What are some of the more famous anime or manga publishers in Japan and what are the characteristics of their works?

Tokyo-based Kodansha is Japan's largest general publisher and one of the country's leading manga publishers, along with Shogakukan and Shueisha, the three main manga publishers in Japan. Kodansha now has 1,100 regular employees, the annual publication of 1,500 new books, 50 kinds of periodicals, 14 kinds of manga magazines, the release of 120 million copies of manga one-shot. 2004 annual sales of real ocean is 150 billion yen, about 10 billion yuan. In 2004, sales were 150 billion yen, or about 10 billion yuan, of which 33 billion yen, or about 2.2 billion yuan, were sales of manga, which shows the importance of manga to Kodansha.

http://www.kodansha.co.jp/

Jiyosha

Jiyosha

is one of the largest publishing houses in Japan, with a president, Shoji Taniyama, and 754 employees, and was founded in 1926 as a department of entertainment magazines for elementary schools, but was reorganized into a joint-stock company in 1949, and formally established as Jiyosha Corporation. Currently, Jiyosha publishes a variety of manga magazines for young people, the most famous of which is the weekly manga "Shonen Jump," which has a large readership not only in Japan but also overseas, and has been translated into a number of languages and published in many countries around the world. Jiyosha also publishes and distributes a variety of fashion magazines aimed at female readers ranging from young girls to middle-aged women, and these have also been very successful. In terms of book publishing, CBS has published many excellent bestsellers. In addition, it publishes and distributes a wide range of art books, literary collections, photo books, dictionaries, and children's books. CIB is also actively engaged in copyright trade activities, and has conducted copyright transactions with publishers in 30 countries and regions around the world. Mainland China, Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan all have copyright trade transactions with CIB.

Mr. Kazuhiko Toriyama, editor-in-chief of JBS's "Teenage Jump" comic book, introduced the publication of "Teenage Jump", which can be said to represent the history of Japanese animation. Shonen Jump is a weekly magazine with a circulation of 6 million copies per issue at its peak, and now it averages 3.2 million copies per issue, accounting for 91% of the company's total circulation. It was born 38 years ago, with a circulation of 105,000 copies, at a time when the elementary school version of the magazine had a circulation of more than one million copies. The magazine's editorial policy, which was tailored to its situation, was to employ a large number of new people, and the editor-in-chief and authors were on the same page, working together to create popular works.

Every issue of Jump Comics comes with a reader's opinion questionnaire and several small prizes to attract readers to provide feedback to the editorial team. The questionnaire lists and numbers the characters and stories published in the current issue of the comic, and asks readers to choose their top three favorites from among them. There are also some short questions and answers, such as your impression of the main character, your impression of the dialogue of the characters in the picture, your evaluation of the picture, and which snippet of the page that made you laugh the most, etc., and the table lists the answers to each of them, and you can choose three of your own choosing. The questionnaires are categorized by age group to see what type of work is most popular with a particular age group, creating work that is tailored to what readers love. The feedback from readers is an important reference for the editorial board and the editor-in-chief, and the serialization of any work that is not well received by the readers is discontinued immediately, and it is also an important data for starting new works by newcomers. In addition, they also widely solicited manuscripts in the magazine, rewarded outstanding works, and identified new authors from them.

Roughly one-third of the stories that have been serialized in Shonen Jump have been turned into animated films, such as Luffy the Pirate and Prince of Tennis. This has had a positive effect on the magazine itself, expanding sales of the originals. Most of the works that have been made into cartoons have sold more than a million copies, and there are other benefits of being made into cartoons, such as stationery, food, clothing, games, toys, and other spin-offs, which have led to considerable economic benefits.

