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CoroCoro Comics (Japanese: コロコロ コミック CoroCoro Comics) is a Japanese magazine published by Shogakukan, Inc.. It first launched in 1977.

CoroCoro is a monthly manga magazine aimed at young elementary-school age boys, younger than the age for shōnen readers, which is about teenager age. It is known as a source for Pokémon news, as many announcements pertaining to both the Pokémon anime and Pokémon games come to fans by way of the magazine.

In addition to Pokémon, other popular CoroCoro comics include Doraemon, Donkey Kong, Kirby, and Beyblade. The name comes from a phenomime korokoro (ころころ) representing something spherical, fat, or small, because children supposedly like such things. The magazine is A5-sized, about 6 cm (2¼ in) thick, and often more than 800 pages in length, so it is pretty korokoro itself.

The magazine has two sisters: Bessatsu CoroCoro and CoroCoro Ichiban!. Both are bi-monthly

History

The magazine was launched in 1977 as a magazine for Doraemon, which is one of the most popular manga in Japan. Before then Doraemon had been serialized on 6 magazines of Shogakukan, each magazine is targeted to students of 6 elementary school grades. It collected stories of Doraemon from these magazines.

CoroCoro Pokémon Illustration Contest

In late 1997, CoroCoro held an Illustration Contest, in which the top three illustrators had their artwork featured as one of the Vending Machine cards.

Winner	Card	Type	Rarity	Series
Yuuki Kawamura	Poliwrath			Series 1
Keita Takahashi	Snorlax			Series 1
Kazuhiko Nishihara	Mewtwo			Series 3

See also

• Official CoroCoro site (Japanese)
• CoroCoro Comics on Wikipedia (English)

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