Hobby Japan

Hobby Japan is a Japanese publishing company which specializes in hobby and craft-related books and magazines as well as figures and other forms of merchandise for popular manga and anime franchises.

Hobby Japan’s main publication is Monthly Hobby Japan which provides all the latest from the hobbyist world as well as a selection of how-to articles. The company also publishes two military-themed magazines in the form of Monthly Arms Magazine and Monthly Gun Professionals which are both geared toward firearms, as well as the relatively new cosplay magazine Cosplay Japan.

Hobby Japan also publishes light novels under the HJ Bunko imprint as well as a manga magazine, Dangan Comics, and a selection of books and mooks including the Gundam Weapons series, Model Works series, and the Gunpla Catalogue.

A few original series have even been born in the pages of Hobby Japan including Queen’s Blade, Hyakka Ryoran, Demon King Daimao, and The Seven Deadly Sins.