is a bi-monthly shōnen

Shonen

The term refers to manga marketed to a male audience aged roughly 10 and up. The Kanji characters literally mean "few" and "year", respectively, where the characters generally mean "comic"...

 manga

Manga

Manga is the Japanese word for "comics" and consists of comics and print cartoons . In the West, the term "manga" has been appropriated to refer specifically to comics created in Japan, or by Japanese authors, in the Japanese language and conforming to the style developed in Japan in the late 19th...

 magazine

Magazine

Magazines, periodicals, glossies or serials are publications, generally published on a regular schedule, containing a variety of articles. They are generally financed by advertising, by a purchase price, by pre-paid magazine subscriptions, or all three...

 published by Shogakukan

Shogakukan

is a Japanese publisher of dictionaries, literature, manga, non-fiction, DVDs, and other media in Japan.Shogakukan founded Shueisha which founded Hakusensha. These are three separate companies, but are together called the Hitotsubashi Group, one of the largest publishing groups in Japan...

.

History & Background

Originally billed as a special edition of Shōnen Sunday

Shonen Sunday

, first published on March 17, 1959, is a weekly shōnen manga magazine published in Japan by Shogakukan. Contrary to its title, Weekly Shōnen Sunday issues are released on Wednesdays.- History :...

entitled Shōnen Sunday Zōkan, it was renamed Shōnen Sunday Super in 1995. It is often the home of short term serials by established Shogakukan

Shogakukan

is a Japanese publisher of dictionaries, literature, manga, non-fiction, DVDs, and other media in Japan.Shogakukan founded Shueisha which founded Hakusensha. These are three separate companies, but are together called the Hitotsubashi Group, one of the largest publishing groups in Japan...

 artists, as well as a place to break in new, up-and-coming Japanese manga artist

Mangaka

is the Japanese word for a comic artist or cartoonist. Outside of Japan, manga usually refers to a Japanese comic book and mangaka refers to the author of the manga, who is usually Japanese...

. In April 2004 the magazine switched from being published monthly to bi-monthly.

It is not uncommon for a series to transfer to Shōnen Sunday if it becomes popular, such as Hiroyuki Nishimori

Hiroyuki Nishimori

is a Japanese manga artist. His series Cheeky Angel won the Shogakukan Manga Award for shōnen in 2001, and has been translated into English by Viz Media....

's Kyō Kara Ore Wa!!

Kyo Kara Ore Wa!!

is a shōnen manga by Hiroyuki Nishimori. The series was initially published in Shōnen Sunday Super running monthly from 1988 volume 9 through 1990 volume 38. The series was then promoted to the weekly magazine Shōnen Sunday from 1990 volume 40 through 1997 volume 47...

 and Takuya Mitsuda

Takuya Mitsuda

is a Japanese manga artist from Fukuyama City, Hiroshima Prefecture. He has published his works primarily in Shogakukan's manga magazine, Shōnen Sunday....

'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

Tankobon

, with a literal meaning close to "independently appearing book", is the Japanese term for a book that is complete in itself and is not part of a series , though the manga industry uses it for volumes which may be in a series...

 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

Mangaka

is the Japanese word for a comic artist or cartoonist. Outside of Japan, manga usually refers to a Japanese comic book and mangaka refers to the author of the manga, who is usually Japanese...

 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

Cheeky Angel

is a comedy romance action manga series by Hiroyuki Nishimori. The story revolves around the adventures of 15-year old schoolgirl Megumi Amatsuka, a popular and beautiful tomboy that always get into fights with a secret: she used to be a boy. Originally a serial in Shōnen Sunday, it has been...

 and D-Live!!

D-Live!!

is Ryōji Minagawa's manga series made after Project ARMS, published in Shogakukan's Weekly Shonen Sunday magazine. The story is about Satoru Ikaruga, a high school kid multi-driver nicknamed "genius driver" who can drive almost any vehicle, working for a multinational specialist company called the...

 (pictured above), which both had a chapter published in Shōnen Sunday Super following their conclusion in Weekly Shōnen Sunday.

Past Series

• 1978-1980
  • Phantom Burai written by Buronson with art by Kaoru Shintani
    Kaoru Shintani
    is a Japanese manga artist. Shintani is best known for his series Area 88, which is widely recognized as one of the finest aviator comic titles in the history of manga. In addition to his very popular pilot comics, Shintani has successfully ventured into science fiction, fantasy, comedy, and hentai...
    
