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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; 65 years ago (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.[citation needed]

Despite its name, Weekly Shōnen Sunday is published on Wednesday.[5][6] 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.[citation needed]

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.[citation needed] 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.[citation needed]

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, 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.[7] 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.[8]

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.[9]

Features

Series

Main article: List of series run in Weekly Shōnen Sunday

There are currently 31 manga titles being serialized in Weekly Shōnen Sunday. Out of them, Frieren: Beyond Journey's End is on hiatus; Magic Kaito is infrequently published; Case Closed is serialized on an irregular basis; Major 2nd is serialized biweekly 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
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 Furīren) Kanehito Yamada, Tsukasa Abe April 2020
Ichika Bachika (イチカバチカ) Jinsuke Honma August 2024
Hello Work Monsters (ハローワークモンスターズ, Harō Wāku Monsutāzu) Mako Hatamachi April 2024
Kai-hen Wizards (界変の魔法使い, Kaihen no Mahōtsukai) Yellow Tanabe September 2024
Kaiten no Albus (廻天のアルバス, Kaiten no Arubasu) Akihisa Maki, Miki Yatsubo May 2024
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
Kokoro Himeru no Zen Himitsu (古々路ひめるの全秘密) Shōta Komatsu May 2024
Komi Can't Communicate (古見さんは、コミュ症です。, Komi-san wa, Komyushō desu) Tomohito Oda May 2016
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
Momose Akira no Hatsukoi Hatan-chū (百瀬アキラの初恋破綻中。) Shinta Harekawa August 2024
Red Blue (レッドブルー, Reddo Burū) Atsushi Namikiri January 2022
Rock a Rock (ロッカロック, Rokkarokku) Yuzuo Batō April 2024
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
Shite no Hana: Nōgakushi Haga Kotarō no Sakikata (シテの花 -能楽師・葉賀琥太朗の咲き方-) Chigusa Ichihara October 2024
Sleepy Princess in the Demon Castle (魔王城でおやすみ, Maōjō de Oyasumi) Kagiji Kumanomata May 2016
Strand (ストランド, Sutorando) Number 8, Ryōhei Masuko September 2024
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
Tsumiki Ogami's Not-So-Ordinary Life (尾守つみきと奇日常。, Ogami Tsumiki to Ki Nichijō) Miyu Morishita October 2023
Utsuranai desu (写らナイんです) Konoshimadesu March 2024

Circulation

Year / Period Weekly circulation Magazine sales Sales revenue (est.) Issue price
1986 1,600,000[10] 83,200,000[10] ¥14,976,000,000 ¥180[11]
1987 1,300,000[10] 67,600,000[10] ¥12,168,000,000
1988 1,300,000[10] 67,600,000[10] ¥12,168,000,000
1989 1,400,000[10] 72,800,000[10] ¥13,104,000,000
1990 1,350,000[10] 70,200,000[10] ¥12,636,000,000
1991 1,350,000[10] 70,200,000[10] ¥12,636,000,000
1992 1,350,000[10] 70,200,000[10] ¥13,338,000,000 ¥190[11]
1993 1,270,000[10] 66,040,000[10] ¥12,547,600,000
1994 1,270,000[10] 66,040,000[10] ¥13,868,400,000 ¥210[11]
1995 1,400,000[10] 72,800,000[10] ¥15,288,000,000
1996 1,530,000[10] 79,560,000[10] ¥21,481,200,000 ¥270[12]
1997 1,650,000[10] 85,800,000[10] ¥23,166,000,000
1998 1,700,000[10] 88,400,000[10] ¥23,868,000,000
1999 1,630,000[10] 84,760,000[10] ¥22,885,200,000
2000 2,020,000 105,040,000[10] ¥28,360,800,000
2001 1,500,000[10] 78,000,000[10] ¥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[13] 60,367,476[13] ¥16,299,218,520
2005 1,068,265[13] 55,549,780[13] ¥14,998,440,600
January 2006 to August 2006 1,003,708[13] 34,795,211[13] ¥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[14] 45,418,776[14] ¥12,263,069,520
January 2009 to September 2009 773,062[15] 30,149,418[15] ¥8,140,342,860
October 2009 to September 2010 678,917[16] 35,303,684[16] ¥9,531,994,680
October 2010 to September 2011 611,146[17] 31,779,592[17] ¥8,580,489,840
October 2011 to September 2012 539,521[18] 28,055,092[18] ¥7,574,874,840
October 2012 to September 2013 512,250[19] 26,637,000[19] ¥7,165,353,000 ¥269[12][20]
October 2013 to September 2014 456,375[21] 23,731,500[21] ¥6,407,505,000 ¥270[20]
October 2014 to September 2015 390,143[22] 20,287,436[22] ¥5,477,607,720
October 2015 to September 2016 350,521[23] 18,227,092[23] ¥4,921,314,840
October 2016 to September 2017 317,458[24] 16,507,816[24] ¥4,457,110,320
October 2017 to March 2018 302,167[25] 7,856,342[25] ¥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)[26]
  • 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)[27]
  • Kazunori Oshima (2021–present)[28]

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.[29]

See also

References

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Further reading

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