Wangan Midnight

Wangan Midnight
	First tankōbon volume cover, featuring Akio Asakura and the Devil Z
湾岸ミッドナイト; (Wangan Middonaito)
Genre	Sports (highway racing)
Manga
Written by	Michiharu Kusunoki
Published by	Shogakukan; Kodansha;
Magazine	Big Comic Spirits; (1990); Weekly Young Magazine; (1992–2008);
Demographic	Seinen
Original run	1990 – 2008
Volumes	42
Anime television series
Directed by	Tsuneo Tominaga
Studio	A.C.G.T
Original network	Animax
Original run	June 8, 2007 – September 13, 2008
Episodes	26
Manga
Wangan Midnight: C1 Runner
Written by	Michiharu Kusunoki
Published by	Kodansha
Magazine	Weekly Young Magazine
Demographic	Seinen
Original run	August 4, 2008 – July 9, 2012
Volumes	12
Manga
Ginkai no Speed Star
Written by	Michiharu Kusunoki
Published by	Shogakukan
Magazine	Big Comic Spirits
Demographic	Seinen
Original run	August 11, 2014 – April 13, 2015
Volumes	2
Manga
Shutoko SPL - Ginkai no Speedster
Written by	Michiharu Kusunoki
Published by	Kodansha
Magazine	Monthly Young Magazine
Demographic	Seinen
Original run	September 20, 2016 – present
Volumes	10

Wangan Midnight (Japanese: 湾岸ミッドナイト, Hepburn: Wangan Middonaito) is a Japanese racing manga series written and illustrated by Michiharu Kusunoki. It was first serialized in Shogakukan's Big Comic Spirits in 1990, but was later serialized in Kodansha's Weekly Young Magazine from 1992 to 2008. The manga was compiled into 42 volumes published by Kodansha. A second manga series titled Wangan Midnight: C1 Runner was published from 2008 to 2012. A third manga series, Ginkai no Speed Star, was published from 2014 to 2015. A fourth manga series, Shutoko SPL - Ginkai no Speedster, started in 2016.

The series has been adapted into several live action feature films, video games, and an anime television series. The anime was broadcast in Japan from June 2007 to September 2008 on the anime satellite television network Animax, animated by A.C.G.T and produced by OB Planning.

In 1999, Wangan Midnight won the Kodansha Manga Award for the General category.

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