Weekly Playboy

Weekly Playboy
Weekly Playboy, November 16, 2009, with the cover model Nozomi Sasaki
CategoriesMen's magazine
FrequencyWeekly
Circulation195,834 (December 2015)
First issueNovember 15, 1966
CompanyShueisha
CountryJapan
LanguageJapanese
Websitewpb.shueisha.co.jp

Weekly Playboy (Japanese: 週刊プレイボーイ, Hepburn: Shūkan Pureibōi), also known as Shūpure (週プレ) or WPB, is a Japanese weekly magazine published by Shueisha since 1966. Although the magazine publishes a variety of news and special interest articles, columns, celebrity interviews, and manga, it is considered an adult magazine.[citation needed] The target demographic is men, and each issue features several partially nude pictorials of female models.[citation needed]

This magazine is not a regional edition of the American Playboy magazine; the Japanese edition of that magazine was published as Monthly Playboy (MPB) by Shueisha until its cancellation in January 2009.

Manga in WPB

References

  1. ↑ "JMPA Magazine Data (October 2015 - December 2015)". Japan Magazine Publishers Association. Archived from the original on 3 June 2016. Retrieved 7 May 2016.
  2. ↑ "Shueisha Shōshi". Shueisha. Archived from the original on 3 May 2008. Retrieved 26 May 2007.
  3. ↑ 土肥義則 (2 June 2009). 『週刊プレイボーイ』を悩ませていること……それは. Business Media Makoto (in Japanese). ITmedia. Archived from the original on 20 November 2010. Retrieved 8 August 2010.