Gekkan CoroCoro Comic (月刊コロコロコミック Gekkan KoroKoro Komikku) is a Japanese monthly manga magazine published by Shogakukan, starting on May 15, 1977 as a magazine for Doraemon. Its main target is elementary school aged boys, younger than the readers of shōnen manga. The name comes from a phenomime korokoro (ころころ) which means "rolling" and also represents something spherical, fat, or small, because children supposedly like such things. The magazine is A5-sized, about 6 cm (2¼ in) thick, and often more than 800 pages in length.
The magazine also has other side publications:
- Bessatsu CoroCoro Comic (別冊コロコロコミック), a bi-monthly magazine that began in 1981.
- CoroCoro Ichiban! (コロコロイチバン!), first published in 2005.
- CoroCoro G (コロコロG) from 2010.
- CoroCoro Aniki (コロコロアニキ), which began with an irregular publication date in 2014 until it became a quarterly publication in 2017, being released on March, June, September, and December.
Tie-ins[]
CoroCoro regularly promotes toys and video games related to their manga franchises, releasing stories and articles featuring them. Pokémon's big success in Japan owes to this in a way; the Game Boy game Pocket Monsters: Blue was sold exclusively through the magazine at first, which helped CoroCoro's sales as well. CoroCoro is also often a source of information about upcoming Pokémon games and movies. CoroCoro also had tie-ins with Capcom, including the Mega Man franchise in the 2000s.
Rockman manga[]
CoroCoro Comic published the following manga:
- MegaMan NT Warrior (Gekkan CoroCoro Comic. 2001-2006)
- Rockman the Shooting Star / Shooting Star Rockman (Gekkan CoroCoro Comic. November 2006-January 2008)
- Rockman the Shooting Star Tribe / Tribe Shooting Star Rockman Butou Gaiden (Gekkan CoroCoro Comic. February-July 2008)
- Shooting Star Rockman 3 (December 2008-January 2009)
- Rockman Zero (Bessatsu CoroCoro Comic. June 2003-February 2006)
- Gekitou! EXE Kyoudai Rockmeen! (Bessatsu CoroCoro Comic. April 2003-October 2006)
- Shuugeki On-Air!! Shooting Star Rockmeen! (Bessatsu CoroCoro Comic. December 2006-December 2008)
- Rockman.EXE Operate Shooting Star VS (Bessatsu CoroCoro Comic Special, 2009-2010)
- Rockman 11: Unmei no Haguruma!! (CoroCoro Aniki, 2018)
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