Instruct: Given a question, retrieve documents that can help answer the question.
Query: Who published the Pokemon manga?
The series is written by Hidenori Kusaka and illustrated by Mato for the first nine volumes. When Mato became ill and was unable to continue illustrating the series, Satoshi Yamamoto took over as the illustrator and still continues as the series' artist.
"Sweet Blue Flowers" is a manga series written and illustrated by Takako Shimura. It was serialized in Ohta Publishing's "Manga Erotics F" manga magazine between the 30th issue sold on November 17, 2004 and the 82nd issue released on July 6, 2013. Eight "tankōbon" volumes were released between December 15, 2005 and September 12, 2013 in Japan. The manga has been licensed for release in French by Asuka under the title "Fleurs Bleues". The series was released digitally in English on JManga, but after JManga closed down, Digital Manga Publishing took over the English-language publication rights. The series was later re-licensed in 2016 by Viz Media, who will publish the series in omnibus editions.
Pokemones dressed similarly to other urban tribes, such as otaku and emo, but they were not followers of anime like the former, nor shared the musical tastes of the latter. Apart from borrowing aspects from the emo, like the sideswept bangs, the Pokemones also shared some aspects typical to the punk and the local "hardcore" subculture. Pokemones were livelier, more extroverted than the emo and otaku stereotypes. Most Pokemones were teens. During parties they danced to reggaeton music, while kissing and groping with as many people (male or female) as they could, which they called "poncear". They made extensive use of the Internet, trading photos of themselves on image-sharing site Fotolog and communicating through MSN Messenger.
Magikarp Jump has been largely well-received since its release in 2017. The game is interactive, and overall a delight to fans of Pokemon, as well as overall gamers. This app creates a bright aesthetic for the Pokemon Company, and shows overall success in upcoming years. Pokemon has been greatly praised for such an app, and still keeps getting good reviews on this app to this day. The gameplay, along with the fast paced software, gives gamers a improving game that they can play with less of a chance of a glitch and restarting of the game. The app provides fans and gamers alike with also a appealing looking app, that gives creativity and enjoyment. The game provides users with a clean, and imaginative game, that becomes enjoyable and positive through each playthrough. Pokemon fans are praising the app on the well paced, yet addicting attributes in which this app posses. Meanwhile gamers, whether fans of the Pokemon series or not, praise the game on good visuals, and overall well paced gameplay. With such attributes, this app is a popular success, and overall is a game many gamers, Pokemon fans and non Pokemon fans can enjoy. Therefore with the like of Apple and iOS, this app can be played on nearly any mobile device, and with positive reviews still being made of this game, Pokemon fans and more can be more into mobile games such as this one.
Digital Manga is a company that licenses and releases, in English, Japanese manga, anime, and related merchandise. The company has several subdivisions: Digital Manga Publishing, which publishes Japanese manga, novels and instructional and illustration books in North America with multiple imprints, and 801 Media, a sister company that focuses on more explicit "yaoi" manga works. Digital Manga also owns and operates eManga, a digital publishing site for manga and light novels, that publishes both Digital Manga titles as well as e-book versions of works from other publishers. Non-publishing divisions include Pop Japan Travel, a tour service; and several e-retail sites for their books and for import products, including Akadot Retail and Yaoi Club. The company's headquarters are in Suite 300 in the 1487 West 178th Street building in Gardena, California, United States. Since 2011 Digital Manga has been utilizing Kickstarter as their means of publishing, starting with restocking out of print Osamu Tezuka's titles to the most popular title The Finder series by Yamane Ayano.
Dreamland Japan is a 1996 book by Frederik L. Schodt published by Stone Bridge Press that was intended as a "sequel" to Schodt's 1983 book "Manga! Manga! The World of Japanese Comics". It includes information on several major manga magazines (including eight full-color pages of magazine covers) and manga writers and artists, including many who are little-known outside Japan. The book also includes an extensive chapter on manga "god" Osamu Tezuka and information on developments in manga that took place since the publication of "Manga! Manga!", such as the use of manga as propaganda by the Aum Shinrikyo cult, the evolution of "otaku" culture, and the role of computers in manga creation.
The manga was first published as part of Kodansha's manga anthology "" on July 13, 2010. It continued sporadic serialization in Kodansha's manga magazine "Afternoon" in 2012. Kodansha published the first collected volume on October 21, 2011 and the second on November 21, 2017. In December 2015, Dark Horse Comics announced that it had licensed the manga in North America, publishing the first volume on July 26, 2016. The manga has also been published in Taiwan by Tong Li Publishing.
