Mag Talk Magazine Sales

[Kaizou 10]

Magazine Circulation from July to September on 2013:

Kodansha:
Monthly Shonen Magazine = 657,334
Weekly Shonen Magazine = 1,324,209
Magazine Special = 58,000
Monthly Shonen Sirius = 17,334
Monthly Shonen Rival = 48,000
Afternoon = 85,000
Evening = 118,667
Morning = 291,050
Morning 2 = 19,500
Young Magazine = 576,500
Nakayoshi = 163,334
Bessatsu Friend = 71,480
Kiss = 84,000
The Dessert = 55,000
Dessert = 53,834
Be Love = 119,334
Aria = 13,667

Shueisha:
Ultra Jump = 55,000
Weekly Shonen Jump = 2,779,231
Jump Square = 316,667
Saikyo Jump = 183,334
Weekly Young Jump = 599,167
Grand Jump = 210,000
The Margaret = 95,000
Bessatsu Margaret = 225,000
Margaret = 59,000
Ribon = 200,000
Office You = 80,000
Cookie = 70,000
You = 102,000
Cocohana = 78,000

Shogakukan:
Corocoro Comic = 560,000
Sunday GX = 19,000
Weekly Shonen Sunday = 532,667
Shonen Sunday Super = 24,334
Bessatsu Corocoro Comics Special = 120,000
Gessan = 48,000
Corocoro Ichiban! = 72,667
Ikki = 10,000
Big Comic = 366,334
Big Comic Original = 633,167
Big Comic Spirits = 201,847
Big Comic Superior = 135,000
Shoujo Comic = 150,000
Cheese! = 75,000
Ciao = 546,667
Betsucomi = 70,667
Puchi Comic = 93,000
Flowers = 33,000

Shodensha:
Feel Young = 24,134

Hakuensha:
Young Animal = 132,500
Young Animal Arashi = 116,667
Hana to Yume = 155,167
Bessatsu Hana to Yume = 42,067
Lala = 142,934
Lala DX = 56,000
Melody = 47,000

Leed-sha:
Comic Ran = 209,274
Comic Ran Twins = 138,130
Comic Ran Twins Sengoku Bushou Retsuden = 70,410

 

[Kaizou 10]

Magazine Circulation from October to December on 2013:

Kodansha:
Monthly Shonen Magazine = 636,600
Weekly Shonen Magazine = 1,308,117
Magazine Special = 57,334
Monthly Shonen Sirius = 25,000
Monthly Shonen Rival = 38,100
Bessatsu Shonen Magazine = 180,000
Afternoon = 87,000
Evening = 117,584
Morning = 286,020
Morning 2 = 19,167
Young Magazine = 558,182
Nakayoshi = 140,000
Bessatsu Friend = 71,480
Kiss = 86,634
The Dessert = 55,500
Dessert = 52,834
Be Love = 118,000
Aria = 59,000

Shueisha:
Ultra Jump = 57,334
Weekly Shonen Jump = 2,745,000
Jump Square = 306,667
Saikyo Jump = 180,000
Weekly Young Jump = 598,462
Grand Jump = 210,000
The Margaret = 95,000
Bessatsu Margaret = 225,000
Margaret = 58,000
Ribon = 202,500
Office You = 79,334
Cookie = 70,000
You = 99,000
Cocohana = 73,667

Shogakukan:
Corocoro Comic = 620,000
Sunday GX = 19,000
Weekly Shonen Sunday = 490,334
Shonen Sunday Super = 22,667
Bessatsu Corocoro Comics Special = 150,000
Gessan = 44,334
Corocoro Ichiban! = 79,000
Ikki = 10,000
Big Comic = 353,500
Big Comic Original = 628,167
Big Comic Spirits = 196,819
Big Comic Superior = 127,334
Monthly! Spirits = 10,000
Shoujo Comic = 145,667
Cheese! = 74,000
Ciao = 545,000
Betsucomi = 67,334
Puchi Comic = 92,000
Flowers = 33,000

Shodensha:
Feel Young = 24,067

Hakuensha:
Young Animal = 128,500
Young Animal Arashi = 110,000
Hana to Yume = 152,167
Bessatsu Hana to Yume = 41,334
Lala = 140,934
Lala DX = 56,500
Melody = 46,750

Leed-sha:
Comic Ran = 232,517
Comic Ran Twins = 141,590
Comic Ran Twins Sengoku Bushou Retsuden = 78,550

 

[Blader]

Bessatsu Shonen Magazine = 18,000

I guess it's mistake number.

 

[Kaizou 10]

I guess it's mistake number.

Yup, I made a mistake, thanks.

 

[vinceled]

Magazine Circulation from October to December on 2013:

Shueisha:
Ultra Jump = 57,334
Weekly Shonen Jump = 2,745,000
Weekly Young Jump = 598,462

Shogakukan:
Sunday GX = 19,000

I love how UJ increased, in comparison, WSJ decreased by 30,000 units. Most impressive is WYJ that only reduce from a few hundred units and I guess Sunday GX is a magazine with a fixed circulation or something. Never paid attention the circulation below 20,000. Pretty nice when you see the series in there can sell 200,000 in their first week when volumes come out (Jormungand pretty much did at one point).

 

[SharkBait]

Wow look at how high Aria went from 13K to 59K. I guess both K and Attack on Titan are to blame for that huge increase!

 

[Kaizou 10]

Wow look at how high Aria went from 13K to 59K. I guess both K and Attack on Titan are to blame for that huge increase!

Only Titans, not K.

 

[SharkBait]

In the Square Enix quarterly report, they reported strong and continuing huge growth of quarterly digital manga sale increases (PDF)
http://www.hd.square-enix.com/eng/news/pdf/14q4slides.pdf

 

[TXC]

Digital sales are representing more and more lately, nisekoi is a strong performer in that format.

