Wings (manga magazine)
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is a shōjo manga magazine
Magazine
Magazines, periodicals, glossies or serials are publications, generally published on a regular schedule, containing a variety of articles. They are generally financed by advertising, by a purchase price, by pre-paid magazine subscriptions, or all three...

 published by Shinshokan
Shinshokan
is a Japanese 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 .-Manga...

. 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, Huckleberry, Un Poco, and Wings: Story. Currently, only Un Poco, and Wings: Story are still being published.

Manga artists and series featured in Wings

  • Clamp
    Clamp (manga artists)
    , is an all-female Japanese manga artist group that formed in the mid 1980s. Many of the group's manga series are often adapted into anime after release. It consists of their leader , who provides much of the storyline and screenplay for all their works and adaptations of those works respectively ,...

    • Left Hand
    • RG Veda
      RG Veda
      is a manga created by Clamp, consisting of ten volumes in all. It was first published in Japan in 1989 as Clamp's debut manga. The story features elements of Vedic mythology; the title itself imitates Rigveda, the name of one of the four Vedas. The series is known for its extravagant and richly...

    • Sohryuden: Legend of the Dragon Kings
      Sohryuden: Legend of the Dragon Kings
      is a set of novels based loosely on Chinese mythology.It was written by Yoshiki Tanaka in collaboration with Japanese illustrator Yoshitaka Amano and manga artist group Clamp . It is written with a humorous and satirical tone...

    • Tokyo Babylon
      Tokyo Babylon
      is a manga series created by Clamp. The series follows Subaru Sumeragi, the head of the Sumeragi clan, and his sister Hokuto as they work to protect Tokyo from a myriad of supernatural perils....

  • Mizuki Hakase
    • Baku
      Baku (manga)
      is a manga by that was published in Wings and has been licensed by Tokyopop.-Reception:"Baku is visually unique and has a story that flows like a dream or a nightmare...

    • The Demon Ororon
      The Demon Ororon
      is a romantic tragedy manga series written by Hakase Mizuki. The manga is licensed in North America by Tokyopop. The epilogue to the series, has six chapters released as of 2007.-Plot:...

    • Empire of Midnight
  • Judal
    Judal
    Judal is a Japanese manga artist responsible for many titles aimed at women, including Vampire Game, Carbuncle, Diva, Makai sangokushi CHIMAERA, Nerva shinjuuki, Nighteye, and Yoru no Hitomi....

    • Vampire Game
      Vampire Game
      is a manga by the Japanese author and artist, Judal. It originally ran in the monthly manga magazine Wings, with its last chapter serialized in the November 2004 issue. The series has 15 volumes in all. It was licensed in the U.S. by Tokyopop.-The story:...

  • Minekura Kazuya
    • Stigma (manga)
  • Yun Kouga
    Yun Kouga
    , better known by the pen name is a female Japanese manga artist. She is married to fellow manga artist Tatsuneko. She is a graduate of Mita Senior High School, Tokyo...

    • Earthian
      Earthian
      is a shōnen-ai manga by Yun Kouga about angel watchers of earth which was made into a J.C.Staff-produced anime OVA. The angels' roles are to assess the progress of humans giving them positive and negative scores based on their everyday actions...

  • Misaho Kujirado
    • Princess Ai
      Princess Ai
      is a manga co-created by Courtney Love, Ai Yazawa, Misaho Kujiradou, and DJ Milky , and is published in English by Tokyopop.The story deals with an amnesiac girl named Ai who was torn from her homeland, and awakens in present-day Tokyo...

      (created by Courtney Love
      Courtney Love
      Courtney Michelle Love is an American rock musician. Love is the lead vocalist, lyricist, and rhythm guitarist for alternative rock band Hole, which she formed in 1989, and is an actress who has moved from bit parts in Alex Cox films to significant and acclaimed roles in The People vs...

       and DJ Milky)
  • Tomo Maeda
    • Black Sun Silver Moon
  • Marvelous Entertainment
    • Rune Factory 2
  • Yuki Miyamoto
    • Cafe Kichijouji de (written by Kyoko Negishi)
  • Mineko Ohkami
    Mineko Ohkami
    is a Japanese manga artist known for being the author of many shōnen and shōnen-ai series, including Dragon Knights and Lumen Lunae. She also works as a cover artist...

    • Dragon Knights
      Dragon Knights
      is a manga series drawn by Mineko Ohkami and shown in the monthly Japanese magazine Wings. The manga is translated in the United States by Tokyopop...

  • Kaori Ozaki
    • Immortal Rain
      Immortal Rain
      is a manga created by Kaori Ozaki. It was first published in the Japanese monthly anthology Wings as Meteor Methuselah. As of September 2007, the current eight volumes have been published in English by Tokyopop, with the rest of the series, when published in Japan, expected to follow...

  • Shuri Shiozu
    • Eerie Queerie!
  • Mikiyo Tsuda
    Mikiyo Tsuda
    is a manga writer and illustrator from Japan who has been writing manga since 1998. This name is one of her two pen names that she writes under when drawing manga, the other being . Under the name Taishi Zaō, she writes boys love and girls love manga while under Mikiyo Tsuda she writes comedy-shōjo...

    • The Day of Revolution
      The Day of Revolution
      is a Japanese manga written and illustrated by Mikiyo Tsuda. The series was serialized in Shinshokan's manga magazine South between April 1998 and February 2001. The manga is licensed in English by Digital Manga Publishing and has been released in North America in 2006. Two drama CDs based on the...

    • Princess Princess
      Princess Princess (manga)
      is the title of a fictional series written and illustrated by Japanese author Mikiyo Tsuda about the lives of three high school boys and the school they attend. The series is contained within multiple media pieces which began as a manga first serialized in the manga magazine Wings starting in 2002...

  • Fumi Yoshinaga
    Fumi Yoshinaga
    is a Japanese manga artist known for her shōjo and shōnen-ai works.-Personal:Fumi Yoshinaga was born in Tokyo, Japan in 1971. She attended the prestigious Keio University in Tokyo....

    • Antique Bakery
      Antique Bakery
      is a manga by Fumi Yoshinaga depicting the lives of four men who work in a small bakery. It was published in Japan by Shinshokan and in English by Digital Manga Publishing. The series won the 2002 Kodansha Manga Award for shōjo manga...

  • Ako Yutenji
    • Liling-Po
      Liling-Po
      is a Japanese manga written and illustrated by Ako Yutenji. The manga is published in Shinshokan's Wings. The English-language release of manga has been licensed in North America by Tokyopop and a German-language release in Germany by Egmont Publishing....


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