is a manga imprint owned by Square Enix. It originated as a manga imprint for Enix before the company merged with Square to form Square Enix. It publishes manga in several anthologies aimed at different reader demographic groups in the Japanese market. Its anthologies are home to some popular Square Enix manga series which were adapted into anime series, like Fullmetal Alchemist, Moribito: Guardian of the Spirit, Nabari no Ou, Inu x Boku SS, The Case Study of Vanitas and Soul Eater. The comics are later collected in paperback volumes under brand names such as , and , which identify the anthology of serialisation. These paperback brand names are formed by omitting any or in the magazine name and inserting directly after the word Gangan.
Anthologies
Monthly Shōnen Gangan (since 1991)
is a monthly manga anthology that regularly has over 600 pages. Shōnen Gangan was launched by Enix (now Square Enix) in 1991, to compete with other magazines such as Monthly Shōnen Magazine, Monthly Shōnen Jump and Shōnen Sunday Super, and is targeted toward the same young teen male demographic (shōnen means "young boy"). It features manga with much 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.
Series Manga First Issue Author Shin Araki, Koara Kishida Hazuki Minase, Itsuki Kameya Taichi Kawazoe Takeshi Fujishiro Umi Sakurai Koyoshi Nakayoshi Kazuma Kamachi, Chuya Kogino Iori Miyazawa, Eita Mizuno Hiromu Arakawa
Manga and series featured:
666 Satan (O-Parts Hunter) (Seishi Kishimoto) (completed) Akuma Jiten (Shinya Suyama) Beelzebub-jou no Oki ni Mesu mama. () B. Ichi (Atsushi Okubo) Blade Sangokushi (Ryuunosuke Ichikawa, Taiyou Makabe) Blast of Tempest (Kyō Shirodaira, Ren Saizaki) (completed) Bloody Cross (Shiwo Komeyama) Choko Beast!! (Rin Asano) Code Age Archives (Yusuke Naora) Corpse Princess (Yoshiichi Akahito) Crimson Prince (Souta Kuwahara) Doubt (Yoshiki Tonogai) (completed) Dragon Quest: Eden no Senshitachi (Kamui Fujiwara) Dragon Quest Monsters + (Mine Yoshizaki) Dragon Quest Retsuden: Roto no Monshō (Kamui Fujiwara) Evil Crusher Maya (Masami Kurumada) Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: Hatenaki Sora no Mukou ni (Ryunosuke Ichikawa) Final Fantasy Type-0 (Takatoshi Shiozawa) Final Fantasy Type-0 Gaiden: The Icy Blade of Death (Takatoshi Shiozawa) Fullmetal Alchemist (Hiromu Arakawa) (completed) Guardian Eito (Mine Yoshizaki) Guardian of the Spirit (Nahoko Uehashi, Kamui Fujiwara) (completed) Handa-kun (Satsuki Yoshino) (completed) Happy Boy (Tatsuya Egawa) Haré+Guu (Jungle wa Itsumo Hare nochi Gū & Hare Guu) (Renjuro Kindaichi) Hazama no Uta (Kaishaku) Heroman (Stan Lee, Tamon Ōta) Jūshin Enbu (Hiromu Arakawa) (originally Gangan Powered) (completed) Hidamari no Pinyu (Misaki Ogawa) Flash! Funny-face Club (Motoei Shinzawa) Higurashi no Naku Koro ni: Himatsubushi-hen (Yoshiki Tonogai, Ryukishi07) It's a Wonderful World (Shiro Amano) Im: Great Priest Imhotep (Makoto Morishita) Judge (Yoshiki Tonogai) Kingdom Hearts (Shiro Amano) Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories (Shiro Amano) Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days (Shiro Amano) Kingdom Hearts II (Shiro Amano) Kurenai Ouji (Souta Kuwahara) Luno (Kei Toume) Maboroshi no Daichi (Masomi Kanzaki) Mahōjin Guru Guru (Hiroyuki Etou) Mamotte Shugogetten (Minene Sakurano) Material Puzzle (Masahiro Totsuka) (completed) Matantei Loki (Sakura Kinoshita) (completed) Megalomania (Daisuke Hiyama) Meteo Emblem (Park Sung-woo) Miss Shachiku and the Little Baby Ghost (Imari Arita) Ninpen Manmaru (Mikio Igarashi) (completed) Onikiri-sama no Hakoiri Musume (Akinobu Uraku) Ousama no Mimi Okonomimi (Kei Natsumi) Ore no Kanojo ni Nanika Youkai (Karino Takatsu) Papuwa & Nangoku Shōnen Papuwa-kun (Ami Shibata) Peace Maker (Nanae Chrono) (completed) Phantom Dead or Alive (Michiaki Watanabe) Red Raven (Shinta Fujimoto) Rokushou! (Sakurako Gokurakuin) Saga of Queen Knight (Tomohiro Shimomura) Shugen Byakuryū Rubikura (Ryūsuke Mita) Soul Eater (Atsushi Ōkubo) (completed) Soul Eater Not! (Atsushi Ōkubo) (completed) Spiral: Suiri no Kizuna (Eita Mizuno, Kyo Shirodaira) Spiral Alive (Eita