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Genshiken
Manga volume 1 cover, featuring Mitsunori Kugayama (back), Saki Kasukabe, Kanji Sasahara (down right) and Harunobu Madarame (top right)
げんしけん
Genre
Comedy, slice of life[1]
Manga
Written by
Shimoku Kio
Published by
Kodansha
English publisher
NA:Kodansha USA
Magazine
Monthly Afternoon
Demographic
Seinen
Original run
April 25, 2002 – August 25, 2016
Volumes
21 (List of volumes)
Series titles
Genshiken
(2002–2006, 9 volumes)
Genshiken: Second Season
(2009–2016, 12 volumes)
Anime television series
Directed by
Takashi Ikehata
Produced by
Takaya Ibira
Atsushi Yamamori
Naoki Sakamoto
Kōji Tsukamoto
Katsumi Yamaguchi
Written by
Michiko Yokote
Music by
Masanori Takumi
Studio
Palm Studio
Licensed by
NA:Media Blasters
Original network
CTC, TV Saitama, Sun TV, tvk, Kids Station
Original run
October 11, 2004 – December 27, 2004
Episodes
12 (List of episodes)
Original video animation
Directed by
Tsutomu Mizushima
Produced by
Takaya Ibira
Naoki Sakamoto
Kōji Tsukamoto
Ryūichirō Matsuyama
Written by
Michiko Yokote
Music by
Tomoki Hasegawa
Studio
Ajia-do Animation Works
Licensed by
NA:Media Blasters
Released
December 22, 2006 – April 25, 2007
Episodes
3 (List of episodes)
Anime television series
Genshiken 2
Directed by
Kinji Yoshimoto
Produced by
Takaya Ibira
Takurō Hatakeyama
Tatsuhiro Nitta
Osamu Koshinaka
Yūsuke Numagi
Written by
Michiko Yokote
Music by
Masaya Koike (4-EVER)
Shun Okazaki (4-EVER)
Studio
Arms
Licensed by
NA:AnimeWorks
Original network
CTC, TV Saitama, TV Aichi, tvk, Sun TV, Kids Station
Original run
October 11, 2007 – December 27, 2007
Episodes
12 (List of episodes)
Novel
Genshiken: Return of the Otaku[2] (Shōsetsu Genshiken Hairu Ranto no Yabō ~Return of the OTAKU~)[3]
Written by
Kazutoshi Iida
Illustrated by
Shimoku Kio
Published by
Kodansha
English publisher
NA:Del Rey Books
UK:Del Rey Books
Imprint
KC Novels
Demographic
Male
Published
January 21, 2008
Anime television series
Genshiken: Second Generation
Directed by
Tsutomu Mizushima
Produced by
Haruki Hayashi
Junichirō Tsuchiya
Tooru Kawaguchi
Written by
Michiko Yokote
Music by
Shūichirō Fukuhiro
Studio
Production I.G
Licensed by
NA:NIS America
Original network
Tokyo MX
Original run
July 7, 2013 – September 29, 2013
Episodes
13 (List of episodes)
Related series
Kujibiki Unbalance
Kujibiki Unbalance (2006 series)
Genshiken (げんしけん) is a Japanese manga series by Shimoku Kio about a college club for otaku (extremely obsessed fans of various media) and their lifestyle. The title is a shortening of the club's official name, Gendai Shikaku Bunka Kenkyūkai (現代視覚文化研究会), or "The Society for the Study of Modern Visual Culture". The series has also been adapted into an anime directed by Tsutomu Mizushima. The manga originally ran in Kodansha's magazine Monthly Afternoon from April 2002 to May 2006, and has been reprinted in nine bound volumes.
A two-part short bonus story was included across both volumes of the Kujibiki Unbalance manga, published in 2006.
In December 2009, a new chapter was released in Monthly Afternoon to celebrate the release of the Genshiken 2 DVD box-set. In October 2010, the series resumed serialization as Genshiken: Second Season (げんしけん二代目, Genshiken Nidaime, lit.'Genshiken: Second Generation').[4]
^"Genshiken Second Generation". NIS America, Inc. September 4, 2015. Archived from the original on September 29, 2020. Retrieved July 20, 2018.
^"Genshiken: Return of the Otaku". Del Rey Official Site. January 20, 2010. Retrieved January 20, 2010.
^"Goods/Book". Genshiken Official Site. December 20, 2007. Archived from the original on March 2, 2010. Retrieved January 20, 2010.
^"Genshiken Manga to Return as Genshiken II in Japan". Anime News Network. Retrieved September 22, 2010.
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Keiko Sonoda in Revolutionary Girl Utena, as well as Komaki Asagiri in Genshiken and its spinoff Kujibiki Unbalance. She also lends her voice to video...
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