Weekly Shōnen Sunday
1984 Vol. 40 featuring Urusei Yatsura on the cover
EditorKazunori Oshima
Former editorsTakenori Ichihara
CategoriesShōnen manga[1][2]
FrequencyWeekly
Circulation302,167 (March 2018)[2]
First issueMarch 17, 1959 (1959-03-17)
CompanyShogakukan
CountryJapan
LanguageJapanese
WebsiteOfficial website Edit this at Wikidata

Weekly Shōnen Sunday (Japanese: 週刊少年サンデー, Hepburn: Shūkan Shōnen Sandē) is a weekly shōnen 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 1.8 billion 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.[3][4] 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 was originally published on Tuesdays of each week, switching to Wednesdays in 2011. 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.

Weekly Shōnen Sunday's mascot, Issue 1991-#37

Weekly Shōnen Sunday's distinctive "pointing finger" that appears in the lower corner of every page on the left side of the magazine made its subtle debut in the 4/5 issue from 1969. This understated feature, ever present but easily overlooked, was referenced as a plot element in 20th Century Boys. Sunday's more noticeable mascot, a helmeted fish, debuted in the 1980s.

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 Detective Conan, Major, Inuyasha, Karakuri Circus, Shijō Saikyō no Deshi Kenichi, 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.[5] In addition, other commemorative events, merchandise, and manga crossovers were planned for the following year as part of the celebrations.[4] 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.[6]

To celebrate Weekly Shōnen Sunday's 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.[7]

Features

Series

There are currently 28 manga titles being serialized in Weekly Shōnen Sunday. Out of them; Magic Kaito is infrequently published; Case Closed is serialized on an irregular basis; and Ad Astra per Aspera and Detective Conan: Zero's Tea Time's continuations are yet to be announced.

Series title Author(s) Premiered
Ad Astra per Aspera (アド アストラ ペル アスペラ, Ado Asutora peru Asupera) Kenjiro Hata September 2015
Aozakura: Bōei Daigakukō Monogatari (あおざくら 防衛大学校物語) Hikaru Nikaido April 2016
Call of the Night (よふかしのうた, Yofukashi no Uta) Kotoyama August 2019
Case Closed (名探偵コナン, Meitantei Konan) Gosho Aoyama January 1994
Case Closed: Zero's Tea Time (名探偵コナン ゼロの日常, Meitantei Konan: Zero no Nichijō) Takahiro Arai May 2018
Fly Me to the Moon (トニカクカワイイ, Tonikaku Kawaii) Kenjiro Hata February 2018
Frieren: Beyond Journey's End (葬送のフリーレン, Sōsō no Frieren) Kanehito Yamada, Tsukasa Abe April 2020
I Wanna Do Bad Things with You (君と悪いことがしたい, Kimi to Warui Koto ga Shitai) Yutaka October 2022
Kimi wa 008 (君は008) Syun Matsuena February 2018
Kiyo in Kyoto: From the Maiko House (舞妓さんちのまかないさん, Maiko-san Chi no Makanai-san) Aiko Koyama December 2016
Komi Can't Communicate (古見さんは、コミュ症です。, Komi-san wa, Komyushō desu) Tomohito Oda May 2016
Last Karte: Hōjūigakusha Tōma Kenshō no Kioku (ラストカルテ ―法獣医学者 当麻健匠の記憶―, Rasuto Karute Hōjūigakusha Tōma Kenshō no Kioku) Wakabi Asayama January 2022
Magic Kaito (まじっく快斗, Majikku Kaito) Gosho Aoyama June 1987
Major 2nd Takuya Mitsuda March 2015
Mao Rumiko Takahashi May 2019
Mikadono Sanshimai wa Angai, Choroi (帝乃三姉妹は案外、チョロい。) Aya Hirakawa December 2021
Mizu Polo (みずぽろ, Mizu Poro) Miho Isshiki, Naoki Mizuguchi November 2023
Ogami Tsumiki to Ki Nichijō (尾守つみきと奇日常。) Miyu Morishita October 2023
Red Blue (レッドブルー, Reddo Burū) Atsushi Namikiri January 2022
Ryū to Ichigo (龍と苺) Mitsuharu Yanamoto May 2020
Shibuya Near Family (シブヤニアファミリー, Shibuya Nia Famirī) Kōji Kumeta October 2021
Shiroyama to Mita-san (白山と三田さん) Yuhei Kusakabe December 2021
Shusseki Bangō 0-ban (出席番号0番) Tomi Ota October 2023
Sleepy Princess in the Demon Castle (魔王城でおやすみ, Maōjō de Oyasumi) Kagiji Kumanomata May 2016
Super String: Isekai Kenbunroku (スーパーストリング -異世界見聞録-, Sūpā Sutoringu -Isekai Kenbunroku-) Youn In-wan, Boichi April 2023
Tatari (タタリ) Watari April 2023
Te no Geka (テノゲカ) Shihi Shi, Takahiro Arai May 2023
Tokachi Hitoribocchi Nōen (十勝ひとりぼっち農園) Yuji Yokoyama November 2017