The manga, "Junior Jump", has a net profit of tens of millions of yen every week, so comic strips are cultured products as well as products that repeatedly and continuously generate economic benefits.

http://www.shueisha.co.jp/

Kohkokan

Kohkokan Co., Ltd, founded in 1922, with its current president Masahiro Aiga, is one of the largest general publishing houses in Japan, with a total of more than 900 employees, including more than 600 staff members in the editorial department, and more than 600 in the management departments such as general affairs, accounting, and There are more than 900 employees, including more than 600 in the editorial department, 240 in the management department such as general affairs and accounting, and 240 in the sales department such as sales, business, publicity and advertising. Elementary School Library was first established to edit and publish learning magazines for elementary school students, categorized by school year, and later to create educational magazines for elementary school teachers. It has grown to include magazines for young children and general magazines, as well as novels, practical books, picture books, illustrated books, dictionaries, encyclopedias, and more. Since the establishment of the juvenile manga magazine Junior Sunday in 1959, Elementary School Library has published 19 magazines*** including children's manga, girl's manga, youth manga, and adult manga, and sells as many as 100 million copies of manga one-shots annually. Elementary school museum published comics "Doraemon", "Detective Conan" and other comic works have also been made into animated cartoons, comic books and animated cartoons are very popular with children and teenagers in China.

The Primary School Library now publishes more than 70 kinds of magazines, including study magazines, magazines for teachers, general magazines, and manga magazines; the annual circulation of volumes is 380 million, and the number of copies sold is 300 million. There are 6,800 types of books, with an average of 750 new books per year, 26 million copies issued and 21 million copies sold. There are 2,000 types of video recordings, with an average of 360 new types per year. Elementary school library annual average sales totaled 160 billion yen (about 13 billion yuan), accounting for 8% of the total sales of the Japanese publishing industry, ranking the top three. Among them, sales of comic books account for about one-fifth of the total sales of elementary school libraries. In terms of bestsellers, Shogakukan has also created amazing results, with the books "Calling for Love in the Center of the World" selling 3.5 million copies and "Going to See You Now" selling 1 million copies.

The Elementary School Library has developed co-publishing business with representative publishers in various countries. In recent years, more than 40 publishers from Asian countries, as well as from the United States and European countries, have translated and published various types of books from the Primary School Library. In China, more than 30 publishers, including the Commercial Press, have established cooperative copyright business relationships with the Primary School Library. The Primary School Library has business organizations in foreign countries, and in 1995, it set up Shanghai Bijie Consulting Business Co., Ltd. in China, which, as a window of the Primary School Library, is actively promoting the business of cooperative publishing with Chinese publishers.

http://www.shogakukan.co.jp/

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comics periodicals are the main body of Japanese comics publishing, the more influential comics periodicals are about four dozen, of which there are 13 kinds of weekly magazines, 10 kinds of semimonthly magazines (bi-weekly magazines). There are more than 20 monthly magazines. In terms of circulation per issue, the top fourteen manga periodicals have a circulation of more than one million copies. Among them, five major publishers, Kodansha, Kodakan, Jiyosha, Akita Shoten and Hakusensha, divide more than 70% of the Japanese manga market.

Shogakukan

Shogakukan (Shogakukan) Co., Ltd. was founded in 1922 and is headquartered in Hitotsubashi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, Japan, and is currently one of the three largest publishing companies in Japan. Shogakukan began as a publisher of educational periodicals for elementary schools, and has grown into a large publishing company that produces a wide range of publications, including books, periodicals, comics, tools, and CD-ROMs. It now employs 834 people and has annual sales of 160 billion yen (about 1.5 billion U.S. dollars), accounting for 8% of the Japanese book market.

Kohkokan publishes 67 periodicals, 4,500 books, and 4,600 manga titles annually, covering a wide range of fields such as encyclopedias, history, art, picture books, dictionaries, novels, treatises, and children's picture books. Currently, the manga periodicals under the umbrella of Elementary School Library include JUNIOR SUNDAY, CIAO, GIRL COMIC, and YOUNG SUNDAY.

Weekly Shonen SUNDAY, founded in 1959, is the oldest of Shogakukan's juvenile manga periodicals, and is on sale every Wednesday, now priced at 220 yen, with an average sales volume of about 1.5 million copies per issue. In a sense, the influence of SHOEN SUNDAY far exceeds its circulation. The works published in this periodical cover almost all juvenile manga themes, including sports, fantasy, detective, history, and teenage school, presenting a diverse range of styles. Anda Chun, Takahashi Rumiko and Aoyama Gosho are the "troika" of the journal.

