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Monthly Afternoon: History & Works

Monthly Afternoon (Japanese: 月刊アフタヌーン, Hepburn: Gekkan Afutanūn) is a Japanese monthly seinen manga anthology published by Kodansha. The first issue was published in December 1986, with new issues released on the 25th of each month. Monthly Afternoon has spawned many successful manga series that span a variety of different genres, such as Oh My Goddess!…

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Monthly Afternoon topic overview

The analysis highlights History and Works as prominent areas in the source structure around Monthly Afternoon.

Related topics
43
Source areas
6
Connected nodes
49
Extracted relationships
90
Related term clusters
16
Bridge connections
49

What this topic covers Research coverage

Source areas are shown by the number of related topics found in each part of the analysis. Use smaller areas too: they can reveal specialized angles and content gaps.

History · 16 topics
Overview · 10 topics
Special issues · 6 topics
Newcomer award · 5 topics
Features · 3 topics
Works cited · 3 topics

Smaller areas are not necessarily less important. They contain fewer connections in this analysis and can be useful for finding specialized angles or coverage gaps.

Key facts & relationships

High-confidence facts extracted from structured source data. Use them as anchors for further research.

Publisher
Kodansha
Based in
Tokyo
Categories
Seinen manga
Circulation
19,633 · (April – June 2026)
Country
Japan
Editor-in-Chief
Akira Kanai

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Overview

History

Newcomer award

Features

Special issues

Works cited

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How Monthly Afternoon connects Entity context

The extracted context around Monthly Afternoon shows recurring relationship patterns in the source. For example, Monthly Afternoon → According, Afternoon, Afternoon's, Akira Kanai, December, February, Frederik, Initially, Japan, Japanese, Kanai, Kurihara, Morning, Morning Magnum Zōkan, Morning's, November, Schodt, Vice, Yasumitsu Tsutsumi, Yoshiyuki Kurihara Another extracted example is Monthly Afternoon → Afternoon, Bessatsu Shōnen Magazine, Initially, Kodansha, Monthly Afternoon's, Morning, Morning Two, New, November, Weekly Shōnen Magazine. Use these groups to spot repeated connection types before inspecting the individual relationships.

Monthly Afternoon

Top relations

related to history · 20
Monthly Afternoon → According, Afternoon, Afternoon's, Akira Kanai, December, February, Frederik, Initially, Japan, Japanese, Kanai, Kurihara, Morning, Morning Magnum Zōkan, Morning's, November, Schodt, Vice, Yasumitsu Tsutsumi, Yoshiyuki Kurihara
related to good! Afternoon · 10
Monthly Afternoon → Afternoon, Bessatsu Shōnen Magazine, Initially, Kodansha, Monthly Afternoon's, Morning, Morning Two, New, November, Weekly Shōnen Magazine
related to Afternoon Season Zōkan · 9
Monthly Afternoon → Afternoon Season Zōkan, Following, June, Love-yan, Mokke, Monthly Afternoon's, Mushishi, October, September
related to Newcomer award · 9
Monthly Afternoon → Afternoon, Afternoon Shiki Shō, Blame, Comic Days, Contenders, Kodansha, Love Roma, Since, Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou
related to Circulation and demographic · 8
Monthly Afternoon → Afternoon, Despite, Haruo Ogawa, Like, Monthly Afternoon's, Morning's, Sharon Kinsella, Tatsuya Shishikura
related to &Sofa · 7
Monthly Afternoon → Alongside, Comic Days, Kodansha, Monday, Monthly Afternoon's, November, Sofa
related to Series · 6
Monthly Afternoon → Big Windup, Historié, Horizon, Nella, Wandering Island, Yakuza Fiancé
Former editors · 5
Monthly Afternoon → Kohei Furukawa, Koichi Yuri, Shohei Yoshida, Tatsuya Shishikura, Yoshiyuki Kurihara
Circulation · 2
Monthly Afternoon → (April – June 2026), 19,633
Based in · 1
Monthly Afternoon → Tokyo

Important terminology

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Important terminology

afternoon manga monthly magazine morning published issue good series kodansha issues new afternoon's editorial artists magazines november japanese circulation editor-in-chief

Monthly Afternoon relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples

TTTA extracted 90 structured relationships around Monthly Afternoon. Examples in this analysis include Monthly Afternoon → Based in → Tokyo and Monthly Afternoon → Categories → Seinen manga. The table shows each extracted connection, where it came from and its confidence.

SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
Monthly AfternoonBased inTokyo1.00infobox
Monthly AfternoonCategoriesSeinen manga1.00infobox
Monthly AfternoonCirculation19,6331.00infobox
Monthly AfternoonCirculation(April – June 2026)1.00infobox
Monthly AfternoonCountryJapan1.00infobox
Monthly AfternoonEditor-in-ChiefAkira Kanai1.00infobox
Monthly AfternoonFirst issueDecember 25, 1986; 39 years ago (1986-12-25)1.00infobox
Monthly AfternoonFormer editorsYoshiyuki Kurihara1.00infobox
Monthly AfternoonFormer editorsKoichi Yuri1.00infobox
Monthly AfternoonFormer editorsKohei Furukawa1.00infobox
Monthly AfternoonFormer editorsShohei Yoshida1.00infobox
Monthly AfternoonFormer editorsTatsuya Shishikura1.00infobox
Monthly AfternoonFrequencyMonthly1.00infobox
Monthly AfternoonLanguageJapanese1.00infobox
Monthly AfternoonPublisherKodansha1.00infobox
Monthly AfternoonWebsiteafternoon.kodansha.co.jp1.00infobox

Related concept clusters Related term clusters

The concept neighborhoods around Monthly Afternoon bring nearby vocabulary together. In this analysis, examples include Monthly, Manga and Afternoon's. Use the clusters to find adjacent concepts and terminology that may deserve separate research.

  • Monthly Afternoon
    • Monthly
    • Manga
    • Afternoon's
    • Readers
    • Morning
    • Seinen
    • Published
    • Ja
    • Serialized
    • Kodansha
    • Website
    • Artists
  • seinen manga
    • Monthly
    • Artists
    • Morning
    • Titles
    • Magazines
    • Kodansha
    • Afternoon's
    • Issue
    • Website
    • Editor-in-chief
    • Otaku
    • Featuring
  • good! afternoon
    • Monthly
    • Manga
    • Magazine
    • Published
    • Morning
    • Issues
    • Series
    • Ja
    • Artists
    • Featuring
    • Japanese
    • Readers
  • morning (magazine)
    • Two
    • Magazines
    • Spin-off
    • Morning
    • Titles
    • Website
    • Kurihara
    • Launched
    • Afternoon's
    • Artists
    • Stories
    • Editorial
  • manga
    • Monthly
    • Artists
    • Morning
    • Titles
    • Magazines
    • Kodansha
    • Afternoon's
    • Issue
    • Editor-in-chief
    • Otaku
    • Featuring
    • Ja
  • manga artist
    • Monthly
    • Artists
    • Morning
    • Titles
    • Magazines
    • Kodansha
    • Afternoon's
    • Issue
    • Editor-in-chief
    • Otaku
    • Featuring
    • Ja
  • compiler (manga)
    • Monthly
    • Artists
    • Morning
    • Titles
    • Magazines
    • Kodansha
    • Afternoon's
    • Issue
    • Editor-in-chief
    • Otaku
    • Featuring
    • Ja
  • evening (magazine)
    • Spin-off
    • Morning
    • Kurihara
    • Launched
    • Afternoon's
    • Artists
    • Circulation
    • Manga
    • Otaku
    • Featuring
    • Kinsella
    • Pages

Connections between topic areas Semantic bridges

For Monthly Afternoon, one of the stronger structural bridges in this analysis connects Monthly Afternoon with History. Bridges highlight paths between different parts of the map and can reveal research angles that are easy to miss in a flat list.

Min side: 3
Monthly Afternoon — History · splits 33 ⟂ 17
Monthly Afternoon — Overview · splits 39 ⟂ 11
Monthly Afternoon — Special issues · splits 43 ⟂ 7
Monthly Afternoon — Newcomer award · splits 44 ⟂ 6
Monthly Afternoon — Features · splits 46 ⟂ 4
Monthly Afternoon — Works cited · splits 46 ⟂ 4

Map overview Semantic statistics

Monthly Afternoon

Nodes50
Edges49
Triples90
Avg. degree1.96
Density0.04
Components1

Source & methodology

TTTA analyzes the structure around Monthly Afternoon to surface related topics, entities, relationships, concept neighborhoods and bridge connections. Use the map to explore areas such as History & Works, including less central topics that may reveal useful research gaps. Automatically extracted connections are research leads rather than rewritten encyclopedia content.

Source: Wikipedia — Monthly Afternoon · EN edition · Analysis: TopicsToTalkAbout

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