Shōnen Sunday Super
Shōnen Sunday Super (少年サンデー超, Shōnen Sandē Sūpā) is a monthly shōnen manga magazine published by Shogakukan in Tokyo.
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![]() The cover of Shōnen Sunday Super 2005.7 with Ryoji Minagawa's D-Live!! supplemental series. | |
Categories | Shōnen manga[1] |
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Frequency | Monthly (1978–2004) Bi-monthly (2004–2009) Monthly (2009–) |
Circulation | 19,667[1] (July–September, 2016) |
First issue | 1978 |
Company | Shogakukan |
Country | Japan |
Based in | Tokyo |
Language | Japanese |
Website | http://websunday.net/super |
History and background
Originally billed as a special edition of Weekly Shōnen Sunday entitled Shōnen Sunday Zōkan, it was renamed Shōnen Sunday Super in 1995. It is often the home of short term serials by established Shogakukan artists, as well as a place to break in new, up-and-coming Japanese manga artist. In April 2004 the magazine switched from being published monthly to bi-monthly. It was bi-monthly from 2004 to 2009, it has since changed back to monthly. In January 2012, the magazine changed its name to simply Shōnen Sunday S.[2]
It is not uncommon for a series to transfer to Shōnen Sunday if it becomes popular, such as Hiroyuki Nishimori's Kyō Kara Ore Wa!! and Takuya Mitsuda's Kenta Yarimasu!. Both of these artists debuted in Shōnen Sunday Super, only to "graduate" to the more popular Shōnen Sunday, where they are still published currently.
When works from this magazine are collected into tankōbon format, they are published under the same Shōnen Sunday Comics label as the titles that appear in Weekly Shōnen Sunday, making the titles' source magazine indistinguishable once collected. This was purposefully done in case a title was transferred from Shōnen Sunday Super to Weekly Shōnen Sunday.
Frequently artists that have graduated to Weekly Shōnen Sunday will have posters or calendars of their weekly series featured in Shōnen Sunday Super. Another common practice is for former Shōnen Sunday Super manga artists to contribute a single supplemental chapter of a hit series to this magazine, even if that series was serialized entirely in Weekly Shōnen Sunday. Examples include Cheeky Angel and D-Live!! (pictured above), which both had a chapter published in Shōnen Sunday Super following their conclusion in Weekly Shōnen Sunday.[3]
Past series
- 1978-1980
- Phantom Burai, written by Buronson with art by Kaoru Shintani
- Nine by Mitsuru Adachi
- 1981
- Chance by Kei Satomi
- Justy by Tsuguo Okazaki
- 1982
- Kaze no Senshi Dan, written by Tetsu Kariya with art by Kazuhiko Shimamoto
- Saraba Jinrui by Noboru Rokuda
- 1983
- Takeru by Osamu Ishiwata
- Night by Mitsuo Hashimoto
- Prefectural Earth Defense Force by Kōichirō Yasunaga
- 1984
- Striker Retsuden by Takeshi Miya
- 1985
- Birdy the Mighty by Yuki Masami (moved to Young Sunday)
- 1986
- Maboroshi Umaboroshi by Katsu Aki
- Caravan Kidd by Johji Manabe
- Yagami-kun no Katei Jijo by Kei Kusunoki
- 1987
- Magic Kaito by Gosho Aoyama (published intermittently)
- 1988
- Seventeen Cop, written by Toshiyuki Tanabe with art by Yu Nakahara
- Kyō Kara Ore Wa!! by Hiroyuki Nishimori (moved to Weekly Shōnen Sunday)
- Kenta Yarimasu! by Takuya Mitsuda (moved to Weekly Shōnen Sunday)
- 1989
- Seishun Tiebreak! by Harumi Matsuzaki
- Kojiro by Kenichi Muraeda
- 1990
- RATS by Masahiko Nakahira
- Yugengaisha Shinahyakkaten by Takashi Shiina
- Junk Party by Johji Manabe
- 1991
- Sengoku Kōshien by Kōji Kiriyama (moved to Weekly Shōnen Sunday)
- Rappa S.S. by Takashi Shiina
- 1992
- Kaitei Jinrui Anchovy by Kōichirō Yasunaga
- Ogre Slayer by Kei Kusunoki
- Spriggan, written by Hiroshi Takashige with art by Ryoji Minagawa (moved from Weekly Shōnen Sunday)
- 1993
- Byakuren no Fang by Yoshihiro Takahashi
- 1994
- Super Street Fighter II by Masahiko Nakahira
- Samurai Spirits, written by Kyōichi Nanatsuki with art by Yūki Miyoshi
- 1995
- Sodatte Darling!! by Kōji Kumeta
- 1996
- Tennen Senshi G by Naoya Matsumori
- Meibutsu!! Utsukemono Honpo by Pero Sugimoto
- 1997
- Salad Days by Shinobu Inokuma (moved to Weekly Shōnen Sunday)
- Windmill by Takashi Hashiguchi
- Dolphin Brain by Reiji Yamada (moved from Weekly Shōnen Sunday)
- 1998
- TEN MAN by Mondo Takimura
- 1999
- Southern Cross by Michiteru Kusaba
- New Town Heroes by Makoto Raiku
- Tatakae! Ryōzanpaku Shijō Saikyō no Deshi by Shun Matsuena
- 2000
- Chō Ikusei Shinwa Pagunasu by Ryō Ōkuma
- 2001
- HEAT WAVE by Kazurou Inoue
- Girls Saurus by Kei Kusunoki (moved to Monthly Sunday Gene-X)
- Shigeshida ☆ Shokun!! by Moritaishi
- 2002
- BREAKTHROUGH! ~Niji no Petal~ by Yōhei Suginobu
- 2003
- Kowashiya Gamon by Shun Fujiki (moved to Weekly Shōnen Sunday)
- PEACE MAKER by Shūichirō Satō
- 2009
- Takkoku!!! by Tsubasa Fukuchi
- Akira by Shirō Otsuka
- Mahō Gyōshōnin Roma by Toshihiko Kurazono
- Mirai no Football by Eko Yamatoya
- Chōdokyū Shōjo 4946 by Takeshi Azuma
- Ping Pong Rush by Aiko Koyama
- Undead by Masashi Terajima
- Samurai High School by Hiro Kashiwaba
- Shōgaku ni Nyansei by Fujiminosuke Yorozuya
- Mahō no Iroha! by Inoue Kazurou
- Super-Dreadnought Girl 4946 by Azuma Takeshi
- 2013
- The Unlimited: Hyobu Kyousuke by Rokurou Ogaki
References
- "Boy's Manga" (in Japanese). Japanese Magazine Publishers Association. September 2016. Retrieved November 6, 2016.
- サンデー超リニューアル、コナン劇場版のマンガ化など. Natalie (in Japanese). January 25, 2012. Retrieved May 15, 2020.
- "Cheeky Angel Page". Cheeky Angel Page. December 7, 2007.