Weekly Young Magazine

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
Editor-in-ChiefKazushi Suzuki
CategoriesSeinen manga
Frequency
  • Biweekly (1980–1989)
  • Weekly (since 1989)
Circulation
  • 127,875
  • (April – June 2026)
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. It was published biweekly (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.

Series in publication

There are currently 35 manga titles serialized in Weekly Young Magazine. Out of them, Seven Shakespeares: Non Sanz Droict, Kenka Kagyō, and Tobaku Datenroku Kaiji: 24-oku Dasshutsu-hen are on hiatus.

Series Title Author Premiered
1-nichi Gaishutsuroku Hanchō (1日外出録ハンチョウ) Tensei Hagiwara [ja], Motomu Uehara, Kazuya Arai December 2016
Amateur Vigilante (アマチュアビジランテ) Sōhei Asamura, Kōtarō Naitō June 2024
Ari to Hachi (蟻と蜂) Kaito Shimizu, Edogawa Edogawa July 2026
Bōryoku Banzai (暴力万歳) Homura Kawamoto, Nadainishi March 2025
Chainsmoker Cat (ヤニねこ, Yani Neko) NyanNyanFactory February 2023
Dare Demo Dakeru Kimi ga Suki (だれでも抱けるキミが好き) Super Takeda April 2023
Go to Go (伍と碁) Tōto Hasuo, Haruna Nakazato January 2025
Golden Drop (ゴールデンドロップ) Keiichi Tsuha, Ryō Kōzuki May 2023
Heisei Haizanhei Sumire-chan (平成敗残兵☆すみれちゃん) Satomi U January 2024
Higanjima 48-nichi-go... (彼岸島 48日後...) Kouji Matsumoto August 2014
Hime Goto Kakushi Goto (ひめごとかくしごと) Tsukumonoi May 2026
Kakuriki (カクリキ) Gohōbi April 2026
Kenka Kagyō (喧嘩稼業) Yasuaki Kita [ja] December 2013
Manchuria Opium Squad (満州アヘンスクワッド) Tsukasa Monma [ja], Shikako [ja], Tsurushima September 2021
Me and the Prez, Drinking Under the Stars (社長と酒と星, Shachō to Sake to Hoshi) Zurikishi May 2025
Minami-ke (みなみけ) Koharu Sakuraba March 2004
Imōto wa Shitte Iru (妹は知っている) Mari Gangi November 2024
Nezumi's First Love (ねずみの初恋) Riku Ooseto November 2023
Parallel Paradise (パラレルパラダイス) Lynn Okamoto March 2017
Rat Collective (ラットコレクティブ) Chikara Ōmura May 2026
Rō Warai (ローワライ) Ashita Yukino January 2026
Seven Shakespeares: Non Sanz Droict (7人のシェイクスピア NON SANZ DROICT) Harold Sakuishi December 2016
Shōjōhime (猩猩姫) ippatu December 2025
Still You Kami Nishio August 2026
Subaru and Subaru (昴と彗星, Subaru to Subaru) Shuichi Shigeno July 2025
Tawawa on Monday (月曜日のたわわ, Getsuyōbi no Tawawa) Kiseki Himura November 2020
The Exiled Heavy Knight Knows How to Game the System (追放された転生重騎士はゲーム知識で無双する, Tsuihō Sareta Tensei Jū Kishi wa Gēmu Chishiki de Musō Suru) Nekoko, Jaian, Lee Brocco September 2024
The Knight Commander Spends Her Off in the Dragon's Belly (ドラゴンの胃でおやすみ, Doragon no I de Oyasumi) Yū Ōhashi, Ryū Nishimura February 2026
The Fable: The Third Secret (ザ・ファブル The third secret) Katsuhisa Minami March 2025
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
With You and the Rain (雨と君と, Ame to Kimi to) Kō Nikaidō August 2020
xxxHolic: Rei (×××HOLiC◆戻) Clamp April 2013
Ya Boy Kongming! (パリピ孔明, Paripi Kōmei) Yuto Yotsuba, Ryō Ogawa November 2021
Zeikin de Katta Hon (税金で買った本) Zuino, Kei Keiyama December 2021

Past series

1980s

1990s

2000s

2010s

2020s

Circulation

Year / Period Weekly circulation Magazine sales (est.) Sales revenue (est.) Issue price (est.)
1986 to 1987 1,000,000 104,000,000 ¥18,720,000,000 ¥180
1988 1,400,000 72,800,000 ¥13,104,000,000
1989 1,300,000 67,600,000 ¥12,168,000,000
1990 1,500,000 78,000,000 ¥14,040,000,000
1991 1,500,000 78,000,000 ¥14,040,000,000
1992 1,500,000 78,000,000 ¥14,820,000,000 ¥190
1993 1,550,000 80,600,000 ¥15,314,000,000
1994 1,550,000 80,600,000 ¥16,926,000,000 ¥210
1995 1,700,000 88,400,000 ¥18,564,000,000
1996 1,740,000 90,480,000 ¥19,000,800,000
1997 1,670,000 86,840,000 ¥18,236,400,000
1998 1,500,000 78,000,000 ¥16,380,000,000
1999 1,430,000 74,360,000 ¥15,615,600,000
2000 1,300,000 67,600,000 ¥14,196,000,000
2001 to 2002 1,250,000 130,000,000 ¥27,300,000,000
2003 1,140,000 59,280,000 ¥12,448,800,000
2004 1,100,000 57,200,000 ¥12,012,000,000
2005 1,012,209 52,634,868 ¥12,632,368,320 ¥240
2006 998,198 51,906,296 ¥12,457,511,040
2007 981,229 51,023,908 ¥12,245,737,920
2008 940,817 48,922,484 ¥11,741,396,160
2009 857,013 44,564,676 ¥10,695,522,240
2010 807,871 42,009,292 ¥10,082,230,080
January 2011 to September 2011 725,235 28,284,165 ¥6,788,199,600
October 2011 to September 2012 665,407 34,601,164 ¥8,304,279,360
October 2012 to September 2013 607,920 31,611,840 ¥7,586,841,600
October 2013 to September 2014 537,105 27,929,460 ¥6,703,070,400
October 2014 to September 2015 450,417 23,421,684 ¥5,621,204,160
October 2015 to September 2016 415,592 21,610,784 ¥5,186,588,160
October 2016 to September 2017 394,829 20,531,108 ¥4,927,465,920
October 2017 to September 2018 361,946 18,821,192 ¥4,517,086,080
1986 to September 2018 1,097,847 1,869,632,921 ¥392,375,101,040 ($4.862 billion) ¥210

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