Weekly Shōnen Magazine

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Weekly Shōnen Magazine

2008 Issue 34 of Weekly Shonen Magazine
Categories	Shōnen manga
Frequency	Weekly
Publisher	Kodansha
First issue	1959
Country	Japan
Language	Japanese
Website	Shōnen Magazine

Weekly Shōnen Magazine (週刊少年マガジン, Shūkan Shōnen Magajin^?), also known as Shōnen Magazine, is a shōnen manga magazine published by Kodansha, first published on 17 March 1959. Despite some unusual censorship policies (until just recently, it was one of the only shōnen magazines to forbid the depiction of female nipples), its audience tends to skew older with some more mature works and a large portion of its reading population falling under the male high school or college student demographic.

Contents 1 Currently Running Manga Series 2 Popular works in Shōnen Magazine 2.1 1960s 2.2 1970s 2.3 1980s 2.4 1990s 2.5 2000s 3 Other recent serialized works 4 Magazine vs. Jump 5 50th Anniversary Celebration 6 International Version 7 See also 8 External links 9 References

[edit] Currently Running Manga Series

Italics: Manga published in the United States

• Ahiru no Sora
• Air Gear
• Area no Kishi
• Baby Steps
• Brass Boy
• Cage of Eden
• Code: Breaker
• Daikusei Kuuki Heishidan
• Daiya no A
• Fairy Tail
• Gamaran
• GodHand Teru
• Great Teacher Onizuka: Shonan 14 Days
• Hajime no Ippo
• Kimi no Iru Machi
• Kinda'ichi Shōnen no Jikenbo
• Mahō Sensei Negima
• Mō Shimasen Kara
• Namiuchigiwa no Muromi-san
• Sayonara Zetsubō Sensei
• Seito Kaiyakuin Domo
• Shibatora
• Shinyaku "Kyojin no Hoshi" Hanagata
• Smash!!
• Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle
• Yankee-kun to Megane-chan
• Zerosen

[edit] Popular works in Shōnen Magazine

• Notable works in Bold.

[edit] 1960s

• Shiden-kai no Taka (1963–1965, Tetsuya Chiba)
• Eightman (1963–1966)
• Daisuke-chan (1963–1967, Yoshio Surugu)
• W3 (1965) *Only six episodes. Shōnen Magazine was insulated with Osamu Tezuka for about ten years because of this work.
• Makaroni Boy (1966–1969, Yoshio Surugu)
• Cyborg 009 (1966) *only episode 2
• Tensai Bakabon (1967–1976, Fujio Akatsuka)
• GeGeGe no Kitarō (1966–1971)
• Ashita No Joe (1968–1973)
• Kyojin no Hoshi (1966–1971, Ikki Kajiwara, Noboru Kawasaki)

[edit] 1970s

• Kamen Rider (1971)
• Tiger Mask (1971, Ikki Kajiwara, Naoki Tsuji)
• Karate Baka Ichidai (1971–1977, Ikki Kajiwara, Jiro Tsunoda, Jouya Kagemaru)
• Devilman (1972–1973)
• Nonsense No.13 (1972–1975, Yoshio Surugu) *Originally published in Bessatsu Shōnen Magazine
• Violence Jack (1973–1974, Go Nagai)
• Tsurikiti Sanpei (1973–1983, Takao Yaguchi)
• Mitsume ga Tōru (1974–1978, Osamu Tezuka)
• Shōnen Jidai (1978–1979, Fujiko Fujio A.)

[edit] 1980s

• Kotaro Makaritoru (1982–2001) *The title was changed to Shin - in 1995.
• Bari Bari Densetsu (1983–1991)
• Parotto Ikka (1983–1986, Yoshio Surugu) *Originally and also serialized in Bessatsu Shōnen Magazine
• Mr. Ajikko (1986–1989, Daisuke Terasawa)
• Meimon! Daisan-yakyūbu (1987–1993)

[edit] 1990s

• Shonan Junai Gumi (1990–1996)
• Boys Be... (1991–2001)
• Kindaichi Case Files (1992–2000)
• Gyagu Waarudo 1990 (1993–1995, Yoshio Surugu)
• A.I. Love You (1993–1998, Ken Akamatsu)
• Chūka Ichiban (1997–1999, Etsushi Ogawa) *moved to Magazine Special, and returned to Shōnen Magazine again
• Love Hina (1998–2001, Ken Akamatsu)
• GetBackers (1999–2007)
• Great Teacher Onizuka (1997–2002)
• Samurai Deeper Kyo (1999–2006)
• Rave Master (1998–2005)

[edit] 2000s

• Sakigake!! Cromartie High School (2000–2004)
• Detective School Q (2001–2005)
• School Rumble (2002-2008)
• Suzuka (2004–2007)
• Koma Koma (2005–)
• Kenkō Zenrakei Suieibu Umishō (2005 - 2008)
• Over Drive (2005 - 2008)
• Bloody Monday (2007 – 2009)

[edit] Other recent serialized works

• AI ga Tomaranai (1994) *moved to Magazine Special
• Pastel (2002-2003) *moved to Magazine Special

[edit] Magazine vs. Jump

The Weekly Shōnen Magazine increased sales in the 1970s, and became the top selling manga magazine in Japan at that time. But the position was later occupied by the Weekly Shōnen Jump in 1974. The biggest "golden age" of Shōnen Jump began and continued for a long time. In the middle of the 1990s, Shōnen Jump suffered the loss of Dragon Ball and entered a "Dark Age". As a result of this, the Shōnen Magazine made a comeback in October 1997, regaining its position as the leader in terms of sales.

Currently, Shōnen Magazine is second due to Shōnen Jump's return to the top in 2002.

However, sales of the two magazines remain very close.

[edit] 50th Anniversary Celebration

In a rare event due to the closeness of the two magazine's founding dates, Weekly Shōnen Magazine and Weekly Shōnen Sunday released a special combined issue on March 19, 2008. In addition, other commemorative events, merchandise, and manga crossovers were planned for the following year as part of the celebrations.^[1]

[edit] International Version

• Shonen Magz - Indonesia

[edit] See also

• List of manga magazines

[edit] External links

• Magazine Website (in Japanese)

[edit] References

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