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Monthly Magazine Garo

​ "Monthly Manga Garo" is a magazine for maniacs that shines brightly in the history of manga. It discovered many unique personalities, not just manga artists, and influenced later subcultures.

 This magazine was launched in 1964 by Seirindo president Katsuichi Nagai to feature the hit ``Ninja Bugeichou'' and ``Kamuiden'' by Sanpei Shirato, who was already a master of rental book Gekiga.

 The magazine that was founded in 1967 by the manga god Osamu Tezuka to serialize ''Phoenix'' in competition with the same magazine, decided to launch ''COM''. Since then, ''Garo'' and ``COM'' have become two important magazines that led the minor scene in the 1960s.

 In 1971, when part of Shirato Sensei's ``Kamuyden'' was serialized, it was the era of Shinichi Abe, Oji Suzuki, and Masumi Furukawa, commonly known as the Garo Three Crows.

 From around 1976, the company began to adopt the ``interesting philosophy'' of the time when Shinbo Minami was editor-in-chief. Shigesato Itoi + Teruhiko Yumura, Kozaburo Arashiyama, Nobuyoshi Araki, Mizumaru Anzai, Genpei Akasegawa, Kazuhiro Watanabe, etc. The rental book-gekiga style was diluted, and a tendency that would later be seen as ``hetauma'' was born. ​ ​ 

 In the 1980s, teachers such as Yoshiyoshi Ebisu, Michio Hisauchi, Hiromi Hiraguchi, and Hinako Sugiura appeared. Among them, teachers such as Yoshitsune Ebisu, Jun Miura, and Takashi Nemoto expanded their activities in many ways. In other words, they had to do other work because they weren't paying for the manuscript...

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