My last post of the year
Let's recap what 2024 left in weekly shonen magazine
TOC 2024
Although WSM, as far as I know, does not have an average system as demanding as Shonen Jump, I made a table with the Jump system to evaluate the average that each series had during its serialization in 2024.
In this average, the new series had their average from the eighth chapter.
Neither the Lead Color Pages, nor the olor Pages, nor the absences or Hiatus are taken into account for the average of this ranking.
It should also be noted that this ranking is only based on the digital ranking of the magazine, the physical edition was not taken into account.
WSM 2024 Digital Ranking by average:
- Blue Lock 8.05
- Shangri-La Frontier 8.4
- Kakkou no lnazuke 8.5
- Edens Zero 8.8
- Banjou no Orion 9.65
- Seitokai ni mo ana wa aru! 9.86
- Kanojo, Okarishimasu 10.2
- Megami no Café Terrace 10.3
- Akabane Honeko no Bodyguard 10.5
- Kuroiwa Medaka ni Watashi no Kawaii ga Tsujinai 10.8
- Mayonaka Heart Tune 11.2
- Ao no Miburo 11.4
- Mokushiroku no Yonkishi 11.6
- Kanan sama ha Akumade Choroi 11.9
- Kaijin Fugeki 13.1
- Sentai Daishikkaku 13.16
- Amagami san Chi no Enmusubi 13.9
- GALAXIAS 15
- Irozuku Monochrome 15.14
- Yowayowa Sensei 15.7
- Gachiakuta 16
- Hajime no Ippo 16
- Batchiri Scratch! 16.25
- Fumetsu no Anata e 18.4
- Brave Bell 18.9
- Jyushin no Katana 19.2
- Yumene Connect 19.8
- Love Forty 20.1
- KIMURAXCLASS 20.5
- Mononoke no Ran 20.75
- Ahiru no Sora*
*Ahiru no Sora did not publish any chapters this year.
The most interesting thing to highlight in this average is that both Gachiakuta and Hajime no Ippo had the same annual average.
I share with you how the annual table turned out with its main pages in color, centers in color, absences, hiatus, endings and cancellations throughout 2024.
Click on the image to have a better view:
New Serializations, Ended and Axed Series
Unlike in 2023, this year there were no published series that were moved to another magazine/website, all of them published their entire chapters in Weekly Shonen Magazine.
Hajime no Ippo, Blue Lock, Shangri-La Frontier and Seitokai ni mo ana wa aru! at the forefront for 2025 in the magazine.
I share with you the list of series that started and ended/cancelled their series, highlighting the return of
Ogure Ito (Oh Great!) to the magazine with
Kaijin Fugeki and the completion of
Edens Zero by
Hiro Mashima, in addition to the most important winner in the history of the
Kodansha Rookie Manga Awards GALAXIAS.
New Series
- Banjouu no Orion by Naoshi Arakawa (Shigatsu wa Kimi no Uso, Atwight Game) - Issue #06
- Kaijin Fugeki by Oh Great! (Air Gear, Bakemonogatari) - Issue #26
- Love Forty by Katori Jiroo (Historia) y Itou Shinichi (Arte) - Issue #28
- Batchiri Scratch! by Punatsu - Issue #31
- GALAXIAS by Ao Hatesaka (Primer Serialización) - Issue #33
- Irozuku Monochrome by Atsushi Uchiyama (Sekai ka Kanojo ka Erabenai, Koi ka Mahou Ka Wakaranai!) - Issue #38
- Yumene Connect by Sawasa Kou - Issue #40
Ended / Axed Series
- KIMURA X CLASS by Toru Kadoishi (Story) y Naha Doi (Artist), (23 Chapters) - Issue #02 - #03 - [Axed]
- Mononoke no Ran by Takeda Yousuke, (22 Chapters) - Issue #19 - [Axed]
- Brave Bell by Meeb (Story) y Okane (Artist), (50 Chapters) - Issue #29 - [Axed]
- Edens Zero by Hiro Mashima, (293 Chapters) - Issue #30 - [Ended]
- Jyushin no Katana by Kamijyo Akimine, (40 Chapters) - Issue #41 - [Axed]
- Akabane Honeko no Bodyguard by Masamitsu Nigatsu (103 Chapters) - Issue #51 - [Ended]
Lead Color Pages
I share with you all the main color pages published during 2024.
You can enter the Imgur link and download the ones you prefer if you want.
https://imgur .com/a/weekly-shonen-magazine-lead-color-pages- 2024-8boEswe
*I'm just sharing the link, because I don't know why it doesn't allow directing to Imgur
Color Pages
I share with you all the color centers published during 2024.
You can enter the Imgur link and download the ones you prefer if you want.
https:// imgur.com/a/weekly-shonen-magazine-color-pages- 2024-uRcjPpx
*I'm just sharing the link, because I don't know why it doesn't allow directing to Imgur
Ranking Oricon 2024
This year, with the end of the
Tokyo卍Revengers, the magazine has been left without its biggest series in terms of sales so far this millennium.
Blue Lock continues to be the representative of the magazine, once again being within the TOP 10 of the best-selling manga according to Oricon sales, coming in at number 5 with a total of
3,881,269 copies sold.
Let's remember that in 2023 it was the best-selling manga in Japan.
*As of the date this top is published, a more complete ranking has not yet been released. As 2025 progresses, the sales for other WSM series that could appear in the Top 50 will be updated.