Mizuno, Kyo Shirodaira) Star Ocean: Blue Sphere (Aoi Mizuki) Star Ocean: The Second Story (Mayumi Azuma) Star Ocean: Till the End of Time (Akira Kanda) Straykeys (Tarō Yuzunoki) Talentless Nana (Looseboy, Iori Furuya) The Comic Artist and Assistants (Hiroyuki) (completed) Today's Cerberus (Ato Sakurai) (completed) Tokyo Fantasy Gakuen Yuushaka: Rua no Noel (Kaishaku) Tokyo Underground (Akinobu Uraka) (completed) Totsugeki! Papparatai (Natsuki Matsuzawa) Tozasareta Nerugaru (Rumi Aruma) Tripeace (Maru Tomoyuki) Twin Signal (Sachi Oshimizu) (completed) UFO Ultramaiden Valkyrie (Kaishaku) (completed) Umineko no Naku Koro Ni: Episode 07 - Requiem of the Golden Witch (Ryukishi07, Eita Mizuno) (completed) Vampire Juuji Kai (Yuri Kimura, Kyo Shirodaira) (completed) Val × Love (Ryosuke Asakura) (completed) Vermeil in Gold (Kouta Amana, Youko Umezu) Violinist of Hameln (Michiaki Watanabe) (completed) Watashi no Messiah-sama (Suu Minazuki) (completed) Z MAN (Hideaki Nishikawa)
Monthly GFantasy (since 1993) , also known as Gangan Fantasy, is a Japanese shōnen manga magazine. It launched in 1992 as a special issue of Shounen Gangan under the name Fantastic Comic (ファンタスティックコミック). In 1993 it became its own magazine under the name of Monthly Gangan Fantasy (月刊ガンガンファンタジー). In the April 1994 issue it was renamed to GFantasy. The manga tend to be set in a fantasy setting with large amounts of supernatural themes and a fair amount of action and/or horror scenes. Additionally, the publisher has indicated on its Manga Up! website that certain series published within the magazine are aimed at girls.
Manga featured: 10-4 (Hashiba Maki) A Terrified Teacher at Ghoul School! (Mai Tanaka) Aoharu × Machinegun (NAOE) Assistant Teacher at a Girls Magic Academy (Go Todo, Sakura Fujimoto) Black Butler (Yana Toboso) (ongoing) Crimson-Shell (Jun Mochizuki) Cuticle Detective Inaba (Mochi) D-Drops (Seana) Daisuke! (Hasu Kikuzuki) Devil Survivor 2: The Animation (Makoto Uezu) Disney Twisted-Wonderland The Comic: Episode of Heartslabyul (Wakana Hazuki, Sumire Kowono) Disney Twisted-Wonderland The Comic: Episode of Savanaclaw (Suzuka Oda) (ongoing) Durarara!! (Ryōgo Narita, Akiyo Satorigi (volumes 1–10), Aogiri (volume 11-present) E's (Satoru Yuiga) Fire Emblem: Ankoku Ryū to Hikari no Ken (Maki Hakoda) Fire Emblem: Gaiden (Maki Hakoda) Fire Emblem: Seisen no Keifu (Nattu Fujimori) Fire Emblem: Thracia 776 (Yūna Takanagi) From the Red Fog (Mosae Nohara) (ongoing) Gestalt (Yun Kōga) Graineliers (Rihito Takarai) Higurashi no Naku Koro ni: Minagoroshi-hen (Hinase Momoyama, Ryukishi07) Higurashi no Naku Koro ni: Tatarigoroshi-hen (Jiro Suzuki, Ryukishi07) Higurashi no Naku Koro ni: Yoigoshi-hen (Side Story) (Mimori, Ryukishi07) Horimiya (HERO, Daisuke Hagiwara) I, Otaku: Struggle in Akihabara (Sōta-kun no Akihabara Funtōki) (Jiro Suzuki) The Irregular at Magic High School (Fumino Hayashi) The Beautiful Deity (Yomoko Yamamoto) Kamiyomi (Ami Shibata) Kimi to Boku (Kiichi Hotta) Lammermoor no Shōnen Kiheitai (Nana Natsunishi) The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past (Ataru Cagiva) The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening (Ataru Cagiva) Monokuro Kitan (Kusu Rinka) Nabari no Ou (Yuhki Kamatani) Pandora Hearts (Jun Mochizuki) Pani Poni (Hekiru Hikawa) Revenger (Ryūsei Yamada) Rust Blaster (Yana Toboso) Skate-Leading Stars (Chiaki Nagaoka, Sumika Sumio) Tales of Reincarnation in Maydare: This World's Worst Witch (Midori Yuma, Nana Natsunishi) (ongoing) The Daily Life of a Middle-Aged Online Shopper in Another World (Hifumi Asakawa, Umiharu) (ongoing) The Royal Tutor (Higasa Akai) Toilet-Bound Hanako-kun (Iro Aida) (ongoing) Tokyo Aliens (NAOE) (ongoing) Saiyuki (Kazuya Minekura) Saiyuki Gaiden (Kazuya Minekura) (2002, moved to Monthly Comic Zero Sum) Switch (naked ape) Teiden Shōjo to Hanemushi no Orchestra (Ninomiya Ai) Torikago Gakkyuu (Shin Mashiba) Yumekui Kenbun (Shin Mashiba) Zombie-Loan (Peach-Pit)
Young Gangan (since 2004) is a Japanese seinen manga magazine published by Square Enix every other week on Friday. The magazine was first published on December 3, 2004.
