMAC! Web Magazine''. They announced plans to translate all the series and offer them for free on their site based on demand—which is based on the readers' vote. At first they made available ''Ikusa no Ko: Legend of Oda Nobunaga'', ''Nobo and Her?'' and ''
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'', and in December ''
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'' became part of the catalog. After a certain amount of chapters are serialized in the magazine they are collected into ''
tankōbon is the Japanese term for a book that is not part of an anthology or corpus. In modern Japanese, the term is most often used in reference to individual volumes of a manga series: most series first appear as individual chapters in a weekly or ...
'' format and published under the ''Zenon Comics'' imprint. Parallel to this label, there is ''Zenon Comics DX'' that only publishes titles former released by other publishers such as Tetsuo Hara's ''Cyber Blue'' (''
Weekly Shōnen Jump is a weekly ''shōnen'' manga anthology published in Japan by Shueisha under the ''Jump'' line of magazines. The manga series within the magazine consist of many action scenes and a fair amount of comedy. The chapters of the series that run ...
'') and ''Kōkenryoku Ōryō Sōsakan Nakabō Rintarō'' (''Bart 3230''). This two titles composed ''Zenon Comics DX'' first line-up, while ''Zenon Comics'' one had ''Angel Heart: 2nd Season'', '' Cat's Eye'', ''Concierge Platinum'', and ''Waraenu Warashi: 108 no Karma''. Both imprints released its first titles on March 22, 2011. The ''Zenon Comics'' level also publishes manga released on ''Zenon''s sister magazine, . Published online since October 25, 2012, it is the home of series such as '' Hokuto no Ken: Ichigo Aji'' and '' Seikai Suru Kado: Aoi Haru to Railgun''.


List of works

Ongoing series are highlighted in light green.


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Official website
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