Monthly Shōnen Gangan (12/2004 issue)

Monthly Shonen Gangan (月刊少年ガンガン Gekkan Shōnen Gangan) is one of the thickest weekly manga compilations in Japan, regularly having over 600 pages. Weekly Shōnen Gangan was launched by Enix (now "Square Enix") in 1991, to compete with other magazines such as Shonen Magazine, Shonen Jump and Shonen Sunday, and is targeted toward the same young, male demographic ("Shōnen" means young boy or young man). It features manga with lots of action and adventure; science fiction and fantasy elements in the stories are very common. Square Enix also publishes the related Gangan YG and Monthly Gangan Wing. Image File history File links MonthlyShounenGangan. ... Image File history File links MonthlyShounenGangan. ... For other uses, see Manga (disambiguation). ... Enix Co. ... SQUARE ENIX (Japanese: スクウェア・エニックス) is a Japanese producer of popular video games and manga. ... 1991 (MCMXCI) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Weekly Shonen Magazine (週刊少年マガジン Shūkan Shōnen Magajin), also known as Shonen Magazine, is a manga magazine published by Kodansha. ... Weekly Shonen Jump, issue 40 (Japanese version) Weekly Shonen Jump (週刊少年ジャンプ ShÅ«kan Shōnen Janpu), with a circulation of over 3 million, is one of the longest-running, weekly manga compilations in Japan. ... Weekly Shonen Sunday (少年サンデー Shōnen SandÄ“) is a shōnen manga magazine published by Shogakukan. ... Shōnen or shounen (å°‘å¹´) is a Japanese word usually translated as young boy, although it is commonly used to refer to males of up to high-school age as well. ... Science fiction is a form of speculative fiction principally dealing with the impact of imagined science and technology, or both, upon society and persons as individuals. ... // For other meanings see Fantasy (disambiguation) Fantasy is a genre of art, literature, film, television, games and music that uses magic and other supernatural forms as a primary element of either plot, theme, setting, or all three. ...

Mangaka and series featured in Monthly Shonen Gangan

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See also

• List of manga magazines

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External links

• Monthly Shonen Gan Gan web site (in Japanese)
• Square-Enix web site (in Japanese)
• GanganSearch