List of series run in Shōnen Book explained

This list contains all of the series that have run in the monthly Shōnen manga magazine, . Shōnen Book was known for featuring many popular manga by many popular manga artists. Some found their way into the US in the 1970s, although the magazine remains little known there.

Manga titles with a shade of light green appeared in the last issue.

Manga series

1950s

1958–1959

Shōnen Book had very few series at its commencement because it started as an offshoot of the already successful Omoshiro Book. Shōnen Book is starting to gain more series, as it eases its way into a separate publication.

First Issue	Last Issue	Creator
March 1958 (originally from Omoshiro Book)^[1]	March 1960 ^[2]	Kōki Yokoyama
April 1958 ^[3]	July 1962	Hiroshi Kaiduka
June 1958 ^[4]	June 1960 ^[5]	Hirō Terada
August 1958 ^[6]	October 1963	Hiroshi Kaiduka
January 1959 ^[7]	March 1960	Shōnama Tanashita
March 1959 ^[8]	October 1960	Terumi Fujiki
March 1959	December 1959 ^[9]	Toshihiro Kuni
June 1959 ^[10]	February 1960	Ariya Enomoto
July 1959 ^[11]	February 1962	Suguru Horie
September 1959 ^[12]	March 1960	Datsunin Aran
September 1959	August 1960 ^[13]	Katsumi Mashiko
October 1959 ^[14]	May 1960 ^[15]	Hiroshi Kaiduka
December 1959	June 1960	Shigeru Kiyama

1960s

1960–1964

Shōnen Book finally launched into a new magazine. In addition to the launch, it now has several more series. Like many other manga magazines, it also adds series along the way. Shōnen Book grows with another set of series. Other manga pass and go. The past manga series end, a larger amount appears in the Shōnen Book magazine. The "God of Manga"; Osamu Tezuka gets hired to write and draw a manga for the Shōnen Book anthology, by the name of Shinsengumi.

First Issue	Last Issue	Creator
January 1960 ^[16]	May 1963	Hiroshi Sekiya
January 1960	August 1960	Chōhei Gezan
January 1960	May 1960	Toshio Shōji
January 1960	March 1960	Yuzuru Kume × Shigeru Komatsuzaki
March 1960	April 1960 ^[17]	Ariya Enomoto
April 1960	August 1960	Roku Asōshō
April 1960	December 1960	Rō Ōtomo
May 1960	October 1960	Tomohiko Oka × Jirō Daibutsu
May 1960	December 1960	Michihiko Mishima × Toshio Kitamura
June 1960	November 1960	Ippei Kyūsato × Tatsuo Yoshida × Jun Nagata
June 1960	August 1960	Toshio Shōji
July 1960 ^[18]	December 1960	Kōmyō Suzuki × Shin'ichi Okazawa
August 1960	December 1962	Satoru Ozawa
August 1960	November 1960	Misao Hamadai × Yasushihan Kawauchi
September 1960 ^[19]	March 1961	Keiji Hōtani
October 1960	April 1961	Noboru Kawasaki × Yukijo Noboru Takahashi
November 1960	July 1961	Shinji Hama
November 1960	June 1961	Ariya Enomoto × Jūsan Futaba
November 1960	June 1961	Shigeru Kiyama
January 1962	March 1963	Ippei Kyūsato × Tatsuo Yoshida × Yutaka Arai
January 1961	December 1964	Katsumi Mashiko
January 1961	September 1961	Terumi Fujiki
January 1961	September 1961	Rō Ōtomo
April 1961	December 1961	Shunji Sonoyama
April 1961	December 1961	Shinji Hama
August 1961	March 1962	Noboru Kawasaki
September 1961	October 1962	Akira Kuji
September 1961	December 1962	Okaoni Yamane
December 1962	September 1962	Shōtarō Ishinomori
December 1962	March 1962	Noboru Kawasaki
April 1962	August 1962	Keijirō Nochi × Noboru Kawasaki
April 1962	December 1963	Kōki Yokoyama
April 1962	December 1962	Suguru Horie
May 1962	April 1963	Ippei Kyūsato × Tatsuo Yoshida
September 1962	December 1963	Kazuo Maekawa
January 1963	October 1963	Osamu Tezuka
January 1963	March 1963	Satoru Ozawa
January 1963	August 1963	Akaoni Yamane
1963 (New Year's special issue)	February 1963	Keijirō Nochi
March 1963	May 1963	Kōki Yokoyama
March 1963	May 1963	Akira Matsumoto
March 1963	September 1963	Rō Ōtomo
March 1963	September 1963	Masami Kubota
May 1963	December 1963	Ippei Kyūsato
June 1963	March 1964	Noboru Kawasaki
September 1963	August 1965	Shōtarō Ishinomori
September 1963	August 1965	Noboru Kawasaki
September 1963	July 1964	Akaoni • Aōni Yamane
September 1963	February 1964	Terumi Fujiki
November 1963	February 1966	Osamu Tezuka
November 1963	April 1964	Hiroshi Kaiduka
January 1964	April 1965	Fujio Akatsuka
January 1964	December 1964	Kōki Yokoyama
April 1964	October 1964	Noboru Kawasaki
April 1964	November 1964	Sankiya Mochiduki
April 1964	November 1964	Hiroshi Kaiduka
May 1964	December 1964	Shōtarō Ishinomori
June 1964	May 1966	Tatsuo Yoshida
September 1964	May 1965	Sanpei Shirato
September 1964	July 1965	Katsumi Mashiko
October 1964	December 1964	Sanpei Wachi
November 1964	November 1966	Tetsuya Chiba
December 1964	December 1965	Sankiya Mochiduki

