I think that sales will decline much saw what happened in Japan
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I think that sales will decline much saw what happened in Japan
I agree. It's not only because the readers aren't buying them, the publishing company probably published less issues than usual. There was issue with the power outages and transportation as well.Quote:
Originally Posted by tarouch
The format seems to be dying. Has been for years, the publishers don't seem willing to accept it though. This is a twenty year trend, not anything new. All the same it is sad to see a magazine as great as Afternoon dip below 100,000. Very, very sad.
I found a magazine circulation from April to June on 2011:
Kodansha:
Monthly Shonen Magazine = 768,334
Weekly Shonen Magazine = 1,491,500
Magazine Special = 64,000
Monthly Shonen Sirius = 12,000
Monthly Shonen Rival = 58,667
Afternoon = 95,000
Evening = 131,667
Morning = 317,084
Morning 2 = 27,000
Young Magazine = 707,834
Nakayoshi = 188,334
Bessatsu Friend = 80,000
Kiss = 99,334
The Dessert = 87,500
Dessert = 69,667
Be Love = 134,000
Aria = 12,000
Shueisha:
Ultra Jump = 75,000
Weekly Shonen Jump = 2,825,000
Jump Square = 332,000
Weekly Young Jump = 675,637
Super Jump = 201,667
Business Jump = 238,500
The Margaret = 108,000
Bessatsu Margaret = 225,000
Margaret = 76,500
Ribon = 198,000
Office You = 86,400
Cookie = 85,500
Chorus = 105,000
You = 127,800
Shogakukan:
Corocoro Comic = 763,334
Sunday GX = 22,000
Weekly Shonen Sunday = 605,000
Shonen Sunday Super = 15,000
Bessatsu Corocoro Comics Special = 155,000
Gessan = 46,334
Ikki = 11,000
Big Comic = 431,500
Big Comic Original = 673,000
Big Comic Spirits = 244,000
Big Comic Superior = 180,834
Shojo Comic = 163,000
Cheese! = 88,667
Ciao = 606,667
Betsucomi = 78,667
Puchi Comic = 101,334
Flowers = 32,667
Shodensha:
Feel Young = 32,267
Hakuensha:
Young Animal = 160,417
Young Animal Arashi = 139,100
Hana to Yume = 185,034
Bessatsu Hana to Yume = 59,934
Lala = 158,500
Lala DX = 71,200
Silky = 51,000
Melody = 49,600
Kadokawa Group Publishing:
Shonen Ace = 64,000
Dragon Age = 32,367
Gundam Ace = 131,667
Asuka = 29,667
Ciel = 35,000
Leed-sha:
Comic Ran = 203,410
Comic Ran Twins = 127,167
Comic Ran Twins Sengoku Bushou Retsuden = 81,615
Nice to see Ultra Jump's circulation is going up.
I heard when Jojolion started they had to do a re-printing of that UJ issue because they all sold out.
Ikki's circulation is only 11,000? are seinen magazine don't have to rely on magazine sales? How can that survives? And also looking at the circulations, the one who have the best selling shonen and seinen are Shueisha and Kodansha. Shogakukan's really losing it.
And where's Comic Beam where my favorite manga of all time (Desert Punk) is being published?
Super Jump = 201,667
Business Jump = 238,500
Super Jump and Business Jump merged into single semi-monthly magazine called Grand Jump start in November. Super Jump #21-22 and Business Jump #21-22 will last issues on sale on October 5th (BJ) and October 12th (SJ), according to sitomi_r4 at ustream.tv chat. Please anyone can confirm? Also she mention Jump Kai start in Spring 2012.
Going by these numbers, Monthly Shonen Magazine is the fourth largest shonen anthology?
Monthly Shounen Magazine should be number three, behind Weekly Jump and Weekly Magazine only (unless I am missing something). Sunday is number four, Corocoro is a kids magazine, not shounen.
Monthly Shonen Magazine is third highest selling manga magazine which is kind of suprising for me because I don't recall any series from MSM that is high enough to lead the magazine (I know there are some series that regularly makes Oricon top 30, but not as high as Fair Tail or Ahiru no Sora).Quote:
Originally Posted by Kaiten
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I have a question, but I'm not sure whether this is right place.
Is increase of price for magazine means that the magazine is expanding its page number or a financial reason?
Could be as simple an explanation as readers buy the magazine but don't buy the tankobon. For me it is harder to grasp the monthlies circulation due to how rare it is for any series to be scanlated or licensed. There are a few but Beck was the last one I can remember that was very well known.Quote:
Originally Posted by Negative Syndicate
Could be a lot of reasons: rising costs, change of demographic, change of release schedule. It would have to be a dramatic rise in the number of pages to warrant charging more money. That does not happen very often and a rise in price, if there is one, would reflect serializing more manga rather than the paper cost, which would be a marginal expense.Quote:
I have a question, but I'm not sure whether this is right place.
Is increase of price for magazine means that the magazine is expanding its page number or a financial reason?
Sunday finally drops to 50s range. I think Sunday is getting danger if keeps doing this.
i agree but its funny how it starts going down once kekkaishi ends maybe it was a large reason for people buying it and now that its gone theres no need to buy it but its probably something else.Quote:
Originally Posted by Negative Syndicate
I'm not sure. Sunday did lost Kekkaishi's fan, but the editors replaced with Arakawa's fan. I think main problem is Sunday doesn't really have high selling series than Jump and Magazine.Quote:
Originally Posted by OPN