Altima Ace

Altima Ace (アルティマエース), also known as AltimaA, and subtitled "Ultimate Magazine that you are crazy about," is a defunct Japanese manga magazine published by Kadokawa Shoten. Altima Ace was a spinoff sister magazine to Kadokawa Shoten's Young Ace. The first issue was released on October 18, 2011, and was scheduled to publish bimonthly in Japan on the 18th day of even-numbered months, priced at 580 yen.[2][3]

Altima Ace

Issue #3 (March 2012) cover illustrating Biblia Used Bookstore Casebook
Categories	Shōjo[1]
Frequency	Bimonthly
Publisher	Kadokawa Shoten
First issue	October 18, 2011
Final issue	October 18, 2012
Country	Japan
Based in	Tokyo
Language	Japanese
Website	Official site (in Japanese)

On October 18, 2012, after a one-year run, Kadakowa announced that it was ending publication of Altima Ace with the November 2012 issue. A total of seven bimonthly issues were published in all. Five of its continuing manga stories were moved to Monthly Asuka, including Biblia Koshodou no Jiken and Fate/Zero Kuro, and an additional three titles were to be transferred to Young Ace.[4]

Serialized manga

• Bakudan Handan by Otomate and Yamaguch Kyounosuke
• Kami-sama☆Permanent by Jinsei Kataoka and Kazuma Kondou
• Biblia Koshodō no Jiken Techō (Biblia Used Bookstore Casebook) (ビブリア古書堂の事件手帖) by Nakano, based on the light novels by En Mikami
• Baka ga Zenra de Yattekuru by Hiroto Ida
• Busta! by Eiri Iwamoto
• The Intrigues of Koizumi Itsuki-kun by Puyo
• Mahou Shounen no Sodatekata by Yuu Mori
• Fate/Zero Kuro by mendori
• Kangaero by Mayu Taumi

References

1. "君を夢中にさせる究極コミック誌". www.kadokawa.co.jp. Archived from the original on January 31, 2012. Retrieved July 23, 2016.
2. "Kadokawa to Launch Altima Ace Manga Mag in October", Anime News Network
3. "Commentary: AltimaA", Three Steps Over Japan blog (Feb. 2012)
4. "Kadokawa's Altima Ace Magazine to End Publication", Anime News Network