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Animerica Extra
Animerica Extra was a monthly manga anthology magazine released by Viz Media. The magazine got it's start in 1998 and started out with four series, which were a mixture of both shojo (Fushigi Yuugi and X/1999) and shonen (Steam Detectives and Video Girl Ai) comics.
In December 2002, Yoshida Akimi's Banana Fish was added to the line up, after Viz's PULP adult orientated magazine ended, where it originally ran.
In 2003, after a lot of the magazine's series were finishing up their runs, Viz decided to make Animerica Extra a shojo only magazine. The last issue featuring both genre's was December 2003, and during that issue, Marionette Generation, Shoujo Kakumei Utena, and Short Program 2 finished up. It's unfinished shonen series: Steam Detectives and Video Girl Ai, were moved to graphic-novel-only format. Not long after this change, the magazine was cancelled, with the last issue being December 2004. All of it's remaining series were then moved to graphic-novel-only format.
Series
Current
These were the series that were still running at the time the magazine ended.
- Banana Fish by Yoshida Akimi (added January 2002)
- Fushigi Yuugi by Watase Yuu (started January 1998)
- SOS by Ashihara Hiruko (started July 2004)
- Times Two by Akira Shouko (started July 2004)
Former
- Chicago by Tamura Yumi (started January 2002; finished March 2003)
- Marionette Generation by Mikimoto Haruhiko (started March 2000; finished December 2003)
- Revolutionary Girl Utena by Saito Chiho (started May 2001; finished December 2003)
- Revolutionary Girl Utena: Adolescence of Utena (started January 2004; finished June 2004)
- Short Program by Adachi Mitsuru (started February 1999; finished December 1999)
- Short Program 2 by Adachi Mitsuru (started January 2004; finished December 2003)
- Steam Detectives by Asamiya Kia (started January 1998; left December 2003 and moved to graphic-novels format)
- Video Girl Ai by Katsura Masakazu (started January 1998; left December 2003 and moved to graphic-novels format)
- WILD COM by Tamura Yumi (started January 2004; finished June 2004)
- X/1999 by CLAMP (started January 1998; left April 2001 and moved to graphic-novels format)
