Ribon

Ribon is a monthly Japanese shōjo manga magazine published by Shueisha on the third of each month. First issued in August 1955, its rivals are Nakayoshi and Ciao. Its target audience is girls roughly 8-14 years old.

Pages are printed on multicolored newsprint and issues are often more than 400 pages long. They are distributed with a sackful of goodies (furoku) that range from small toys to colorful note pads themed around the manga serialized in the magazine. Readers can send in stamps for mail order gifts (zen-in) in some issues. Ribon is published on the 3rd of each month.

The manga series from this magazine are later compiled and published in book form (tankōbon) under the Ribon Mascot Comics (RMC) imprint, which included Full Moon o Sagashite.