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Weekly Shōnen Sunday
Japanese manga magazine
Japanese manga magazine
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| title | Weekly Shōnen Sunday |
| logo | Weekly Shonen Sunday logo.png |
| image_file | Shonensunday.jpg |
| image_caption | 1984 Vol. 40 featuring *Urusei Yatsura* on the cover |
| editor | Kazunori Oshima |
| previous_editor | Takenori Ichihara |
| category | ja manga |
| frequency | Weekly |
| circulation | 125,000 (June 2025) |
| company | Shogakukan |
| firstdate | |
| country | Japan |
| language | Japanese |
| website |
Weekly Shōnen Sunday is a weekly ja manga magazine published in Japan by Shogakukan since March 1959. Contrary to its title, Weekly Shōnen Sunday issues are released on Wednesdays. Weekly Shōnen Sunday has sold over 1.8billion copies since 1986, making it the fourth best selling manga magazine, only behind Weekly Shōnen Jump, Weekly Shōnen Magazine and Weekly Young Jump.
History
Weekly Shōnen Sunday was first published on March 17, 1959, as a response to its rival Weekly Shōnen Magazine. The debut issue featured Shigeo Nagashima, the star player of the Yomiuri Giants on the cover, and a congratulatory article by Isoko Hatano, a noted child psychologist.
Despite its name, Weekly Shōnen Sunday is published on Wednesday. The "Sunday" in the name was the creation of its first editor, Kiichi Toyoda, who wanted the title to be evocative of a relaxing weekend.
Prior to the 1990s and 2000s no serial in Weekly Shōnen Sunday had run over 40 volumes, but that began to change with series such as Case Closed, Major, Inuyasha, Karakuri Circus, Kenichi: The Mightiest Disciple, Hayate the Combat Butler, Zettai Karen Children, and Be Blues!, which maintained a high level of popularity.
In a rare event due to the closeness of the two magazines' founding dates, Weekly Shōnen Sunday and Weekly Shōnen Magazine 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. The book Shonen Sunday 1983 was published on July 15, 2009 to celebrate the anniversary and the magazine's heyday. It reprints manga from 1983, such as Urusei Yatsura and Touch, and has interviews with their creators as well as artists who were inspired by the series from that period, such as Gosho Aoyama.
To celebrate Weekly Shōnen Sundays 55th anniversary, 55 new manga series were launched in the print and online magazines Weekly Shōnen Sunday, Shōnen Sunday S, Ura Sunday, and Club Sunday throughout the year beginning in March 2014.
Features
Main article: List of series run in Weekly Shōnen Sunday{{!}}List of series run in ''Weekly Shōnen Sunday''
There are currently 31 manga titles being serialized in Weekly Shōnen Sunday. Out of them, Aozakura: Bōei Daigakukō Monogatari and Frieren: Beyond Journey's End are on hiatus; Magic Kaito is infrequently published; Case Closed and Kai-hen Wizards are serialized on an irregular basis; Major 2nd is serialized biweekly and Ad Astra per Aspera and Case Closed: Zero's Tea Times continuations are yet to be announced.
| Series title | Author(s) | Premiered | |
|---|---|---|---|
| *Ad Astra per Aspera* | Kenjiro Hata | ||
| {{Nihongo | 吾が君散るらむ | Aga Kimi Chiruramu}} | Shiishihi, Yuuki Tsukikoshi |
| *Akira Failing in Love* | Shinta Harekawa | ||
| {{Nihongo | あおざくら 防衛大学校物語 | Aozakura: Bōei Daigakukō Monogatari}} | Hikaru Nikaido |
| *Case Closed* | Gosho Aoyama | ||
| *Case Closed: Zero's Tea Time* | Takahiro Arai | ||
| *Dealing with Mikadono Sisters Is a Breeze* | Aya Hirakawa | ||
| *Dragemis* | Mizuki Kuriyama | ||
| *Fly Me to the Moon* | Kenjiro Hata | ||
| *Frieren: Beyond Journey's End* | Kanehito Yamada, Tsukasa Abe | ||
| *Futari Bus* | Sakane Toyobayashi | ||
| *Hōkago, Voca-ken de!* | Atsu Benino | ||
| *Kai-hen Wizards* | Yellow Tanabe | ||
| {{Nihongo | カグライ～神楽と雷人～ | Kagurai: Kagura to Raito}} | Lettuce Tarō, Mashu Tarō |
