Lala (magazine)

LaLa

Cover of April 2008 issue featuring Harukanaru Toki no Naka de by Tōko Mizuno
Editor in chief	Ikushū Ichikawa
Categories	Shōjo manga
Frequency	Monthly
Circulation	125,500 (July-September, 2016)
First issue	July 1976
Company	Hakusensha
Country	Japan
Based in	Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo
Language	Japanese
Website	LaLa

LaLa is a monthly Japanese shōjo manga magazine published by Hakusensha. The magazine is published on the 24th of each month. The magazine's bonus content are usually calendars for New Year issues, drama CDs and so on. The magazine was ranked fifth together with Shogakukan's Shōjo Comic and Kodansha's Weekly Shōnen Magazine by Japanese girls as their favorite manga anthology in a survey conducted by Oricon in 2006.

LaLa is the second shōjo manga magazine that Hakusensha published. Series' that are serialized in LaLa is collected into tankōbon under the label, Hana to Yume Comics (花とゆめコミックス^?), together with other Hana to Yume serialized manga. Fanbooks, illustration books for the serialized series’ are published under the Hana to Yume Comics Special (花とゆめコミックススペシャル^?).

Readers of the magazine are 97% female while the other 3% are male readers. Its age demographic consists of 4% percent for under-13 readers, 23.4% for readers aged 13–17, 20% for readers aged 18–20, 13% for readers aged 21–23 while the remaining 29.7% of the readers are aged 24 years old and up. Readers aged 24 and up are the demographic of the highest percentage.

LaLa began its publication in July 1976 as a sister magazine to Hana to Yume as Hana to Yume LaLa (花とゆめ LaLa^?) which was published bi-monthly. The magazine's first publication featured Ryōko Yamagishi's Hana no Seitachi (花の精たち^?) and was priced at 290 yen. The magazine's first editor in chief was Nobumasa Konagai. The current editor in chief is Ikushū Ichikawa.