Shueisha will relaunch 3 manga magazines!!

Interesting changes come for the 2011-2012 period as the leading Japanese publisher decided to merge Business Jump and Super Jump to create a new biweekly magazine aimed at seinen audiences, consisting of male workers in their 30's and 40's, those that were raised on the 80's generation of Weekly Shonen Jump.

The new title will continue serializing Ring ni Kakero 2, Jin and Gotakeshi.

As for the spinoff magazine Jump Kai, it will be relaunched as a periodical magazine.

Shueisha explained that it is making these changes in response to the changing environment for seinen manga and the changing tastes of readers.

Source: ANN

Which are the highest circulating manga magazines for 2010?

US Shonen Jump, January 2011, in shelves now! 

The Japanese Magazine Publishers Association showed today the latest chart pertaining to the top circulating manga magazines, taking the period between October 1, 2009 and September 30, 2010.

Weekly Shonen Jump by Shueisha definitely came on top with 2,876,459 million of readers, followed closely by Kodansha's Weekly Shonen Magazine with 1,571,063, losing quite a bit from last year.

Coro Coro Comic Shogakukan 950,834

Monthly Shonen Magazine Kodansha 847,250

Weekly Shonen Sunday Shogakukan 678,917

Weekly Shonen Champion Akita Shoten 500,000

Jump Square magazine by Shueisha remains with a respectable 360,000, despite having great cult mangas such as Ultimo and Ao no exorcist.

In seinen mangas, Young Magazine by Kodansha is the absolute leader with 807,871

And Ciao mangazine by Shogakukan is the leader in shojo manga with 745,455 of estimated readers.

Viz Media will release online Shonen Jump supplement and sells downloadable manga

Viz Media announced in the December edition of the U.S Shonen Jump magazine that there will be an online supplement to the print publication, that will give you access to series such as Toriko, Bakuman, Nura, and Rise of the Yokai Clan. Subscribed users will have exclusive access through shonenjump.com.

"Legal" scanlations, anyone????

The publisher also announced that it will start selling manga through the iPad download application. Users can install the app itself for free, and volumes of six manga titles in the initial launch lineup cost US$4.99 each.

The titles that are available since this week are Bleach, Naruto, One Piece, the first volume of Death Note, Dragon Ball, and the first volume of Bakuman. More volumes of Bakuman, Ouran High School Host Club, D.Gray-man, Rurouni Kenshin, and Vampire Knight are planned to be added in the near future.

There's still no support for iPhone or iPod touch devices, but Alvin Lu, senior VP and General Manager, said that there was more to come.