The magazine's logo from 1984 onwards
A shonen manga anthology magazine began by Kodansha in 1959, Shōnen Magazine is one of the more notable manga magazines behind Shonen Jump and Shonen Sunday.
Starting from the 1990s, the magazine gained a reputation for holding onto quite a few romance IPs, to the point where it gained the nickname "Weekly Romcom Magazine". While it does have its action and sports series, many of which have made it big, it's nowhere near as big as its catalog of iconic romance and romantic comedy manga.
Some of these series are featured in Sunday VS Magazine: Shuuketsu! Choujou Daikessen.
Ongoing series run in Weekly Shōnen Magazine:
- Ace of the Diamond
- Blue Lock
- A Couple of Cuckoos
- Fairy Tail: 100 Years Quest
- Four Knights of the Apocalypse
- Gachiakuta
- Go, Go, Loser Ranger!
- Hajime no Ippo
- Medaka Kuroiwa is Impervious to My Charms
- Rent-A-Girlfriend
- Shangri-La Frontier
- To Your Eternity
- Tune in to the Midnight Heart
- Tying the Knot with an Amagami Sister
Notable series published in Weekly Shōnen Magazine:
- 090 ~ Eko to Issho
- 8 Man (1963)
- Again!! (2011)
- Aho Girl
- A.I. Love You
- Air Gear
- AKB49 – Renai Kinshi Jourei
- As the Gods Will Part II
- Baby Steps
- Bad Company
- Bakemonogatari
- Bloody Monday
- Boarding School Juliet (started in Bessatsu Shonen Magazine, but moved to this magazine in 2017 until its conclusion)
- Boys Be...
- The Café Terrace and Its Goddesses
- Cage of Eden
- Chūka Ichiban!
- Code:Breaker
- Cromartie High School
- Cyborg 009 (one of many magazines to run the series)
- Days
- Detective School Q
- Devilman
- Domestic Girlfriend
- Double-J
- EDENS ZERO
- Fairy Tail
- Fire Force
- Flunk Punk Rumble
- Fuuka
- Gamaran
- Gambling Emperor Legend Zero
- GE - Good Ending
- Get Backers
- Girlfriend, Girlfriend
- Great Teacher Onizuka
- GTO: The Early Years
- Hai! Step Jun (The original one-shot "Little Jun" was published here before moving to the now defunct Magazine SPECIAL for the main series)
- Hakaba Kitarō
- Harlem Beat
- Hitman
- I don't know if it's LOVE or MAGIC!
- Idol no Akahon
- Itsudatte My Santa!
- The Kabocha Wine (The original series, the sequels were all published by various other publishers note and the final sequel, Back To The Kabocha Wine was crowdfunded)
- Kenko Zenrakei Suieibu Umisho
- The Kindaichi Case Files
- The Knight in the Area
- Kotaro Makaritoru!
- Kyojin no Hoshi
- Love Hina
- Mashima HERO'S
- Mister Ajikko
- Monkey Typhoon (moved to the now defunct Magazine SPECIAL in 2002)
- Muromi-san
- My Wife Is Wagatsuma-san
- Negima! Magister Negi Magi
- Neko-de Gomen!
- Ore wa Teppei
- Orient
- Psychometrer Eiji
- Queen Emeraldas
- The Quintessential Quintuplets
- Rave Master
- Real Account
- Ryu's Path (The latter two entries in the Ryu trilogy, Ryu the Cave Boy and Banchou Planet would be serialized in Shonen Champion instead)
- Samurai Deeper Kyo
- Sayonara, Zetsubou-Sensei
- School Rumble
- Seitokai Yakuindomo
- Senryu Girl
- The Seven Deadly Sins
- She's Adopted a High School Boy!
- Shibatora
- Shota No Sushi
- A Silent Voice
- Smile Down the Runway
- Sumire 17-sai!!
- Super Doctor K
- Susanoo
- Suzuka
- Tesla Note (started out in this magazine before moving to Magazine Pocket in August 2021)
- Tiger Mask
- Tokyo Revengers
- Tomorrow's Joe
- A Town Where You Live
- Tricks Dedicated to Witches
- Tsubasa -RESERVoir CHRoNiCLE-
- Tsurezure Children
- Vector Ball
- Vinland Saga (started out in this magazine before moving to the seinen publication Monthly Afternoon a few months into its run)
- When Will Ayumu Make His Move?
