Genshiken
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is a Japanese manga series by Shimoku Kio about a college club for otaku (extremely obsessed fans of various media) and their lifestyle. The title is a shortening of the club's official name, , or "The Society for the Study of Modern Visual Culture". The series has also been adapted into an anime directed by Tsutomu Mizushima. The manga originally ran in Kodansha's magazine Monthly Afternoon from April 2002 to May 2006, and has been reprinted in nine bound volumes.
Key facts
- Animanga/Header.image
- Genshiken vol. 1.png
- Animanga/Header.caption
- Manga volume 1 cover, featuring Mitsunori Kugayama (back), Saki Kasukabe, Kanji Sasahara (down right) and Harunobu Madarame (top right)
- Animanga/Header.ja_kanji
- げんしけん
- Animanga/Print.type
- novel
- Animanga/Print.author
- Kazutoshi Iida
- Animanga/Print.illustrator
- Shimoku Kio
- Animanga/Print.publisher
- Kodansha
- Animanga/Print.imprint
- Afternoon KC
- Animanga/Print.magazine
- Monthly Afternoon
- Animanga/Print.first
- April 25, 2002
- Animanga/Print.last
- August 25, 2016
- Animanga/Print.volumes
- 21
- Animanga/Print.volume_list
- List of Genshiken chapters
- Animanga/Other.title
- Series titles
- Animanga/Video.type
- ova
- Animanga/Video.director
- Tsutomu Mizushima
- Animanga/Video.writer
- Michiko Yokote
- Animanga/Video.music
- Tomoki Hasegawa
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Author
- Shimoku Kio
- Country of origin
- Japan
- Official website
- kc.kodansha.co.jp/title?code=1000008536
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- language of work or name
- Japanese
- intended public
- seinen
- number of parts of this work
- 21
- published in
- Afternoon
- title
- げんしけん
- start time
- 2002-04-25
- illustrator
- Shimoku Kio
- end time
- 2016-08-25
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Encyclopedic overview
14 sectionsContents
- Overview
- Themes
- Ramen Angel Pretty Menma
- Plot
- Second generation
- Media
- Manga
- Anime
- Drama CDs
- Light novel
- Reception
- See also
- References and notes
- External links
is a Japanese manga series by Shimoku Kio about a college club for otaku (extremely obsessed fans of various media) and their lifestyle. The title is a shortening of the club's official name, , or "The Society for the Study of Modern Visual Culture". The series has also been adapted into an anime directed by Tsutomu Mizushima. The manga originally ran in Kodansha's magazine Monthly Afternoon from April 2002 to May 2006, and has been reprinted in nine bound volumes.
A two-part short bonus story was included across both volumes of the Kujibiki Unbalance manga, published in 2006.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Genshiken” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.