YOUNG SUNDAY, founded in 1987, is a comprehensive weekly youth manga magazine published on Thursdays for 260 yen. It used to be called "Shonen Big Comic," but soon changed its name to "Young Sunday," and then became a weekly in 1995. Although it is called a "youth manga periodical," the works published in the magazine are mostly in the style of teenagers, but there are also works in other genres. Some of the artists active in the magazine include Gaku Akishige, Reiji Yamada, Takatoshi Yamada, and Yuto.

CIAO was founded in 1977 as a monthly manga magazine for girls in elementary school, and is now available on the 3rd of every month for 400 yen. The manga published in the magazine is mainly simple and bright, and the serialized works are relatively short, but highly entertaining. The magazine has also published manga works adapted from games or anime, such as Girls' Revolution. CIAO's main artists include Tomoyako Iizaka, Emiko Sugi, and Yumi Tsukino.

GIRL COMIC was founded in 1968 as a semi-monthly girl's manga magazine for middle school girls, and is released on the 5th and 20th of each month, currently priced at 280 yen. It contains a wider range of manga themes than other girls' manga periodicals, and often publishes manga with a fashion element. Currently, some of the most active girls' manga artists, such as Shinko Mayu and Watase Yuyu, are contributors to the magazine.

PETIT FLOWER was founded in 1980 as a bimonthly girls' manga magazine for young women, and is available on the 26th of each month for 490 yen. Most of the works published in this magazine are "women's manga drawn in a girl's manga style," and most of the main artists are famous artists who have been working for many years. The works are mature, well-conceived, and rich in meaning, and are characterized by their plots. The magazine's readers are mostly young women between the ages of 25 and 27.

PETIT COMIC, founded in 1977, is a monthly girls' manga magazine that comes out on the 24th of every month and is currently priced at 380 yen. The general style is similar to that of PETIT FLOWER, and longtime authors of manga serialized in the magazine include Akemi Yoshimura, Chiho Saito, Yuki Yoshihara, Ruyo Akashi, Natsuie Kogoshi, and Yuka Takase.

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Kodansha article

Kodansha (Kodansha Ltd.) is one of the oldest publishing houses in Japan, headquartered in Yonaha, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan. Founded in 1909 by Mr. Kiyoharu Noma, it used to be known as "Dai Nippon Eloquent Society Kodansha", but later the name was simplified and changed to Kodansha. Kodansha is still a family-owned company with 1,200 employees and sales of $1.65 billion, and its current president is Mrs. Sawako Noma. In addition, it is also known as the Yonaha Group because the name of the place where it is located is Yonaha.

Kodansha Manga Magazine

Kodansha publishes more than 60 periodicals each year, accounting for 64% of the company's total sales; book sales account for only about 30% of total sales. The books published by Kodansha cover a wide range of fields, including children's, fine arts, literature and art, humanities, natural sciences, practical life, and tools. Currently, Kodansha's manga periodicals include JUNIOR MAGAZINE, MAGAZINE Z, AFTERNOON, MORNING, YOUNG MAGAZINE, GOOD FRIENDS, and BE LOVE.

Weekly Shonen MAGAZINE, founded in March 1959, is Kodansha's venerable manga periodical, which goes on sale every Wednesday, now priced at 220 yen, and sells an average of about 4 million copies per issue. Junior MAGAZINE" is a comprehensive juvenile manga periodical, publishing works are mostly sports or action-adventure themes, but also reasoning, youth, food, magic and other types of comics, the overall style is relatively tough. Since it was founded earlier, many famous manga artists have published their works in JUNIOR MAGAZINE, such as Osamu Tezuka, Zero Matsumoto, and Shotaro Ishimori. In recent years, with the rise of newcomers such as Hiroshi Mashima, Shonen MAGAZINE has begun to take on a whole new look.