The original manga series is written and illustrated by Ichigo Takano, and originally began serialization on March 13, 2012 in Shueisha's "Bessatsu Margaret", however switched to Futabasha's "Monthly Action" in 2013. The first tankōbon was released by Shueisha on July 25, 2012, who published two volumes of the series. The first two volumes were later republished by Futabasha on December 25, 2013. The manga ended serialization on August 25, 2015, and the fifth volume was published on November 12, 2015. It was later announced that an additional sixth volume based on "Orange: Future" would serve as the final volume, which was released on May 31, 2017. The series is licensed in English in North America by Seven Seas Entertainment, who published the series in two omnibus volumes. Crunchyroll Manga simulpublished the series on their website.
The following is a list of notable manga magazines that were, and are published outside Japan. Not all magazines abroad published their own manga or had the rights to serialize manga originally published in Japan. To qualify for this list, the magazine has to have serialized manga included, or have a section discussing manga. Manga discussion can either be through reviews, or upcoming manga release info in detail. All magazine titles are written the same way in English, unless otherwise noted.
Ribon Original was a shōjo manga magazine published by Shueisha. It was a sister magazine of "Ribon", and was published from 1981 until 2006. New and up-and-coming Ribon manga artists often had their first short stories published in this magazine. Established "Ribon" manga artists who had a decrease in popularity also had short stories or short series in "Ribon Original", and side stories to series currently running in Ribon were also in this magazine. Yonkoma manga that are published in Ribon also concurrently ran in "Ribon Original".
One of Yazawa's earliest manga works was a "dojinshi" work called "Itadaki! Panther" which ran in a small monthly magazine called "Pyon Pyon". Yazawa started with Shogakukan in 1990, during which she released "Wedding Peach". "Wedding Peach" ran in "Ciao" magazine from 1994 to 1996, published by Shogakukan for six tankōbon volumes, and was adapted into an anime series. She worked on several other stories until 2000.In 2003, she released the shojo manga "Nozomi", a story about a girl who makes a wish upon a falling star and meets a demon who teaches her about love. It was the first manga she drew for English readers. She attended Anime Expo that year to promote "Nozomi" and "Wedding Peach". In 2010, she released "Mizuki" through Digital Manga Publishing. The story is about a teenage girl who transforms into a devil whenever she gets angry and must fight a bevy of evil monsters. In 2011, she released "Moon and Blood" on Digital Manga Publishing in English prior to the Japanese release. "Moon and Blood" is about a teen vampire guy who stays with a family. In 2012, she begin teaching courses on how to make manga in Tokyo; this led to her creating online English courses as well as teaching overseas through Japan Foundation Toronto. In 2013, she published her autobiographical four-panel manga "Go-Go Nao-P" in English. She self-published the post-apocalyptic "Shinku-Chitai" ("The Isolated Zone") manga which was picked up by a German monthly magazine "Manga Power".
Following is a list of some of the manga artists who have had works published in "Manga Burikko":
Aurora Publishing, Inc. was the American subsidiary of Japanese publisher Ohzora Publishing, the leading "josei" manga publisher in Japan. Headquartered in Torrance, California, it licensed and published Japanese manga for the North American market. Aurora Publishing's first release was "Walkin' Butterfly" under the "shōjo" imprint "Aurora", which features manga targeting female readers in their teens and younger. Aurora Publishing also released manga under two other imprints: the "yaoi" imprint "Deux Press" featured female-oriented manga about homoerotic relations between beautiful men, while the "josei" imprint "Luv Luv" featured erotic romance manga targeting female readers in their late teens and up. Aurora Publishing distributed some of its manga via Netcomics. In 2010, the Aurora office in California closed. The former employees of Aurora Publishing went on to found Manga Factory. Manga Factory lasted until at least June, 2013 before it closed as well.
In 2000, Ehapa published manga directed toward Japanese readers for the first time, with "Wedding Peach". In October of the same year, the firm Egmont Manga & Anime (EMA) was founded. Since then, the head of the publisher has been Georg F.W. Tempel, who had already been responsible for the previous manga publications as the former chief editor for trend subjects at Ehapa. EMA is the first German manga publisher to have an advisor directly on location in Japan.
For "Pokémon Black" and "White", Sugimori directed a team of 17 people in designing new characters for the games, though he always drew the final designs. He drew much of his inspiration from observing animals in aquariums and zoos. Sugimori has also written and illustrated original manga, including one which was distributed with pre-orders of . When he begins a new character, his process normally involves making a rough sketch, then tracing it onto film paper while polishing it and making the illustration more professional looking. After that, he draws the character many times, changing its proportions until he is satisfied. When designing a new Pokemon, Sugimori stated that "I do feel that I always want to show new Pokemon that people have never seen before. To do that, I think of ways that I can surprise the players."
