Gessan

**"Gessan**" (Monthly Shonen Sunday, MONTHLY SHONEN SUNDAY, GET THE SUN!) is a monthly shonen manga magazine published by Shogakukan Japan. Established on May 12, 2009 Released on the 12th of every month

## Description

It was first published on May 12, 2009 as the June issue of June 12, 2009. Masato Hayashi, the editor-in-chief of Weekly Shōnen Sunday (WS), served as the magazine's editor-in-chief and founding editor-in-chief. However, Takenori Ichihara, the founding planner and later the second editor-in-chief, had served as acting editor-in-chief since its inception and Ichihara was originally scheduled to become the next editor-in-chief The inaugural address published in the first issue was also written by Ichihara

The first issue has a circulation of 280,000 copies, and the target audience is a wide range of ages, mainly junior high and high school students

Prior to its inception, on February 25, 2009, the company established its official website "Gessan WEB", and announced the folding of colors in the 14th issue of "WS" (WS) released on March 4, 2009 The official website was updated every Wednesday for release, and gradually announced the writing team and published works in the first issue Since before its inception, it used "Manga Force Absolutism" as its tagline He  identity of "love and courage" as "*two keywords that boys absolutely need to be independent*." As the mascot character, a catfish wearing an S-mark helmet is used, the same as in "WS". At the time of its inception, it carried out two horizontal hanging advertisements on trains in the Tokyo metropolitan area and other areas (the layout was a large-scale headline with the cut and tagline of "Q Ando A" placed in the center, the names of the artists to be published side by side, and polograms pasted in the lower center).

For many years, it had been a regular monthly and bimonthly supplement to WS such as Weekly Shōnen Sunday Super, but this is the first time in 35 years that it has published monthly as an independent magazine since Besshounen Sunday, which ceased publication in 1974. In addition, this expanded magazine and "Gessan" do not have a particular relationship as a predecessor magazine. With the founding of the magazine, all weekly shonen manga magazines such as Jump, Magazine, Sunday and Champion had the experience of having a monthly magazine of the same name

[ The site is planned to be actively developed, such as posting original works such as biographies of serialized works. In July 2011, it was announced in the August 2011 issue of this magazine that the serialized work "El Palacio of Rumors Here" (Takao Aoyagi) would be turned into a TV drama from the autumn of the same year (it was later decided to be broadcast from October 7 in the "Drama 24" slot), and this is the first film adaptation of this magazine.

On the official website "Gessan WEB", an e-mail form has been set up on the page introducing the work so that fan e-mails such as impressions and requests to the artist and the editorial department can be easily accepted. It is also made on "Sunday WEB", the official site of "WS", and accepts comments from readers.

Among the magazines affiliated with "Sunday", it is a magazine that focuses on the development of new talent in particular, and actively publishes and serializes the reading of new writers who won the monthly "GET THE SUN Newcomer Award". In addition, since the April 2013 issue, a separate appendix "**Gessan mini**" focusing on reading by new writers has been regularly used as an appendix, but publication ended with the April 2018 issue.

The list price was 500 yen from the time of publication, but the price was raised to 550 yen from the January 2014 issue (released in December of the previous year).

An electronic version began with the August 2016 issue, which was released on July 13, 2016

## Past editors-in-chief

1. Masato Hayashi: June 2009 (Volume 1, Volume 1, Volume 1, First Issue) - August 2010 (Volume 2, No. 8, Volume 15)
2. Ichihara Takeho: September 2010 (Vol. 2, No. 9, Vol. 16) - August 2015 (Vol. 7, No. 8, Vol. 75)
3. Mitsuhiro Tori: September 2015 (Vol. 7, No. 9, Vol. 76) - August 2018 (Vol. 10, No. 8, Vol. 111)
4. Fumihiko Hoshino: September 2018 (Vol. 10, No. 9, Vol. 112) - Incumbent[note 1]

