Afternoon (アフタヌーン) is a Japanesemanga magazine published by Kodansha. It is a monthly anthology, and each issue typically has around twenty ongoing stories by various authors and runs about 800 pages. It is aimed at young men and is categorized as seinen manga. Afternoon has spawned many successful manga series such as Ah! Megami-sama (Oh My Goddess!) and Mugen no Jūnin (Blade of the Immortal). Rurouni Kenshin manga, volume 1 (English version) Manga (漫画) is the Japanese word for comics; outside of Japan, it usually refers specifically to Japanese comics. ... Kodansha (講談社 Kōdansha) is a major Japanese publisher of literature and manga, headquartered in (Bunkyo), Tokyo. ... Seinen (Japanese: 青年) is a subset of anime or manga that is generally targeted at a 18 - 25 year old male audience, but the audience can be much older with some comics aimed at businessmen well into their 40s. ... Oh My Goddess!, known as Ah! My Goddess (ああっ女神さまっ Aa! Megami-sama) in Japan and in some English releases, is a manga and anime series by Kosuke Fujishima. ... Blade of the Immortal, or 無限の住人 (Mugen no Jūnin, literally Inhabitant of Infinity), is a Japanese manga series by Hiroaki Samura. ...