:Hakusensha

Hakusensha was founded on December 1, 1973, by Shueisha. It is now a separate company although still a part of the Hitotsubashi Group with Shueisha and Shogakukan as one of the major members of the keiretsu.

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After setting up the company for five months, the firm published their first magazine, a shōjo manga magazine titled {{nihongo||花とゆめ|Hana to Yume}}. In November that year, they moved from {{nihongo||東京都千代田区神田神保町1丁目|Tōkyō-to, Chiyoda-ku, Kanda-Jinbōchō Ichi-chōme}} to {{nihongo||神田神保町3丁目|Kanda-Jinbōchō San-chōme}}.

In 1975, the firm changed the frequency of their magazine from monthly to semi-monthly; in March, they created their first imprint, {{nihongo||花とゆめコミックス|Hana to Yume Comics}}. In July 1976, they published their second manga magazine, a shōjo manga magazine named {{nihongo||花とゆめ LaLa|Hana to Yume LaLa}} as a sister magazine to Hana to Yume that is published bi-monthly. In April 1977, they set up a publication editing department and in July, they began publishing a seasonal magazine titled {{nihongo||別冊花とゆめ|Bessatsu Hana to Yume}}.

In March 1981, they moved to {{nihongo||西神田3丁目|Nishi-Kanda San-chōme}}. In September, they branched out from their usual shōjo manga magazines to a shōnen genre by publishing {{nihongo||少年ジェッツ|Shōnen Jets}}. With that, the company released their series in Shōnen Jets under a new imprint, {{nihongo||ジェッツコミックス|Jets Comics}} in July 1982. As of January 2009, the magazine was defunct but the imprint is used to publish their seinen manga series serializing in Young Animal and Young Animal Arashi as well as certain series serializing in Melody.

Three years later on August, they published a new magazine, specialising under the josei genre, Silky that is published on even-numbered months. With that, they created an imprint for Silky{{'}}s series to be published under {{nihongo||レディースコミックス|Ladies' Comics}}. In March 1989, they started publishing a seinen manga magazine called Animal House. Three years after Animal House, they published Moe, a monthly magazine for picture books targeted toward shōjo readers. In May that year, Animal House was renamed to Young Animal and was then published semi-monthly since.

In March 1994, they created another imprint, {{nihongo||白泉社文庫|Hakusensha Bunko}}. This imprint is for publishing manga in the bunkoban format. Moreover, in December 1995, they started publishing another magazine that was published seasonally, {{nihongo||小説花丸|Shōsetsu HanaMaru}} which is targeted toward josei readers.

In January 1996, they created an imprint for {{nihongo||小説花丸|Shōsetsu HanaMaru}}, {{nihongo||花丸コミックス|HanaMaru Comics}}. In July that year, they created {{nihongo||花丸文庫|HanaMaru Bunko}}. In September, they published Melody which publishes on odd-numbered months. On the same month, they moved to {{nihongo||神田淡路町2丁目・白泉社ビル|Kanda-Awajichō Ni-chōme・Hakusensha Biru}}, their present location.

In April 1996, they published LaLa DX on odd-numbered months. The company also began selling their drama CDs under {{nihongo||白泉社CDコレクション|Hakusensha CD Collection}}, abbreviated as HCD.

In June 2001, they published Candy; as of January 2009, the magazine has been discontinued. In May 2005, they changed their special publication of Young Animal Arashi into a monthly publication. In July 2006, Bessatsu Hana to Yume was made a monthly publication. {{nihongo||花丸BLACK|HanaMaru Black}}, a magazine targeted at readers of yaoi genre started its publication in May 2008.

Le Paradis, a manga anthology published triannually published its first issue on October 29, 2008.{{cite web

| title= Hakusensha to Launch Rakuen Anthology in October

| url= http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2009-09-15/hakusensha-to-launch-rakuen-anthology-in-october

| publisher= Anime News Network

| access-date=2009-10-02}}{{cite web

| script-title=ja:新しい恋愛アンソロ｢楽園｣、執筆陣がエクスペリメンタル

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| publisher= Comic Natalie

| access-date=2009-10-02

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Besides publishing, the company releases drama CDs of series under their magazines: {{nihongo||花とゆめシリーズ|Hana to Yume Series}}, {{nihongo||別冊花とゆめシリーズ|Bessatsu Hana to Yume Series}}, {{nihongo||LaLaシリーズ|LaLa Series}}, {{nihongo||ヤングアニマルシリーズ|Young Animal Series}} and {{nihongo||花丸シリーズ|HanaMaru Series}}.

Moreover, they are involved in the productions of games, TV drama, theatrical movies, musicals, radio shows, TV animation and original video animation.

Series under the company can be read through mobile phones in Japan using the following service portals: {{nihongo||白泉社e-コミックス|Hakusensha e-Comics}} and {{nihongo||白泉社花丸文庫|Hakusensha HanaMaru Bunko}}. Hakusensha e-Comics was started in September 2005 and is operated by Hakusensha and CharaWeb.{{cite web

| title = 携帯コミック配信サイト｢白泉社e-コミックス｣をオープン

| url= http://plusd.itmedia.co.jp/mobile/articles/0509/08/news098.html

| language = ja

| access-date = 2009-05-04

| publisher = ITMedia Inc.}} This service is available in two variations and customers will have to pay 315 yen and 512 yen respectively to access this service every month.

