Comic Kairakuten
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 |
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Frequency | Monthly |
Circulation | 350,000 (2010) |
First issue | 1994 |
Company | Wanimagazine |
Country | Japan |
Language | Japanese |
Comic
The 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]
References
- 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.
- 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.