Monthly Shōnen Magazine

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Monthly Shonen Magazine

Categories	Shōnen manga[1]
Frequency	Monthly
Circulation	408,110[1] (January–March, 2018)
First issue	1964; 57 years ago (1964)
Company	Kodansha
Country	Japan
Language	Japanese

Monthly Shōnen Magazine (月刊少年マガジン, Gekkan Shōnen Magajin) is a monthly shōnen manga magazine published in Japan by Kodansha. It was launched in 1964 under the name Bessatsu Shōnen Magazine (別冊少年マガジン). In 1969 it was retitled as Monthly Bessatsu Shōnen Magazine (月刊別冊少年マガジン) and its publication frequency increased from quarterly to monthly. After suspension in 1974 it started publishing again, in 1975 it was renamed as current magazine title.

It has a supplement magazine called Shōnen Magazine R, which launched in 2015. The magazine originally published a new issue once every two months, until it became a digital-only magazine in October 2019 with a monthly schedule.^[2]

Manga series[]

Currently running manga series[]

Completed series serialized in Monthly Shonen Magazine[]

1970s[]

• Spider-Man: The Manga (writers Kōsei Ono and Kazumasa Hirai, illustrator Ryoichi Ikegami) (January 1970 - September 1971)

1980s[]

• (なんと孫六) () (February 1981 - May 2014)
• Ironfist Chinmi (鉄拳チンミ) (Takeshi Maekawa) (December 1983 - February 1997)
• (名門!多古西応援団) (Juzo Tokoro) (June 1984 - May 1992)
• Shura no Mon (Masatoshi Kawahara) (April 1987 - November 1996)
• (あきら翔ぶ!!) () (1989 - 1996)
• () (1989 - 1996)
• Dear Boys () (16 December 1989 - 17 March 1997)

1990s[]

• Ryūrōden (龍狼伝) (Yoshito Yamahara) (1993 - 2007)
• (Hiroki Yagami) (1997 -2008)
• New Ironfist Chinmi (鉄拳チンミ) (Takeshi Maekawa) (1997 to 2004)
• Beck (ベック) (Harold Sakuishi) (November 1999 - April 2008)

2000s[]

• (遮那王義経) () (November 2000 - May 2007)
• Capeta (カペタ, Kapeta) (Masahito Soda) (March 2003 - March 2013)
• Rocket Man (ロケットマン) (Motohiro Katou) (October 6, 2001 - December 6, 2004)
• () (2002 - April 6, 2011)
• Alive: The Final Evolution (アライブ-最終進化的少年, Araibu - Saishū Shinkateki Shōnen) (Tadashi Kawashima) (October 2003 - February 6, 2010)
• (米豊TIMES) (December 6, 2005 - August 6, 2007)
• (遮那王義経 源平の合戦) () (July 2007 - April 2015)
• (Hiroki Yagami) (December 2008 - December 2015)
• C.M.B. ~Shinra Hakubutsukan no Jiken Mokuroku~ (C.M.B. 森羅博物館の事件目録) (Motohiro Katou) ( October 2005 - August 2020)

2010s[]

• Shura no Mon Iden Fudekage (修羅の門異伝 ふでかげ) (Masatoshi Kawahara) (2010-2014)
• Your Lie in April (四月は君の嘘, Shigatsu wa Kimi no Uso) (Naoshi Arakawa) (April 6, 2011-February 6, 2015)
• Dear Boys: Over Time (Hiroki Yagami) (February 2016–January 6, 2017)
• Kakushigoto (かくしごと) (Kōji Kumeta) (December 2015-July 2020)
• Sayonara Watashi no Cramer (さよなら私のクラマー) (Naoshi Arakawa) (May 2016-December 2020)

References[]

External links[]

• Monthly Shōnen Magazine Website (in Japanese)