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It was announced at the 2009 Tokyo Game Show press conference that Hakusensha and 11 other publishing companies in Japan (such as Kodansha, Shueisha, Shogakukan, Square Enix, publishers associated with Kadokawa Shoten, Bandai Visual and Futabasha) would provide nearly 100 titles of manga to supply the service in PlayStation Store. Hakusensha has yet to provide details of the supplied titles for the service.

This service is only available for Japanese PlayStation Portable consoles and will start in December 2009.{{cite web

| title = Japan's Sony PSP Manga Distribution Service Detailed

| url= http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2009-09-24/japan-sony-psp-manga-distribution-service-detailed

| access-date = 2009-09-25

| publisher = Anime News Network}}{{cite web

|title = PSP｢プレイステーション・ポータブル｣向けコミックコンテンツ配信 PlayStationStoreにて2009年12月開始 配信開始時より国内主要出版社11社によるタイトルラインアップを提供

|url = http://www.scei.co.jp/corporate/release/090924i.html

|language = ja

|access-date = 2009-09-25

|publisher = Sony Computer Entertainment Inc.

|url-status = dead

|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20090928071508/http://www.scei.co.jp/corporate/release/090924i.html

|archive-date = 2009-09-28

}}

• Hana to Yume
• Bessatsu Hana to Yume (defunct)
• The Hana to Yume
• LaLa
• LaLa DX
• Shōnen Jets (defunct)
• Melody
• Silky
• Young Animal
• Young Animal Zero
• Young Animal Arashi (defunct)
• Young Animal Island
• HanaMaru Black
• Le Paradis

Source:{{cite web|title=白泉社 会社案内 – Magazines|url=https://www.hakusensha.co.jp/magazine/|language=ja|access-date=2019-12-14|publisher=Hakusensha}}

• Shōsetsu HanaMaru
• Moe
• Kodomo Moe

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Hakusensha publishes their books and manga under these imprints.{{cite web

|title = 白泉社 会社案内 – Books

|url = http://www.hakusensha.co.jp/corporate/books.html

|language = ja

|access-date = 2009-05-04

|publisher = Hakusensha

|url-status = dead

|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20090403180229/http://www.hakusensha.co.jp/corporate/books.html

|archive-date = 2009-04-03

}}

• Hana to Yume Comics
• Young Animal Comics (formerly known as Jets Comics until June 2016){{cite web|script-title=ja:ジェッツコミックスが名称変更！「ベルセルク」38巻発売＆全巻リニューアル|url=https://natalie.mu/comic/news/182748|website=Natalie|publisher=Natasha, Inc.|access-date=2022-01-26|language=ja|date=2016-04-08|archive-date=2021-04-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210417032342/https://natalie.mu/comic/news/182748|url-status=live}}
• Hakusensha Ladies Comics
• HanaMaru Comics
• Hakusensha Bunko
• HanaMaru Bunko
• HanaMaru Novels
• HanaMaru Black

Hakusensha organizes contests to offer aspiring manga artist a professional debut as well to be affiliated with their magazines.

These contests or awards are {{nihongo||白泉社アテナ新人大賞|Hakusensha Athena Shinjin Taishō|Hakusensha Athena Newcomers' Awards}}, Hana to Yume Mangaka Course (HMC), LaLa Mangaka Scout Course (LMS), LaLa Manga Grand Prix (LMG), and Big Challenge Awards (BC).{{cite web

| script-title=ja:白泉社 投稿作品募集中!!

| url= http://www.hakusensha.co.jp/mangaprize

| language = ja

| access-date = 2009-05-04

| publisher = Hakusensha}}

There was a radio show hosted by voice actor Takehito Koyasu and Atsushi Kisaichi called {{nihongo||子安☆私市の花ゆめチックにLaLaしましょ|Koyasu☆Kisaichi no HanaYume Check ni LaLa Shimasho}} that was broadcast by Nippon Cultural Broadcasting. The show ended in March 2002. It was compiled into two CDs and is sold under Hakusensha's drama CD imprint, Hakusensha CD Collection (HCD).{{cite web

| title =Amazon.co.jp: 花ゆめチックにLaLaしましょ: ドラマ, 子安武人, 私市淳: 音楽|url=https://www.amazon.co.jp/dp/B00005NS3C/

| language = ja

| access-date = 2009-05-05

| publisher = Amazon.co.jp}}{{cite web | title =Amazon.co.jp: HCD 子安☆私市の花ゆめチックにLaLaしましょII: ラジオ・サントラ, 子安武人, 私市淳: 音楽 |url=https://www.amazon.co.jp/dp/B000063L1J/

| language = ja

| access-date = 2009-05-05

| publisher = Amazon.co.jp }}

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• List of manga published by Hakusensha

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