Weekly Young Magazine
Cover of the 13th issue of Weekly Young Magazine in 2014, published by Kodansha on March 10, 2014, featuring Yuki Kashiwagi of the pop group AKB48.
CategoriesSeinen manga[1][2]
FrequencyBimonthly (1980–1989),
Weekly (since 1989)
Circulation407,367[2]
(July–September, 2016)
First issueJune 16, 1980
CompanyKodansha
CountryJapan
Based inTokyo
LanguageJapanese
WebsiteOfficial website Edit this at Wikidata

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.

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]

Series in publication

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
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

Past series

1980s

1990s

2000s

2010s

2020s

Circulation

Year / Period Weekly circulation Magazine sales (est.) Sales revenue (est.) Issue price (est.)[9]
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

References

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Series currently running in Weekly Young Magazine
Weekly Young Magazine: 1980s–1990s
Weekly Young Magazine: 2000–2009
Weekly Young Magazine: 2010–2019
Weekly Young Magazine: 2020–present
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