     1978.4
  • Nine
    Nine (manga)
    is a baseball manga series by Mitsuru Adachi. It was serialized in Monthly Shōnen Sunday Zōkan from the October 1978 through May 1979 issues. The series was adapted into three television anime movies and a live-action television drama...
    
    by Mitsuru Adachi
    Mitsuru Adachi
    is a Japanese manga artist. After graduating from Gunma Prefectural Maebashi Commercial High School in 1969, Adachi worked as an assistant for Isami Ishii. He made his manga debut in 1970 with Kieta Bakuon, based on a manga originally created by Satoru Ozawa...
    
     1978.10
• 1981
  • Chance by Kei Satomi 1981.10
  • Justy
    Cosmo Police Justy
    is a science fiction anime OVA released on July 20, 1985 in Japan. The anime is based on a manga by Tsuguo Okazaki which ran in Shōnen Sunday Super...
    
     by Tsuguo Okazaki 1981.11
• 1982
  • Kaze no Senshi Dan written by Tetsu Kariya with art by Kazuhiko Shimamoto
    Kazuhiko Shimamoto
    is a Japanese manga artist. He attended college at the Osaka University of Arts in the fine arts department. While in college in 1982, he debuted in the February special issue of Shōnen Sunday with Hissatsu no Denkousei. At this point he dropped out of college and devoted his energies to becoming a...
    
     1982.6
  • Saraba Jinrui by Noboru Rokuda
    Noboru Rokuda
    is a Japanese manga artist. He made his professional debut in 1978 with Saigo Test, for which he won the Shogakukan New Artist Award. He won the 1991 Shogakukan Manga Award for general manga for F.- Works :...
    
     1982.7
• 1983
  • Takeru by Osamu Ishiwata
    Osamu Ishiwata
    is a Japanese manga artist. He won the 1989 Shogakukan Manga Award for shōnen for B.B. The manga artist Yoshitomo Yoshimoto is his younger brother.-External links:...
    
     1983.4
  • Night by Mitsuo Hashimoto
    Mitsuo Hashimoto (manga artist)
    is a Japanese manga artist. After winning an honorable mention at the 11th Tezuka Awards in 1976 for his work Mīnya no Negai, he made his professional debut the following year in a special issue of Weekly Shōnen Jump with his work...
    
     1983.4
  • Prefectural Earth Defense Force
    Prefectural Earth Defense Force
    is a manga series by Kōichirō Yasunaga which ran in Shōnen Sunday Super beginning in 1983. The manga was written as a parody gag manga inspired by the tokusatsu series Ultra Seven. An anime OVA based on the manga was released in 1986...
    
     by Kōichirō Yasunaga
    Koichiro Yasunaga
    is a Japanese manga artist who made his debut in Shōnen Sunday in 1980. He's best known for his manga titled Prefectural Earth Defense Force.-Works:*MM Little Morning *Prefectural Earth Defense Force...
    
     1983.4
• 1984
  • Striker Retsuden by Takeshi Miya 1984.5
• 1985
  • Birdy the Mighty
    Birdy the Mighty
    is a manga by Masami Yuki, who is best known for producing the long-running series Patlabor. His initial work on the series was quickly abandoned, but it was made into an anime, which was produced and, on the last episode, scripted by Yoshiaki Kawajiri, who is known for anime titles such as Vampire...
    
    by Yuki Masami 1985.1 (serialization continued in Young Sunday)
• 1986
  • Maboroshi Umaboroshi by Katsu Aki
    Katsu Aki
    , pen name , is a Japanese manga artist best known for his works The Vision of Escaflowne, Futari Ecchi, and Psychic Academy. Mine Yoshizaki is one of Aki's former assistants.-Manga creations:...
    
     1986.2
  • Caravan Kidd
    Caravan Kidd
    is a shōnen science fiction manga by Johji Manabe. It was published in the United States and Canada in English by Dark Horse Comics.-Plot:Wataru and his partner Babo, two black market merchants with no morals to speak of, get caught up in a battle between the Helgebard Empire and the mysterious...
    
    by Johji Manabe
    Johji Manabe
    is a Japanese manga artist.He is not to be confused with an animator of the same name , who worked mainly in the 1970s for Oh! Production: A Dog of Flanders, Genshi Shōnen Ryû, Marco, Dokonjō Gaeru, King Arthur, Galaxy Express 999, Lupin the 3rd: Season 1, Lupin the 3rd: The Castle of Cagliostro,...
    
