page_title: Tankōbon
hierarchical_section_title: Tankōbon
caption_attribution_description: Tons of manga at "Science Fiction Bokhandeln", Gothenburg.
context_page_description: Tankōbon is the Japanese term for a book that is not part of a series or corpus. In modern Japan, however, the term is most often used in reference to independent volumes of a single manga, as opposed to manga magazines, which feature multiple series.
  Typically, the chapters of a manga are initially serialized before being collected into individual tankōbon volumes. Major publishing imprints for tankōbon include Jump Comics, Shogakukan's Shōnen Sunday Comics, and Kodansha's Shōnen Magazine Comics.
context_section_description: Tankōbon (単行本, "independent/standalone book") is the Japanese term for a book that is not part of a series or corpus. In modern Japan, however, the term is most often used in reference to independent volumes of a single manga, as opposed to manga magazines, which feature multiple series.
  Typically, the chapters of a manga are initially serialized before being collected into individual tankōbon volumes. Major publishing imprints for tankōbon include Jump Comics (for manga serialized in Shueisha's Weekly Shōnen Jump and other Jump magazines), Shogakukan's Shōnen Sunday Comics, and Kodansha's Shōnen Magazine Comics.
caption: A shelf with various manga tankōbon series
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