Editing Shōnen manga (section)

==Magazines==
{{Main|List of manga magazines}}
[[File:Weekly Shōnen Magazine and Weekly Shōnen Sunday in Feb 2005.jpg|thumb|Stacks of ''Weekly Shōnen Magazine'' and ''Shōnen Sunday'' in 2005]]

{{Transliteration|ja|Shōnen}} manga is traditionally published in dedicated [[List of manga magazines|manga magazines]] that specifically target an audience of {{Transliteration|ja|shōnen}}. At the industry's peak in the mid-1990s, there were 23 total {{Transliteration|ja|shōnen}} magazines, which collectively sold 662 million copies in 1995. The total manga magazine market that year included 265 magazines, with a total of 1.595 billion copies sold.{{Sfn|Schodt|1996|pp=82–84}}

A manga magazine is typically several hundred pages long, and contains over a dozen series or [[One-shot (comics)|one-shots]].{{sfn|Schodt|1983|p=13}} The largest Japanese {{Transliteration|ja|shōnen}} magazines in terms of circulation are ''[[Weekly Shōnen Jump]]'' by [[Shueisha]], ''[[Weekly Shōnen Magazine]]'' by [[Kodansha]], and ''[[Weekly Shōnen Sunday]]'' by [[Shogakukan]]; these publishers are also the largest publishers of manga generally. The fourth largest magazine, albeit by a significant margin, is ''[[Weekly Shōnen Champion]]'' by [[Akita Shoten]], which was among the most popular manga magazines in the 1970s and 1980s. The magazines ''[[CoroCoro Comic]]'' and the now-defunct ''[[Comic BomBom]]'' technically belong to the {{Transliteration|ja|[[Children's anime and manga|kodomo]]}} (children's manga) demographic, but are often counted as {{Transliteration|ja|shōnen}} magazines as they target an audience of school-aged boys.{{sfn|Thompson|2007|pp=338-340}}{{Sfn|Schodt|1996|pp=82–84}} A list of the top {{Transliteration|ja|shōnen}} magazines by circulation as of 2015 are listed below:<ref>{{cite web |title=印刷部数公表 |url=http://www.j-magazine.or.jp/magadata/index.php?module=list&action=list&cat1cd=1&cat3cd=14&period_cd=30 |website=Japan Magazine Publishers Association |access-date=September 6, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151221004130/http://www.j-magazine.or.jp/magadata/index.php?module=list&action=list&cat1cd=1&cat3cd=14&period_cd=30 |archive-date=December 21, 2015 |language=Japanese}}</ref>

{| class="wikitable sortable"
!Title
!Circulation
|-
|''[[Weekly Shōnen Jump]]''
|style="text-align:right" | 2,380,000
|-
|''[[Weekly Shōnen Magazine]]''
|style="text-align:right" | 1,110,000
|-
|''[[CoroCoro Comic]]''
|style="text-align:right" | 920,000
|-
|''[[Monthly Shōnen Magazine]]''
|style="text-align:right" | 540,000
|-
|''[[Weekly Shōnen Sunday]]''
|style="text-align:right" | 370,000
|-
|''[[Jump Square]]''
|style="text-align:right" | 260,000
|-
|}