     1986.8
  • Yagami-kun no Katei Jijo by Kei Kusunoki
    Kei Kusunoki
    , real name , is a Japanese manga artist best known for her horror and comedy manga series. She debuted in 1982 in Ribon Original with Nanika ga Kanojo Tōri Tsuita?. Her twin-sister Kaoru Ōhashi also works as a manga artist.- Works :...
    
     1986.11
• 1987
  • Magic Kaito
    Magic Kaito
    is a shōnen manga series written and illustrated by Gosho Aoyama, about a thief named . Aoyama stopped work on the manga after three volumes because he started Detective Conan , which was an instant hit, and where a version of Kaitou Kid and some related characters makes occasional appearances...
    
    by Gosho Aoyama
    Gosho Aoyama
    , born on June 21, 1963 in Hokuei, Tottori Prefecture, Japan is a Japanese manga artist. He is best known as the creator of the manga series Detective Conan .-Educational background:Aoyama was talented in drawing even at an early age...
    
     1987.11 (published intermittently)
• 1988
  • Seventeen Cop written by Toshiyuki Tanabe with art by Yu Nakahara  1988.1
  • Kyō Kara Ore Wa!!
    Kyo Kara Ore Wa!!
    is a shōnen manga by Hiroyuki Nishimori. The series was initially published in Shōnen Sunday Super running monthly from 1988 volume 9 through 1990 volume 38. The series was then promoted to the weekly magazine Shōnen Sunday from 1990 volume 40 through 1997 volume 47...
    
    by Hiroyuki Nishimori
    Hiroyuki Nishimori
    is a Japanese manga artist. His series Cheeky Angel won the Shogakukan Manga Award for shōnen in 2001, and has been translated into English by Viz Media....
    
     1988.9 (moved to Shōnen Sunday
    Shonen Sunday
    , first published on March 17, 1959, is a weekly shōnen manga magazine published in Japan by Shogakukan. Contrary to its title, Weekly Shōnen Sunday issues are released on Wednesdays.- History :...
    
    )
  • Kenta Yarimasu! by Takuya Mitsuda
    Takuya Mitsuda
    is a Japanese manga artist from Fukuyama City, Hiroshima Prefecture. He has published his works primarily in Shogakukan's manga magazine, Shōnen Sunday....
    
     1988.11 (moved to Shōnen Sunday
    Shonen Sunday
    , first published on March 17, 1959, is a weekly shōnen manga magazine published in Japan by Shogakukan. Contrary to its title, Weekly Shōnen Sunday issues are released on Wednesdays.- History :...
    
    )
• 1989
  • Seishun Tiebreak! by Harumi Matsuzaki 1989.10
  • Kojiro by Kenichi Muraeda
    Kenichi Muraeda
    is a Japanese manga artist. He created the manga series Kamen Rider Spirits.-Works:* "Koujirou" * "Oretachi no Field" * "Red" * "Kamoshika!" * "Kamen Rider Spirits"* "Muraeda Kenichi Tanpenshuu"...
    
     1989.11
• 1990
  • RATS by Masahiko Nakahira
    Masahiko Nakahira
    is a manga artist from Kōchi City, Japan. He is best known for his numerous manga adaptations of the popular fighting game series Street Fighter...
    
    
  • Yugengaisha Shinahyakkaten by Takashi Shiina
    Takashi Shiina
    is a Japanese manga artist who writes primarily for the weekly Shogakukan manga publication Weekly Shōnen Sunday. When he started at the company in 1989, he began with an anthology of various shorts and one-shots collectively known as Shiina Department Store...
    
     1990.2
  • Junk Party by Johji Manabe
    Johji Manabe
    is a Japanese manga artist.He is not to be confused with an animator of the same name , who worked mainly in the 1970s for Oh! Production: A Dog of Flanders, Genshi Shōnen Ryû, Marco, Dokonjō Gaeru, King Arthur, Galaxy Express 999, Lupin the 3rd: Season 1, Lupin the 3rd: The Castle of Cagliostro,...
    
     1990.10
• 1991
  • Sengoku Kōshien by Kōji Kiriyama
    Koji Kiriyama
    is a manga artist who created the Ninku series.-External links:...
    
     1991.1 (moved to Shōnen Sunday
    Shonen Sunday
    , first published on March 17, 1959, is a weekly shōnen manga magazine published in Japan by Shogakukan. Contrary to its title, Weekly Shōnen Sunday issues are released on Wednesdays.- History :...
    