| *Kaiten no Albus* | Akihisa Maki, Miki Yatsubo | ||
| {{Nihongo | かくかまた | Kakukamata}} | Yuhei Kusakabe |
| {{Nihongo | 君は明け星 | Kimi wa Akeboshi}} | Takenori Ichihara, Aiko Koyama |
| *Magic Kaito* | Gosho Aoyama | ||
| *Major 2nd* | Takuya Mitsuda | ||
| *Mao* | Rumiko Takahashi | ||
| *Mizu Polo* | Miho Isshiki, Naoki Mizuguchi | ||
| *Parashoppers* | Tsubasa Fukuchi | ||
| *Red Blue* | Atsushi Namikiri | ||
| {{Nihongo | 龍と苺 | Ryū to Ichigo}} | Mitsuharu Yanamoto |
| *Shibuya Near Family* | Kōji Kumeta | ||
| *Silver Mountain* | Kazuhiro Fujita | ||
| *Sleepy Princess in the Demon Castle* | Kagiji Kumanomata | ||
| {{Nihongo | 十勝ひとりぼっち農園 | Tokachi Hitoribocchi Nōen}} | Yuji Yokoyama |
| *Tsumiki Ogami's Not-So-Ordinary Life* | Miyu Morishita | ||
| {{Nihongo | 写らナイんです | Utsuranain desu}} | Ruka Konoshima |
| *Vampire-Idol Tagiru* | Kazuhiko Shimamoto |
Circulation
| Year / Period | Weekly circulation | Magazine sales | Sales revenue () | Issue price | 1986 to March 2018 | 36,000,000 | 1,876,972,882 | () | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1986 | title=コミック誌の部数水準 | url=http://www.geocities.jp/wj_log/rank/hokan/zassi.html | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070306085534/http://www.geocities.jp/wj_log/rank/hokan/zassi.html | url-status=dead | archive-date=March 6, 2007 | website=Yahoo! Japan | access-date=March 6, 2007}} | |||||||||
| 1987 | 1,300,000 | |||||||||||||||
| 1988 | 1,300,000 | |||||||||||||||
| 1989 | 1,400,000 | |||||||||||||||
| 1990 | 1,350,000 | |||||||||||||||
| 1991 | 1,350,000 | |||||||||||||||
| 1992 | 1,350,000 | |||||||||||||||
| 1993 | 1,270,000 | |||||||||||||||
| 1994 | 1,270,000 | |||||||||||||||
| 1995 | 1,400,000 | |||||||||||||||
| 1996 | 1,530,000 | |||||||||||||||
| 1997 | 1,650,000 | |||||||||||||||
| 1998 | 1,700,000 | |||||||||||||||
| 1999 | 1,630,000 | |||||||||||||||
| 2000 | 2,020,000 | |||||||||||||||
| 2001 | 1,500,000 | |||||||||||||||
| 2002 | 1,530,000 | |||||||||||||||
| 2003 | 1,310,000 | |||||||||||||||
| 2004 | title=Manga Anthology Circulations 2004-2006 | url=https://www.comipress.com/article/2007/12/26/3040.html | work=ComiPress | date=2007-12-27 | language=en | access-date=May 15, 2024 | archive-date=April 26, 2021 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210426130625/https://www.comipress.com/article/2007/12/26/3040.html | url-status=live}} | |||||||
| 2005 | 1,068,265 | |||||||||||||||
| January 2006 to August 2006 | 1,003,708 | |||||||||||||||
| September 2006 to December 2006 | 1,010,000 | |||||||||||||||
| 2007 | 940,000 | |||||||||||||||
| 2008 | title=Where's The Manga Magazine Bailout? | url=http://mangacast.net/?p=2616 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090228102003/http://mangacast.net/?p=2616 | url-status=dead | archive-date=2009-02-28 | publisher=Manga Cast | date=2009-02-22 | access-date=2010-02-04}} | ||||||||
| January 2009 to September 2009 | title=2009 Japanese Manga Magazine Circulation Numbers | url=http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2010-01-18/2009-japanese-manga-magazine-circulation-numbers | website=Anime News Network | date=2010-01-18 | access-date=2010-02-04 | archive-date=April 15, 2016 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160415134103/http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2010-01-18/2009-japanese-manga-magazine-circulation-numbers | url-status=live}} | ||||||||
| October 2009 to September 2010 | title=2010 Japanese Manga Magazine Circulation Numbers | url=http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2011-01-17/2010-japanese-manga-magazine-circulation-numbers | publisher=JMPA | date=2010-06-01 | access-date=2010-08-08 | archive-date=May 24, 2019 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190524062850/https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2011-01-17/2010-japanese-manga-magazine-circulation-numbers | url-status=live}} | ||||||||