The first gay manga to receive an officially-licensed English-language translation was "Standing Ovations", a one-shot by Gengoroh Tagame published in the American erotic comics anthology "Thickness" (2011-2012). In 2012, Digital Manga published an English-language translation of Reibun Ike's "Hide and Seek", a gay manga/yaoi crossover originally published by Aqua Comics. In 2013, PictureBox published "The Passion of Gengoroh Tagame: Master of Gay Erotic Manga", the first book-length work of gay manga to be published in English.
"Seiyū ka-!" debuted in the 14th issue of the shojo manga magazine "Hana to Yume". The manga is the second manga series by Maki Minami, who created the popular series "". The first tankōbon edition of the manga was released on December 18, 2009 by Hakusensha. Viz Media has published the manga in English.
Sangatsu Manga is a major manga publisher in Finland. It's a division of Tammi Publishers. In 2003 it became the first Finnish publisher to sell manga (Dragon Ball, respectably) in convenience stores and supermarkets, which triggered the current wave of manga publishing in Finland.
Manga Dogs, known in Japan as , is a "shōjo" manga series by Ema Tōyama. The story follows Kanna, a fifteen-year-old manga artist who, already published as a pro joins her school's new manga course. Trying to finish her deadlines for her ongoing running manga series, she meets three boys who ask her to teach them Manga and have delusions of their own about being manga artists. The series was serialized in the shōjo manga magazine Aria (magazine), and has been released in North America by Kodansha USA. Overall, the series has received mixed reviews but made the New York Times best seller list for the week of October 19–26, 2014.
Seven Seas Entertainment is a publishing company located in Los Angeles, California. It was originally dedicated to the publication of original manga, but now publishes licensed manga and light novels, as well as select webcomics. The company is headed by Jason DeAngelis, who coined the term "World Manga" with the October 2004 launch of the company's web site.
The Louvre commissioned Taniguchi to create the manga as part of The Louvre Collection, which features various comics artists' works on the museum, and he spent a month at the museum in May 2013. The manga was serialized in Shogakukan's manga magazine starting with the 19th issue, and the collected tankōbon was published on February 20, 2015, with a luxury edition in full color. The manga was published in France by the Louvre in collaboration with Futuropolis on November 21, 2014. The manga was translated into English by NBM Publishing, which listed it in October 2015, and published the manga on May 13, 2016. The manga is also licensed in Germany by Carlsen, in Italy by Rizzoli Lizard, and in Spain by Ponent Mon.
Taniguchi's manga have been published by MB (My Birthday) in Japanese and by CPM Manga in English. She has published 9 volumes of manga total. Her first published manga was "Anpan Balance", which won silver at the 4th Omacomi Manga School Contest. "Anpan Balance" was later released in the manga "Let's Stay Together Forever"; the title story of that book was her second published story.
In 2013, Massive Goods was founded by Anne Ishii and Graham Kolbeins, two of the editors of "The Passion of Gengoroh Tagame", which creates English-language translations of gay manga and products featuring the works of gay manga artists. In December 2014, Fantagraphics and Massive published "Massive: Gay Erotic Manga And The Men Who Make It", the first English-language anthology of gay manga. Co-edited by Ishii, Kolbeins, and Chip Kidd, "Massive" was nominated for an Eisner Award for Best Anthology. From 2014 to 2016, German book publishing house Bruno Gmünder Verlag published works by Tagame, Takeshi Matsu, and Mentaiko Itto in English under their "Bruno Gmünder Gay Manga" imprint.
In 2006 13,8% of the comics published that year for the bookstore market were related to manga/global manga. Although not too many manga were published in 2006, it was the breakthrough of that particular genre, style, stream with rapidly growing publication numbers. By 2009 58,1% of the comics published for that same market were manga. Apart from a few exceptions, manga published in Hungary usually come from the shōjo and shōnen demographic genres (primarily shōjo). Seinen manga are not as frequent as the prior two demographic genres, some examples include "Berserk", "Vampire Hunter D", "Dominion", "Who fighter with Heart of Darkness", "Blade of the Phantom Master", "Hoshi no Sabaku". (Latter is one of few manga, that's first Western edition was made by a Hungarian publisher.) Rare examples of gekiga comics were published in the international anthology series, "Papírmozi" presenting works by artists Yoshihiro Tatsumi, Katsuhiro Otomo.
Competetive battling in Pokemon became a lot more popular with "Diamond and Pearl". The physical special split allowed Pokemon such as Gengar and Gyarados to use their higher attacking stat and gave special/physical coverage moves to formerly all-physical/special types, and online play made Pokemon battling possible all over the world.