Weekly Young Magazine (Japanese: 週刊ヤングマガジン, Hepburn: Shūkan Yangu Magajin) is a Japanese weekly anthology magazine published in Tokyo each Monday by Kodansha. The magazine started on June 16, 1980, and is targeted at the adult male (seinen) demographic.[3] It was published bimonthly (under the title Young Magazine (ヤングマガジン, Yangu Magajin)), on the second and fourth Mondays of every month, until switching to a weekly publication in 1989.[citation needed] The chapters of the series that run in Weekly Young Magazine are collected and published in tankōbon volumes under the "YoungKC" imprint every four months.
Categories | Seinen manga[1][2] |
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Frequency | Bimonthly (1980–1989), Weekly (since 1989) |
Circulation | 407,367[2] (July–September, 2016) |
First issue | June 16, 1980 |
Company | Kodansha |
Country | Japan |
Based in | Tokyo |
Language | Japanese |
Website | Official website |
The magazine usually features color photos of pinup girl gravure idols (グラビアアイドル, gurabia aidoru) on the cover and first few pages of each issue.
Since December 9, 2009, Kodansha has published a monthly sister magazine, Monthly Young Magazine (月刊ヤングマガジン, Gekkan Yangu Magajin), a retitled makeover of their previous publication Bessatsu Young Magazine (別冊ヤングマガジン, Bessatsu Yangu Magajin), which had published a total of 36 bimonthly issues during its existence.[4]
There are currently 20 manga titles serialized in Weekly Young Magazine. Out of them, Seven Shakespeares: Non Sanz Droict, Kenka Kagyō and Nande Koko ni Sensei ga!? are on hiatus.
Series Title | Author | Premiered |
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1-nichi Gaishutsuroku Hanchō (1日外出録ハンチョウ) | Tensei Hagiwara, Motomu Uehara, Kazuya Arai | December 2016 |
GTO: Paradise Lost (GTO パラダイス・ロスト) | Tooru Fujisawa | April 2014 |
Higanjima 48-nichi-go… (彼岸島) | Kouji Matsumoto | August 2014 |
Kenka Kagyō (喧嘩稼業) | Yasuaki Kita | December 2013 |
Kenshirō ni Yoroshiku (ケンシロウによろしく) | Jasmine Gyuh | March 2020 |
Lili-Men | Takuma Tokashiki | September 2022 |
Manshū Ahen Squad (満州アヘンスクワッド) | Tsukasa Monma, Shikako | September 2021 |
MF Ghost (MFゴースト) | Shuichi Shigeno | September 2017 |
Minami-ke (みなみけ) | Koharu Sakuraba | March 2004 |
My Home Hero (マイホームヒーロー) | Masashi Asaki, Naoki Yamakawa | May 2017 |
Mumurin (ムムリン) | Yūki Iwai, Junichirō Sasaki | August 2021 |
Nando toki o Kurikaeshitemo Honnouji ga Moerunjaga!? (何度、時をくりかえしても本能寺が燃えるんじゃが!?) | Keisuke Ide, Kenshi Fujimoto | November 2020 |
Parallel Paradise (パラレルパラダイス) | Lynn Okamoto | March 2017 |
Seven Shakespeares: Non Sanz Droict (7人のシェイクスピア NON SANZ DROICT) | Harold Sakuishi | December 2016 |
Tawawa on Monday (月曜日のたわわ, Getsuyōbi no Tawawa) | Kiseki Himura | November 2020 |
Tobaku Datenroku Kaiji: 24-oku Dasshutsu-hen (賭博堕天録カイジ 24億脱出編) | Nobuyuki Fukumoto | August 2017 |
Under Ninja (アンダーニンジャ) | Kengo Hanazawa | July 2018 |
Why the Hell are You Here, Teacher!? (なんでここに先生が!?, Nande Koko ni Sensei ga!?) | Soborou | April 2017 |
With You and the Rain (雨と君と, Ame to Kimi to) | Kō Nikaidō | August 2020 |
Ya Boy Kongming! (パリピ孔明, Paripi Kōmei) | Yuto Yotsuba, Ryō Ogawa | November 2021 |
Year / Period | Weekly circulation | Magazine sales (est.) | Sales revenue (est.) | Issue price (est.)[9] |
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1986 to 1987 | 1,000,000[10] | 104,000,000[10] | ¥18,720,000,000 | ¥180 |
1988 | 1,400,000[10] | 72,800,000[10] | ¥13,104,000,000 | |
1989 | 1,300,000[10] | 67,600,000[10] | ¥12,168,000,000 | |
1990 | 1,500,000[10] | 78,000,000[10] | ¥14,040,000,000 | |
1991 | 1,500,000[10] | 78,000,000[10] | ¥14,040,000,000 | |
1992 | 1,500,000[10] | 78,000,000[10] | ¥14,820,000,000 | ¥190 |
1993 | 1,550,000[10] | 80,600,000[10] | ¥15,314,000,000 | |
1994 | 1,550,000[10] | 80,600,000[10] | ¥16,926,000,000 | ¥210 |
1995 | 1,700,000[10] | 88,400,000[10] | ¥18,564,000,000 | |
1996 | 1,740,000[10] | 90,480,000[10] | ¥19,000,800,000 | |
1997 | 1,670,000[10] | 86,840,000[10] | ¥18,236,400,000 | |
1998 | 1,500,000[10] | 78,000,000[10] | ¥16,380,000,000 | |
1999 | 1,430,000[10] | 74,360,000[10] | ¥15,615,600,000 | |
2000 | 1,300,000[10] | 67,600,000[10] | ¥14,196,000,000 | |
2001 to 2002 | 1,250,000[10] | 130,000,000[10] | ¥27,300,000,000 | |
2003 | 1,140,000[10] | 59,280,000[10] | ¥12,448,800,000 | |
2004 | 1,100,000[10] | 57,200,000[10] | ¥12,012,000,000 | |
2005 | 1,012,209[11] | 52,634,868[11] | ¥12,632,368,320 | ¥240 |
2006 | 998,198[11] | 51,906,296[11] | ¥12,457,511,040 | |
2007 | 981,229[12] | 51,023,908[12] | ¥12,245,737,920 | |
2008 | 940,817[13] | 48,922,484[13] | ¥11,741,396,160 | |
2009 | 857,013[14] | 44,564,676[14] | ¥10,695,522,240 | |
2010 | 807,871[15] | 42,009,292[15] | ¥10,082,230,080 | |
January 2011 to September 2011 | 725,235[16] | 28,284,165[16] | ¥6,788,199,600 | |
October 2011 to September 2012 | 665,407[17] | 34,601,164[17] | ¥8,304,279,360 | |
October 2012 to September 2013 | 607,920[18] | 31,611,840[18] | ¥7,586,841,600 | |
October 2013 to September 2014 | 537,105[19] | 27,929,460[19] | ¥6,703,070,400 | |
October 2014 to September 2015 | 450,417[20] | 23,421,684[20] | ¥5,621,204,160 | |
October 2015 to September 2016 | 415,592[21] | 21,610,784[21] | ¥5,186,588,160 | |
October 2016 to September 2017 | 394,829[22] | 20,531,108[22] | ¥4,927,465,920 | |
October 2017 to September 2018 | 361,946[23] | 18,821,192[23] | ¥4,517,086,080 | |
1986 to September 2018 | 1,097,847 | 1,869,632,921 | ¥392,375,101,040 ($4.889 billion) | ¥210 |