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{{Infobox Magazine
|              title = Afternoon
|         image_file = Afternoon magazine.jpg
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|      image_caption = May 25, 2006 issue featuring ''[[Rabu-yan]]''.
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|          frequency = Monthly
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|           category = [[Seinen manga]]<ref>{{citeweb|url=http://www.j-magazine.or.jp/data_001/main_b.html#003|title=J-Magazine.or.jp on ''Afternoon''|accessdate=2007-04-13|language=Japanese}}</ref>
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|            country = {{Flag|Japan}}
|           language = [[Japanese language|Japanese]]
|            website = [http://www.afternoon.co.jp/ afternoon.co.jp]
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{{Nihongo|'''''Afternoon'''''|アフタヌーン|Afutanūn}} is a Japanese [[seinen manga]] magazine published by [[Kodansha]]. It is a monthly anthology, and 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 (magazine)|Morning]]'' and ''[[Evening (magazine)|Evening]]''. In its October 2008 issue, a spin-off magazine called ''[[good! Afternoon]]'' was announced to be launched.<ref>{{citeweb|url=http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2008-08-25/takahashi-ice-blade-manga-to-relaunch-in-japan|title= Takahashi's ''Ice Blade'' Manga to Relaunch in Japan|publisher=[[Anime News Network]]|date=2008-08-25|accessdate=2009-02-21}}</ref>

==Mangaka and series featured in Afternoon==
* [[Haru Akiyama]]
** ''[[Octave (manga)|Octave]]''
* [[Kia Asamiya]]
** ''[[Assembler 0X]]''
** ''[[Compiler (anime)|Compiler]]''
** ''[[Karapuri!]]''
* [[Hitoshi Ashinano]]
** ''[[Yokohama Kaidashi Kikō]]''
** ''[[Isaki of the Cub|Kabu no Isaki]]''
* [[Hiroki Endo]]
** ''[[Eden: It's an Endless World]]''
* [[Toru Fujisawa]]
** ''[[Tokko (manga)]]''
* [[Kōsuke Fujishima]]
** ''[[Oh My Goddess!]]
** ''[[You're Under Arrest]]'' (originally on ''Morning Party Extra'')
* [[Asa Higuchi]]
** ''[[Big Windup!]]''
* [[Hitoshi Iwaaki]]
** ''[[Parasyte]]''
** ''[[Historie]]''
* [[Shimoku Kio]]
** ''[[Genshiken]]''
**''[[Digopuri]]''
* [[Mohiro Kitoh]]''
** ''[[Narutaru]]'' (Shadow Star)
** ''[[Wings of Vendemiaire]]''
* [[Takayuki Kōsai]]
** ''[[Shuusen no Lorelei]]'' (based on the novel by [[Harutoshi Fukui]])
* [[Iou Kuroda]]
**''[[Nasu (manga)|Nasu]]''
* [[Mahiro Maeda]]
** ''[[Gankutsuou: The Count of Monte Cristo]]''
* [[Tsutomu Nihei]]
** ''[[Blame!]]''
** ''[[NOiSE]]''
* [[Megumu Okada]]
** ''[[Shadow Skill]]''
* [[Mizu Sahara]]
** ''[[The Place Promised in Our Early Days]]'' (adaptation of original work by [[Makoto Shinkai]])
** ''[[Voices of a Distant Star]]'' (adaptation of original work by [[Makoto Shinkai]])
* [[Hiroaki Samura]]
** ''[[Blade of the Immortal]]''
* [[Satoshi Shiki]]
** ''[[Kami Kaze]]''
* [[Kenichi Sonoda]]
** ''[[Cannon God Exaxxion]]''
** ''[[Gunsmith Cats]]''
** ''[[Gunsmith Cats|Gunsmith Cats BURST]]''
** ''[[Bullet the Wizard]]''
* [[Yuzo Takada]]
** ''[[Little Jumper]]''
* [[Tsutomu Takahashi]]
** ''[[Ice Blade]]''
* [[Daisaku Tsuru]]
** ''[[Nachun]]''
* [[Kenji Tsuruta]]
** ''[[Spirit of Wonder]]'' (originally serialized in monthly ''[[Weekly Morning]]'')
* [[Hiroyuki Utatane]]
** ''[[Seraphic Feather]]'' (story by [[Yo Morimoto]] and [[Toshiya Takeda]])
* [[Yuki Urushibara]]
** ''[[Mushishi]]''
** ''[[Waters (manga)|Waters]]''
* [[Riichi Ueshiba]]
** ''[[Mysterious Girlfriend X]]''
** ''[[Yume Tsukai]]''
** ''[[Discommunication]]''
* [[Makoto Yukimura]]
** ''[[Vinland Saga (manga)|Vinland Saga]]'' (originally serialized in [[Weekly Shonen Magazine]])
* [[Kumakura Takatoshi]]
** ''[[Mokke]]''
* [[Naoko Hayashiba|Katori Masaru]] & [[Jiro Ando]]
** ''[[Shion no Ō]]''
* [[Minoru Toyoda]]
** ''[[Love Roma]]''

==References==
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==External links==
*{{official|http://kc.kodansha.co.jp/magazine/index.php/13871}} {{ja icon}}
*{{ann|company|4665|Afternoon}}

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