Monthly Sunday Gene-X
Monthly Sunday Gene-X (Japanese: 月刊サンデーGENE-X, Hepburn: Gekkan Sandē Jenekkusu), often abbreviated as Sunday GX (サンデーGX), is a seinen manga magazine published by Shogakukan. Like many other manga magazines, it's an "anthology magazine" with each issue featuring new chapters of several manga series. The series are also published in book form as Sunday GX Comics.
 Sunday GX cover. | |
| Editor | Akinobu Natsume |
|---|---|
| Categories | Seinen[1][2] |
| Frequency | Monthly |
| Circulation | 10,000 (October–December, 2016)[2] |
| First issue | July 19, 2000 |
| Company | Shogakukan |
| Country | Japan |
| Language | Japanese |
| Website | https://sundaygx.com/ |
Monthly magazine
The magazine's title, Monthly Sunday Gene-X, refers to its mission as a manga magazine for Generation X. The first issue was published on July 19, 2000 and new issues are published on the 19th day of each month — not necessarily on a Sunday. The title uses the word "Sunday" more as a trademark or genre name, shared with its sister magazines Weekly Shōnen Sunday and Weekly Young Sunday.[3]
The first year when the magazine was actually published on a Sunday two months in a row was in 2006. This is because 2006 is a common year starting on Sunday, the following occurrence of which is 2017. In such years, the 19th is a Sunday three times: February 19, March 19 and November 19.[4]
The magazine is not limited to Japanese productions; a Korean comic series, Blade of the Phantom Mask, was also serialized in translated and flipped form, perhaps helped by current interest as a Japanese-Korean anime movie. If one of their manga series has such a tie-in, an anime TV series or movie version being aired or screened around the same time, editors like to emphasize this in an act of cross promotion.
Sunday GX comics books
Shogakukan also publishes manga series previously featured in Sunday GX as paperback tankōbon (compilation volumes) under the imprint Sunday GX Comics (GENEX Comics). While in English the term "comics" also includes single chapters and comic strips, "comics (コミック, komikku)" primarily means "manga tankōbon" in Japanese.
Series
| Title | Author | Premiered |
|---|---|---|
| Assassin's Creed: China (アサシン クリード チャイナ) | Ubisoft, Minoji Kurata | October 2019 |
| Black Lagoon (ブラック・ラグーン) | Rei Hiroe | May 2002 |
| Black Lagoon: Sawyer the Cleaner - Dismemberment! Gore Gore Girl (BLACK LAGOON 掃除屋ソーヤー解体！ゴアゴア娘) | Rei Hiroe, Ida Tatsuhiko | September 2019 |
| Gunbared Sisters (ガンバレッド×シスターズ) | Mitogawa Wataru | September 2019 |
| Hinmin, Seihitsu, Daifugou (貧民、聖櫃、大富豪) | Keitaro Takahashi | December 2016 |
| JyaJya (ジャジャ) | Eno Akira | October 2000 |
| Yahari Ore no Seishun Rabu Kome wa Machigatteiru. @comic (やはり俺の青春ラブコメはまちがっている。＠comic) | Naomichi Io | January 2013 |
| Nanami Minami wa Kagayakitai (七海みなみは輝きたい) | Yūki Yaku, Bana Yoshida | July 2020 |
| Ninkyou Tensei: Isekai no Yakuzahime (任侠転生 -異世界のヤクザ姫-) | Natsuhara Takeshi, Miyashita Hiroki | September 2019 |
| Vampeerz (ヴァンピアーズ) | Akili | March 2019 |
| Zom 100: Bucket List of the Dead (ゾン100 ～ゾンビになるまでにしたい100のこと～) | Haro Aso, Koutarou Takata | October 2018 |
Circulation
- 2004 - 39,167
- 2005 - 39,000
- 2006 - 35,167
- 2007 - 30,583
- 2008 - 30,000
- 2009 - 27,667
- 2010 - 26,000
- 2015 - 16,667
References and notes
- "Monthly Sunday GX". Shogakukan. July 30, 2016. Retrieved July 30, 2016.
- "Boy's Manga" (in Japanese). Japanese Magazine Publishers Association. December 2016. Retrieved March 20, 2017.
- "月刊サンデーGX(ジェネックス) HPへようこそ". Editors's diary (in Japanese). Shogakukan. 2000-06-07. Archived from the original on 2009-01-05. Retrieved 2006-08-08.
- There are also three non-consecutive "Sunday the 19th" in leap years starting on Wednesday.
External links
- Official website (in Japanese)
- Sunday GX Comics at Anime News Network's encyclopedia