Circulation

Year / Period Weekly circulation Magazine sales Sales revenue (est.) Issue price
1986 1,600,000[8] 83,200,000[8] ¥14,976,000,000 ¥180[9]
1987 1,300,000[8] 67,600,000[8] ¥12,168,000,000
1988 1,300,000[8] 67,600,000[8] ¥12,168,000,000
1989 1,400,000[8] 72,800,000[8] ¥13,104,000,000
1990 1,350,000[8] 70,200,000[8] ¥12,636,000,000
1991 1,350,000[8] 70,200,000[8] ¥12,636,000,000
1992 1,350,000[8] 70,200,000[8] ¥13,338,000,000 ¥190[9]
1993 1,270,000[8] 66,040,000[8] ¥12,547,600,000
1994 1,270,000[8] 66,040,000[8] ¥13,868,400,000 ¥210[9]
1995 1,400,000[8] 72,800,000[8] ¥15,288,000,000
1996 1,530,000[8] 79,560,000[8] ¥21,481,200,000 ¥270[10]
1997 1,650,000[8] 85,800,000[8] ¥23,166,000,000
1998 1,700,000[8] 88,400,000[8] ¥23,868,000,000
1999 1,630,000[8] 84,760,000[8] ¥22,885,200,000
2000 2,020,000 105,040,000[8] ¥28,360,800,000
2001 1,500,000[8] 78,000,000[8] ¥21,060,000,000
2002 1,530,000 79,560,000 ¥21,481,200,000
2003 1,310,000 68,120,000 ¥18,392,400,000
2004 1,160,913[11] 60,367,476[11] ¥16,299,218,520
2005 1,068,265[11] 55,549,780[11] ¥14,998,440,600
January 2006 to August 2006 1,003,708[11] 34,795,211[11] ¥9,394,706,970
September 2006 to December 2006 1,010,000 17,506,667 ¥4,726,800,090
2007 940,000 48,880,000 ¥13,197,600,000
2008 873,438[12] 45,418,776[12] ¥12,263,069,520
January 2009 to September 2009 773,062[13] 30,149,418[13] ¥8,140,342,860
October 2009 to September 2010 678,917[14] 35,303,684[14] ¥9,531,994,680
October 2010 to September 2011 611,146[15] 31,779,592[15] ¥8,580,489,840
October 2011 to September 2012 539,521[16] 28,055,092[16] ¥7,574,874,840
October 2012 to September 2013 512,250[17] 26,637,000[17] ¥7,165,353,000 ¥269[10][18]
October 2013 to September 2014 456,375[19] 23,731,500[19] ¥6,407,505,000 ¥270[18]
October 2014 to September 2015 390,143[20] 20,287,436[20] ¥5,477,607,720
October 2015 to September 2016 350,521[21] 18,227,092[21] ¥4,921,314,840
October 2016 to September 2017 317,458[22] 16,507,816[22] ¥4,457,110,320
October 2017 to March 2018 302,167[23] 7,856,342[23] ¥2,121,212,340
1986 to March 2018 36,000,000 1,876,972,882 ¥448,682,441,140 ($5.53 billion)

