Manga culture is constantly evolving and continues to adapt to the needs of readers. However, it is certainly the publishing world that is not enjoying the spread of Japanese culture that continues its downward trend on the print front. A fate that obviously also plays a part Weekly shonen jump.
But not only Weekly Shonen Jump has been affected by this unstoppable decline in circulation Weekly Shonen Sunday and Weekly Shonen Magazine, two of the leading manga magazines alongside Shueisha’s mainstay, face the same situation.
there Association of Japanese Magazine Publishers published the latest sales figures for print magazines on November 13th and reported a steady decline in leading magazines. WSJ had a weekly average of 1,422,766 copies in circulation through July, but in recent months it has dropped to 1,371,818, a low not reached until 1970 and more than a million and a half fewer than the year before . last year.
The same fate as we expected for WSM, which drops to 530,000 copies compared to 610,000 copies in 2020, and WSS, which has dropped below 200,000 copies for the first time in its history. In the case of Jump, the numbers are of course less important as Shueisha invests a lot of resources in Manga Plus, but at the same time the digital format is gradually growing for all of the major Shonen magazines. As for you, what do you think of this data instead? Let us know with a comment below.
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