Founded in 1987, AFTERNOON is a monthly youth manga magazine aimed at the higher end of the market, and is available on the 25th of each month, currently priced at 480 yen. The overall level of the publication is high, and the tone is fresh, making it one of the largest and most page-counting of the youth manga periodicals. The works published have a delicate drawing style, serious themes, mature content, and an emphasis on exploring human nature and social issues. Manga artists who have published in the journal include Yasusuke Fujishima, Nu Takahashi, Kenichi Sonoda, and Masayuki Hokudo.

Founded in 1982, MORNING is a popular weekly youth manga magazine that is published every Thursday and currently sells for 260 yen. The journal used to use the title COMIC MORNING before changing to its current name after 1986. Since the journal was designed for commuters who had to commute to work on the train, it contained mostly realistic themes, as well as historical, political, sports, and other types of works. The main artists included Hirokane Kenji, Kobayashi Makoto, Inoue Yuuhiko, and Mizushima Shinji. In addition, the journal also publishes works by European and American painters.

YOUNG MAGAZINE, founded in 1980, is another important weekly youth manga magazine from Kodansha, which is on sale every Monday, now priced at 250 yen, with an average sales volume of about 1.7 million copies. Compared to Kodansha's other manga periodicals, Young Magazine has a strong commercial flavor, and the quality of its works seems to be mixed. Although there is a constant stream of high-quality works published, there is no shortage of pornographic manga of a poor standard. Artists who have long published in the magazine include Yuzo Takada, Shuichi Shigeno, CLAMP, and Kamiyuki Fukumoto.

Founded in January 1955, Good Friends is Kodansha's premier monthly girls' manga magazine, which comes out on the third of every month, currently sells for 420 yen, and averages sales of around 1.1 million copies. The magazine is aimed at elementary and junior high school girls, and the works it publishes focus on romance, fantasy, and adventure, with circulation once rising to 2 million copies due to the serialization of the famous girls' manga, "American Girl Warrior". Like JUNIOR MAGAZINE, GOOD FRIENDS is also a veteran publication in the Japanese manga industry, with many famous manga artists having contributed to it at one time or another. Currently, the publication's main artists include Naoko Takeuchi, CLAMP, Vivian Arbow, Megumi Tachikawa, and other famous girls' manga artists.

Founded in 1980, BE LOVE is a bimonthly manga magazine for working women that comes out on the 10th and 25th of each month, and is currently priced at 350 yen. It is one of the most popular women's manga periodicals in Japan, and its motto is "Creating a life of love". The main authors are powerful artists who have been working for many years, such as Riyoko Ikeda and Reiko Okano. Currently, it has both female and male readers.

Founded in 1999, MAGAZINE Z is a monthly juvenile manga magazine that comes out on the first day of every month and is currently priced at 480 yen. Designed specifically for the juvenile (male) manga market, the magazine publishes mostly hard-core titles such as martial arts, science fiction, and history, with some titles based on games or anime. Although it was founded in an infrequent period of time, it boasts a luxurious lineup of authors and thus quickly won readers' recognition for its up-and-coming image.

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Introduction of Jiyōsha

In the 15th year of the Taisho era

Separated from Shogakukan's Entertainment Journal Publishing Division and established Jiyōsha.

Showa 2 "Men's Ekiben" and "Women's Ekiben" were established.

Showa 3

The entire 24-volume collection of modern ユウモア was compiled.

Showa 5

The first issue of Detective Story.

Showa 22

Joint venture company Jiyosha established. Junior King published.

Showa 24

Converted into Shibaisha Co. Omoshirobuchi (おもしろブック) is published.

Showa 25 よいこのとも (よいこのとも) was launched.

Showa 26

Girls' Book was published.

Showa 27

"Star" was launched.

Showa 28

Omoshiro Manga Bunko series was published. Kodomo BOOK" was published.

Showa 30

Ribon was published. Published by Eibunku.