1965–1969

Shōnen Book announces more series. A video game of Obake no Q-tarō was released in the States as Chubby Cherub. Shōnen Book closed, and was replaced with the offshoot: Bessatsu Shōnen Jump.

Manga	First Issue	Last Issue	Creator
	January 1965	December 1965	Noboru Kawasaki × Shin'ichi Sekizawa
	January 1965	December 1966	Hiroshi Kaiduka
	January 1965	March 1966	Kobushi Morita
	April 1965	March 1967	Kōki Yokoyama
	May 1965	December 1965	Fujio Akatsuka
	September 1965	August 1966	Sanpei Shirato
	September 1965	December 1967	Yukiosu Izumi
	October 1965	April 1966	Fujiko Fujio
	January 1966	April 1967	Sankiya Mochiduki
	February 1966	October 1967	Osamu Tezuka
	April 1966	July 1966	Fujio Akatsuka
	April 1966	July 1967	Kobushi Morita
	May 1966	December 1966	Akira Fujikawa × Yōhei Yamaji
	June 1966	May 1968	Tatsuo Yoshida
	July 1966	March 1967	Osamu Kittaka × Nobuo Hitoshi
	September 1966	June 1968	Noboru Kawasaki × Takashi Ishibashi
	November 1966	June 1967	Jōji Kōnami
	January 1967	February 1968	Tetsuya Chiba
	January 1967	January 1968	Hiroshi Kaiduka
	January 1967	December 1967	Fujiko Fujio
	January 1967	May 1967	Fujio Akatsuka
	April 1967	June 1967	Fujiko Fujio
	June 1967	January 1969	Fujio Akatsuka
	September 1967	December 1967	Hikari Asahioka
	September 1967	June 1968	Shōtarō Ishinomori
	January 1968	September 1968	Osamu Tezuka
^[20]	January 1968	August 1968	Hikari Asahioka
	January 1968	February 1968	Osamu Tezuka
	February 1968	August 1968	Sachio Umemoto × Kazuya Fukumoto
	April 1968	April 1969	Kōki Yokoyama
	April 1968	May 1968	Fujiko Fujio
	May 1968	December 1968	Yoshihiro Moritō
	June 1968	April 1969	Reiji Matsumoto
	October 1968	April 1969	Sachio Umemoto × Kazuya Fukumoto
	October 1968	April 1969	Osamu Tezuka
	October 1968	March 1969	Jirō Kuwata × Tetsuo Kinjō
	January 1969	April 1969	Fujio Akatsuka
	April 1969	April 1969 (continued in Shōnen Jump)	Hiroshi Kaiduka
	April 1969	April 1969 (continued in Shōnen Jump)	Gō Nagai
	April 1969	April 1969 (continued in Shōnen Jump)	Noboru Kawasaki × Ikki Kajiwara

Light novel and monogatari series

Shōnen Book, in addition to the manga titles, featured many Light novels and Monogatari (Picture stories).

