CoroCoro Comic

CoroCoro Comic

Monthly CoroCoro Comic (September 1983 issue)
Categories Kodomo/shōnen manga
(6-year-olds to 15-year-old boys revealed as of new release)
Frequency Monthly
Circulation 970,000 (2015)[1]
First issue May 15, 1977
Company Shogakukan
Country Japan
Language Japanese

CoroCoro Comic (コロコロコミック KoroKoro Komikku) is a Japanese monthly manga magazine published by Shogakukan,[2] established on May 15, 1977. Its main target is elementary school aged boys, younger than the readers of shōnen manga. Several of its properties, like Doraemon and the Pokémon series of games, have gone on to be cultural phenomena in Japan.

The name comes from a phenomime korokoro (ころころ?) which means "rolling" and also represents something spherical, fat, or small, because children supposedly like such things. The magazine is A5-sized, about 6 cm (2¼ in) thick, and each issue is 750 pages long. CoroCoro Comic is released monthly with new issues on the 15th of each month (or earlier if the 15th falls on a weekend).

The magazine has two sisters: Bessatsu CoroCoro and CoroCoro Ichiban!. Both are bi-monthly.

History

The magazine was launched in 1977 as a magazine for Doraemon, which is one of the most popular manga in Japan. Before then Doraemon had been serialized in 6 Shogakukan magazines targeted to students of 6 elementary school grades that target audience has now increased. It collected stories of Doraemon from these magazines. It celebrated its 30th anniversary in 2007 with an exhibition at the Kyoto International Manga Museum.[3]

Tie-ins

CoroCoro regularly promotes toys and video games related to their manga franchises, releasing stories and articles featuring them. Pocket Monsters/Pokémon's big success in Japan owes to this in a way; the Game Boy game Pocket Monsters Blue was sold exclusively through the magazine at first, which helped CoroCoro's sales as well. CoroCoro is also often a source of information about upcoming Pokémon games and movies.

Other successful tie-ins include:

Manga series currently being serialized

Manga titles currently serialized in Monthly CoroCoro Comic

Manga titles currently serialized in Bessatsu CoroCoro Comic

Manga titles currently serialized in CoroCoro Ichiban

Manga

1960s

1970s

1980s

1990s

2000s

2010's

Rivals

Corocoro has had many rivaling children's magazine in the past, with one of them, Comic Bom Bom, closing down due to declining sales. The current competition includes V Jump and Saikyo Jump.

Past rivals

Current rivals

Foreign adaptations

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Boy's Manga" (in Japanese). Japanese Magazine Publishers Association. September 2015. Retrieved October 29, 2015.
  2. ↑ Schodt, Frederik L. (1996). Dreamland Japan: writings on modern manga. Stone Bridge Press. p. 83. ISBN 1-880656-23-X.
  3. ↑ "Kyoto Museum Exhibits Genius Party, Coronary, Terra E…". Anime News Network. 2007-07-18. Retrieved 2009-09-02.

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