Kreko Komik Remaja, usually referred to as Kreko, is a Malaysian manga magazine which publishes chapters of manga

Manga

Manga is the Japanese word for "comics" and consists of comics and print cartoons . In the West, the term "manga" has been appropriated to refer specifically to comics created in Japan, or by Japanese authors, in the Japanese language and conforming to the style developed in Japan in the late 19th...

 and occasionally manhwa

Manhwa

Manhwa is the general Korean term for comics and print cartoons . Outside of Korea, the term usually refers specifically to South Korean comics. The term, along with manga, is a cognate of the Chinese manhua...

, translated into Bahasa Malaysia. It is published three times a month - on the 1st, 11th and 21st day respectively (now in 2010 - every week). Its recommended retail price (RRP) is RM 4.00 (now in 2010 - RM 3.70) unless there is a "bumper" or special edition issue which has more pages, leading to a higher priced release. The magazine is published by Comics Media, who also publishes other similar manga magazines such as Arena Komik

Arena Komik

Arena Komik, usually referred to as Arena, is one of the Malaysian manga magazine which publishes chapters on manga translated in Malay. It is published 2 times a month - on the 5th and 20th day. The magazine is published by Superior Comics, who also publish other similar manga magazines, such as...

, Comics Weekly (in Chinese

Standard Mandarin

Standard Chinese or Modern Standard Chinese, also known as Mandarin or Putonghua, is the official language of the People's Republic of China and Republic of China , and is one of the four official languages of Singapore....

) and Manga Boom. Since Manga Boom stopped its publication on the 6th issue, the manga serialized in Manga Boom have instead been brought over to Arena Komik and Kreko.

Besides the manga (which makes up the bulk of the magazine), Kreko also has some articles about anime

Anime

is the Japanese abbreviated pronunciation of "animation". The definition sometimes changes depending on the context. In English-speaking countries, the term most commonly refers to Japanese animated cartoons....

, Japanese artists, Japanese culture, information about Gundam figurines

Figurines

Figurines is an indie rock band from Denmark, formed in the mid-1990s. The band released their first EP, The Detour, in 2001 and their first full-length album, Shake a Mountain, in 2004. The band began to receive national attention in Denmark around the time of the full-length release, and began...

, information about latest movies, as well as news about video games. There is also a section showcasing the art of readers, readers-album-foto and MMS, and reader-contributed comic strips.

Manga serialized in Komik Remaja (Past and Present)

A

• Akira
  Akira (manga)
  is a manga series by Katsuhiro Otomo. Set in a post-apocalyptic Neo-Tokyo, the work uses conventions of the cyberpunk genre to detail a saga of turmoil. Initially serialized in the pages of Young Magazine from 1982 until 1990, the work was collected in six volumes by Japanese publisher Kodansha...
  
  
• Angelic Layer
  Angelic Layer
  is a manga series released by Clamp. The manga is published in Japan by Kadokawa Shoten, and in English originally by Tokyopop, but has since been re-licensed by Dark Horse Comics. It is the group's first work to use a quite different art style unseen in any other CLAMP series, which uses a more...
  
  
• Arago
  Arago
  Arago may refer to:Astronomy*Arago , a crater on Mars*Arago , a crater on the moonFiction* Arago, a character in Ronin Warriors; see Talpa People*Aragó, a family name...
  
  
• (psyren)
• (naruto)
• (fairy tail)
• (high school of the dead)
• (until death do us apart)
• (kekkaishi)

B

• Bakuman
  Bakuman
  Bakuman, stylized as , is a shōnen manga written by Tsugumi Ohba and illustrated by Takeshi Obata, the same creative team responsible for Death Note...
  
  
• Batman: Child of Dreams
  Batman: Child of Dreams
  Batman: Child of Dreams is a manga series written and illustrated by Kia Asamiya, published in Kodansha's Magazine Z. The series follows Batman as he travels to Tokyo on the trail of a lethal drug that allows the person who ingests it to shapeshift into anyone they desire.Child of Dreams was...
  
  
• Battle Royale
  Battle Royale (manga)
  is a serialized manga, written by Koushun Takami and Masayuki Taguchi. It is based on the novel of the same name, and was published in Japan by Akita Publishing. The manga consists of 15 volumes and is distributed in English by Tokyopop. There is a second manga called Battle Royale II: Blitz Royale...
  
  
• Blade of the Immortal
  Blade of the Immortal
  is a Japanese manga series by Hiroaki Samura. The series won an Excellence Prize at the 1997 Japan Media Arts Festival and the Will Eisner Comic Industry Award in 2000 for Best U.S. Edition of Foreign Material...
  