Circulation of the series in 2024
These circulations are the last ones published by their respective franchises, also because there are several new series and others that have not published their circulations, the list has become quite small.
*Kakkou no linazuke and Edens Zero only published circultaion for their first volume, to date their real circulation is unknown
PRINT RUN OF THE SERIES CURRENTLY PUBLISHED IN THE MAGAZINE
- Hajime no Ippo: 100'000.000
- Nanatsu no Taizai / Mokushiroku no Yonkishi: 55'000.000
- Blue Lock 40'000.000
- Ahiru no Sora: 24'000.000
- Kanojo, Okarishimasu: 13'000.000
- Shangri-La Frontier: 10'000.000
- Kuroiwa Medaka ni Watashi no Kawaii ga Tsuujinai: 1'900.000
- Megami no Café Terrace: 1'800.000
- Amagami-San Chi no Enmusubi: 1'650.000
- Seitokai ni mo ana wa aru! 1'400.000
- Edens Zero: 250.000 *
- Kanan Sama ha Akumade Choroi: 200.000
- Mayonaka Heart Tune: 150.000
- Kakkou no linazuke: 100.000 *
Pending Publication
- Ao no Miburo
- Sentai Daishikkaku
- Fumetsu no Anata e
- Gachiakuta
- Yowayowa Sensei
- Banjou no Orion
- Kaijin Fugeki
- Batchiri Scratch!
- GALAXIAS
- Love Forty
- Irozuku Monochrome
PRINT OF THE BEST-SELLING SERIES IN THE HISTORY OF WSM MAGAZINE
I'm sharing my Top 25 of the best-selling series in Weekly Shonen Magazine to date.
If anyone knows of any series that are missing from the magazine, it would be great to know, in order to have a more accurate table.
- Kindaichi Shounen no Jikenbo: 100'000.000
- Hajime no Ippo: 100’000.000
- Tokyo卍Revengers: 80'000.000
- Fairy Tail: 72'000.000
- Nanatsu no Taizai: 55'000.000
- Devilman: 50'000.000
- Great Teacher Onizuka: 50'000.000
- Shoot!: 50'000.000
- Daiya no Ace: 45'000.000
- Blue Lock: 40’000.000
- Tsurikichi Sanpei: 40'000.000
- Takumi no Taku: 30'000.000
- Chameleon: 30'000.000
- Baribari Legend: 25'500.000
- Ashita no Joe: 25'000.000
- Boys Be... : 25'000.000
- Ahiru no Sora: 24’000.000
- Rave Master: 23'500.000
- Love Hina: 20'000.000
- Gotoubun no Hanayome 20'000.000
- Enn Enn no Shouboutai: 20'000.000
- Tsubasa -RESERVoir CHRoNiCLE- : 20'000.000
- Mahou Sensei Negima! : 20'000.000
- Air Gear: 18’000.000
- Getbackers: 18’000.000
Oricon Top 30 Shonen Magazine Sales 2008 – 2024
Finally, I am sharing with you the performance of the series that have been published in Weekly Shonen Magazine from the Oricon era from 2008 to date.
- Tokyo卍Revengers: 24’981.486 (3° in 2021)
- Tokyo卍Revengers: 11’048.067 (2° in 2022)
- Blue Lock: 10'527.146 (1° in 2023)
- Nanatsu no Taizai: 10’304.112 (2° in 2015)
- Gotoubun no Hanayome: 6’145.591 (6° in 2020)
- Gotoubun no Hanayome: 5’895.000 (5° in 2019)
- Fairy Tail: 5’739.526 (4° in 2010)
- Nanatsu no Taizai: 5’115.573 (6° in 2016)
- Nanatsu no Taizai: 4’867.680 (7° in 2018)
- Fairy Tail: 4’701.596 (4° in 2011)
- Daiya no Ace: 4’681.031 (7° in 2014)
- Nanatsu no Taizai: 4’633.246 (9° in 2014)
- Fairy Tail: 4’128.665 (5° in 2012)
- Enn Enn no Shouboutai: 4’025.437 (11° in 2020)
- Blue Lock: 3'881.269 (5° in 2024)
- Fairy Tail: 3’790.151 (9° in 2013)
- Nanatsu no Taizai: 3’592.571 (7° in 2017)
- Blue Lock: 3’548.238 (7° in 2022)
- Fairy Tail: 3’472.121 (15° in 2015)
- Fairy Tail: 3’275.885 (17° in 2014)
- Tokyo卍Revengers: 3’218.117 (9° in 2023)
- Nanatsu no Taizai: 3'178.809 (11° in 2019)
- Daiya no Ace: 2’940.024 (18° in 2015)
- Fairy Tail: 2’886.942 (9° in 2009)
- Fairy Tail: 2’719.478 (13° in 2016)
- Blue Lock: 2’625.595 (16° in 2021)
- Kanojo, Okarishimasu: 2’497.329 (17° in 2020)
- Gotoubun no Hanayome: 2’369.765 (21° in 2021)
- Enn Enn no Shouboutai: 2’123.302 (24° in 2021)
- Daiya no Ace: 2’093.522 (13° in 2009)
And that's all for 2024, see you in 2025
Weekly Shonen Magazine 2025 - #04 - #05 (12/25/2024)
Lead Color Pages: Daiya no Ace Act ll Gaiden - Teitou VS Ugomori (Return after 2 Years, New Short Series by Author Terajima Yuuji)
