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Japanese manga magazine

Feel Young
Cover of the 2019, July issue of Feel Young, published by Shodensha
Categories Josei manga[1][2]
Frequency Monthly
Circulation Unknown[a]
Publisher Shodensha
First issue 1989
Country Japan
Based in Tokyo
Language Japanese
Website Official website Edit this at Wikidata

Feel Young (フィールヤング) is a monthly josei manga magazine published by Shodensha in Japan. Manga artists whose stories have run in the magazine include Moyoco Anno, Mitsue Aoki, Mitsukazu Mihara, Kiriko Nananan, Mari Okazaki, Erica Sakurazawa, Ebine Yamaji, and others.

Profile and relevance

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The magazine was first published in 1989. When the magazine emerged in the late 1980s, it was part of a new wave of josei magazines like Young Rose and Cutie Comics, publishing manga like the ones of Kyoko Okazaki that distanced themselves from the soap-opera "Ladies Comics" of the 1980s and kept more elements of shōjo manga in their style.[3] Rachel Thorn explains that the magazine is considered more artsy and progressive than other josei magazines like the more conservative You or the more mainstream Chorus.[4] Some women who got works published in the artistic manga magazine Garo, like Erica Sakurazawa, Kiriko Nananan and Shungicu Uchida, published their works also in Feel Young. The manga artist Milk Morizono described that she felt like her work was sometimes out of place, because it was too dark for the light pages of the magazine.[5]

In 1995, it had a circulation of 250,000, in the following year 150,000.[6] In 2004, an issue of the magazine had a circulation around 72,000.[7]

In 2024, a website counterpart called Our Feel was launched.[8]

  1. ^ No figures have been reported by the Japanese Magazine Publishers Association since July 2020.

  2. ^ Thompson, Jason (2007). Manga: The Complete Guide. Del Rey Books. p. xxiii-xxiv. ISBN 978-0-345-48590-8.

  3. ^ "Women's Manga" (in Japanese). Japanese Magazine Publishers Association. September 2016. Archived from the original on October 6, 2017. Retrieved November 6, 2016.

  4. ^ Spies, Alwyn (2003). "pink-ness". U.S.-Japan Women's Journal (25): 30–48. ISSN 2330-5037. JSTOR 42771902. Archived from the original on 2024-04-24. Retrieved 2024-06-06.

  5. ^ "A History of Manga". 2012-11-24. Archived from the original on 24 November 2012. Retrieved 2021-12-14.

  6. ^ Kinsella, Sharon. Adult Manga. p. 151.

  7. ^ "雑誌発行部数から見えるもの". 2007-09-01. Archived from the original on 1 September 2007. Retrieved 2021-12-14.

  8. ^ "Manga Magazines Circulation Increase/Decrease". Archived from the original on 27 March 2008. Retrieved 2021-12-14.

  9. ^ Tai, Anita (June 6, 2024). "Feel Young Magazine Launches New Manga Site Our Feel". Anime News Network. Archived from the original on June 6, 2024. Retrieved June 6, 2024.

  10. ^ 楠本まき. FeelYoung.jp (in Japanese). Archived from the original on September 26, 2016. Retrieved September 24, 2016.

  11. ^ "Miliyah Kato, Kazunobu Mineta Perform Live-Action Piece of Cake Film's Theme". Anime News Network. April 23, 2015. Archived from the original on July 7, 2022. Retrieved April 24, 2015.

  12. ^ "Tomoko Yamashita Ends Ikoku Nikki Manga". Anime News Network. August 9, 2023. Archived from the original on August 9, 2023. Retrieved August 9, 2023.