## Manga serials

* Works in the series are **shown in bold**.
* The serial numbers in the leftmost column are for convenience and have no meaning.
* For the start and end issues, the number of years and the number of issues are "." Separated by .
	+ Example: June 2009 → 2009.06
* This list uses sortable tables.
	+ The default display order is the order in which the series starts. If the starting issue is the same, the order of publication is used.
	+ The three columns of "work name", "author (drawing)", and "original author, etc." are sorted in alphabetical order.
	+ For convenience when sorting, "rows for headings" are mixed in the data. This header row works correctly only when sorting in ascending order, and rows moved to the end during an ascending sort have no meaning under that sort condition. For example, the heading line "In Series" at the end of the line by default has no meaning in that state, and is only meaningful when sorting ascending by the end column.
	+ To return the sorting results to their default state, sort in ascending order in the leftmost column.

## Novels

* Monster, Sting (Novel: Hirokatsu Kihara, Illustration: Junji Ito) June 2009 (First Issue) - February 2010
* Time Mail (Novel: Whale Unification, Illustration: Hiroto Oishi) June 2009 (First Issue) - May 2010

## Rookie of the Year

In addition to the juvenile category of the Shogakukan Newcomer Comic Awards, the "GET THE SUN Newcomer Award" is held as a monthly prize. The "GET THE SUN Newcomer Award" has the same application deadline as the number of issues on the release date, and is announced two months after the deadline (for example, the 47th application deadline is March 12, 2013, the release date of volume 47, and announced in May of the same year As of the 72nd, not a single Grand Prix winner has been awarded, but among the nine winners of the Semi-Grand Prix, Moricha, Matsusedaichi, Kaihei Nakahara, Yuki Kumagai, Kyūkyūpon, Yuzu Chili, and Yuta Shimazaki have already made their serialization debuts.

### Shogakukan Rookie of the Year Comic Awards: Winners who have already debuted in this magazine

* Saeki Yukinosuke (65th Juvenile Division, Selection)
* Sota Umeuchi (66th Juvenile Division, Selection)
* Riki Taoka (67th Juvenile Division, Selection)
* Hisashi Sawa (67th Juvenile Division, Selection)
* Aki Izumio (68th Juvenile Division, Honorable Mention) \*Pen name at the time of the award was Ryona Hong.
* Takaichiro Yamamoto (69th Honorable Mention in the Juvenile Division)
* Yuki Monji (70th Juvenile Division, Selection)
* Kyukkyupon (71st Juvenile Division, Selection)
* Mizumo (71st Honorable Mention in the Juvenile Division)
* Yuzu Chili (72nd Juvenile Division, Selection)
* Gensomizu (72nd Juvenile Division, Honorable Mention)
* Kana (72nd Juvenile Division Honorable Mention, 74th Juvenile Division)
* Maki Sato (73rd Juvenile Division Grand Prize)
* Haruju Nutmeg (73rd Juvenile Division, Honorable Mention)
* Kurokazu Hanashiro (73rd Honorable Mention in the Juvenile Division)
* Kota Tokutsu (74th Honorable Mention in the Juvenile Division)
* Katoson (74th Juvenile Division, Honorable Mention) \*Pen name at the time of the award was Karoto
* Mai Inoue (74th Juvenile Division, Honorable Mention)
* Dog Farming Friend (75th Juvenile Division, Selection)
* Mai Kudo (75th Honorable Mention in the Juvenile Division)
* Misaki Watanabe (75th Juvenile Division, Honorable Mention)
* Shiori Ariyoshi (76th Juvenile Division, Selection)
* Takeke Kitaya (76th Juvenile Division, Selection)
* Ryohei Suzuki (76th Honorable Mention in the Juvenile Division)
* Takayu Ito (76th Juvenile Division, Selection)
* Keigo Takahashi (77th Juvenile Division, Selection)
* Yuri Tomimoto (77th Honorable Mention in the Shonen Division) \*Pen name at the time of the award was Yuri Tomimoto
* Kuga Futatsu (77th Juvenile Division, Honorable Mention) \*Pen name at the time of award was Kugaji
* Yuka Nakazawa (78th Honorable Mention in the Juvenile Division)

