Japanese comics, or manga, are a popular form of popular entertainment culture in the land of the rising sun along with anime. Both manga and anime have popularity, profound and widespread influence not only in their home country but also occupy an important position in many countries around the globe. If you love and are passionate about anime - manga culture, you should not miss Japanese comic magazines! This is the place that introduced, gave birth and made many manga series famous, gaining a passionate appeal to be adapted into anime or many other follow-up entertainment products. So which Japanese comic magazines do you know? Let's take a look at some of the top Japanese comic magazines with topshare that have captivated fans!

1. Weekly Shonen Jump

Weekly Shonen Jump is a leading Japanese comic magazine for fans launched by Shueisha, first published on July 2, 1968, Weekly Shonen Jump maintains the title of the longest-selling magazine in Japan. Version from then until now. It is mainly aimed at young males because the manga appearing in the magazine shows action, comedy or vehicle content. Weekly Shonen Jump was most popular in the 80s and 90s, since then it has seen a decline in sales with only 2.4 million copies sold at the beginning of 2015 compared to 6.53 million copies sold previously. Weekly Shonen Jump's competitors are Weekly Shonen Magazine and Weekly Shonen Sunday. Once a year, Weekly Shonen Jump holds a contest for all new mangakas to write short stories. The top picks are judged by many fellow mangakas of different generations, with the winner taking home a crown and a special award for the best series. Currently, some famous manga titles from Weekly Shonen Jump include: Assassination Classroom, Black Clover, Bleach,...

2. Weekly Shonen Magazine

Weekly Shonen Magazine is a leading Japanese manga magazine owned by Kodansha, first published on March 17, 1959. It caters primarily to an older audience, but also includes many high school boys. and college read it. Most of Weekly Shonen Magazine's success was in the 70s, it had pretty good sales; however, that position was eventually taken over by Weekly Shonen Jump in 1968 when Jump was founded. Luckily, it made a comeback in the 90s after Jump lost the popular Dragon Ball franchise, at which point it started to earn more revenue. Some manga series appearing in Weekly Shonen Magazine: Acma:Game, Ahiru no Sora, Aho Girl,...

3. CoroCoro Comic

CoroCoro Comic is the leading Japanese comic magazine for fans. This magazine releases issues once a month on the 15th, starting with the first issue published on May 15, 1955. Each issue is 750 pages long. CoroCoro Comic is a magazine related to very famous Japanese pop culture icons such as Doraemon or Pokemon and famous anime + video game series. The main target audience for the magazine is boys of elementary school age. It has two “sister” magazines including Bessatsu CoroCoro and CoroCoro Ichiban!, which are published bimonthly. When CoroCoro Comic first launched, it was intended as a magazine for Japan's most popular manga, Doraemon. It also often advertises toys or video games related to some other famous manga series such as Pocket Monsters (Pokemon). Part of the huge success that Pokemon achieved was due to this comic magazine because initially you could only buy the game through the magazine, which also helped increase sales of the magazine. Some manga that have appeared on CoroCoro Comic: Mario-kun, Pocket Monsters / Pokemon, CoroCoro Manga College,...

4. Monthly Shonen Magazine

Monthly Shonen Magazine is a leading Japanese comic magazine published by Kodansha, the first issue was released in 1964. Initially, it was called Bessatsu Shonen Magazine and later changed its name to Monthly Bessatsu Shonen Magazine in 1969. Finally, in 1975, its name was changed for the last time to the current Monthly Shonen Magazine. Issues used to be published quarterly, but then it changed to monthly. Some manga titles that can be named in this magazine include: Nanto Magoroku, C.M.B. ~ Shinra Hakubutsukan no Jiken Mokuroku ~, Tekken Chinmi Legends,...

5. Weekly Young Magazine

Weekly Young Magazine is a leading Japanese manga magazine launched in 1980 on June 23, published by Kodansha, it is a "seinen manga" magazine, meaning it is aimed at young males. The cover of Weekly Young Magazine usually features a gravure idol or a model who mainly poses in swimsuits or lingerie, and they also appear on a few pages inside the magazine. . Some best-selling manga titles in this magazine are Kurohyo: Ryu ga Gotoku Shinsho, Winning Ticket, Kecchin,...

6. Weekly Young Jump

Weekly Young Jump is a leading Japanese manga magazine launched in 1979, published by Shueisha, it releases weekly issues and features multiple manga titles in each book. It includes two special issues: Miracle Jump, which appears monthly, and Aoharu, which appears sporadically. It also has three sister magazines named Ultra Jump, Grand Jump and Jump Up to now, 27 manga titles have appeared in this comic magazine, including: 87 Clockers, Amano-ke Yotsugo wa Ketsuekigata ga Zenin Chigau and Fairy Girls.

