Comic Kairakuten (Japanese: COMIC快楽天) is a hentai manga magazine published by Wanimagazine. It is one of the most popular magazines of its type in Japan. The magazine is published online in English by FAKKU.[1]
| Categories | Hentai |
|---|---|
| Frequency | Monthly |
| Circulation | 350,000 (2010) |
| First issue | 1994 |
| Company | Wanimagazine |
| Country | Japan |
| Language | Japanese |
Comic
editThe magazine was created in 1994 with work such as that of Range Murata during a trend of changing art styles in anime and manga.[2]: 103 Comic Kairakuten's name is a pun of kairaku (快楽, pleasure) and rakuten (楽天, optimism), meaning "pleasure heaven". It limits itself mostly to vanilla content.[3]: 11 Comic Kairakuten's publisher, Wanimagazine, has a hard stance towards scanlations of their hentai manga, often taking them down.[4]: 19
Comic Kairakuten is one of the most popular hentai manga magazines in Japan.[3]: 11 Between October 2008 and September 2009, there were 350,000 copies in circulation.[5] This was also the case between October 2009 and September 2010.[6]
In January 2017, the online streaming service Komiflo began digital distribution. The distribution date is the same as the release date of the print magazine. This is the first official digital distribution of Kaiyuten.
Beginning with the August 2019 issue, the magazine is now available in bookstores with an adult symbol, following the cessation of adult magazine sales at convenience stores.
References
edit- ^ Kelts, Roland (19 September 2015). "Finding opportunities overseas with the 'art of hentai'". The Japan Times. Retrieved 17 June 2021.
- ^ Nagayama, Kaoru (2020). Erotic Comics in Japan: An Introduction to Eromanga. Translated by Galbraith, Patrick W.; Bauwens-Sugimoto, Jessica. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press. ISBN 978-94-6372-712-9. OCLC 1160012499.
- ^ a b Lief, Dominique Andrée (22 November 2019). Erotic Manga, its Artists, and the Pressures of Censorship (BA). Portland State University. Retrieved 17 June 2021.
- ^ Kaartinen, Sami Johannes (Spring 2017). Where, How and Why? Fan Translations Unraveled: A Study of the Fan Translation Process Through Personal Experience (PDF) (MA). University of Vaasa. Retrieved 17 June 2021.
- ^ Loo, Egan (18 January 2010). "2009 Japanese Manga Magazine Circulation Numbers". Anime News Network. Retrieved 17 June 2021.
- ^ Loo, Egan (17 January 2011). "2010 Japanese Manga Magazine Circulation Numbers". Anime News Network. Retrieved 17 June 2021.