The April 2002 cover featuring Tokyo Mew Mew.
Nakayoshi—Japanese for "good friend" or "close friends"—is a phone book Shōjo manga magazine by Kodansha first released in 1954 and still published today that focuses on the Shōjo Demographic of young and teenage girls. The phone book manga features love girly stories, and frequent Magical Girl stories, and like many manga magazines of its kind come with furoku, little items based on the serialized manga.The Other Wiki has a complete list of manga published in Nakayoshi
. The magazine went through a minor Retool in 2010 to be aimed at an older audience.
Compare Shonen Jump for the Shōnen Demographic, CoroCoro Comic for younger children, and other Shōjo magazines such as Hana to Yume, LaLa, Ciao, Margaret, and Ribon.
Manga (and anime with manga adaptions) serialized in Nakayoshi:
- Anyway Im Falling In Love With You
- Arisa
- Ashita no Nadja
- Attacker You!
- Azuki-chan
- Cells at Work: Bacteria!
- Candy♡Candy
- Cardcaptor Sakura
- Cherry Juice
- The Cherry Project
- Chou Kuse ni Narisou
- Cyber Team in Akihabara
- Fairy Navigator Runa
- Ghost Hunt
- Gifted
- Goldfish Warning!
- Hell Girl
- I Am Here!
- Instant Teen: Just Add Nuts
- Kaitou Saint Tail
- Kamichama Karin
- Kamikami Kaeshi
- Kedamono Damono
- Kilala Princess
- Kitchen Princess
- Magic Knight Rayearth
- Mamotte! Lollipop
- Mermaid Melody Pichi Pichi Pitch (and Mermaid Melody Pichi Pichi Pitch Aqua)
- Mink
- Miracle Girls
- Missions of Love
- Ojamajo Doremi
- Pixie Pop (Gokkun! Puucho)
- Princess Knight (The Twin Knights and the second manga series)
- Pretty Cure
- Sabagebu!
- Sailor Moon
- Shaman King & a garden (spinoff of Shaman King)
- Shugo Chara!
- Sugar Sugar Rune
- Super Doll★Licca-chan
- Tantei Team KZ Jiken Note (The manga adaptation)
- Tokyo Mew Mew
- Tokyo Mew Mew A La Mode
- Tokyo Mew Mew Ole!
- UFO Baby
- Vampire Dormitory
- The Witch Maid Knows The Queens Secret
- Wonderful Precure
- Yume no Crayon Oukoku
- Zodiac P.I.
