Manga Media & The Swedish Manga Magazines

A long time ago, when the publish of manga's were still on the top in Sweden
There were magazine like:  Manga Mania, Shonen Jump and Shojo Stars

The company Manga Media were result of  between the companies Swedish Bonnier AB (by Bonnier Carlsen) and the Full Stop Media (Schibsted publishers AB).
Schibsted took over Full Stop Media in the years 2005/2006. 

The Manga Media gave out the magazines ; Shojo Stars , Shonen Jump and Manga Mania.
 Manga Media published the three magazines between the years 2003-2009.

Sadly the company had finances problem and declining sales on all three magazines.
There were struggle with the license when it come to the manga series.
So the company disband in the years of 2008- 2009.

So lets take a look about the magazines

Shojo Stars had the inspiration of the Japanese magazine called : Hana to Yume  
(HanaYume) and were a Shōjomanga. The magazine came out monthly.
Manga series were;  Godchild, Skip Beat!, Fruits Basket , Gakuen Alice, Vampire Knight and W Juliet.
But there were also articles (some like some focus articles about illustrators and models) ,sudoku, and contests. More focus on romans, music and trend

Manga Media had cooperation with Hakusensha with Shojo Stars

Shojo Stars were born in the autumn in 2007 and sadly ended in the autumn of 2009.
The magazine had 25th issue, volumes.
 
At first the magazine had great selling number, but soon the magazine lost followers, readers.
So in the end Manga Media had the finances struggle with the production, declining sales.
And Manga Media had to end Shojo Stars. 

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Shonen Jump had as role-model the Japanese magazine ; Shukan Shonen Jump
The magazine came out between the years 2004 - 2007
The magazine were a Shōnenmanga and came out monthly.

Jump post (readers letters)

Some of manga series that comes in the magazine is :
Naruto, Shaman King, Yu-Gi-Oh!, Rurouni Kenshin, Bleach & Romance Dawn (another variation of the series One Pieces beginning)
 
 But here were also; courses on how to learn to draw manga, competition/contest and Jump post (readers letters). 
Shonen Jump even got a sister magazine in Norway (the years 2005-2007)

Manga Media had cooperation with Shueisha with Shonen Jump
In the year of 2007 it's said that there were legal issue with Shueisha.
And the Shonen Jump came to the end.
There were 36 th issue, volumes of Shonen Jump

Silver Fang /GNG Note
In the issue, volume 10/ 2007 there were three pages about a contest to win a Silver Fang dvd box.

In 2007 the Silver Fang Ginga Nagareboshi Gin Dvd box were still expensive.
So a contest to win the uncut dvd box were wanted.
The challenge were to draw a Manga dog. In the spirit of Silver Fang, Ginga Nagareboshi Gin


I tried to find out more, but sadly the web site that publish the winners are gone.

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Some of mine collection of Manga Mania

Manga Mania were a bit different if you compare to Shojo Stars and Shonen Jump.
There were more focus on Japan, with many articles how to learn Japanese both the language and traditional culture. News about manga and anime and many competition/contest. 
There were also fan draws show in the magazine aswell.

In the magazine there were manga series like;Blade of the Immortal ,Love Hina ,Chobits ,Power !! ,Puppet Revolution , Tokyo by night ,Air Gear ,GTO ,Negima ,School Rumble , Wolf's Rain

Manga Media had cooperation with Kōdansha  with Manga Mania
Manga Mania were the larges manga magazine between the three.
And the magazine issues, volumes gave out more often. First year 4 issues, volumes and then 10 issues, volumes each year.

Manga Mania were born in 2003 and ended in 2007.
Because Manga Mania had unclear audience focus and declining sales the magazine ended .

During the four years Manga Mania had 42 th issue, volumes.

Silver Fang /GNG Note
 During the time Manga Mania were alive, there were publish a article about Silver Fang.
 As you see the article were two pages.

Issue, volume 8/2004

The tale about Silver Fang and the era of 80's & 90's when the anime classics  came. 
But also the article tells about devoted, enthusiastic fans.
You see back in the 2004 there weren't so many sites or information about Ginga Nagareboshi Gin.
A small fan base , but it grow with time.
Here we also get to know a bit about Weed, (from the manga Ginga Densetsu Weed)

Images from Issue,Volumes; 4/2006 & 5/2007

Manga Mania had contests to win the uncut dvd box of Silver Fang, Ginga Nagareboshi Gin
But in issue, volume 4/2007 there were a dvd gift.
Manga Mania anime & trailer DVD , See more at Silver Fang Dvds (History)

 

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The availability of the manga's magazine is difficult to say.
Mostly you can find the manga's on Swedish auctions site or secondhand stores
And the price can be cheap and sometime expensive.

But for a complete set for the three different manga's can be really expensive what I have as experience.
Just the shipping part can be hight prize, just for there are so many issues of each magazine

New dvd release : Silver Fang

Hi, There have been a time since I last post.
I guess sometime you turn really busy and forget things.
But I guess the passion to blog were a bit lost in the spring, so sometime you need to take a break .
Just to find the way one more.

I have now 19 post in draft and I need to finish some soon.
So I have something to do, indeed

But let go to some news

What happened if you mix some edition of the Silver Fangs dvds?
Like the release of 2008 and the release of 2011 ?

Let's take a look

The release of 2008

The release of 2011

Different covers and layout indeed. Both have the dub and the cut version.

I like the purple version,just the color and layout . Or more the different layout and covers.
On the release of 2008  the dog jumping out on the cover seems to lost their tail and it's a bit a mess.
Just if you compare of the quality of the covers.

So today, the big news, that make me so happy is;
I got the newest dvd release 

Image from the store Ginza.se

I got a bit surprise  when I found this one in a store.
For me that are a bit nerd and like to collect the different editions release

 

I just  on the new edition , there are some darker purple color , then the early release.
But other then the inside on the new dvd is mostly the same, as the dvd release of 2011

Inside the dvd release of 2011

The new release of 2015

 If we could take away the text on the cover , like ;
" Hela Svenska serien" 
Meaning "The entire Swedish Series"
That will be better, since  there are already that say that this dvd have Swedish dub.
But also the dvd have also Finnish and Hungarian dubs aswell.
But well sometime or often the Swedish release have extra text, that telling this is the dub version 


Right, if you take a look at the cover, you see that  the image of Akakabuto with "jumping flying dogs ", from the uncut Swedish version of 2015
You can see the image here

 A other thing I notes were that face that some dog have lost there tails
I know that Kurotora have been missing his tail since the third vhs release (with mean a time back, somewhere in the 90's) . At lest Kurotora got his tail back in, if you look at the back cover on the 2011 release.
But now have Cross lost her tail and please don't get me started on Riki
Or Smith     >_>
Take a look at Akakabuto's claw, frame. It seem like that clip and past , and not work on that one.
It just feel a bit amateur to clip in dogs , bear on the cover and not do a better work.

You can indeed read more at the early blog about  Silver Fang Dvd's
If you cant more details and images , a taste of Silver Fang dvds history 

Bonus Image;
"Mr drool a lot", know as Akakabuto

The Dvd edition, release of 2008, 2015, 2011

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I have just update the history list of :  Silver Fang Dvd's 


Updated 27/8- 2015