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Monthly Comic Rex

Japanese magazine

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 20, 2026
Entity authorityQ910011
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Monthly Comic Rex (月刊 Comic REX, Gekkan Comic REX) is a Japanese shōnen manga magazine published by Ichijinsha. The first issue was sold on December 9, 2005, and is sold monthly on the ninth. Manga collected into bound volumes which were serialized in this magazine are published under Ichijinsha's Rex Comics (REXコミックス, REX Komikkusu) imprint.

The four-panel comic strip magazine Manga 4koma Kings Palette started as a special edition of Comic Rex before becoming an independent magazine, as did the cross-dressing-themed manga magazine Waai!.

Serialized titles

30-sai no Hoken Taiiku

Appli-Trap

Arknights: Operators!

Black Sweep Sisters

Boku ga Josō shite Hīte mitara Baresō na Ken

Bus Gamer

Cylcia=Code

Cynthia the Mission

Dear Emily...

Eden*

Engaged to the Unidentified

Eru Eru Sister

Etrian Odyssey II: Snow Girl

Kaii Ikasama Hakuran Tei

Gakuen Tengoku Paradoxia

Gau Gau Wāta

Gene Cha!

Generation Witch

Gunjin Shōjo, Ōritsu Mahō Gakuen ni Sennyū Suru Koto ni Narimashita. ~Otome Game? Sonna no Kiitemasen kedo?~

Gyakushū!

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