Kodoani.com – Akita Shoten’s Weekly Shōnen Champion magazine will have a new online supplement called Champion Buzz. This supplement will have a monthly publication schedule and will be released on the first Thursday of every month, starting with the 45th issue of Weekly Shōnen Champion on October 5.
The Champion Buzz supplement will be free to readers of Weekly Shōnen Champion magazine in its online version and includes both the original work and a manga adaptation of the popular web novel. This provides more options and content for manga-loving readers.
Additionally, Champion Buzz will launch with the manga “Seekers – Meikyū Saikyо̄ no Oji-san, Kami Haishinsha to Naru” by Murata Naka, based on the original work by AteRa. Releasing alongside a new manga work can help attract more readers and create a diverse manga reading experience.
Weekly Shōnen Champion is one of the most famous manga magazines and has a long history, starting in 1969, and having switched from twice-monthly publication to weekly publication in 1970. Champion Buzz can be an effort to expand and maintain the magazine’s reader base in the digital age.
According to: Kodoani.com