 

[Heiji]

Magazine Circulation from January to March on 2014:

 

[TXC]

Digital grow goes hand to hand with the fall of physical format. The numbers have been depressing for some months now.

 

[Bigivelfhq]

Digital grow goes hand to hand with the fall of physical format. The numbers have been depressing for some months now.

While I don't disagree with what you're saying, even though I don't agree either, there is no connection between the data we have from digital and the traditional. Digital growth is showed by Square Enix, while the traditional numbers are showed by a group of companies where Square Enix doesn't make part of. It could very well be happening that Square Enix Traditional Magazines numbers are growing up in number or that not only the traditional format is going down but also the digital for the magazines which date was showed. Is possible that the reason the traditional Magazines are decreasing in terms of print has nothing to do with digital but with other kinds of media or other totally different reasons.

 

[SharkBait]

While I don't disagree with what you're saying, even though I don't agree either, there is no connection between the data we have from digital and the traditional. Digital growth is showed by Square Enix, while the traditional numbers are showed by a group of companies where Square Enix doesn't make part of. It could very well be happening that Square Enix Traditional Magazines numbers are growing up in number or that not only the traditional format is going down but also the digital for the magazines which date was showed. Is possible that the reason the traditional Magazines are decreasing in terms of print has nothing to do with digital but with other kinds of media or other totally different reasons.

There is no where on this chart that says if it includes or doesnt include copies of digital issues of these other magazines.

 

[Bigivelfhq]

There is no where on this chart that says if it includes or doesnt include copies of digital issues of these other magazines.

More reason to not assume it! If you don't know if it includes than by default it doesn't.

 

[TXC]

Tirage = print

 

[Kaiten]

Digital grow goes hand to hand with the fall of physical format. The numbers have been depressing for some months now.

Declining magazine sales are a long term trend, going back to the late 90's. The format went into decline before any digital platforms became available. Digital manga platforms largely have been a response to declining magazine sales. The Japanese publishing industry has been hesitant to transition to even a partial digital platform. I'm a little out of the loop, but when last I checked online availability of new chapters was limited, or nonexistent. I do not know of any physical magazines that are reproduced digitally. If new issues of Jump, Shounen Sunday, Shounen Magazine, etc. are available in their entirety online it is a new development, and not something that could replace physical sales any time soon. The online magazines I am most familiar with are purely digital platforms, with their own serializations, like Gangan Online. Manga is widely available by the volume for Kindle, but not magazines. Tankobon sales are as strong as ever, eReaders and tablets have not had any effect on that market. Manga magazines have developed a hallowed place among international fandom. Native Japanese fans do not hold magazines in such high esteem. Most fans in Japan read manga by the volume, not as chapters are serialized. That is why there are so many bestsellers from low circulation magazines (Shingeki, St. Young Men, etc.). Only a very limited percentage of manga fans find new manga by reading the magazines.

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There is no where on this chart that says if it includes or doesnt include copies of digital issues of these other magazines.

It doesn't include digital. Online readers are measured by unique page views, not circulation numbers. They are two separate statistics. Professional statistical services would never blend the two. Most physical magazines don't even have digital versions.

 

[SharkBait]

A few of the manga magazines on that chart do have digital versions though. http://www.ebookjapan.jp/ebj/tag_genre.asp?genreid=30411

 

[Kaiten]

A few of the manga magazines on that chart do have digital versions though. http://www.ebookjapan.jp/ebj/tag_genre.asp?genreid=30411

Some do, some don't. All the more reason Oricon would not blend digital statistics with physical circulation. Mixing page views with magazine circulation would be statistical voodoo. That would be horrible math. A professional service would never do something like that.

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More reason to not assume it! If you don't know if it includes than by default it doesn't.

That is not true. If you do not know if something is included, assume data deficiency, and that the statistic is not wholly reliable. Never make assumptions based on lack of access to data. The proper answer is that you do not know. The information is probably available in the source, which we do not have access to. The truth is that we can assume based on the fact online readers and physical magazine sales are measured by different statistics. They are measured differently and therefore can not be combined statistically. Not all manga magazines are reproduced online, so the list would mix different magazine being measured by different criteria. This also is unacceptable. Adding physical magazine circulation to online reader views is statistically impossible.

 

[Heiji]

Here some numbers. Came from Shuppan Shiyô 2014 magazine. Period its from 01/10/2012 to 30/09/2013.

For tables :

Tirage Initial (First Print).

Tirage Total du volume sur l'année (Total print volume over the year).

Nombre de volume total imprimés sur l'année : Le nombre de volume total imprimés sur l'année pour l'ensemble de la série. (The total number of volume printed on the year for the whole series.).

Nombre de volume imprimés au total : Le nombre de volume total imprimés depuis le début pour l'ensemble de la série. (The total number of printed from the beginning for the entire series.).

Magazine Circulation :


Various (Shônen Gahosha, Leed, Nihon Bungeisha & Jitsugyô) :


Hakusensha :


Kôdansha :


Shôgakukan :


Shûeisha :


Square-Enix :

 

[kewl0210]

I'm always amazed by these... Just what runs in Big Comic Original or Ciao? Both of those have higher circulation than stuff like Young Jump, Young Magazine and Shounen Sunday? And I barely ever hear about any of the series in Gekkan Shounen Sunday and that does even better. But the magazines with Kimi ni Todoke and Shingeki no Kyojin have such a small circulation in comparison... And there's a good bunch I've never heard of at all.

Shounen Champion seems to be in there twice with different numbers. And Haruta's not there despite getting all that praise from critics this year with Sakamoto Desu Ga and all.