1950s

1959

First Issue	Last Issue	Creator
August 1959 ^[21]	March 1960	Sōya Yamakawa
September 1959	February 1960 ^[22]	Kinya Ueki
November 1959 ^[23]	October 1960 ^[24]	Takeo Kakuda × Fumiya Yoshida

1960s

1960–1963

First Issue	Last Issue	Creator
January 1960	December 1960	Saburō Shibata × Tokutarō Tamai
January 1960	December 1960	Jūsan Futaba × Toshio, Kōsei Saitō
January 1960	June 1960	Rei Kido × Kei Wakana
April 1960	May 1960	Teīchirō Kawara
April 1960	August 1960	Tetsutarō Ōba × Hidemi Kobayashi
November 1960	December 1960	Yoshirō Akinaga × Kōichi Heiya
January 1961	March 1962	Yoshirō Akinaga × Shigeru Komatsuzaki
January 1964	August 1964	Torao Tanabe × Kei Wakana
April 1964	November 1964	Takeo Kakuda × Fumiya Yoshida
July 1964	March 1965	Teruo Sudō × Koku Fujio
January 1965	August 1965	Teruo Sudō × Kōichi Somekawa
January 1965	August 1965	Shikahei Minamida × Toshifumi Sakamoto
April 1962	December 1962	Yoshirō Akinaga × Shigeru Komatsuzaki
September 1965	March 1966	Haruhiko Daiyabu × Hideo Nakamura
September 1965	December 1965	Keisan Kurobe × Takashi Minami
September 1965	December 1965	Shikahei Minamida × Toshifumi Sakamoto
September 1965	November 1965	Teruo Sudō × Hiroshi Maruyama
January 1966	June 1966	Tarō Yamamoto × Shōtarō Ishinomori
January 1963	August 1963	Yoshirō Akinaga × Shigeru Komatsuzaki
April 1966	May 1967	Saotto Makinichi × Fumiya Yoshida
April 1966	August 1966	Hiroshi Sunada × Kei Wakana
July 1966	December 1966	Tarō Yamamoto × Shōtarō Ishinomori
September 1966	December 1966	Tōboku Fujī × Shigeru Komatsuzaki

1964–1968

First Issue	Last Issue	Creator
April 1964	June 1965	Tetsuya, Hoka Moroboshi
June 1965	December 1965	Tōboku Fujī × Shigeru Komatsuzaki
January 1966	May 1966	Tōboku Fujī × Shigeru Komatsuzaki
January 1966	December 1966	Masami Fukushima
April 1966	March 1967 (canceled)	Unknown writer
September 1966	June 1968	Noboru Kawasaki
January 1967	June 1967	Masami Fukushima × Kyōtsuna, Hoka Maemura
January 1967	December 1967	Masanori Ochi × Hideo Nakamura
February 1968	December 1968	Masanori Ochi × Hideo Nakamura

Notes and References

Table of Contents . March 1958 . . 1 . 1 . . Japanese .
Table of Contents . March 1960 . . 3 . 18 . . Japanese.
Table of Contents . April 1958 . . 1 . 2 . . Japanese.
Table of Contents . June 1958 . . 1 . 4 . . Japanese .
Table of Contents . June 1960 . . 3 . 21 . . Japanese.
Table of Contents . August 1958 . . 1 . 6 . . Japanese.
Table of Contents . January 1959 . . 2 . 7 . . Japanese.
Table of Contents . March 1959 . . 2 . 9 . . Japanese .
Table of Contents . December 1959 . . 2 . 15 . . Japanese .
Table of Contents . June 1959 . . 2 . 10 . . Japanese .
Table of Contents . July 1959 . . 2 . 11 . . Japanese.
Table of Contents . September 1959 . . 2 . 12 . . Japanese.
Table of Contents . August 1960 . . 3 . 23 . . Japanese.
Table of Contents . October 1959 . . 2 . 13 . . Japanese.
Table of Contents . May 1960 . . 3 . 20 . . Japanese .
Table of Contents . January 1960 . . 3 . 16 . . Japanese.
Table of Contents . April 1960 . . 3 . 19 . . Japanese.
Table of Contents . July 1960 . . 3 . 22 . . Japanese.
Table of Contents . September 1960 . . 3 . 24 . . Japanese .
Manga adaption of the United Kingdom TV series.
Table of Contents . August 1959 . . 2 . 20 . . Japanese.
Table of Contents . February 1960 . . 3 . 17 . . Japanese.
Table of Contents . November 1959 . . 2 . 14 . . Japanese .
Table of Contents . October 1960 . . 3 . 25 . . Japanese.