Afternoon

Monthly Afternoon (月刊アフタヌーン, Gekkan Afutanūn) is a Japanese monthly seinen manga anthology published by Kodansha under the Afternoon line of magazines. The first issue was released with a cover date of January 25, 1986. Each issue typically has around thirty ongoing stories by various authors and runs about 800 pages. Afternoon has spawned many successful seinen manga series such as Oh My Goddess!, Genshiken, Blade of the Immortal and Big Windup! It is part of Kodansha's "1day" series, which also includes the magazines Morning and Evening. In November 2008, a spin-off magazine called '''good! Afternoon''' was launched.

List of current manga

 * I Want to Hold Aono-kun so Badly I Could Die, written and illustrated by Umi Shiina
 * Atarashii Asa, written and illustrated by Iou Kuroda
 * Atari no Kitchen, written and illustrated by Yuki Shirono
 * Blue Period, written and illustrated by Tsubasa Yamaguchi
 * Wandering Island, written and illustrated by Kenji Tsuruta
 * FRAGILE: The view of Keiichiro Kishi, a pathologist, written by Bin Kusamizu and illustrated by Saburou Megumi
 * Historie, written and illustrated by Hitoshi Iwaaki
 * Land of the Lustrous, written and illustrated by Haruko Ichikawa
 * Isack, Isaac, written by Shinji Makari and illustrated by Ji-Hyung Song
 * Kotatsuya Mikan, written and illustrated by Haru Akiyama
 * Life 2: Giver Taker, written and illustrate Keiko Suenobu
 * Marginal Operation, written by Yuri Shibamura and illustrated by Daisuke Kimura
 * Wave, Listen to Me!, written and illustrated by Hiraki Samura
 * Cats are Facing West, If the Cat Faces West, written and illustrated by Yuki Urushibara
 * Oogami-san, Dadamore desu., written and illustrated by Yuu Yoshidamaru
 * Oofuri, Big Windup, written and illustrated by Asa Higuschi
 * Ookumo-chan Flashback, written and illustrated by Riichi Ueshiba
 * Puu-Neko, written and illustrated by Masayuki Kitamichi
 * Raise wa Tanin ga Ii, written and illustrated by Asuka Konishi
 * Rasenjikake no Umi: Otokita Seitai Kigaku Kenkyuujo, written and illustrated by Reiji Nagata
 * Shoujo Kairo, written and illustrated by Kimuchi Yokoyama
 * Heaven's Great Magical Barrier, written and illustrated Masakazu Ishiguro
 * Toppu GP, written and illustrated by Kousuke Fujishima
 * Why not howl at the Moon?, written and illustrated by Yukiko Seike
 * Vampir, written and illustrated by Natsumi Itsuki
 * Vinland Saga, written and illustrated by Makoto Yukimura

Featured Covers

 * ''Shows covers where Vinland Saga was fully featured and not only in a small corner