### GET THE SUN Rookie of the Year Award: Winners who have already debuted in the magazine

* Moricha (1st Semi-Grand Prix)
* Sota Umeuchi (1st Honorable Mention)
* Matsusedaichi (3rd Semi-Grand Prix)
* Mikumo Seto (3rd Honorable Mention) \*Pen name at the time of the award was Seto Mikumo
* Yuki Tanaka (4th Honorable Mention)
* Mayuko Kanba (4th Honorable Mention, 7th Honorable Mention) \*Pen name at the time of the award was Mayuko Kamiba
* Yukimaru (4th Honorable Mention, 9th Semi-Grand Prix)
* Naoyuki Akiyama (5th Honorable Mention)
* Riki Taoka (5th Honorable Mention)
* Mizumo (5th Honorable Mention, 13th Honorable Mention)
* Hisashi Sawa (8th Honorable Mention)
* TALI (12th Honorable Mention Outside the Selection) \* Debuted in "Monthly Shonen Gangan" (Square Enix) before winning the award
* Kaihei Nakahara (18th Semi-Grand Prix)
* Misato Azusa (18th Honorable Mention Outside Honorable Mention, 22nd Honorable Mention, 27th Honorable Mention, 29th Honorable Mention) \*Pen name at the time of award was Akira Furuya
* Yu Saito (20th Honorable Mention)
* Kana (21st Honorable Mention, 24th Honorable Mention, 35th Honorable Mention, 40th Honorable Mention)
* Takaichiro Yamamoto (27th Honorable Mention)
* Yuki Kumagai (The 34th Semi-Grand Prix)
* Kyukkyupon (35th Honorable Mention, 36th Honorable Mention, 42nd Semi-Grand Prix)
* Yuzu Chili (37th Honorable Mention, 39th Honorable Mention, 44th Semi-Grand Prix)
* Katoson (37th Honorable Mention, 41st Honorable Mention) \*Pen name at the time of award was Karoto
* Mai Kudo (38th Honorable Mention, 45th Honorable Mention)
* Asato Maki (The 46th Honorable Mention) \*Pen name at the time of the award was Saki Asano
* Inuyori Tomo (46th Honorable Mention Outside Honorable Mention, 58th Honorable Mention Outside Honorable Mention, 61st Honorable Mention)
* Muramatsu Festival (The 47th Honorable Mention)
* Shiori Ariyoshi (47th Honorable Mention, 51st Honorable Mention, 55th Honorable Mention, 61st Honorable Mention)
* Aki Izumio (The 49th Honorable Mention)
* Kobayashi Azumi (The 50th Honorable Mention) \*Pen name at the time of the award was Kazutaro Azumi
* Kurokazu Hanashiro (The 50th Honorable Mention)
* Haruju Nutmeg (51st Honorable Mention)
* Kota Tokutsu (The 52nd Honorable Mention)
* Mai Inoue (53rd Honorable Mention) \*The pen name at the time of the award was Mai Inoue
* Yoshikawa Akiya (53rd Honorable Mention)
* Yuzuru Fujii (57th Honorable Mention)
* Hirosuke Uchie (57th Honorable Mention, 61st Honorable Mention)
* Misaki Watanabe (57th Honorable Mention, 61st Honorable Mention)
* Yu Fujimoto (The 60th Honorable Mention)
* Yuta Shimazaki (The 64th Semi-Grand Prix)
* Ryohei Suzuki (64th Honorable Mention, 67th Honorable Mention)
* Shota Cocozumi (66th Honorable Mention)
* Takeke Kitaya (68th Honorable Mention)
* Takayu Ito (The 69th Honorable Mention)
* Hiko (70th Semi-Grand Prix)
* Kuga Futatsu (70th Honorable Mention) \*Pen name at the time of award was Kugaji
* Keigo Takahashi (73rd Honorable Mention)
* Yuri Tomimoto (The 73rd Honorable Mention) \*Pen name at the time of the award was Yuri Tomimoto
* Yuka Nakazawa (The 80th Semi-Grand Prix)