Monthly japanese manga anthology (spelled AFuTaNu-N in Katakana), that pre-releases many popular manga series before they are published in tankoubon (paperback) format, often with colour pages that are b/w in the paperbacks. Priced at 480 Y for about 780 pages of reading material, the magazine is one of the biggest sellers on the japanese monthly manga market.
The readers can vote on their favorite series, ensuring they will run longer and not be replaced by other series.
Series running in Afternoon include but are not limited to:
English Title in parathenses. If someone writes a wu on an Afternoon manga, notify me so I can add it.