Comic Beam

Comic Beam (コミックビーム) is a Japanese seinen manga magazine published by Enterbrain on a monthly basis since November 1995. In 2006, it had a circulation of 25,000. Popular manga serialized in Comic Beam include Kaoru Mori's Emma about the love story between a maid and an aristocratic man in Victorian England. Emma was adapted into an anime series and translated into many languages. Koi no Mon (Otakus in Love) revolves around a group of otaku, their lives and romantic relationships. The comedy by Hanyu-new was made into a film in 2004. Comic Beam is considered an "alternative" manga magazine in the Japanese publishing industry, where its 25,000 circulation is less than 1% of other more popular manga magazines like Weekly Shōnen Jump. Its small but loyal readership is regarded as consisting largely of a hard core of otaku, art students, and manga-literate hipsters.

Serialized titles

 * Astral Project Tsuki no Hikari (Astral Project 月の光) by Marginal and Syuji Takeya
 * Bambi and Her Pink Gun by Atsushi Kaneko
 * Desert Punk by Usune Masatoshi
 * Emma by Kaoru Mori
 * Emma Bangaihen by Kaoru Mori
 * Fancy Gigolo Peru (ファンシージゴロ▼ペル) by Junko Mizuno
 * King of Thorn by Yuji Iwahara
 * Shōnen Shōjo (少年少女) by Satoshi Fukushima
 * Soil (ソイル) by Atsushi Kaneko
 * Wandering Son by Takako Shimura
 * Yajikita in Deep (弥次喜多 in DEEP) by Kotobuki Shiragari