Monthly Famitsu Bros(JP)
(Local Name - 月刊ファミ通ブロス) It was launched as an independent publication from the August 1995 issue. As it was a "sister magazine of Famitsu," it was named " Monthly Famitsu Bros. " Around this time, it strengthened its independence from the main Famitsu magazine, and began to adopt an aggressive media mix strategy, such as publishing its own strategy guides under the "Famitsu Bros." label and original trading cards in the "Famitsu Bros. Trading Card Series.
The January 1998 issue saw a complete redesign of the magazine, switching from game information articles such as walkthroughs that had been featured since the magazine's launch to a manga magazine aimed at younger audiences, mainly elementary and junior high school students. In 2000 , due to a group reorganization, the publisher moved from ASCII to Enterbrain.
While it mainly serialized manga works based on computer games from various companies, it also took a media mix approach led by the magazine, based on original works and Famitsu Bunko light novels , and two of its original serialized titles, " Jibaku-kun " and " Time Detective Genshi-kun ", were made into TV anime . However, it did not grow to be a threat to rival magazines such as Shogakukan 's " Monthly CoroCoro Comic ", and ceased publication with the September 2002 issue.
