Afternoon Manga Furoku

Illustration by Kosuke Fujishima. Exactly 1600 x 1200 pixels. Just the perfect size for desktop wallpaper!

These images are ripped from the Kindan no "Daigassaku" Muubii (Forbidden "Big Collaboration" Movie) CD-ROM, in which the Afternoon manga artists illustrate each other's works. From left to right, we have ISUTOSHI (Tende Freeze!), Hitoshi Iwaaki (Kiseiju AKA Parasyte), Satoshi Karasuya (no idea - anybody?), and Shimoku Kio (Genshiken).

Pull-out poster.
Scanned by me. A lovely pullout poster illustrated by Kosuke Fujishima, to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Ah! My Goddess manga.

Furoku Notepad and Volume 35 cover artwork (for comparison's sake), scanned by me. Yeah, I included a scan of the cover of manga volume 35, so that you can see what the entire image is supposed to look like.

Image Cross-Reference: Afternoon November 2007 (see below).

Furoku Handkerchief and packaging, scanned by me. My apologies that the top of the handkerchief is cut off, but I couldn't fit it all on my scanner bed. Anyway, this image was also used as the frontpiece for chapter 175 of the manga.

Advertisement, Manga Timeline, and autographed Fujishima sketch, scanned by me. On the far left is part of a pullout advertisement. Next we have three pages of an Ah! My Goddess manga timeline, which I guess is to help us gear up for the upcoming 20th anniversary of the manga. Finally, here's a scan of an autographed sketch by Kosuke Fujishima, which Japanese residents can enter a lottery drawing to win.

Image Cross-Reference: Afternoon August 2007 (see above).

Pull-out posters. Scanned by me. Two lovely posters, to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Ah! My Goddess manga.

Furoku Towel and Volume 36 cover artwork (for comparison's sake), scanned by me. Yeah, I included a scan of the cover of manga volume 36, so that you can see what the original image is supposed to look like. And no, I don't normally scan Afternoon covers, since most of the Ah! My Goddess cover artwork is repeated from tankouban covers. But this month's cover is an original Belldandy watercolor, so it's going here. This is definitely not the first time that Belldandy has graced the cover of Afternoon in the past four years, but it's the first time that I'm putting an Afternoon cover in this gallery. ;)

Furoku postcard, scanned by me. This is a really unusual "long" postcard. It's not the standard size or shape of a regular postcard, but at least it's still mailable. I would assume.

Cover and Manga Character Guide, scanned by me. THIS MONTH is the twentieth anniversary of the manga! To celebrate, Afternoon published a special issue with... a sparkly, glitter-covered cover. I am not kidding about the sparkles. I posted a photo of the sparkly cover on my livejournal, and here's an additional photo donated by MK1. And yes, this is the cover of a critically-aclaimed adult mens' manga anthology. Lulz.

Afternoon cover postcard collection, scanned by me. No, those aren't multiple Afternoon covers up there. Actually, they're a set of 8 postcards that replicate A!MG Afternoon covers since 1988. Oh, and guess what? It turns out that last month's cover is NOT the first time that Afternoon has covered a Belldandy cover in sparkle rainbow glitter. Awesome. (P.S. - Sorry that my scanner didn't do a very good job with the four glittery postcards.)

Cover and pullout poster. Scanned by me. Yes, that poster is the same as the cover illustration for volume 38 of the manga. I apologize for the wrinkles on top of the poster.

Image Cross-Reference (cover): Kosuke Fujishima Ah! My Goddess Illustration Collection artbook. A far superior, less text-cluttered scan, too.

I don't normally post comic pages or 4koma in this gallery, since I prefer to focus on illustrative artwork. But here you go anyway: I just posted scans of a bonus Ah! My Goddess 4koma comic by Houjou Akira in my livejournal. I guess it kinda-sorta counts as "furoku," so I can justify including a link here. Enjoy!

Here is another bonus comic, posted to my journal, along with scans of Afternoon's color cover for this month, and much more.