Shounen Magazine + Shounen Sunday
NHK news reports that Shounen Magazine and Shounen Sunday will be collaborating to release a biweekly magazine starting from late April this year. Currently they’ve only announced that they will publish the more popular chapters of Conan and Kindaichi in the magazine.
Both Shounen Magazine and Shounen Sunday started in 1959 March and have been rivals for a long time. But they have been dropping in sales every year recently, with Sunday at 935,000 books sold and Shounen Magazine at 1,870,000 books sold in 2007, less than half of what they were doing back when they were at their peak.
They haven’t said anything else about the contents of the magazine aside from having old stuff from Conan and Kindaichi, I hope it’ll have some good manga.
I was just telling somebody the other day that I wished that Hata Kenjirou was in Shounen Magazine instead so that he could mess around with Kumeda…
February 27th, 2008 at 8:44 am
That’d be interesting… Considering Hata was Kumeda’s assistant for a while. :)
February 28th, 2008 at 8:20 am
voice actress >>> master
February 28th, 2008 at 6:19 pm
Oh drat. This is interesting.
February 28th, 2008 at 9:19 pm
Wants Hata Kenjirou in =/
March 3rd, 2008 at 1:32 am
As much as Kumeta complained when he was in Sunday, it couldn’t have been that bad if they let him complain within the comic itself, I might rather see him back in Sunday to team up rather than vice versa. He seemed to make a lot more jokes together with other artists there too, cameos and what-not, compared to Magazine. Course Zetsubou-sensei is doing well in Magazine so I’m happy!
He may cry from being called “Kumeda” again though.