Weekly Playboy
Weekly men's magazine published by Shūeisha in Japan
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. The target demographic is men, and each issue features several partially nude pictorials of female models.
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.
Manga in WPB
Circuit no Ōkami II: Modena no Tsurugi by Satoshi Ikezawa
Lady Snowblood (修羅雪姫) by Kazuo Koike and Kazuo Kamimura
Modena no Ken (モデナの剣) by Satoshi Ikezawa
My Favorite Carrera (彼女のカレラ) by Kia Asamiya
Ore no Sora (俺の空) by Hiroshi Motomiya
Polo Shirt and Upper Cut by Norifusa Mita
The First President of Japan by Yoshiki Hidaka and Ryuji Tsugihara
Taiyō no Makibaō by Tsunomaru
Ultimate Muscle by Yudetamago
Beat Shot!! by Satoshi Ikezawa
Sakigake!! Otokojuku by Akira Miyashita
References
External links
Weekly Playboy Online
"雑誌 (Magazines)". tisen.jp (in Japanese). Retrieved 26 September 2011. (Lists appearances in Weekly Playboy from 1966 to 2011.
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