Allan (magazine)

Allan

Cover of the first standalone issue of Allan
Frequency	Bimonthly
Publisher	Minori Shobo [ja]
First issue	October 1980
Final issue	February 1984
Country	Japan
Language	Japanese

Allan (Japanese: アラン, stylized in all caps) was a Japanese magazine published by Minori Shobo [ja]. Launched in October 1980 as a special issue of the anime magazine Gekkan Out [ja], it became a standalone publication in June 1983, and was discontinued in February 1984.

Allan was one of the earliest commercial publications in Japan to focus on male-male romance for a female audience, and was centered on the concept of tanbi (lit. 'aestheticism'). It launched at a time when June, the first commercial male-male romance magazine for a female audience in Japan (and which was also centered on the concept of tanbi), had temporarily ceased publication. Several artists and writers that contributed to June, including Yasuko Aoike and Akemi Matsuzaki [ja], also contributed to Allan.