Monthly Corocoro Comic – Author Comments Database

The following is a partial database of the author comments from the Monthly Corocoro Comic (月刊コロコロコミック) magazine. Every month, the magazine asks the mangaka a question which they respond to in the Table of Contents (ToC) found at the back of each issue. A rough English translation is provided below along with a transcription of the original Japanese text. Please see our Usage and Citations page for more information if you want to use this resource for your own projects.

About the Database

Series Titles

As many of the titles have not been released in English yet, there is some inconsistency with the naming convention for the titles listed in the database. For this database the following naming rules were used (in order):

1. Official English title (when not in a compilation)
2. English translation of the title
3. Romanization of the title

For example, the title is listed as Super Mario-Kun rather than Viz’s title of Super Mario Manga Mania, as that was a standalone collection of chapters, rather than the actual title of the on-going series. While Animal Crossing: New Horizons – Deserted Island Diary is listed instead of a more literal title of Animal Forest, as the entire series was released by Viz in English and follows the standardized naming convention for the games. Within the author comments, if they made references to other games and movies, it follows the same naming convention.

Authors

Authors are named in western style (First then Last name) in the database within the English column as this is how they are most commonly displayed on books in English. The author column retains their original name order in the Japanese language column has that is how it was presented.

Question and Answer Rough Translations

The questions and answers have rough English translations provided. As these have not been professional translated and the nature of translation could have different interpretations, there may be some minor inaccuracies listed within them. For this reason, the original Japanese text is transcribed and provided in this database to allow for easier validation. If you notice a significant error in the rough English translation, please reach out to us so a correction can be made. With these comments being very short, sometimes there may references or context that was missed.

Some commonly used words in manga, such as “mangaka” (a manga artist) and honorifics are included in these rough English translations. Additionally any additional symbols (such as ☆), and catch-phrase sound-effects are used in the rough English translations as well, which may not always follow English grammar rules.

When there is no comment listed, it is listed as [No Comment] in the database.

In the January issues (and some other special months), there is a special message written. This includes a phrase, followed by the author’s comment. To separate this in the database, quotes (” “) are used to identify the first phrase, followed by the author’s comment.

Order

On the Author Comments page, the main manga series within the issue are presented with the author’s comments and the starting page for each series. Some issues have pack-in bonuses which can include manga chapters not included in the bound book. Any of those series that do not have a starting page number in the book for this reason are listed with an order number of 0. Then the remaining series are listed in order, starting with 1. If a series has multiple chapters within an issue, it is listed by where it is listed on the table of contents.

The order that the series are listed in the magazine are not representative of a “ranking” where the most popular series are listed first the issue. There maybe be some tangential or hypothetical information that could be extrapolated from that listed order, so it is provided in the database for reference as well as a way to identify series that were the pack-in bonuses for the issue.

Updates and Missing Issues

This is only a partial database and there is missing any information prior to July 2021 (#519) issue. At this time we are not planning to update the previous backlog issues, but this could change in the future. As new issues of the magazine come out, this database will be updated with that information. There may be up to a 3 month delay in updating the database as other projects for Manga Properties may be taking a priority.

Database Usage

Please see our Usage and Citations page for more information if you want to use this resource for your own projects. This database is provided for historical and educational purposes with all copyrights of the original text owned by the original authors and Shogakukan.