    )
  • Rappa S.S. by Takashi Shiina
    Takashi Shiina
    is a Japanese manga artist who writes primarily for the weekly Shogakukan manga publication Weekly Shōnen Sunday. When he started at the company in 1989, he began with an anthology of various shorts and one-shots collectively known as Shiina Department Store...
    
     1991.1
• 1992
  • Kaitei Jinrui Anchovy by Kōichirō Yasunaga
    Koichiro Yasunaga
    is a Japanese manga artist who made his debut in Shōnen Sunday in 1980. He's best known for his manga titled Prefectural Earth Defense Force.-Works:*MM Little Morning *Prefectural Earth Defense Force...
    
     1992.3
  • Ogre Slayer by Kei Kusunoki
    Kei Kusunoki
    , real name , is a Japanese manga artist best known for her horror and comedy manga series. She debuted in 1982 in Ribon Original with Nanika ga Kanojo Tōri Tsuita?. Her twin-sister Kaoru Ōhashi also works as a manga artist.- Works :...
    
     1992.7
  • Spriggan
    Spriggan (manga)
    is a manga series written by Hiroshi Takashige and illustrated by Ryōji Minagawa during the early 1990s. It was initially released as Striker in the North American English translation, as it is the English translation of the word Spriggan from Celtic.Spriggan takes places in the last years of the...
    
    written by Hiroshi Takashige
    Hiroshi Takashige
    is a Japanese manga artist best known in various manga communities in Japan and overseas for his work in Spriggan and later in Until Death Do Us Part.-Biography:...
    
     with art by Ryoji Minagawa
    Ryoji Minagawa
    ' is a Japanese manga artist born in Sumida, Tokyo.He was invited with Spriggan story writer Hiroshi Takashige to go to a comic convention in Portugal in 1996 as a guest of honor due to his work on Spriggan. He worked on other manga comics before he went on to create Project ARMS with fellow manga...
    
     1992.8 (moved from Shōnen Sunday
    Shonen Sunday
    , first published on March 17, 1959, is a weekly shōnen manga magazine published in Japan by Shogakukan. Contrary to its title, Weekly Shōnen Sunday issues are released on Wednesdays.- History :...
    
    )
• 1993
  • Byakuren no Fang by Yoshihiro Takahashi
    Yoshihiro Takahashi
    is a Japanese manga artist. He writes under a pen name in which his first name Yoshihiro is spelled out in hiragana .Takahashi was born September 18, 1953, in Higashinaruse, Akita. He was very interested in drawing growing up and, in the 60's, started publishing small comics in several newspapers...
    
     1993.3
• 1994
  • Super Street Fighter II
    Super Street Fighter II
    is a head-to-head fighting game produced by Capcom originally released as a coin-operated arcade game in 1993. It is the fourth game in the Street Fighter II sub-series of Street Fighter games, following Street Fighter II: Hyper Fighting...
    
    by Masahiko Nakahira
    Masahiko Nakahira
    is a manga artist from Kōchi City, Japan. He is best known for his numerous manga adaptations of the popular fighting game series Street Fighter...
    
     1994.3
  • Samurai Spirits written by Kyōichi Nanatsuki with art by Yūki Miyoshi 1994.7
• 1995
  • Sodatte Darling!! by Kōji Kumeta
    Kōji Kumeta
    , is a Japanese gag manga artist. His most famous works are Go!! Southern Ice Hockey Club, Katte ni Kaizō and Sayonara Zetsubō Sensei. His other major works include √P Root Paradise, Sodatte Darling!! and...
    
    
• 1996
  • Tennen Senshi G by Naoya Matsumori 1994.3
  • Meibutsu!! Utsukemono Honpo by Pero Sugimoto 1996.3
• 1997
  • Salad Days
    Salad Days (manga)
    is a romantic shōnen manga created by Shinobu Inokuma and serialized in Shōnen Sunday by Shogakukan. The manga is a collection of romance stories in a high school and college setting, covering various aspects of romance and relationships from finding love to dealing with it, and the pain that can...
    
    by Shinobu Inokuma 1997.5 (moved to Shōnen Sunday
    Shonen Sunday
    , first published on March 17, 1959, is a weekly shōnen manga magazine published in Japan by Shogakukan. Contrary to its title, Weekly Shōnen Sunday issues are released on Wednesdays.- History :...
    
    )
  • Windmill by Takashi Hashiguchi
    Takashi Hashiguchi
    is a Japanese manga artist. He is best known for his manga series Yakitate!! Japan, for which he won the Shogakukan Manga Award for shōnen in 2004...
    