  
• Bleach
  Bleach (manga)
  is a Japanese shōnen manga series written and illustrated by Noriaki "Tite" Kubo. Bleach follows the adventures of Ichigo Kurosaki after he obtains the powers of a —a death personification similar to the Grim Reaper—from another Soul Reaper, Rukia Kuchiki...
  
  
• Blue Dragon Ral Grado
• Brave Monkeys
  Tokihiko Matsuura
  is a Japanese manga artist from Mie prefecture. He has published his works in a number of Shogakukan manga magazines, including Shonen Sunday, Young Sunday, and Big Comic Superior....
  
  
• Bremen
  Haruto Umezawa
  is a Japanese manga artist. Umezawa is best known for the manga series Hareluya II Bøy and Bremen. He was also a former assistant to Tsukasa Hojo.-Works:*Sakenomi☆Dōji *Hareluya...
  
   (Serialized as Free Men)
• Blazer Drive
  Blazer Drive
  is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Seishi Kishimoto, creator of O-Parts Hunter, and is published in the new Monthly Shōnen Rival. Sega also developed a Nintendo DS game using a parallel story.-Plot:...
  
  
• Bullet
  Bullet
  A bullet is a projectile propelled by a firearm, sling, or air gun. Bullets do not normally contain explosives, but damage the intended target by impact and penetration...
  
  

D

• Death Note
  Death Note
  is a manga created by writer Tsugumi Ohba and manga artist Takeshi Obata. The main character is Light Yagami, a high school student who discovers a supernatural notebook, the "Death Note", dropped on Earth by a god of death, or a shinigami, named Ryuk...
  
  
• Double Arts
  Naoshi Komi
  is a male Japanese manga artist who resides in Japan. Komi's stories have regularly debuted in Shōnen Jump magazine and its affiliates, Jump being one of the most popular manga magazines in Japan. Due to Jump's restrictive selection process many of Komi's submissions to the magazine haven't...
  
  
• Dragon Head
  Dragon Head
  is a post-apocalyptic disaster manga by Minetaro Mochizuki. It was published by Kodansha in Young Magazine from 1995 and 2000 and collected in ten tankōbon volumes. It is licensed in English by Tokyopop, with Volume 10 released 2008-04-01...
  
  
• Dragonaut -The Resonance-
  Dragonaut -The Resonance-
  is an anime series directed by Manabu Ono and co-produced by Gonzo and Nihon Ad Systems . The series ran on the Japanese network TV Tokyo between October 3, 2007 and March 26, 2008...
  
  
• Doubt
  Doubt (manga)
  , also known as , is a shōnen horror manga written and illustrated by Yoshiki Tonogai. The series focuses on the "Rabbit Doubt" cell phone game, with rules similar to Mafia. The players must find the wolf, or killer, amongst their group of rabbits as they are picked off one-by-one...
  
  

F

• Fairy Tail
  Fairy Tail
  is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Hiro Mashima. It has been serialized in Weekly Shōnen Magazine since August 23, 2006, and has been published by Kodansha in 29 tankōbon volumes . An ongoing anime produced by A-1 Pictures and Satelight was released in Japan on October 12, 2009,...
  
  
• Firefighter! Daigo of Fire Company M
  Firefighter! Daigo of Fire Company M
  is a shōnen manga by Masahito Soda. The manga has been released in its entirety by Viz Media in the United States. In 1996, it received the Shogakukan Manga Award for shōnen.-Plot:...
  
   (Serialized as Kisah Ahli Bomba)
• Fullmetal Alchemist
  Fullmetal Alchemist
  , is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Hiromu Arakawa. The world of Fullmetal Alchemist is styled after the European Industrial Revolution...
  
  
• Future Diary

G

• Gantz
  Gantz
  is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Hiroya Oku. Gantz tells the story of Kei Kurono and his friend Masaru Kato who die in a train accident and become part of a semi-posthumous "game" in which they and several other recently deceased people are forced to hunt down and kill aliens...
  
  
• Gedou the Unidentified Mysterious Boy
  Takeshi Okano
  is a Japanese manga artist known both for his own works as well as being the collaborative artist with manga writers such as Shou Makura and Tatsuya Hamazaki.Okano made his manga debut with Shueisha in 1987 with the one shot...
  
  
• Goal Den Age
• Gon
  Gon (manga)
  Gon is a tiny fictional dinosaur and the title character of a Japanese manga series created by Masashi Tanaka. The Gon series features the completely wordless adventures of the irascible title character as he interacts with the natural world, depicted by Tanaka in lush, realistic detail...
  
