As part of our continued effort to provide a comprehensive list of historical articles and resources, we have launched our latest database featuring author comments from the Monthly Corocoro Comic magazine (月刊コロコロコミック) !
View the Corocoro Comic Author Comment Database!
This database is only a partial list of all of the author comments listed in the Corocoro magazine, but it needed to start somewhere. At launch, this database contains every author comment for the last 3 years, starting with the July 2021 issue. This is over 900 author comments listed with the original Japanese text along with rough English translations. It is a great overview on what is in each of the issues for the magazine along with some insight into the authors that created those series.
Our goal is to update this database as new issues of the magazine are released. Due to time constraints working on other projects, the database may be delayed up to 1 to 3 months after the issues have been published in Japan. At this time, we are not aiming to fill in data prior to July 2021 in the database as we continue to work on additional databases and projects. However this may change in the future.
The database has multiple filters and search criteria built into it. You can sort by your favorite authors or series. Or you can go page by page and read through all of the questions and answers, just like if you had the magazines in hand. As more databases are added to Manga Properties, you can find them in our new Databases page.
You may be wondering why did we start with the July 2021 issue and why Monthly Corocoro Comic was selected for this database? That specific date and magazine was selected as this was a spin-off project from Patch.Cafe website. As part of that website’s Author Comments database for Hiroyuki Takei’s series, this aligns with the MINI4KING manga series that was published in Monthly Corocoro Comic. From there we expanded to add all of the series for each of those issues and continued until we reached the most recent magazine issue.
This project was also a smaller scale testing ground for how to build an author comment database. We are currently working on a project for documenting many of the author comments from Weekly Shonen Jump magazine. This project for Corocoro is about 1/5th to 1/10th the scale of that project, which made it ideal for figuring out the process, challenges, and overall work effort to make the Weekly Shonen Jump author comment database a reality.
Manga magazine targeted towards a younger demographic are typically overlooked in conversations about manga in English. There are very few websites, blogs, or other resources, which are documenting the history of the manga and the magazine. News articles also tend to be overlooked for updates in the magazine as there isn’t much information about the series. By creating and maintaining this database going forward, we hope that this can be used as a starting point to further increase the discussions about these manga series which are the foundation of the next generation of manga fans growing up in Japan, and around the world.
If you would like to use part of this database for your own projects, please see our Usage and Citations page for more information. If you do use this database for your projects or have questions or other comments about this, please let us know! You can reach out to us in the following ways:
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