Comic BonBon

Comic BomBom

Cover of the final issue of Comic BomBom
Categories	Children's manga (elementary school boys)
Frequency	Monthly
First issue	October 1981
Final issue	December 2007
Company	Kodansha
Country	Japan
Language	Japanese

Comic BomBom (コミックボンボン, Komikku Bonbon^?) was a monthly Japanese manga magazine published by Kodansha and targeted at elementary school boys. Each issue had 700+ pages, with 80 of them being full-color advertisements. Similar to its rival CoroCoro Comic, it featured tie-ins with game makers and toy makers but toward the end of its run had less of that.

Comic BomBom was established in 1981. The first issue was published on October 15, 1981. Mobile Suit Gundam was extremely popular at that time. Although the Gundam boom is centered at the higher age group, the fire slowly spread to the lower age group in the form of gunpla and thus it was decided to mainly publish gunpla content. Many popular series were published in Comic BomBom like the SD Gundam series, Rockman series and Medarot series, just to name a few.

In September 1996, Comic BomBom's popularity decline started once the Pokémon Boom began. CoroCoro Comic began to run manga based on popular franchises, such as Mushiking, Pokémon, and Beyblade. Meanwhile, BomBom stuck with Gundam and original manga. BomBom then fell into its Dark Age, with King of Bandit Jing being its most popular manga running.

In June 1997, Comic BomBom skyrocketed out of nowhere and began to rise to its Golden Age, due to the popularity of BomBom's new Medarot and Cyborg Kuro-chan manga. As years flew by, BomBom began to run more original manga than before. The magazine began to include small prizes in every issue. At one point, Comic BomBom's sales began to increase higher than the sales of CoroCoro Comic. But in 2005, sales and popularity began to decline again.