7. Ciao

Ciao is a leading Japanese manga magazine in the shoujo genre aimed at young girls between the ages of 9 and 15 who enjoy reading stories about romantic relationships and other topics such as science or history. . Ciao is one of the unique magazines because it has some featured items such as paper crafts, makeup, watches, notebooks, pencils, etc. A different section is attached every month . Ciao launched its first issue in 1977.

8. Big Comic Original

Big Comic Original is a leading Japanese comic magazine published by Shogakukan, first launched in 1972, this comic magazine is aimed at adult men, the majority of its readers are male. Big Comic Original is the "sister" magazine to Big Comic (sold twice a week, while Big Comic Original only sells every two months). The magazine has published more than 1,000 issues and most issues have had over 350 pages printed in black and white. Not only that, the cover often has a picture of a cat or a dog accompanied by a haiku poem. More than 83% of the magazine's readers are over thirty years old, with only about a quarter of readers being female.

9. Weekly Shonen Sunday

Weekly Shonen Sunday is a leading Japanese comic magazine whose title is related to "Sunday", but its issues are released every Wednesday. It originally debuted every Tuesday, but was changed to Wednesdays in 2011. Weekly Shonen Sunday had its first issue in March 1959 published by Shogakukan. Weekly Shonen Sunday competed directly with Weekly Shonen Magazine. As the magazine celebrates its 55th anniversary, 55 new manga titles were launched in Weekly Shonen Sunday, Shonen Sunday S, Ura Sunday and Club Sunday both online and in print throughout 2014. Some best-selling manga titles include: Asaoka Koko Yakyubu Nisshi - Over Fence, Ane Log Moyako Neesan no Tomaranai Monologue, Arata Kangatari〜Engaku Kōgatari〜, ...

10. Weekly Manga Goraku

Weekly Manga Goraku is a leading Japanese manga magazine that has published an issue every Friday since its debut in 1968. Weekly Manga Goraku is published by a company called Nihon Bungeisha, it is mainly aimed more at middle-aged men.

11. Weekly Shonen Champion

Weekly Shonen Champion is a leading Japanese comic magazine with the appearance of many famous mangakas such as Go Nagai, Masami Kurumada, Osamu Tezuka,... The first issue of Weekly Shonen Champion was released on July 15, 1969 and is published every Thursday by Akita Shoten. Some famous manga titles related to Weekly Shonen Champion, for example: Apocalypse Zero, Black Jack, Cutie Honey,...

12. Big Comic

Big Comic is a leading Japanese comic magazine for fans published by Shogakukan, the first issue of which was released on February 29, 1968. When it was first established, the magazine published once a month, but started began releasing every two months since April 1968. For more than 40 years, the front cover of Big Comic has always displayed a portrait of a famous person drawn by mangaka named Higurashi Shuichi, but the artist had to retire due to declining health. This manga magazine has published many series created by famous artists including Takao Saito's Golgo 13, which is the oldest manga series still in print.

13. Big Comic

Launched on November 2, 2007, Jump Square is a leading Japanese manga magazine that releases a new issue once a month. Most of its content mainly deals with manga. It is the replacement magazine for Monthly Shonen Jump after it was discontinued by Shueisha in June 2007. Like all monthly shonen magazines, Jump Square caters to people between the ages of 16 and 21. . When the magazine first launched, over 500,000 copies were sold out in just three days, 70% of the 500,000 copies sold were due to extremely popular demand, hundreds of thousands more were reserved to fans, which is unusual for magazines in Japan. Some manga titles that Jump Square currently has: Ao no Exorcist, Gate 7 and Platinum End.

14. Weekly Morning

Weekly Morning is a leading Japanese manga magazine for adult men that first issued in 1982 and is published by Kodansha. When it first launched in 1982, it was initially called Comic Morning, but eventually changed its name to Weekly Morning. Another name by which it is known is simply Morning. Unlike other magazines that publish once a month or once every two weeks, this comic magazine releases one issue every week. There are currently many series appearing on Weekly Morning, for example: Billy Bat, Cooking Papa, and Giant Killing.

15. Weekly Manga Sunday

Weekly Manga Sunday is a leading Japanese comic magazine for fans, also known by the moniker Mansun. Weekly Manga Sunday was discontinued on February 19, 2013. Weekly Manga Sunday released its first issue. first in 1959 and published by Jitsugyo no Nihon Sha. During its existence, the manga magazine periodically released an issue once a week, but on June 5, 2012, it began publishing only twice a month, with the masthead also removed. the word “Weekly”. Ultimately, the publishing company decided to discontinue the magazine the following February.

With not a small amount of time in existence and the reputation that Japanese comic magazines have built, they increasingly bring a profound and broad influence, even associated with the beautiful youth memories of many people. readers belong to different generations. Above topshare only mentioned some of the top and most famous Japanese comic magazines, there are many other interesting Japanese comic magazine titles waiting for you to discover!

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