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About Sabra

Sabra (サブラ) is a Japanese magazine published bi-weekly by Shogakukan. Started on May 25th 2000, at only 230 yen.

Shogakukan is a Japanese publisher of dictionaries, literature, manga, nonfiction, children's DVDs, and other media in Japan.

Shogakukan founded Shueisha which founded Hakusensha. These are three separate companies, but are together called the Hitotsubashi group, one of the biggest publishing groups in Japan. Shogakukan is located at Hitotsubashi, Chiyoda, Tokyo, and the other two companies are located in the same ward.

Compared to occidental magazines, it closely resembles Maxim and FHM, featuring articles on sports, fashion, technology, cars and girls.

Compared to other similar Japanese magazines, Sabra features a lot more articles and editorials than other magazines like Up to Boy. No nudity is portrayed and it can be sold on eBay or grocery stores, unlike Urecco or Bejean. Also, the format is adequate because it is not as small as Bomb magazine.

With an average price of 500 yen, it may be a little expensive, but paper quality and the Sabra DVD included on each edition make up for the steep price.

It's target audience is young men and it features gravure idols and Japanese models in sexy pictorials with no nudity whatsoever.

Among the models published are famous Japanese girls such as Yuko Ogura, Megumi, Yoko Matsugane, Yinling of Joytoy, Aki Hoshino, Yoko Kumada, Jun Natsukawa, Misako Yasuda, Sakaya Isoyama and many more.

In my country, Mexico, it's impossible to find Sabra magazine. Thankfully, on the internet and eBay it's possible to obtain the current issue and back issues of the magazine.

Special editions

Sabra publishes also special edition books (or mooks, a magazine/book), which feature a model or models excusably with no advertising. This are more expensive (around 2000 yen) but the paper quality is superb and most recent editions include now a making of DVD.

 Another type of special edition is the Very Best/Girls Excellent collection. This type of special edition compiles the best pictorials of the year, featuring the most famous Sabra idols. This type of mook is the best choice if you can't obtain every regular issue.

About the Fanlisting

This fanlisting is to honor the existence of such a great magazine, full of quality and showing the world that Japan is a great country.

If you feel this way, don't hesitate to join this fanlisting, where we will be posting information regarding the magazine and it's idols.

For copyright purposes, all content is owned by Shogakukan, this is not a Shogakukan sanctioned website and there is absolutely no connection between Shogakukan and yours truly.