Kodansha has announced that its monthly shoujo magazine ARIA will end its publication on April 28, which is also the date its June issue will ship.
Kodansha began publishing the magazine in June 2010. After almost eight years of publishing, the magazine gained an average circulation of approximately 12,000 copies. Pika☆Ichi, Kore wa Koi no Hanashi, and GDGD-DOGS are some of the first manga titles to be featured in the magazine. The magazine reached its peak in popularity when the prologue chapter for Shingeki no Kyojin: Kuinaki Sentaku was published, which entailed Kodansha to print approximately 80,000 copies of the October 2013 issue.
The magazine also featured manga that received anime adaptations, such as Hatsukoi Monster, which was adapted into a TV anime by Studio Deen, and Shingeki no Kyojin: Kuinaki Sentaku, which received an OVA adaptation by Wit Studio. There are also titles that are side-stories of anime series, including several for GoHands' original anime K. In addition, the magazine featured manga adaptations of novels which would later inspired anime series, such as No.6 and Subete ga F ni Naru.
Source: Comic Natalie
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