Showa 32

Junior Girls' Story Bunko all 30 volumes published. Study Manga Bunko series released. Shigeru Sugiura's Masterpiece Manga full 8 volumes released. Hinomaru was launched.

Showa 33 Weekly Star "Girls' Kindergarten Kobato" launched TV Manga Bunko 23 volumes published Tetsujin Uno edited "New Shukuhiro Dictionary" published.

Showa 34

Shonen ブック" first issue of literature and art books published: Shibata Renzaburo "Youtarou Lane", Genshikita "Sanshirou" and others.

Showa 36

Junior girls Japanese history collection of 12 volumes, ひろすけ juvenile fairy tales collection of 12 volumes published.

Showa 37

Female Star was founded. 38 volumes of New Japanese Literature, 17 volumes of World Short Literature, 12 volumes of Juvenile World Fairy Tale Literature, and 6 volumes of Juvenile History of the Pacific War were published, and Yamaguchi Kudai? Kiyoto "Love and Death no Kattami" was a big bestseller

Showa 38

Maiga Reit was published as the first issue of the world's 100 people's stories in 12 volumes, and ukiyo-e prints were published in 7 volumes.

Showa 39

A full 24-volume collection of Chinese poetry and a full 16-volume collection of Showa war literature were published. Publication of autobiographies of famous writers began (1st "Yojiro Ishizaka Autobiography") "コンパクト? ブックス" was published.

Showa 40

The entire 38 volumes of the complete collection of world literature, the entire 4 volumes of the history of women in Japan, and the entire 50 volumes of masterpieces of fairy tales of mothers and children were published. The book "コバルト? ブックス" is released.

Showa 41

Novel Jidaniya and Weekly Prevue were published. The entire 88 volumes of the Complete Works of Japanese Literature and the entire 50 volumes of Masterpieces of Literature by Mothers and Sons were published. Conpakuto? Comikus" is published. The 1st Shiraito Sanpei "サスケ" is published.

Showa 42 years

"オールカラー ひろすけ fairy tale" all 8 volumes, learning manga "the history of Japan" all 18 volumes, a thousand nights a night all 13 volumes, the modern world of literature series issued. The 1st ロス "さようならコロンバス", シリトー "long-distance walkers of loneliness" マーガレット? コミックス Release.

Showa 43

Weekly セブンティーン, Weekly Shonen ジャンプ were launched. 66 volumes of Duet edition of the complete collection of world literature, and 30 volumes of color edition of Japanese literature were published.

Showa 44

The definitive edition of "モラエス" (モラエス) was published in 5 volumes, "シムノン" (シムノン) was published in 12 volumes, and "現代世界美术全集" (現代世界美术全集) was published in 25 volumes.

Showa 45

Monthly Shonen Jump was founded. The literary magazine Subaru was established. The complete 10 volumes of Soseki Literature, the complete 16 volumes of the Classical Haiku Literature Series, the complete 7 volumes of the Original Color Garden Plants, the complete 3 volumes of the History of the United States, and the complete 14 volumes of the Juvenile Edition of the History of Japan were published.

Showa 46

Non?no was established. The complete collection of modern Japanese art, all 18 volumes, the complete 8 volumes of シートン zookeepers, the complete 14 volumes of the anthology of young adult literature by Kenzo Tomishima, the collection of representative paintings by Higashiyama Kuei, Kukutani, and Rose Penalty were published.

Showa 47 years

"ロードショー" the creation of the collection edition of world literature all 45 volumes, the world of film music all 9 volumes, Kajiyama seasoned by the collection of self-selected works of all 16 volumes, juvenile edition of the world of reasoning all 24 volumes, マーガレット? Comics "ベルサイユのばら" and Higashiyama Kaii's painting collection "古都を描く" were published.

Showa 48

Monthly セブンティーン was launched. The entire 33-volume series of the Great Chinese Translation Series, the entire 30-volume series of Shibata Renzaburo's self-selected period novels, and the entire 17-volume series of the Ukiyo-e Great Series were published.