Genshiken

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Genshiken
Manga volume 1 cover, featuring Mitsunori Kugayama (back), Saki Kasukabe, Kanji Sasahara (down right) and Harunobu Madarame (top right)
げんしけん
Genre	Comedy, slice of life[1]
Manga
Written by	Shimoku Kio
Published by	Kodansha
English publisher	NA: Kodansha USA
Magazine	Monthly Afternoon
Demographic	Seinen
Original run	April 25, 2002 – August 25, 2016
Volumes	21 (List of volumes)
Series titles
Genshiken (2002–2006, 9 volumes) Genshiken: Second Season (2009–2016, 12 volumes)
Anime television series
Directed by	Takashi Ikehata
Produced by	Takaya Ibira Atsushi Yamamori Naoki Sakamoto Kōji Tsukamoto Katsumi Yamaguchi
Written by	Michiko Yokote
Music by	Masanori Takumi
Studio	Palm Studio
Licensed by	NA: Media Blasters
Original network	CTC, TV Saitama, Sun TV, tvk, Kids Station
Original run	October 11, 2004 – December 27, 2004
Episodes	12 (List of episodes)
Original video animation
Directed by	Tsutomu Mizushima
Produced by	Takaya Ibira Naoki Sakamoto Kōji Tsukamoto Ryūichirō Matsuyama
Written by	Michiko Yokote
Music by	Tomoki Hasegawa
Studio	Ajia-do Animation Works
Licensed by	NA: Media Blasters
Released	December 22, 2006 – April 25, 2007
Episodes	3 (List of episodes)
Anime television series
Genshiken 2
Directed by	Kinji Yoshimoto
Produced by	Takaya Ibira Takurō Hatakeyama Tatsuhiro Nitta Osamu Koshinaka Yūsuke Numagi
Written by	Michiko Yokote
Music by	Masaya Koike (4-EVER) Shun Okazaki (4-EVER)
Studio	Arms
Licensed by	NA: AnimeWorks
Original network	CTC, TV Saitama, TV Aichi, tvk, Sun TV, Kids Station
Original run	October 11, 2007 – December 27, 2007
Episodes	12 (List of episodes)
Novel
Genshiken: Return of the Otaku[2] (Shōsetsu Genshiken Hairu Ranto no Yabō ~Return of the OTAKU~)[3]
Written by	Kazutoshi Iida
Illustrated by	Shimoku Kio
Published by	Kodansha
English publisher	NA: Del Rey Books UK: Del Rey Books
Imprint	KC Novels
Demographic	Male
Published	January 21, 2008
Anime television series
Genshiken: Second Generation
Directed by	Tsutomu Mizushima
Produced by	Haruki Hayashi Junichirō Tsuchiya Tooru Kawaguchi
Written by	Michiko Yokote
Music by	Shūichirō Fukuhiro
Studio	Production I.G
Licensed by	NA: NIS America
Original network	Tokyo MX
Original run	July 7, 2013 – September 29, 2013
Episodes	13 (List of episodes)
Related series
Kujibiki Unbalance Kujibiki Unbalance (2006 series)

Genshiken (げんしけん) is a Japanese manga series by Shimoku Kio about a college club for otaku (extremely obsessed fans of various media) and their lifestyle. The title is a shortening of the club's official name, Gendai Shikaku Bunka Kenkyūkai (現代視覚文化研究会), or "The Society for the Study of Modern Visual Culture". The series has also been adapted into an anime directed by Tsutomu Mizushima. The manga originally ran in Kodansha's magazine Monthly Afternoon from April 2002 to May 2006, and has been reprinted in nine bound volumes.

A two-part short bonus story was included across both volumes of the Kujibiki Unbalance manga, published in 2006.

In December 2009, a new chapter was released in Monthly Afternoon to celebrate the release of the Genshiken 2 DVD box-set. In October 2010, the series resumed serialization as Genshiken: Second Season (げんしけん二代目, Genshiken Nidaime, lit. 'Genshiken: Second Generation').^[4]