Shuudansha (集談社) is a publishing company in the Sekai-ichi Hatsukoi series. It publishes Weekly Shounen Earth manga magazine, and Masamune Takano used to work there as an editor.
Overview[]
Takano used to work at Shuudansha as a manga editor, but he ended up leaving due to personal conflicts with Arata Haitani. Haitani holds a grudge against Takano, and he tries to hook up with Ritsu Onodera possibly just because he knows Takano likes him.
Saeki is currently a manga editor at Shuudansha. Before working there, she and Ritsu used to work together at Onodera Publishing. When they meet up again, they are both surprised to find that the other has moved from editing literature to editing manga. When they run into each other again, Saeki is with Arata Haitani, which is how Ritsu and Haitani first meet.
Weekly Shounen Earth[]
Weekly Shounen Earth magazine
Weekly Shounen Earth (週刊少年アース, shuukan shounen aasu) is a weekly shounen manga magazine published by Shuudansha. It's the main competitor of Marukawa Publishing's shounen magazine Japun.
Manga titles serialized in Earth:
- Flashy Rondat
- Hanitora!
- Funny Drop
Employees[]
- Arata Haitani - editor-in-chief of Weekly Shounen Earth
- Saeki - manga editor
- Masamune Takano (former) - manga editor
Trivia[]
- Shuudansha's name is a combination of Shueisha (集英社, Shuueisha) and Kodansha (講談社), which are real-world Japanese publishing companies.
- Weekly Shounen Earth's real-world equivalent is Weekly Shounen Jump, which is published by Shueisha, and Weekly Shounen Magazine, published by Kodansha. Jump is also an equivalent to Marukawa's Japun magazine, which is a rival of Earth.