| October 2010 to September 2011 | url=http://www.j-magazine.or.jp/data_002/m6.html | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121014131351/http://www.j-magazine.or.jp/data_002/m6.html | url-status=dead | archive-date=October 14, 2012 | title=JMPAマガジンデータ : 男性 コミック | publisher=Japan Magazine Publishing Association | access-date=October 14, 2012}} | |||||||||
| October 2011 to September 2012 | url=http://www.j-magazine.or.jp/data_002/m6.html | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131022205941/http://www.j-magazine.or.jp/data_002/m6.html | url-status=dead | archive-date=October 22, 2013 | title=JMPAマガジンデータ : 男性 コミック | publisher=Japan Magazine Publishing Association | access-date=October 22, 2013}} | |||||||||
| October 2012 to September 2013 | url=http://www.j-magazine.or.jp/data_002/m6.html | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141117144148/http://www.j-magazine.or.jp/data_002/m6.html | url-status=dead | archive-date=November 17, 2014 | title=JMPAマガジンデータ : 男性 コミック | publisher=Japan Magazine Publishing Association | access-date=November 17, 2014}} | |||||||||
| October 2013 to September 2014 | url=http://www.j-magazine.or.jp/data_002/m6.html | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151116012920/http://www.j-magazine.or.jp/data_002/m6.html | url-status=dead | archive-date=November 16, 2015 | title=JMPAマガジンデータ : 男性 コミック | publisher=Japan Magazine Publishing Association | access-date=November 16, 2015}} | |||||||||
| October 2014 to September 2015 | url=http://www.j-magazine.or.jp/data_002/m6.html | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161003142231/http://www.j-magazine.or.jp/data_002/m6.html | url-status=dead | archive-date=October 3, 2016 | title=JMPAマガジンデータ : 男性 コミック | publisher=Japan Magazine Publishing Association | access-date=October 3, 2016}} | |||||||||
| October 2015 to September 2016 | url=http://www.j-magazine.or.jp/user/data/magdata/1/6/12 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171109062220/http://www.j-magazine.or.jp/user/data/magdata/1/6/12 | url-status=dead | archive-date=November 9, 2017 | title=JMPAマガジンデータ : 男性 コミック | publisher=Japan Magazine Publishing Association | access-date=November 9, 2017}} | |||||||||
| October 2016 to September 2017 | url=https://www.j-magazine.or.jp/user/data/magdata/1/6/12 | title=JMPAマガジンデータ : 男性 コミック | publisher=Japan Magazine Publishing Association | access-date=June 21, 2018 | archive-date=December 23, 2019 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191223142021/https://www.j-magazine.or.jp/user/data/magdata/1/6/12 | url-status=dead}} | |||||||||
| October 2017 to March 2018 |
Editors-in-chief
- Kiichi Toyoda (1959–1960)
- Yoshio Kinoshita (1960–1963)
- Michio Tamio (1963–1965)
- Yunosuke Konishi (1965–1967)
- Yoshiya Takayanagi (1967–1969)
- Yoshio Kinoshita (1969–1970)
- Shizuo Watanabe (1970–1972)
- Keizo Inoue (1972–1977)
- Kazuki Tanaka (1977–1984)
- Koichiro Inomata (1984–1987)
- Harunori Kumagai (1987–1991)
- Takashi Hirayama (1991–1994)
- Harunori Kumagai (1994–1996)
- Toyohiko Okuyama (1996–2000)
- Shinichiro Tsuzuki (2000–2001)
- Shinichi Mikami (2001–2004)
- Masato Hayashi (2004–2009)
- Masaki Nawata (2009–2012)
- Yu Torimitsu (2012–2015)
- Takenori Ichihara (2015–2021)
- Kazunori Oshima (2021–present)
International versions
Elex Media Komputindo published an Indonesian version of Weekly Shōnen Sunday titled Shōnen Star from 2005 to 2013.
Viz Media began a Shonen Sunday imprint for titles in North America; starting with Rumiko Takahashi's Rin-ne, which was released on October 20, 2009.
References
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- Loo, Egan. (July 8, 2009). "Viz to Launch Shonen Sunday Imprint with Rin-ne Manga (Updated)".
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