Weekly Shonen Magazine

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Weekly Shonen Magazine (週刊少年マガジン Shūkan Shōnen Magajin), also known as Shonen Magazine, is a manga magazine published by Kodansha. First published in 17 March 1959. Despite some strange censorship policies (until just recently, it was one of the only shounen 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 readership falling under the male high school or college student demographic.

an issue of shonen magazine

1 Popular works in Shonen Magazine
- 1.1 1960s
- 1.2 1970s
- 1.3 1980s
- 1.4 1990s
- 1.5 2000s
2 Other recent serialized works
3 Magazine vs. Jump
4 International Version
5 See also
6 External links

[edit] Popular works in Shonen Magazine

Bold is especially important work.

[edit] 1960s

Shiden-kai no Taka (1963-1965, Tetsuya Chiba)
Eightman (1963-1966)
W3 (1965) *Only 6 episodes. Shonen Magazine was insulated with Tezuka for about ten years because of this work.
Cyborg 009 (1966) *only Episode 2
Tensai Bakabon (1967-?, Fujio Akatsuka)
Ge Ge Ge 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)
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

Kōtarō Makaritōru (1982-2001) *The title has been changed to Shin - in 1995.
Bari Bari Densetsu (1983-1991)
Mr. Ajikko (1986-1989, Daisuke Terasawa)
Meimon! Daisan-yakyūbu (1987-1993)
Hajime no Ippo (1989-)

[edit] 1990s

Boys Be... (1991-2001)
Kindaichi Case Files (1992-2000) and Detective Academy Q (2001-2005)
Chūka Ichiban (1997-1999, Etsushi Ogawa) *moved to Magazine Special, and returned to Shonen Magazine again
Love Hina (1998-2001)
Katte ni Kaizou (1998-2004)
GetBackers (1999-)
Great Teacher Onizuka (1997-2002)
Samurai Deeper Kyo (1999-2006)
Rave Master (1999-2005)

[edit] 2000s

BECK (2000-)
Sakigake!! Cromartie High School (2000-)
School Rumble (2002-)
Air Gear (2003-)
Mahō Sensei Negima (2003-)
Tsubasa: RESERVoir CHRoNiCLE (2003-)
Suzuka (2004-)
Koma Koma (2005-)
Fairy Tail (2006-)

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

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

However, sales of the two magazines remain very close.