Editors-in-chief

  • Kiichi Toyoda (1959–1960)[24]
  • 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)[25]
  • Kazunori Oshima (2021–present)[26]

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.[27]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Thompson, Jason (2007). Manga: The Complete Guide. Del Rey Books. p. xxiii-xxiv. ISBN 978-0-345-48590-8.
  2. 1 2 "Boy's Manga" (in Japanese). Japanese Magazine Publishers Association. September 2016. Archived from the original on November 3, 2016. Retrieved November 6, 2016.
  3. ↑ 週刊少年サンデー50周年記念、1959年から50年分の表紙50枚全画像を一挙公開. Gigazine (in Japanese). March 17, 2009. Retrieved March 17, 2021.
  4. 1 2 Loo, Egan (March 18, 2008). "Shōnen Magazine Shōnen Sunday Mark 50th Anniversary". Anime News Network.
  5. ↑ "Shōnen Sunday's 50th Anniversary". Rumic World. April 13, 2008.
  6. ↑ Loo, Egan (July 9, 2009). "Shonen Sunday 1983 Book Honors Manga Magazine's Heyday". Anime News Network.
  7. ↑ Nelkin, Sarah (March 3, 2014). "Shonen Sunday Family to Launch 55 Manga to Mark 55th Year". Anime News Network.
  8. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 "コミック誌の部数水準". Yahoo! Japan. Archived from the original on March 6, 2007. Retrieved March 6, 2007.
  9. 1 2 3 "An Analysis of Weekly Manga Magazines Price for the Past 30 Years". ComiPress. April 6, 2007.
  10. 1 2 "Weekly Shonen Sunday's Price Cut Leads to 30% Sales Jump". Anime News Network. July 24, 2013.
  11. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "Manga Anthology Circulations 2004-2006". ComiPress. December 27, 2007.
  12. 1 2 "Where's The Manga Magazine Bailout?". Manga Cast. February 22, 2009. Archived from the original on February 28, 2009. Retrieved February 4, 2010.
  13. 1 2 "2009 Japanese Manga Magazine Circulation Numbers". Anime News Network. January 18, 2010. Retrieved February 4, 2010.
  14. 1 2 "2010 Japanese Manga Magazine Circulation Numbers". JMPA. June 1, 2010. Retrieved August 8, 2010.
  15. 1 2 "JMPAマガジンデータ : 男性 コミック". Japan Magazine Publishing Association. Archived from the original on October 14, 2012. Retrieved October 14, 2012.
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  18. 1 2 "Shogakukan's Weekly and Monthly Shonen Sunday Go Digital from Today". Crunchyroll. July 13, 2016.
  19. 1 2 "JMPAマガジンデータ : 男性 コミック". Japan Magazine Publishing Association. Archived from the original on November 16, 2015. Retrieved November 16, 2015.
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  24. ↑ "Shonen Sunday's 1st Editor Kiichi Toyoda Passes Away". Anime News Network. January 15, 2013.
  25. ↑ Mateo, Alex (October 13, 2021). "Shonen Sunday Editor-in-Chief Takenori Ichihara Steps Down After 6 Years". Anime News Network. Retrieved October 14, 2021.
  26. ↑ 少年サンデー編集長・市原氏が退任 6年在任で未曾有の危機も「劇的に業績改善」 読者・作家へ感謝. Oricon News (in Japanese). Oricon. October 13, 2021. Retrieved October 20, 2021.
  27. ↑ Loo, Egan (July 8, 2009). "Viz to Launch Shonen Sunday Imprint with Rin-ne Manga (Updated)". Anime News Network. Retrieved November 11, 2018.

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