Weekly Playboy
{{short description|Japanese adult magazine by Shueisha}}
{{Infobox magazine
| title = Weekly Playboy
| image_file = Weekly Playboy, November 16, 2009, Nozomi Sasaki.jpg
| image_caption = Weekly Playboy, November 16, 2009, with the cover model Nozomi Sasaki
| editor =
| editor_title =
| staff_writer =
| frequency = Weekly
| circulation = 195,834 (December 2015){{cite web|url=http://www.j-magazine.or.jp/magadata/index.php?module=list&action=list&cat1cd=1&cat3cd=2&period_cd=31 |title=JMPA Magazine Data (October 2015 - December 2015)|access-date=7 May 2016|work=Japan Magazine Publishers Association}}
| category = Men's magazine
| company = Shueisha
| publisher =
| firstdate = November 15, 1966{{cite web |url=http://www.shueisha.co.jp/history/history4.html |title= Shueisha Shōshi|access-date=26 May 2007|work=Shueisha}}
| country = Japan
| language = Japanese
| website = [http://wpb.shueisha.co.jp/ wpb.shueisha.co.jp]
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{{Nihongo|Weekly Playboy|週刊プレイボーイ|Shūkan Pureibōi|lead=yes}}, also known as {{Nihongo|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.{{cn|date=July 2024}} The target demographic is men, and each issue features several partially nude pictorials of female models.{{cn|date=July 2024}}
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.{{cite web|url=http://bizmakoto.jp/makoto/articles/0906/02/news003.html|script-title=ja:『週刊プレイボーイ』を悩ませていること……それは|work=Business Media Makoto|author=土肥義則|publisher=ITmedia|date=2 June 2009|accessdate=8 August 2010|language=Japanese}}
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
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External links
- [https://wpb.shueisha.co.jp/ Weekly Playboy Online]
- {{cite web |url=http://tisen.jp/pukiwiki/index.php?%BB%A8%BB%EF|title=雑誌 (Magazines)|access-date=26 September 2011|language=ja|work=tisen.jp}} (Lists appearances in Weekly Playboy from 1966 to 2011.
{{Shueisha manga magazines}}
Category:1966 establishments in Japan
Category:Men's magazines published in Japan
Category:Weekly magazines published in Japan
Category:Magazines established in 1966
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