  
• Gun Blaze West
  Gun Blaze West
  is a manga series by Nobuhiro Watsuki and published in Shueisha's Weekly Shōnen Jump in 2001. The story follows Viu Bannes, a young gunfighter on his journey towards a Gun Blaze West, the place where the greatest gunmen go to test their strength....
  
  
• Gyo
  Gyo
  is a horror manga by Junji Ito. It also includes a pair of bonus stories, titled The Enigma of Amigara Fault and The Sad Tale of the Principal Post...
  
   (Serialized as Ikan)

H

• Hana Yori Dango (Serialized as Meteor Garden)
• Hareluya II Bøy
  Haruto Umezawa
  is a Japanese manga artist. Umezawa is best known for the manga series Hareluya II Bøy and Bremen. He was also a former assistant to Tsukasa Hojo.-Works:*Sakenomi☆Dōji *Hareluya...
  
  
• Hell Teacher Nūbē
  Hell Teacher Nube
  is a horror-comedy manga created by the collaborative efforts of writer and artist Takeshi Okano in Shueisha's manga anthology book Weekly Shōnen Jump. The series ran for 276 chapters from Issue 38, 1993 through Issue 24, 1999...
  
   (Serialized as Pesuruh Keadilan Neraka)

J

• Jesus
  Yoshihide Fujiwara
  is a Japanese manga artist. Fujiwara first came to attention by winning the 1984 Shogakukan New Artist Award for Maris. He worked as Ryoichi Ikegami's assistant until 1986, and his artistic style closely resembles that of his master....
  
   (Serialized as Pembunuh Tempahan Jesus)
• Joker
• Jumbor Barutronica

M

• Magician²
  Takeshi Okano
  is a Japanese manga artist known both for his own works as well as being the collaborative artist with manga writers such as Shou Makura and Tatsuya Hamazaki.Okano made his manga debut with Shueisha in 1987 with the one shot...
  
  
• Majin Tantei Nōgami Neuro
• Mamejiro
  Akira Toriyama
  is a Japanese manga artist and game artist known mostly for his creation of Dragon Ball in 1984. Toriyama admires Osamu Tezuka's Astro Boy and was impressed by Walt Disney's One Hundred and One Dalmatians, which he remembers for the great art...
  
   (One-shot)
• MÄR
  MÄR
  , an acronym for Märchen Awakens Romance, is a manga series written and illustrated by Nobuyuki Anzai. The television anime based on the series is titled and was originally broadcast in Japan on the TXN station....
  
  
• MÄR Omega
  MÄR Omega
  is a sequel to MÄR, a popular manga series by Nobuyuki Anzai. The manga was drawn by Kōichirō Hoshino, an assistant of Nobuyuki Anzai. It was started in September 2006, several months after MÄR ended. It used to run in Shōnen Sunday in Japan, published by Shogakukan...
  
  
• Mobile Suit Gundam: The Origin
  Mobile Suit Gundam: The Origin
  Mobile Suit Gundam: THE ORIGIN is a manga adaptation of the television anime series Mobile Suit Gundam written and illustrated by Yoshikazu Yasuhiko, the original series' character designer...
  
  
• Mobile Suit Gundam Seed Astray R
• Muhyo and Roji's Bureau of Supernatural Investigation
  Muhyo and Roji's Bureau of Supernatural Investigation
  is a manga series by Yoshiyuki Nishi. The series premiered in Japan in Weekly Shōnen Jump in December 2004, and ran until its conclusion in March 2008. It follows a young genius Magical Law Executor, Toru Muhyo and his assistant, Jiro Kusano as they track and find ghosts, then send the spirits to...
  
   (Serialized as Firma Undang-Undang Sihir)
• Monster
  Monster (manga)
  is a seinen manga written and illustrated by Naoki Urasawa, published by Shogakukan in Big Comic Original between 1994 and 2001, and reprinted in 18 tankōbon volumes. It was adapted by Madhouse as a 74-episode anime TV series, which aired on NTV from April 7, 2004 to September 28, 2005...
  
  

N

• Naruto
• Ningen Kyoki Katsuo (Serialized as Senjata Alam Manusia)

P

• Pink
  Pink (manga)
  is a one-shot Japanese manga written and illustrated by Akira Toriyama that originally appeared in Shueisha magazine V Jump in December 1982. It would later be featured in Akira Toriyama's Manga Theater Vol. 2 in 1988...
  
