CoroCoro
CoroCoro Comics (Japanese: コロコロ コミック CoroCoro Comics) is a Japanese magazine published by Shogakukan, Inc..
CoroCoro regularly promotes toys and video games related to manga franchises, releasing stories and articles featuring them. Pokémon's big success in Japan owes to this in a way; Pocket Monsters Blue was sold exclusively through the magazine at first. Of course, this helped CoroCoro's sales as well. CoroCoro is also often a source of information about upcoming Pokémon games and movies.
History
The magazine was launched in 1977, aiming at young elementary-school age boys, younger than the age for shōnen readers, which is about teenager age, but then became one of the most popular magazines in Japan. CoroCoro is now currently a monthly manga magazine, along with it's two sister publications, Bessatsu CoroCoro and CoroCoro Ichiban!, which are only released every two months. 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. It also contains Pokemon Manga, having only have missed out on the Red and Blue Manga. However, it has contained Gold and Silver, Ruby and Sapphire, Diamond and Pearl and Platinum.
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 |
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| Yuuki Kawamura | Poliwrath | 
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Series 1 |
| Keita Takahashi | Snorlax | 
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Series 1 |
| Kazuhiko Nishihara | Mewtwo | 
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Series 3 |
External links
- Official CoroCoro site (Japanese)
- CoroCoro Comics on Wikipedia (English)
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