Weekly Playboy

Weekly Playboy
Weekly Playboy, November 16, 2009, with the cover model Nozomi Sasaki
CategoriesMen's magazine
FrequencyWeekly
Circulation195,834 (December 2015)[1]
First issueNovember 15, 1966[2]
CompanyShueisha
CountryJapan
LanguageJapanese
Websitewpb.shueisha.co.jp

Weekly Playboy (Japanese: 週刊プレイボーイ, Hepburn: Shūkan Pureibōi), also known as Shūpure (週プレ) or WPB, is a Japanese weekly magazine published by Shueisha since 1966. Although the magazine publishes a variety of news and special interest articles, columns, celebrity interviews, and manga, it is considered an adult magazine.[citation needed] The target demographic is men, and each issue features several partially nude pictorials of female models.[citation needed]

This magazine is not a regional edition of the American Playboy magazine; the Japanese edition of that magazine was published as Monthly Playboy (MPB) by Shueisha until its cancellation in January 2009.[3]

Manga in WPB

References

  1. ^ "JMPA Magazine Data (October 2015 - December 2015)". Japan Magazine Publishers Association. Retrieved 7 May 2016.
  2. ^ "Shueisha Shōshi". Shueisha. Retrieved 26 May 2007.
  3. ^ 土肥義則 (2 June 2009). 『週刊プレイボーイ』を悩ませていること……それは. Business Media Makoto (in Japanese). ITmedia. Retrieved 8 August 2010.


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