Shinshokan
Encyclopedia
is a Japan
ese publishing company. It was established on June 14, 1961. In April 2009, the US publisher Digital Manga Publishing
announced a co-branding operation with Shinshokan, to license yaoi
and shōjo manga from Shinshokan's Wings, Dear and Dear+ anthologies under the DokiDoki imprint (the name being Japanese onomatopoeia
for a heartbeat).
Manga
Japan
Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...
ese publishing company. It was established on June 14, 1961. In April 2009, the US publisher Digital Manga Publishing
Digital Manga Publishing
Digital Manga is a company that licenses and releases, in English, Japanese anime, manga, and related merchandise. The company has several subdivisions: Digital Manga Publishing, which publishes Japanese manga, novels and instructional and illustration books in North America with multiple imprints,...
announced a co-branding operation with Shinshokan, to license yaoi
Yaoi
In careful Japanese enunciation, all three vowels are pronounced separately, for a three-mora word, . The English equivalent is . also known as Boys' Love, is a Japanese popular term for female-oriented fictional media that focus on homoerotic or homoromantic male relationships, usually created by...
and shōjo manga from Shinshokan's Wings, Dear and Dear+ anthologies under the DokiDoki imprint (the name being Japanese onomatopoeia
Japanese sound symbolism
This article describes sound symbolic or mimetic words in the Japanese language. Most languages have such words; for example, "bang", "zap", "ding", "slither", "pop", etc. in English. Sound symbolic words occur more often in Japanese than in English—they are found in formal as well as vernacular...
for a heartbeat).
MangaMangaManga is the Japanese word for "comics" and consists of comics and print cartoons . In the West, the term "manga" has been appropriated to refer specifically to comics created in Japan, or by Japanese authors, in the Japanese language and conforming to the style developed in Japan in the late 19th...
magazines
- WingsWings (manga magazine)is a shōjo manga magazine published by Shinshokan. The magazine is aimed at a female audience in the 16 to 20 year-old age range and tend to be action- or fantasy-oriented stories. Wings previously had a number of special editions such as Shinshokan South, or simply South, Phantom Club,...
- Dear+
- Un Poco
- Hakkuruberii
- Kaguya