The latest Japanese girls' comics magazine sales survey shows that men don't pay much attention to women, but the opposite is true

When it comes to Japan, a country that is a superpower of anime, more fans may know about those hot-blooded male comic magazines, such as "Weekly Shonen Jump", etc. In fact, there are also a large number of girls' magazines and comic magazines, but their sales seem to be "terrible" in comparison. Let's take a look together.

· Forgotten territory? In fact, there are still more than a dozen girls' comics magazines that are still actively published. However, according to the latest statistics, even the number one "Ribbon" magazine had a sales volume of only 113,000 copies from July to September 2024, a slight decrease from the previous quarter.

Interestingly, the last-ranked LaLaDX only had a quarterly sales volume of 7,000 copies, and there are many magazines with sales volume of 10,000 to 20,000. I wonder if the loyal fans and readers of these magazines are worried that the magazines will go bankrupt at any time.

On the other hand, the more familiar men's comics magazines, the top magazine "Weekly Shonen Jump" had a monthly sales volume of 6.53 million copies in its heyday. Now the latest data shows that although the sales volume has declined, the quarterly sales volume has remained at around 1.9 million copies.

·The question is, let's not talk about how such a small sales volume can mysteriously maintain the survival of the magazine. In fact, there have been similar social surveys in Japan that show that male readers almost never read girls' comics, while popular men's comics are popular with both men and women.