Comic GOTTA

**Comic Gotta** (*コミックGOTTA*) is a monthly manga magazine formerly published by Shogakukan for male junior high and high school students. We will also talk about its predecessor, **"Hyper CoroCoro".**

## Synopsis

Established at the end of March 1999 as a special supplement issue of "Monthly Coro-Colo Comic" (hereinafter abbreviated as "Coro-Colo"). It is positioned as a high-grade version of CoroCoro and targets junior high school students from the upper grades of elementary school (5th grade). The original tagline was "**It's a little aniki**." In the summer issue released at the end of July of the same year, an announcement was published that "Hyper CoroCoro will be closed to renew and publish in December", and "Hyper CoroCoro" was suspended after two issues.

It was newly established in December 1999 as "**Comic GOTTA"** as a separate magazine independent of "CoroCoro". **GOTTA** is an English slang term meaning "gotta -" meaning "-do". Popular comic book duo London Boots No. 1 No. 2 marketed it under the banner of being the editor-in-chief (initially dressed as a deformed student uniform costume in the style of a cheering squad).

It is a manga magazine that can be positioned between CoroCoro Comics and Weekly Shōnen Sunday Super or Young Sunday due to its writers and style. However, due to poor sales, the magazine ceased publication 18 months later with the July 2001 issue.

On May 28, 2010, **CoroCoro G**, with almost the same stance, was founded. However, the magazine mainly published tie-up works with hobby products such as the original Hyper CoroCoro and gag manga centered on the CoroCoro writers, and almost no original social, gakuen, or sci-fi works seen in GOTTA are listed.

### Features

In both magazines, the preface color section is used for familiar hobby information (such as Hyper Yo-Yo and next-generation game consoles) and K-1 While making use of the know-how of conventional "Coro-Colo" such as posting manga of the players' provenance, it is composed of adult contents that can be accepted even by junior high school students. In "GOTTA", the center of gravity shifted from conventional hobby information to entertainment information such as fashion, romance techniques, J-pop, and female idols, and to the publication of gravure idols like in weekly manga magazines, and changed the composition to a composite of these.

The magazine size is A5 size for CoroCoro Comics and CoroCoro G, but this magazine is the same B5 size as Shonen Manga magazines such as Weekly Shōnen Sunday.

Since the readers' base was derived from "CoroCoro Comics" in which elementary school students around the age of 10 were derived and raised the readers' age group, there were works with a high level of story set in the real world, except for extras from the "Coro-Collo" serialized works. There are also works and readers' corners that are studded with color in the reading works by the author of "CoroCoro" works, and works that deal with the bottom story such as "AV", "condom", "semen", "handling", etc. It seems that it was aimed at boys.

Unlike Hyper Coro-Cololo, GOTTA was mainly serialized manga, and the writers at the time of its founding were a gorgeous lineup of artists such as Tetsuo Hara, Tatsuya Egawa, Kaguya Asamiya, Ami Shibata, and the great Matsumoto Zeroshi. However, most of these works were serialized in about 6 to 10 episodes and replaced by works by mid-career writers, and gradually most of them were works that intertwined elements of school with the main characters being high-headed male junior high and high school students (2nd year of junior high school - 2nd year of high school) as the main characters. However, there were also some works that depicted violence that was rarely depicted in grade magazines and Tsukikoro, and service cuts such as changing clothes and bathing scenes of female characters. In the late years, there were also first magazine publications by new writers.

## List of serialized works

### Hypercollocolo

#### Series

* Astrider Hugo (Hisao Tamaki)
* ALTO-Alto
* Taro Tanaka Junior High School Student Edition (Nagato Yasunari)
* Kotetsuhiro
	+ The struggle of a boy driving around in an MTB
* Grander Musashi JS
* The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time (Toshio Tanigami)
	+ Comicalize
* Exploding Mama!! (Eisuke Tengoe)
* Hustleman (Pyokotan)

#### Reading

* Uncle (Hitoshi Nakamura)
* Face X (Zubisu Yabonko)
* Hot-blooded justice!! V Boy (Michiro Kamiyama)
* Buggy! RC Boy (Takao Aoki)
* Boom! Matsuzaka-kun (Junji Kawai)
* Omega Boost (Koichi Mitaka)
* Makai Senki Gatekeeper (Makoto Mizobuchi)
* Magic: The Legend (Toshihiro Ono)
	+ Original comic adaptation of Magic: The Gathering.
* Andy Hug Monogatari, Peter Arts Story (Takayuki Sakai)
* Not good for puberty! (Daisuke Hyuga)
	+ A four-frame manga unfolds by a male erotic trio who has started to climb the stairs to adulthood. A different kind of work that confronts secondary sex characteristics openly.
* Segarei Tinkering (Pyokotan)

### Comic GOTTA

\* The order shall be the earliest order of the start of the series, the earliest order of the end of the series if the series starts the same, and the order of syllabary order if both are the same.

* MAGIC URZA & MISHRA (Toshihiro Ono) February 2000 - August 2000

The sequel to Magic: The Legend (retitled).
* Tekken (Keiichi Suzuki) February 2000 - February 2001
* Kazuru to Yui no Ikkai Yarate (Iya Kazuru) February 2000 - March 2001
* Nazo Nazo Mysterious Friends (Hiromi Morishita) February 2000 - June 2001
* Cultural Festival Ura Executive Committee (Tatsuya Egawa) February 2000 - June 2001
* Simon? February 2000 - July 2001
* Scissors (Takashi Hashiguchi) February 2000 - July 2001
* Super Pan (Rodriguez Inosuke) February 2000 - July 2001
* All Friends (Pyokotan) February 2000 - July 2001
* Super Ban Wanio (Kashimoto Gakushu Vu) February 2000 - July 2001
* Nine Hundred (Hiroshi Kasagi) February 2000 - July 2001
* Crab (Seito Fujisaki) March 2000 - July 2001
* New Space Battleship Yamato (Matsumoto Zeroshi) April 2000 - July 2001
* Gacha Gacha Family Ebiru-kun (Asamiya Knight's) May 2000 - July 2001
* Tambourine (Ami Shibata) June 2000 - July 2001
* Hana no Dai TOKYO Kengo Row Den Fujita Visit!! (Shinji Saijō) June 2000 - July 2001
* Ayumi-ryūsei II (art by Tetsuo Hara, original by Katsuhiko Takahashi) August 2000 - December 2000
* POOL PLAYER ISABU August 2000 - July 2001
* Route 77 Another Ozaki Yutaka Monogatari (Tsuchida Century) October 2000 - May 2001
* Clock Clock (Takashi Morita) January 2001 - July 2001
* Giokatore - Warriors Running in the Field (Takao Aoyagi) February 2001 - July 2001
* Akira Segami February 2001 - July 2001

## Gatta Comics

**Gatta Comics** is a comic book label that records works published in Comic GOTTA. Established on January 5, 2001. The new book goes on sale on the 5th of every month. There are two types, B6 format and A5 size. By August 5, a total of 36 books had been published, which had been discontinued due to the suspension of comic book GOTTA.

"Bunka Festival Ura Executive Committee" (Tatsuya Egawa), "MAGIC URZA & MISHRA" (Toshihiro Ono), "Nine Hundred" (Hiroshi Kasagi), "Tambourine" (Ami Shibata), "Tekken: Beyond the Battle" (Keiichi Suzuki), "Akuryu II" (Katsuhiko Takahashi, Tetsuo Hara), and "Gacha Gacha Family Ebiru-kun" (Asamiya Kaguya) were first published.

The logotype is a juxtaposition of "GC" and "GOTTA COMICS".