Manga featured: Amigo x Amiga (Takahiro Seguchi) Arakawa Under the Bridge (Hikaru Nakamura) (completed) Astro Fighter Sunred (Makoto Kubota) Bamboo Blade (Aguri Igarashi, Masahiro Totsuka) (completed) Beauty and the Feast (Satomi U) (completed) Bitter Virgin (Kei Kusunoki) (completed) Black God (Park Sung-woo, Dall-Young Lim) (completed) Darker than Black: Shikkoku no Hana (Yūji Iwahara) Dead Mount Death Play (Ryohgo Narita, Shinta Fujimoto) Dimension W (Yūji Iwahara) (switched over to Monthly Gangan in November 2015) Dōsei Recipe (Towa Oshima) Donyatsu (Yūsuke Kozaki) Drop Kick Front Mission Dog Life and Dog Style/Front Mission The Drive (Yasuo Ohtagaki) Fudanshism (Morishige) Goodbye, Eden (Zero Ainan) (completed) Hanamaru Kindergarten (Yuto) (completed) Hohzuki Island (Sanbe Kei) (completed) Iroha-saka, Agatte Sugu (Yuto) Jackals (Kim Byung Jin, Shinya Murata) (completed) Kiba no Tabishounin (Park Joong-Gi), (Nanatsuki Kyouchi) Manhole (Tsutsui Tetsuya) (completed) Mononoke (Ninagawa Yaeko) (completed) Mouryou no Yurikago (Kei Sanbe) My Awkward Senpai (Makoto Kudo) My Dress-Up Darling (Shinichi Fukuda) Nikoichi (Renjuro Kindaichi) Rinne no Lagrange - Akatsuki no Memoria (Yoshioka Kimitake) Saki (Ritsu Kobayashi) (ongoing) Sekirei (Ashika Sakura) (completed) Shishunki no Iron Maiden (Watanabe Shizumu) (ongoing) Space☆Dandy (Masafumi Harada), (Park Sung-woo), (RED ICE) Sumomomo Momomo (Shinobu Ohtaka) (completed) The Comic Artist and Assistants (Hiroyuki) (completed) The Comic Artist and Assistants 2 (Hiroyuki) (completed) The Executioner and Her Way of Life (Mato Sato, Ryo Mitsuya) The iDOLM@STER Cinderella Girls Ensemble!, Sadoru Chiba & Haruki Kashiba (ongoing) Übel Blatt (Etorouji Shiono) Übel Blatt Gaiden (Etorouji Shiono) Umeboshi (Maya Koikeda) Until Death Do Us Part (DOUBLE-S, Hiroshi Takashige) (completed) Violinist of Hameln: Shchelkunchik (Michiaki Watanabe) (completed) Working!! (Karino Takatsu)
Gangan Online (since 2008) is a free manga and light novel web magazine and smartphone app published and updated by Square Enix. The online web magazine was activated on October 2, 2008.
Manga featured: Adachi to Shimamura (Author:Mani, artist: Non) (manga adaption started in 2016) Ai wa Noroi no Nihon Ningyou (Kiki Suihei) Alba Rose no Neko (KARASU) Asao-san to Kurata-kun (Hero) Amanonadeshiko (Haruka Ogataya) Aphorism (Karuna Kujo) (originally Gangan Wing) Are You Okay With a Slightly Older Girlfriend? (Kota Nozomi, Enya Uraki) Assassin & Cinderella (Yuzo Natsuno) Barakamon (Satsuki Yoshino) (completed) Buyuuden Kita Kita (Hiroyuki Etou) Chokotto Hime (Ayami Kazama) (originally Gangan Wing) Cyoku! (Nico Tanigawa) Daily Lives of High School Boys (Yamauchi Yasunobu) (completed) Day Break Illusion (Kōki Katō) (completed) En Passant (Taro Yuzunoki) Esoragoto (usi) Gōkon ni Ittara Onna ga Inakatta Hanashi (Nana Aokawa) Hayachine! (Aiko Fukumorita) (completed) Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Rei: Oniokoshi-hen (completed) and Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Rei: Irotoutoshi-hen (completed) (Kei Natsumi, Ryukishi07) Hori-san to Miyamura-kun Omake (HERO) (completed) How I Attended an All-Guy's Mixer (Nana Aokawa) (ongoing) Hyakuen! (Ema Tōyama) I'm a Maid, but I've Pulled Out the Holy Sword?! (Midori Akino, Genen, Fua Yamazaki) I'm Glad They Kicked Me From The Hero's Party... But Why're you following me, Great Saintess? (Renge Hatsueda, Pinko Kurimoto) Life is Money (author Asaniji Teru, artist Yaguraba Tekka)