Post by KnightusMaximus on Feb 27, 2008 16:34:16 GMT -5
"The editorial departments of Shogakukan's Weekly Shonen Sunday magazine and Kodansha's Weekly Shonen Magazine will create a new magazine this year to mark the upcoming 50th anniversaries of both magazines. The biweekly Conan & Kindaichi magazine will run for half a year starting this April. As the name implies, the new magazine will feature Gosho Aoyama's Detective Conan (Case Closed) manga from Weekly Shonen Sunday and Yōzaburō Kanari and Fumiya Sato's Kindaichi Case Files from Weekly Shonen Magazine. The official announcement will be made on March 18.
Due to the recent slump in manga magazine sales, both companies have been trying new methods to maintain their readerships. Shogakukan first published Weekly Shonen Sunday in April of 1959, and saw its circulation drop from a high of 2 million copies in 2000 to 935,729 last year. Similarly, Kodansha first published Weekly Shonen Magazine in March 1959, and saw its circulation drop from a high of 4.25 million copies in 1998 to 1,871,771 last year. "
Source: ANN, Nyarl (from cbox)
From the Japanese links provided in the ANN story, it sounds like they're going to be past works, re-recorded both for the anniversary and to try and reverse the slump in sales and circulations from the two magazines.
Due to the recent slump in manga magazine sales, both companies have been trying new methods to maintain their readerships. Shogakukan first published Weekly Shonen Sunday in April of 1959, and saw its circulation drop from a high of 2 million copies in 2000 to 935,729 last year. Similarly, Kodansha first published Weekly Shonen Magazine in March 1959, and saw its circulation drop from a high of 4.25 million copies in 1998 to 1,871,771 last year. "
Source: ANN, Nyarl (from cbox)
From the Japanese links provided in the ANN story, it sounds like they're going to be past works, re-recorded both for the anniversary and to try and reverse the slump in sales and circulations from the two magazines.
