Yen Plus

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Yen Plus
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Cover of the first issue of Yen Plus featuring Maka and Soul Eater from Soul Eater . Illustration by Atsushi Okubo.
Categories Manga, manhwa, OEL manga
FrequencyMonthly
Publisher Yen Press
First issueJuly 29, 2008
Final issueJuly 2010 (print)
December 2013 (online)
Country United States
Language English
Website yenpress.com/yenplus/
ISSN 1942-440X

Yen Plus was an American monthly anthology magazine of Japanese manga, Korean manhwa, and original English-language (OEL) manga published by Yen Press.

Contents

History

The first issue of Yen Plus went on sale on July 29, 2008, with five manga titles originally published by Gangan Comics, four manhwa titles, and two OEL manga titles. [1] [2] [3] [4] The magazine contained over 450 pages per issue. Manga titles were read from right-to-left, while manhwa and OEL manga titles read left-to-right; because of this, each issue had two covers.

Although Yen Plus did not publicize official circulation figures, Hachette Book Group publicity materials for the Maximum Ride OEL manga reported a circulation figure for Yen Plus of "nearly 100,000 copies" as of late 2008. [5]

The July 2010 issue was the last issue of the physical magazine to be published; all subsequent issues were exclusively published online. [6] In December 2013, the online magazine also folded. [1]

Serialized titles

This is a complete list of all titles serialized in Yen Plus. It does not include single chapter previews of titles. Twenty titles (ten manga, six manhwa and four OEL manga) were serialized, but only two (the manhwa One Fine Day and Pig Bride ) were serialized in their entirety.

Manga
TitleAuthorArtistFirst IssueLast IssueCompleted?
Bamboo Blade Masahiro Totsuka Aguri Igarashi August 2008May 2009No
Black Butler Yana Toboso August 2009July 2010
Higurashi When They Cry Ryukishi07 VariousAugust 2008January 2009
Hero Tales Huang Jin Zhou Hiromu Arakawa February 2009April 2010 [7]
K-On! Kakifly September 2010December 2013
Nabari no Ou Yuhki Kamatani August 2008Unknown
Pandora Hearts Jun Mochizuki June 2009
Soul Eater Atsushi Okubo August 2008
Sumomomo Momomo Shinobu Ohtaka October 2009 [8]
Yotsuba&! Kiyohiko Azuma September 2010December 2013
Manhwa
TitleAuthorArtistFirst IssueLast IssueCompleted?
Aron's Absurd Armada MiSun KimAugust 2010December 2013No
Jack Frost Jinho KoAugust 2008
One Fine DaySirialJuly 2010Yes
Pig Bride Huh Kook-hwaKim Su-jin
Sarasah Ryu RyangJune 2009 [9] No
Time and AgainJiUn YunFebruary 2009December 2013
OEL manga
TitleAuthorArtistFirst IssueLast IssueCompleted?
Daniel X SeungHui KyeAugust 2010December 2013No
Gossip GirlHyeKyung BaekJanuary 2010
Maximum Ride Narae LeeAugust 2008
Nightschool Svetlana Chmakova

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