SM Fan SMファン
Tsukasa Shobō's SM magazine launched in 1971, one of the main titles of the 1970s SM boom, with spin-offs that closed in 1985.
SM Fan was an SM magazine published in Tokyo by Tsukasa Shobō. The official Dan Oniroku chronology names it, together with Tokyo Sanseisha’s SM Select, as one of the two magazines launched in 1971 that pushed Dan’s monthly output past 500 manuscript pages. The historian Kawahara Azumi dates its first issue to December 1971.
Kawahara’s chronology of Iida Toyoichi (Nureki Chimuo) shows how closely the magazine was tied to the rope work of the period. Iida published fiction in it from the first issue under several pen names and first tied for one of its bondage photo shoots in July 1972. By 1974 his work notes record about two SM Fan shoots a month, alongside roughly four for SM Select.
The title grew into a small family of magazines. Kawahara records that the spin-offs Bessatsu SM Fan and Shōsetsu SM Fan closed in August and September 1985, a sign, in his reading, that the SM magazine boom was fading. The National Diet Library holds Shōsetsu SM Fan with issues up to 1985. The closing date of the main title is not given in the sources consulted here.