- Yakyū-kyō no Uta
- Yamada-kun and the Seven Witches
Series published in Monthly Shōnen Magazine:
- Alive: The Final Evolution
- BECK
- C.M.B.
- DEAD ROCK
- Et Cetera
- Farewell, My Dear Cramer
- Firefighter Daigo: Rescuer In Orange
- The Fledgling Demon Lord's Starter Shop
- Goodbye! I'm Being Reincarnated!
- In/Spectre (started out in Shonen Magazine R, but also runs here as of 2019)
- Ironfist Chinmi
- Ishura
- Kakushigoto: My Dad's Secret Ambition
- Love After World Domination
- Noragami
- Pumpkin Scissors
- Rocket Man
- Ryuuroden
- Seraph of the End: Guren Ichinose: Catastrophe at Sixteen
- Spider-Man
- Those Snow White Notes
- Welcome to the Ballroom
- Your Lie in April
Series published in Bessatsu Shōnen Magazine:
- Animal Land
- As the Gods Will Part I
- Attack on Titan
- The Barbarian's Bride
- Beast Complex
- Choujin Gakuen
- The Flowers of Evil
- Flying Witch
- From the New World
- Half & Half
- Happiness (2015)
- The Heroic Legend of Arslan (manga adaptation by Hiromu Arakawa)
- Hiragi-san's House of Vampires
- I'm Standing on a Million Lives
- Joshiraku
- O Maidens in Your Savage Season
- Orient
- Sankarea
- Tomodachi Game
- To the Abandoned Sacred Beasts
- UQ Holder! (started its run in Weekly Shonen Magazine, but moved to Bessatsu in 2016)
- Welcome Back, Alice
- Wistoria: Wand and Sword
- ×××HOLiC (moved here from the seinen publication Young Magazine in 2010)
Series Published in Shōnen Magazine Edge:
- Final Girl (2019)
- My Deer Friend Nokotan (later moved to Magazine Pocket in 2023)
- Otaku Elf
- Pretty Boy Detective Club
Series Published in Shōnen Magazine Pocket:
- Alya Sometimes Hides Her Feelings in Russian
- As a Reincarnated Aristocrat, I'll Use My Appraisal Skill to Rise in the World
- Backstabbed in a Backwater Dungeon
- The Banished Court Magician Aims to Become the Strongest
- The Classroom of a Black Cat and a Witch
- Dead Account
- Destiny Lovers
- Don't Toy with Me, Miss Nagatoro
- The Fragrant Flower Blooms with Dignity
- GALAXIAS
- I Left My A-Rank Party to Help My Former Students Reach the Dungeon Depths!
- I Was Reincarnated as the 7th Prince
- The Iceblade Sorcerer Shall Rule the World
- Isekai Walking
- Juujika no Rokunin
- Kuroha to Nijisuke: Kuroki Majo no Divertimento
- My Deer Friend Nokotan
- Remake Our Life!
- Shikimori's Not Just a Cutie
- Spider-Man: Fake Red
- Tesla Note
- WIND BREAKER
- You Can't Be in a Rom-Com with Your Childhood Friends!
Series published in Weekly Young Magazine:
- 3×3 Eyes
- AKIRA
- Amateur Vigilante
- Back Street Girls
- Boys Run the Riot
- Chainsmoker Cat
- Chobits
- Coppelion
- Dragon Head
- The Fable
- Ghost in the Shell:
- Ghost in the Shell 1.5: Human-Error Processor
- Ghost in the Shell 2: Man-Machine Interface
- GTO: Paradise Lost
- Green Blood
- Heisei Haizanhei Sumire-chan
- Ippatsu Kiki Musume
- Initial D
- Kaiji
- Karate Shoukoushi Kohinata Minoru
- Minami-ke
- MF Ghost
- My Boy
- My Home Hero
- Nezumi's First Love
- Ori no Naka
- Origin
- Parallel Paradise
- The Ping-Pong Club
- Prison School
- Subaru and Subaru
- Tawawa on Monday
- Tropic of the Sea
- Under Ninja
- Why the Hell Are You Here, Teacher!?
- With You and the Rain
- ×××HOLiC
