Proper Japanese Title: ヤングサンデー
Young Sunday began in 1987 as a rebranding of Shonen Big Comic (continuing its numbering from the combined full runs of that and Manga-kun) after a survey confirmed the audience for that magazine was older than Shonen Sunday. Early on Young Sunday continued several franchises from Shonen Big Comic and its author line-up continued to be dominated by successful authors from Weekly Shonen Sunday but also brought in more authors that were not associated with shonen manga like Yamada Reiji, Kyoko Okazaki, U-jin, Nagata Tomato and debuted authors like Hideo Yamamoto.
The magazine was released twice a month and mostly avoided the trend of seinen magazines using gravure covers until the mid-90's. Shortly after this, in late 1995, the magazine upped its publishing rate to weekly and changed its name to Weekly Young Sunday which put it in line with the two major Young magazines (Jump and Magazine).
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