Weekly Young Sunday

Weekly Young Sunday
Cover of issue 36/37 in 2006.
CategoriesSeinen manga[1]
FrequencyWeekly
First issueMarch 27, 1987
Final issueJuly 31, 2008
CompanyShogakukan
CountryJapan
LanguageJapanese
WebsiteOfficial website (archived)

Weekly Young Sunday (週刊ヤングサンデー, Shūkan Yangu Sandē) was a weekly manga magazine published by Shogakukan in Japan since the first issue on March 27, 1987.[2] It replaced Shōnen Big Comic in Shogakukan's lineup of shōnen titles, and many of the titles in Shōnen Big Comic were continued in Young Sunday. The magazines was sometimes called Yansan (ヤンサン) for short.

To celebrate the 20th anniversary of Weekly Young Sunday, Shogakukan and Yahoo! Auctions Japan held a charity auction benefitting the Green Cross Japan. Various manga artists donated signed original artwork, and Shogakukan donated rare goods related to the series and people appearing in the magazine.[3][4]

On May 30, 2008, Shogakukan announced that they would cease publication of the magazine. The final issue was released on July 31, 2008.[5] Its gravure idol online service, Young Sunday Visual Web (ヤングサンデービジュアルウェブ), renamed to Visual Web S (ビジュアルウェブS) following the magazine's discontinuation, continued to operate from the Young Sunday domain until September 30, 2021, thirteen years after the namesake magazine ended publication.[6]

  1. ^ Thompson, Jason (2007). Manga: The Complete Guide. Del Rey Books. p. 327-239. ISBN 978-0-345-48590-8.
  2. ^ 週刊ヤングサンデー. AD Pocket (in Japanese). Shogakukan. Archived from the original on May 5, 2007. Retrieved July 14, 2022.
  3. ^ 週刊ヤングサンデーチャリティーオークション (in Japanese). Yahoo! Auctions Japan. 2006-03-02. Archived from the original on 2007-03-10. Retrieved 2007-07-05.
  4. ^ "Young Sunday 20th Anniversary Charity Auction". Anime News Network. 2006-03-02. Retrieved 2007-07-05.
  5. ^ "Shogakukan suspends Young Sunday". Tokyograph. Retrieved 2008-06-02.
  6. ^ "Visual Web S end of service notice". Shogakukan, Inc. Archived from the original on 2021-12-30. Retrieved 2024-05-08.