     1997.7
  • Dolphin Brain by Reiji Yamada
    Reiji Yamada
    ' is a Japanese manga artist. His first big hit was a romantic comedy , and he is also known for the manga adaptation of Zebraman. He is very concerned with societal problems, and has spent the last several years drawing Zetsubō ni Kiku Kusuri a series of manga interviews with people he believes...
    
     1997.9 (moved from Shōnen Sunday
    Shonen Sunday
    , first published on March 17, 1959, is a weekly shōnen manga magazine published in Japan by Shogakukan. Contrary to its title, Weekly Shōnen Sunday issues are released on Wednesdays.- History :...
    
    )
• 1998
  • TEN MAN by Mondo Takimura 1998.1
• 1999
  • Southern Cross by Michiteru Kusaba 1999.2
  • New Town Heroes by Makoto Raiku
    Makoto Raiku
    is a manga artist whose works have appeared prominently in Shogakukan's publication Shōnen Sunday. Starting off an assistant for Kazuhiro Fujita on his manga Ushio & Tora, he started creating several one-shots for the shōnen manga anthology such as Bird Man , Hero Ba-Ban and Genmai Blade is a...
    
     1999.3
  • Tatakae! Ryōzanpaku Shijō Saikyō no Deshi by Shun Matsuena 1999.3
• 2000
  • Chō Ikusei Shinwa Pagunasu by Ryō Ōkuma 2000.1
• 2001
  • HEAT WAVE by Kazurou Inoue
    Kazurou Inoue
    is a Japanese manga artist.Born May 1, 1970, he received recognition for his manga at the 40th Rookie Comic Awards. After training under Kazuhiro Fujita, he published Heat Wave in Shōnen Sunday Super for a short while....
    
     2001.6
  • Girl Saurus by Kei Kusunoki
    Kei Kusunoki
    , real name , is a Japanese manga artist best known for her horror and comedy manga series. She debuted in 1982 in Ribon Original with Nanika ga Kanojo Tōri Tsuita?. Her twin-sister Kaoru Ōhashi also works as a manga artist.- Works :...
    
     2001.7 (moved to Sunday GX
    Sunday GX
    , often abbreviated as , is a Japanese seinen manga magazine published by Shogakukan.Like many other manga magazines, it's an "anthology magazine" with each issue featuring new chapters of several manga series...
    
    )
  • Shigeshida ☆ Shokun!! by Moritaishi 2001.6
• 2002
  • BREAKTHROUGH! ~Niji no Petal~ by Yōhei Suginobu 2002.2
• 2003
  • Kowashiya Gamon by Shun Fujiki 2002.2 (moved to Shōnen Sunday
    Shonen Sunday
    , first published on March 17, 1959, is a weekly shōnen manga magazine published in Japan by Shogakukan. Contrary to its title, Weekly Shōnen Sunday issues are released on Wednesdays.- History :...
    
    )
  • PEACE MAKER by Shūichirō Satō 2003.12
• 2009
  • Takkoku!!! by Tsubasa Fukuchi
    Tsubasa Fukuchi
    is a Japanese manga artist best known for creating The Law of Ueki and its sequel, The Law of Ueki Plus. His most recent manga Takkoku!!! debuted in March 2009 in Shōnen Sunday Super.The law of Ueki was adapted into a 51 episodes anime series....
    
     2009.3
  • Akira by Shirō Otsuka 2009.3
  • Mahō Gyōshōnin Roma by Toshihiko Kurazono 2009.3
  • Mirai no Football by Eko Yamatoya 2009.3
  • Chōdokyū Shōjo 4946 by Takeshi Azuma 2009.3
  • Ping Pong Rush by Aiko Koyama 2009.3
  • Undead
    Undead
    Undead is a collective name for fictional, mythological, or legendary beings that are deceased and yet behave as if alive. Undead may be incorporeal, such as ghosts, or corporeal, such as vampires and zombies...
    
    by Masashi Terajima 2009.3
  • Samurai High School(manga) by Hiro Kashiwaba 2009.3
  • Shōgaku ni Nyansei by Fujiminosuke Yorozuya 2009.3
  • Mahō no Iroha! by Inoue Kazurou 2009.9
  • Super-Dreadnought Girl 4946
    Super-Dreadnought Girl 4946
    Super-Dreadnought Girl 4946 known in Japan as is a Japanese manga by Azuma Takeshi and serialized in Shogakukan's manga magazine Shōnen Sunday Super....
    
     by Azuma Takeshi 2009.4