Shōnen Club

Shōnen Club

Cover for April 1929
Categories	Boys' magazine, children's magazine
Publisher	Kōdansha
Founded	1914
Final issue	1962
Country	Japan
Language	Japanese

Shōnen Club (Shōnen Kurabu / 少年倶楽部, later 少年クラブ in 1946) was a monthly boys' magazine begun by Kodansha in November 1914. The magazine initially featured articles, poetry and serialized novels, but it began to focus more on creating manga content by the 1930s.^[1] The first manga, Norakuro, was published in the magazine in 1931.^[2] The magazine's success lead to the sister-publication of Shōjo Club in 1923, which offered similar content, but catered for girls.^[1]

Notable works

Novel serialization

Publication	Author	Title
Jan 1936 to Nov 1936	Ranpo Edogawa	The Fiend with Twenty Faces (怪人二十面相 Kaijin Nijū Mensō)
Jan 1937 to (date unknown)	Ranpo Edogawa	Shōnen Tanteidan (少年探偵団)

Manga serialization

Publication	Artist	Title
Jan 1936 - Nov 1936	Suihō Tagawa	Norakuro (のらくろ)
Jun 1933 - Jul 1939	Keizō Shimada	Bōken Dankichi (冒険ダン吉)
May 1958 - Dec 1960	Jiro Kuwata	Moonlight Mask (月光仮面 Gekkō kamen) - script by Kōhan Kawauchi
May 1961 - Dec 1962	Osamu Tezuka	Fushigi na shōnen (ふしぎな少年)
1961 (unknown months)	Jiro Kuwata	Garoro Q (ガロロQ)

See also

• List of manga magazines
• Shōjo Club

References

1. Chua, Karl Ian Uy Cheng (Mar 2016). "Boy meets world: the worldview of Shōnen kurabu in the 1930s". Japan Forum. 28: 74–98. doi:10.1080/09555803.2015.1077876. S2CID 147330201.
2. M. Keith Booker, ed. (28 October 2014). Comics through Time: A History of Icons, Idols, and Ideas [4 volumes]. Greenwood. p. 241. ISBN 9780313397516.