Opera (manga magazine)


Opera is a quarterly Japanese manga magazine that publishes yaoi manga. The magazine is published by Akane Shinsha, which launched Opera in 2015 as a successor to its earlier quarterly yaoi anthology magazine Edge. Notable titles serialized in Opera include Classmates, Go For It, Nakamura!, and the yaoi works of Natsume Ono.

History

The first issue of Opera was published on December 15, 2005. The magazine is a successor to Edge, Akane Shinsha's previous quarterly yaoi magazine that ran from May 2004 to April 2005; titles serialized in Opera are published as tankōbon volumes by Akane Shinsha under their Edge Comix imprint. New issues of Opera are published on a quarterly basis.
In 2018, Opera opened a pop-up cafe in Harajuku, Tokyo featuring original merchandise and menu items inspired by titles serialized in the magazine. The cafe operated from March 16 to April 8, 2018. A second pop-up cafe opened in Ikebukuro, Tokyo in 2019.

Serializations

The following are among the titles that have been serialized in Opera: