Weekly Shōnen Magazine also known as Shōnen Magazine, is a shōnen manga magazine published by Kodansha, first published on 17 March 1959. Despite some unusual censorship policies (until just recently, it was one of the only shōnen 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 reading population falling under the male high school or college student demographic.
Magazine vs. Jump
The Weekly Shōnen Magazine increased sales in the 1970s, and became the top selling manga magazine in Japan at that time. But the position was later occupied by the Weekly Shōnen Jump in 1974. The biggest "golden age" of Shōnen Jump began and continued for a long time. In the middle of the 1990s, Shōnen Jump suffered the loss of Dragon Ball and entered a "Dark Age". As a result of this, the Shōnen Magazine made a comeback in October 1997, regaining its position as the leader in terms of sales.
Currently, Shōnen Magazine is second due to Shōnen Jump's return to the top in 2002.
However, sales of the two magazines remain very close.
50th Anniversary Celebration
In a rare event due to the closeness of the two magazine's founding dates, Weekly Shōnen Magazine and Weekly Shōnen Sunday released a special combined issue on March 19, 2008. In addition, other commemorative events, merchandise, and manga crossovers were planned for the following year as part of the celebrations.
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