   (One-shot)
• Pokémon: The Electric Tale of Pikachu (Serialized as Pocket Monsters)
• Pokémon Gold & Silver: The Golden Boys (Serialized as Pocket Monsters Gold & Silver)
• Project ARMS
  Project ARMS
  is an anime and manga series that is heavily influenced by Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. The series is created by Kyoichi Nanatsuki and Ryoji Minagawa. In 1999, the manga received the Shogakukan Manga Award for shōnen....
  
  

S

• Saint Seiya
  Saint Seiya
  , also known as Saint Seiya: Knights of the Zodiac or simply Knights of the Zodiac, is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Masami Kurumada and serialized in Weekly Shōnen Jump from 1986 to 1991, and adapted into an anime TV series by Toei Animation from 1986 to 1989.The story follows...
  
  
• Saiyuki
• Saiyuki Reload
• Sakuratetsu Taiwahen
  Ryu Fujisaki
  is a Japanese manga artist born in Mutsu, Aomori Prefecture.He won the 39th and the 40th Tezuka Award. He made his professional manga debut with WORLDS in 1990. All of his works are published by Shueisha under their Shōnen Jump labels. He has also illustrated three light novels and released two...
  
   (Serialized as Fantasia Sakura Tetsu)
• Samurai Deeper Kyo
  Samurai Deeper Kyo
  is a manga series written and illustrated by Akimine Kamijyo. The manga was serialized from October 15, 1999 to May 10, 2006 in Kodansha's Weekly Shōnen Magazine, and collected over 38 volumes....
  
  
• Sand Land
  Sand Land
  is a short manga series authored by Akira Toriyama that appeared in Weekly Shōnen Jump magazine during the summer of 2000.After Sand Land completed its run, all fourteen chapters were collected into a single tankōbon that was released on November 11, 2000...
  
  
• Soul Eater
  Soul Eater (manga)
  is a Japanese manga written and illustrated by Atsushi Ōkubo. Set at the "Death Weapon Meister Academy," the series revolves around three teams consisting of a weapon meister and human weapon...
  
  
• Spriggan
  Spriggan (manga)
  is a manga series written by Hiroshi Takashige and illustrated by Ryōji Minagawa during the early 1990s. It was initially released as Striker in the North American English translation, as it is the English translation of the word Spriggan from Celtic.Spriggan takes places in the last years of the...
  
  
• Steamboy
  Steamboy
  is a 2004 Japanese animated steampunk film, produced by Sunrise, and directed and co-written by Katsuhiro Otomo, his second major anime release, following Akira. The film was released in Japan on July 17, 2004. Steamboy is the most expensive full length Japanese animated movie made to date...
  
  
• Super Yo-Yo
  Takashi Hashiguchi
  is a Japanese manga artist. He is best known for his manga series Yakitate!! Japan, for which he won the Shogakukan Manga Award for shōnen in 2004...
  
   (Serialized as Yoyo Terpantas)
• Sword Breaker
  Haruto Umezawa
  is a Japanese manga artist. Umezawa is best known for the manga series Hareluya II Bøy and Bremen. He was also a former assistant to Tsukasa Hojo.-Works:*Sakenomi☆Dōji *Hareluya...
  
  

T

• Tribal 12
• Tsurikkies Pintarou
  Takeshi Okano
  is a Japanese manga artist known both for his own works as well as being the collaborative artist with manga writers such as Shou Makura and Tatsuya Hamazaki.Okano made his manga debut with Shueisha in 1987 with the one shot...
  
   (Serialized as Pancingan Ajaib)
• Toriko
• Tripeace

U

• Ushio and Tora
  Ushio and Tora
  is a yōkai manga by Kazuhiro Fujita. It received the Shogakukan Manga Award for shōnen in 1992. It was adapted into three OVA series: one with six episodes released from September 11, 1992 to February 1, 1993; one with four episodes released from June 11, 1993 to August 1, 1993; and one single...
  
   (Serialized as Shiao Dengan Sang Harimau)
• Uzumaki
  Uzumaki
  is a horror manga written and Illustrated by Junji Ito, and serialized in Shogakukan's Big Comic Spirits.The story concerns the inhabitants of the small Japanese town of Kurôzu-cho as they become obsessed by the occurrences of natural and artificial spirals around them...
  
  (Serialized as Pusaran Puaka)

Controversy

However, there is a speculation that the Manga published in Kreko Komik Remaja do not have official authorization for re-publishing from the original Japan publishers and magazine they were taken from (mostly JUMP).