Weekly Shōnen Sunday
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Japanese manga magazine
Key facts
- Editor
- Kazunori Oshima
- Former editors
- Takenori Ichihara
- Categories
- Shōnen manga
- Frequency
- Weekly
- Circulation
- 120,000 (December 2025)
- First issue
- March 17, 1959 ; 67 years ago ( 1959-03-17 )
- Company
- Shogakukan
- Country
- Japan
- Language
- Japanese
- Website
- Official website
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- manga magazine
- Field of work
- manga
- Country of origin
- Japan
- Publisher
- Shogakukan
- Official website
- websunday.net
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Encyclopedic overview
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
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Weekly Shōnen Sunday” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.