is a monthly shōnen

manga Manga ( Japanese: 漫画 ) are comics or graphic novels originating from Japan. Most manga conform to a style developed in Japan in the late 19th century, and the form has a long prehistory in earlier Japanese art. The term ''manga'' is ...

magazine published in Japan by

Kodansha is a Japanese privately-held publishing company headquartered in Bunkyō, Tokyo. Kodansha is the largest Japanese publishing company, and it produces the manga magazines ''Nakayoshi'', '' Afternoon'', '' Evening'', ''Weekly Shōnen Magazine'' ...

. It was launched in 1964 under the name . In 1969 it was retitled as and its publication frequency increased from quarterly to monthly. After suspension in 1974 it started publishing again, in 1975 it was renamed as current magazine title. It has a supplement magazine called ''Shōnen Magazine R'', which launched in 2015. The magazine originally published a new issue once every two months, until it became a digital-only magazine in October 2019 with a monthly schedule. In January 2023, ''Shōnen Magazine R'' will cease publication. In February 2023, a new web publication called ''Getsu Maga Kichi'' (Monthly Magazine Base) will replace ''Shōnen Magazine R''. __TOC__

Manga series

Currently running manga series

Completed series serialized in ''Monthly Shonen Magazine''

1970s

*'' Spider-Man: The Manga'' (writers Kōsei Ono and Kazumasa Hirai, illustrator Ryoichi Ikegami) (January 1970 – September 1971)

1980s

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Kei Sadayasu Kei may refer to: People * Kei (given name) * Kei, Cantonese for Ji(姫) * Kei, Cantonese for Qi(奇, 祁, 亓) * Shō Kei (1700–1752), king of the Ryūkyū Kingdom * Kei (singer) (born 1995), stage name of South Korean singer Kim Ji-yeon * ...

) (February 1981 – May 2014) * (Takeshi Maekawa) (December 1983 – February 1997) * (Juzo Tokoro) (June 1984 – May 1992) * ''

Shura no Mon is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Masatoshi Kawahara. The story follows a young Karate practitioner named Tsukumo Mutsu, 40th master of the deadly Mutsu Enmei Ryu style. It was serialized in Kodansha's ''Monthly Shōne ...

'' (

Masatoshi Kawahara is a Japanese manga artist. He is best known as the author of the long-running series ''Shura no Mon'' and its prequel ''Shura no Toki'', for which he won the Kodansha Manga Award is an annual award for serialized manga published in the prev ...

) (April 1987 – November 1996) * ''

1+2=Paradise is a Japanese manga series by Sumiko Kamimura. The story has been adapted into two original video animations (OVAs) released by Toei Video, a subsidiary of the Toei Company. Because of the sexual content the series was one of the manga place ...

'' (Sumiko Kamimura) (1988-1990) * (

Katsuyuki Toda Katsuyuki (written: , , , , or ) is a masculine Japanese given name. Notable people with the name include: *, Japanese table tennis player *, Japanese baseball player *, Japanese baseball player *, Japanese racing driver *, Japanese film director ...

) (1989 – 1996) * '' ANGEL♥BEAT'' ( Ichiru Yasuhara) (1989 – 1996) * '' Dear Boys'' ( Hiroki Yamagi) (16 December 1989 – 17 March 1997)

1990s

* (Yoshito Yamahara) (1993 – 2007) * '' Dear Boys:Act II'' ( Hiroki Yagami) (1997 – 2008) * (Takeshi Maekawa) (1997 – 2004) * ( Harold Sakuishi) (November 1999 – April 2008)

2000s

* ( Hirofumi Sawada) (November 2000 – May 2007) * (

Masahito Soda is a Japanese manga artist. Soda studied at Nihon University, but left prior to graduating. He worked as an assistant for Taku Kitazaki, and debuted in 1990 with ''GET ROCK'', published in ''Magazine Special''. His most notable series are ''Firefi ...

) (March 2003 – March 2013) * (

Motohiro Katou is a Japanese manga artist, best known for creating the ''Q.E.D.'' series. He made his debut on game-related works for Enix. Presently he publishes his detective manga works on Kodansha. In 2009, he received the Kodansha Manga Award for his w ...

) (October 6, 2001 – December 6, 2004) * '' Yatagarasu'' (

Aihara Tsukasa Aihara may refer to: * Aihara (surname), a Japanese surname * , a village in Machida, Tokyo is a city located in the western portion of Tokyo Metropolis, Japan. , the city had an estimated population of 428,851, and a population density of ...

) (2002 - April 6, 2011) * ( Tadashi Kawashima) (October 2003 – February 6, 2010) * (December 6, 2005 – August 6, 2007) * ( Hirofumi Sawada) (July 2007 – April 2015) * '' Dear Boys:Act III'' ( Hiroki Yagami) (December 2008 – December 2015) * (

) (October 2005 – August 2020)

2010s

* (

) (2010 – 2014) * ( Marimo Ragawa) (2010 - 2022) * (

Naoshi Arakawa is a Japanese manga artist, known for his work ''Your Lie in April''. Early life Naoshi Arakawa grew up in the countryside of Japan with an older brother. They used to get manga magazines like ''Weekly Shōnen Jump'' and ''Monthly Shōnen Maga ...

) (April 6, 2011 – February 6, 2015) *'' Dear Boys: Over Time'' ( Hiroki Yagami) (February 2016 – January 6, 2017) * (

Kōji Kumeta is a Japanese manga artist. His most famous works are '' Go!! Southern Ice Hockey Club'', '' Katteni Kaizō'', ''Sayonara, Zetsubou-Sensei'', and ''Joshiraku''. The bulk of Kumeta's work was published in ''Weekly Shōnen Sunday'', until the abrupt ...

) (December 2015 – July 2020) * (

) (May 2016 – December 2020) * ( Azami Yō/ Kagami Takaya) (June 2017 - February 2022) * ( Takahiro Wakamatsu), ( Hiroshi Noda) (October 2019 - November 2022)

References

External links

Monthly Shōnen Magazine Website
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